News: conferences, events and seminars
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2018
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2019
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Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshops: Accra, Ghana; Bangalore, India; Nairobi, Kenya; and Recife, Brazil; – call for papers
Our Arts in the North, Newcastle
Security, Borders and International Development: Intersections, convergence and challenges, Warwick: call for papers
The Times and Temporality of International Human Rights Law, Belfast
LSAANZ Annual Conference, Wollongong, Australia: call for papers
Socio-legal Studies/Sociologie du Droit: Methods, traditions, theories in France and the UK, Paris: call for contributions and registration
Socio-Legal Masterclass, Oxford: registration now open
2018
June
Symposium on Law, Compassion, Dignity, and Vulnerability
Date: 21 June 2018
Venue: Institute of Advance Legal Studies, London
Please see website for details.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at Seventy; A review of successes and challenges
Dates: 21–22 June 2018
Venue: Department of Law, Maynooth University, Ireland
Please see draft programme for details and website for registration.
Towards Gender Equality: Clashes in law
Date: 22 June 2018
Venue: School of Law, Politics and Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton
Please see flyer for details.
Nomos, Spatial Justice and Decoloniality
Date: 22 June 2018
Venue: Westminster Forum, 32–38 Wells Street, London
This is a Westminster Law & Theory Lab event. Please see website for details.
Children, Rights and Childhood: Expo and launch event 2018
Date: 22 June 2018
Venue: The Suites, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
Please see attachment for details.
Legal Education and Training Review: 5 years on, Leeds
Date: 25 June 2018
Venue: Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University
Please see attachment for details.
Order, Conflict Resolution and Crime: Re-thinking the role of the state in the 21st century
Date: 26 June 2018
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
Speaker: Professor Professor Philip Stenning, Honorary Professor, University KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, and Adjunct Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute
Hosted by the Centre of Criminal Justice Studies. Please see website for details.
Quantum Law: An interdisciplinary exploration of quantum theory, law and ethics
Date: 26 June 2018
Venue: St Mary's University, London
A one-day international multi-disciplinary symposium, organised by the Westminster Law and Theory Lab, the Centre for Law and Culture, St Mary’s University, London, and the Institute of Advanced Studies. Please see website for details.
International Conference on Cultural and Global Criminology: Global issues, cultural perspectives
Dates: 27–29 June 2018
Venue: University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Please see website for details.
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2018
Date: 28 June 2018
Venue: Baines Wing, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
Linguistic insights into the needs of International Law (LLM) students
Date: 28 June 2018
Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
China and Hong Kong: Overcoming Disability Exclusion in Education
Date: 28 June 2018
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
2018 Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium: Combatting cultural crime – new directions and multidisciplinary collaboration
Dates: 28–29 June 2018
Venue: The Octagon at Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London
Please see website for details.
July
The Times and Temporality of International Human Rights Law
Date: 2 July 2018
Venue: School of Law, Queen's University Belfast
Keynote speaker: Professor Samuel Moyn, Yale University
Please see poster and website for further details. This event is supported by the SLSA via our Seminar Competition.
National Centre for Research Methods: Research methods festival 2018
Dates: 3–5 July 2018
Venue: University of Bath
Please see webpage for details.
Our Arts in the North
Date: 5 July 2018
Venue: Assembly Rooms, Newcastle City Centre
Please see website for details. This event is supported by the SLSA via our Seminar Competition.
Post-Legislative Scrutiny
Date: 10 July 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Please see website for details.
Law Innovation and Society
Date: 13 July 2018
Venue: Mooting Room, Newcastle Law School
Please see flyer for details.
August
The Impact of Law on Transnational Families' Staying, Moving and Settling
Dates: 14–17 August 2018
Venue: European Association of Social Anthropologists conference, Stockholm University, Sweden
Please see website for details.
September
Critical Legal Conference 2018: Regeneration – call for papers
Dates: 6–8 September 2018
Venue: Open University, Milton Keynes
A graduate workshop will take place on 5 September. Please see website for details. Closing date for submission of abstracts: 31 July 2018.
- The critical legal education stream is currently accepting proposals for papers and/or panels. See above website for details.
21st Annual Dilemmas for Human Services International Research Conference
Date: 10–11 September 2018
Venue: University of Northampton
Please see website for details. Cl
RCSL and ISA Joint Meeting: Law and citizenship beyond the state
Dates: 10–13 September 2018
Venue: Lisbon, Portugal
Please see website for details.
African Studies Association UK Conference
Dates: 11–13 September 2018
Venue: University of Birmingham
Papers are invited for the African Feminist Judgments stream and the Customary Law and Legal Pluralism stream. Please see flyer and website for further details.
SOGI (Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) Politics in Latin America: Theoretical, conceptual and strategic lessons from the Global South – call for papers
Date: 14 September 2018
Venue: University of Bath
Please see flyer for details. Call closes: 30 June 2018.
The Futures of Legal Education and Practice
Dates: 18–20 September 2018
Venue: Open University, Milton Keynes Campus
Keynote speakers: Professor Anthony Bradney, Professor Richard Collier and, founder of the integrative law movement, J Kim Wright
This is the OU's annual conference on the legal profession and legal education, organised in conjunction with the Legal Education Research Network. Please see flyer for details.
Affirmative Action and the Sustainable Development Goal of Gender Equality
Dates: 22–23 September 2018
Venue: Tamil Nadu Law School,Tiruchirappalli, India
This event is organised in collaboration with Oxford Human Rights Hub, Oxford University. Please see website for details.
The Development of Abortion Rights in a Changing Europe
Date: 28 September 2018
Venue: Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Please see flyer for details.
October
IV CINETS Conference 2018: Mobility and security in an era of globalization – crimmigration at a crossroads?: call for papers
Dates: 5–6 October 2018
Venue: Queen Mary, University of London
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 30 June 2018.
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshop – call for papers
Dates: 11–12 October 2018
Venue: Ghana Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Accra, Ghana
Please see website for details. Call closes: 30 June 2018.
The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform: Third annual conference
Date: 12 October 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Academic Convenors: Dr Maren Heidemann, Catherine Pédamon and Dr Joseph Lee
Organised by the IALS Centre for Corporate and Commercial Law, University of Westminster and University of Exeter. Please see website for details.
Infrastructures of Injustice: Cambridge-Singapore-Princeton Network workshop series
Dates: 26–27 October 2018
Venue: St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Please see attachment for details.
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshop – call for papers
Dates: 29–30 October 2018
Venue: School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
Please see website for details. Call closes: 15 July 2018.
November
ESRC Festival of Social Science, nationwide
Dates: 3–10 November 2018
Venues: nationwide
Please see website for details.
EU Health Law and Policy: Shaping a future research agenda: call for papers
Dates: 29–30 November 2018
Venue: University of Edinburgh
Please see flyer for details. Call closes: 6 July 2018.
December
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshop – call for papers
Dates: 5–6 December 2018
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
Please see website for details. Call closes: 30 June 2018.
Transmitting Justice: Transparency, visuality and mediatization
Date: 10 December 2018
Venue: 83 Pall Mall, London
This event is sponsored by the SLSA (under our Seminar Competition) and the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath. Please see website for details.
LSAANZ Annual Conference: call for papers
Dates: 12–15 December 2018
Venue: Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia
Theme: Inclusion, exclusion and democracy
The SLSA and Canadian Law and Society Association are co-sponsors of this event. Please see website for details. The call for papers is now open. See flyer for details. Closing date: 6 July 2018.
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshop – call for papers
Dates: 13–14 December 2018
Venue: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Please see website for details. Call closes: 30 June 2018.
Relationship breakdown: Informal and legal solutions
Date: 14 December 2018 (tbc)
Venue: De Montfort University, Leicester
Please see website for details.
This event is organised by the International Network of Scholars Researching Unregistered Marriages.
2019
April
Security, Borders and International Development: Intersections, convergence and challenges: call for papers
Dates: 25–26 April 2019
Venue: University of Warwick
This event is supported by the SLSA Seminar Competition. Please see attachment for details. Call closes: 30 September 2018.
May
20th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law: call for papers
Dates: 23–25 May 2019
Venue: Instituto Jurídico da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra (UCILeR - University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research), Coimbra, Portugal
Theme: The limits of law
Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 15 January 2019.
2020
June
Genocide and Law: Communicating through visual arts and language: call for papers
Dates: 26–28 June 2020
Venue: Poznan, Poland
This is the 21st International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law and the 15th Conference on Legal Translation and Interpreting and Comparative Legilinguistics. Please see flyer for details. Closing date for abstracts: 28 February 2020.