News: conferences, events and seminars
This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.
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2020
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Every effort has been made to check whether events have been cancelled, postponed and new arrangements made, but you are advised to check directly with event organisers before making any plans.
Events
JUSTICE Human Rights Conference 2020 – online
From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, iconography, memories, and performances of law in India's High Courts, online Chinese University of Hong Kong
SLSA events and SLSA co-sponsored events
SLSA postponed events to be rescheduled
SLSA 2020 Law and Literature Symposium: online 15 July 2020
2020
July
Workshop on Harold Laski and His Chinese Disciples – online workshop from University of Sheffield School of Law
Date: 2 July 2020
Venue: Online
This event is free. See website for details and registration.
JUSTICE Human Rights Conference 2020 – online
Dates: 6–9 July 2020
Venue: online
Keynote speaker: Philip Alston, John Norton Pomeroy Professor of Law at New York University School of Law
See website for details.
SOGICA Final Conference
Dates: 7–8 July 2020
Venue: University of Sussex, Falmer Campus, Brighton
Please see website for details of this event organised by the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Claims of Asylum Project.
SLSA 2020 Law and Literature Symposium
Date: 15 July 2020
Venue: online
The SLSA Law and Literature Symposium will take place on Wednesday 15 July 2020. It will be held online (via Teams), and the programme features six original paper presentations on two key themes: Crime and Consequences in Law and Literature; and Making Sense in/of Law and Literature. If you are interested in joining this event, or would like more information about it, please contact the convenors This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or Julia Shaw.
Gender Dimensions of Violence Prevention, Mona Jamaica
Date: 15 July 2020
Venue: University of the West Indes, Mona Law Campus, Jamaica
Seminar Convenors: Dr Ramona Biholar (Faculty of Law) and Dr Dacia Leslie (SALISES)
Please see attachment for call for chapter contributions for a peer-reviewed edited collection arising from this event.
Law and Humanities Roundtable 2020: Law and the senses
Date: 29 July 2020
Venue: online
Marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven, and in a year marked by physical withdrawal and sensory deprivation forced on us by coronavirus, this second annual Law and Humanities roundtable features original paper presentations on the relationship between law and the senses. Please see programme for details.
August
Law and Digital Society: Re-imagining the futures – annual meeting of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law
Dates: 24–26 August 2020
Venue: Lund University, Sweden
Please see website for details.
September
Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference
Date: 1–4 September 2020
Venue: online
See website and flyer for details.
British Crime Historians Symposium
Dates: 2–4 September 2020
Venue: Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law, University of Leeds
See announcement and website for details.
The Legal Status of the Irish Language: Past, present and future
Date: 5 September 2020
Venue: Trinity College, Dublin
Please see flyer for full details.
Law and Emotion in Times of Uncertainty
Dates: 5–7 September 2020
Venue: Lund University, Sweden
Please see flyer for details.
Enhancing Urban Climate Resilience: The role of law
Date: 10 September 2020
Venue: Tilburg Sustainability Center, Tilburg, Netherlands
Please see website for details.
Final Conference on Small Claims Dispute Resolution for Consumers: A European approach
Date: 10 September 2020
Venue: Rue Ducale 1, 1000 Brussels
See announcement for details.
Inequality within International Tax
Dates: 14–15 September 2020
Venue: CBS Law, Copenhagen
See announcement for full details.
Old Age and Dementia Care
Dates: 22–23 September 2020
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London
Please see flyer for details.
Under The European Asylum Rainbow: Conference on queer asylum, Frankfurt
Date: 25 September 2020
Venue: Goethe University, Frankfurt
See website for details.
October
The Contribution of Diversity and Gender to Emerging Technologies
Dates: 11–13 October 2020
Venue: Convention Centre, Gulf Hotel, Kingdom of Bahrain
Please see website for details.
In Conversation with Dame Cressida Dick DBE QPM
Date: 14 October 2020
Venue: London (tbc)
See webpage for details.
November
Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture 2020
Date: 10 November 2020
Venue: Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, London
See website for details.
2021
January
SLSA Postgraduate Conference
Dates: January 2021 (dates tbc)
Venue: online
Details to be confirmed in due course.
March
Crime Justice and Social Harms
Dates: 23–24 March 2021
Venue: tbc
Organised by the Howard League for Penal Reform. Further details will be announced in due course. This event was postponed from March/April 2020.
April
WG Hart Workshop: New Perspectives on Jurisdiction and the Criminal Law – postponed until 2021
Dates: April 2021 (tbc)
Venue: tbc
Please see website for updates.
May
International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law – IRSL 2021: call for papers
Dates: 27–29 May 2021
Venue: Pontificia Università Antonianum, Roma, Italy
Theme: Global Semiotics and Everyday Legal Claims – Intercultural Use of Law, Interreligious Dialogue and Translation Ethics
See announcement for full details. Closing date: 6 January 2021.
September
Critical Legal Conference 2021
Dates: 2–4 September 2021
Venue: University of Dundee
Please see website for details.
SLSA postponed events to be rescheduled
SLS-JAC-SLSA Workshop on Judicial Appointments: ‘Academics as Judges’: postponed – further details in due course
Date: tbc
Venue: Coventry University
This event is organised jointly by the SLSA, the Society for Legal Scholars and the Judicial Appointments Commission. Please see website for details. Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding coronavirus this event as been postponed. Further details will be announced in due course.
Legal Design: Concepts, methods, norms and examples: postponed – further details in due course
Date: tbc
Venue: City, University of London
Please see webpage for details. This is an SLSA Seminar Competition event. Due to ongoing uncertainty surrounding coronavirus this event as been postponed. Further information will be announced in due course.
Interdisciplinarity as Resistance: postponed – further details in due course
Dates: tbc
Venue: Konstepidemin Arts Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden
See website for details.