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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Book launch: Solidarity in EU Law edited by Andrea Biondi, Egle Dagilyte and Esin Küçük, Cambridge
Approaches to Reducing Domestic Abuse Conference, Ipswich
Regulation Discussion Group Seminar: 'Innovation and the state: finance, regulation, and justice', Oxford
In Praise of Clarity: Israel’s new nation-state law, London
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: Human rights, freedom and excluded epistemologies, London
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: How technology is transforming migration and refugee law, London
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: Speaker: Professor Emily Grabham (title tbc), London
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: Speaker: Professor Walter Kaelin (title tbc), London
ASLI Conference: The rule of law and the role of law in Asia, Singapore: call for papers
Impact and Law Reform Conference, London: save the date
Transmitting Justice: Transparency, visuality and mediatization, London
Workshop on Security, Borders and International Development: Intersections, convergence and challenges, Warwick: call for papers
LSAANZ Annual Conference, Wollongong, Australia
SLSA Annual Postgraduate Conference, Warwick: 3–5 January 2019 – save the dates
2018
October
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.
First Waves: Exploring the impact of race relations legislation in the UK workshops
Date: 13 October 2018
Venue: Leeds University Union
Please see website for details.
Brexit and Legal Education Workshop: Brexit and the law school
Date: 15 October 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Organised by Tamara Hervey and Lisa Webly with support from the Association of Law Teachers, Routledge, the Society of Legal Scholars and Sheffield Law School. Please see website for details. Registration closes: 8 October 2018.
TLI Reading Lab: Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid's Tale
Date: 17 October 2018
Venue: Somerset House, London
This is the first seminar in the Transnational Law Institute's Law Reading Laboratory series for 2018–2019. See website for details.
Systems Theory and Human Rights
Date: 18 October 2018, 12.00–17.30
Venue: Centre for Law and Society, University of Lancaster, School of Law
The objective of this roundtable is to consider the distinctive offering from systems theory to the debate, including the closed systems theory of autopoiesis and open theory of complexity. Please see the attached programme and for further details, or contact Professor This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Rt Hon Baroness Hale: Reflections on the first year as UK Supreme Court President
Date: 18 October 2018
Venue: Business School Western LT, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
Researching Trauma in the Arts and Humanities
Date: 19 October 2018
Venue: Hetherington Building, University of Glasgow
Please see attachment for workshop details.
The Disappearance of Miss Bebb: conference and celebrity play-reading,
Date: 21 October 2018
Venue: University of Birmingham
A conference on the future of women in the Law and a celebrity reading of Alex Giles’ play inspired by the case of Bebb v The Law Society. Please see flyer for details.
Karon Monaghan QC: Labour law and international instruments
Date: 22 October 2018
Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
Appraising Academic Research Impact on Law and Policy in the UK and Beyond: call for papers
Date: 22 October 2018
Venue: School of Law, University of Leeds
Please see website for details. Closing date: 30 September 2018.
Resistance to Environmental Regulation in Rural Australia: The tragic case of R v Ian Robert Turnbull
Date: 22 October 2018
Venue: University of Wollongong, Australia
Please see poster for details.
TLI Book Launch: The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, by David Webber
Date: 23 October 2018
Venue: Somerset House, King's College London, Strand Campus, London
This event is organised by the Transnational Law Institute. Please see website for details.
Hamlyn Lectures 2018: Why Does Equality Seem So Difficult? Three problems in comparision, by Robin Allen QC – Lecture 1
Date: 23 October 2018
Venue: Moot Court, QUB School of Law, Belfast
Title: The newest problem: making a fair comparison across all ages
Please see website for details.
Regulation Discussion Group Seminar: 'The geography of "land grabbing" regulation: challenges for transnational law'
Date: 23 October 2018
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Speaker: Dr Andreas Kotsakis, Oxford Brookes University
Please see flyer for details.
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: Human rights, freedom and excluded epistemologies
Date: 24 October 2018
Venue: Somerset House East Wing, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London
Speaker: Professor Ratna Kapur, Visiting Professor of Law at Queen Mary, University of London
This is the first in the 2018–19 Transnational Law Institute Signature Lecture series. Please see website for details.
In Praise of Clarity: Israel’s new nation-state law
Date: 24 October 2018
Venue: Strand Building, Strand Campus, King's College London
Organised by the Transnational Law Institute and the Department of History. Please see website for details.
Book launch: Solidarity in EU Law edited by Andrea Biondi, Egle Dagilyte and Esin Küçük
Date: 25 October 2018
Venue: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Speakers: Professor Catherine Barnard (University of Cambridge): 'European Union Citizenship in the context of Brexit'; and speaker tbc 'Member State solidarity in the context of the Mediterranean refugee crisis'
This event develops the themens from the edited collection Solidarity in EU Law: Legal Principle in the Making published by Edward Elgar in 2018. See website for further details.
Book Launch: Women and the Criminal Justice System: Failing victims and offenders?
Date: 26 October 2018
Venue: Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London
This edited collection is published by Palgrave Macmillan. The editors are Emma Milne, Karen Brennan, Nigel South and Jackie Turton. 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
Dates: 29–30 October 2018
Venue: School of Policy and Governance, Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India
Please see website for details.
Hamlyn Lectures 2018: Why Does Equality Seem So Difficult? Three problems in comparision, by Robin Allen QC – Lecture 2
Date: 30 October 2018
Venue: Laigh Hall, Parliament House, Edinburgh
Title: The oldest problem: establishing equal work
Please see website for details.
Regulation Discussion Group Seminar: 'The constitutionalization of private regulators: understanding the role of private law'
Date: 30 OCtober 2018
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Speaker: Dr Paul Verbrueggen, Tilburg Law School
Please see flyer for details.
November
Approaches to Reducing Domestic Abuse Conference
Date: 3 November 2018
Venue: 1 Bath Street, Ipswich
Please see flyer for details and booking.
ESRC Festival of Social Science, nationwide
Dates: 3–10 November 2018
Venues: nationwide
Please see website for details.
The Advocate General at the CJEU: The linguistic aspect
Date: 5 November 2018
Venue: Dun Library, Kildare Street, Dublin
Please see flyer for details.
Hamlyn Lectures 2018: Why Does Equality Seem So Difficult? Three problems in comparision, by Robin Allen QC – Lecture 3
Date: 5 November 2018
Venue: Middle Temple Hall, London
Title: The most contentious problem: comparing rights in conflict
Please see website for details.
Regulation Discussion Group Seminar: 'Innovation and the state: finance, regulation, and justice'
Date: 6 November 2018
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Christie Ford, Allard School of Law
Please see flyer for details.
Deterrent Sentencing: How complicated is that?
Date: 7 November 2018
Venue: De Montfort University, Leicester
Speaker: Andrew Ashworth, Vinerian Professor of English Law Emeritus, University of Oxford
Please see flyer for details.
Stephane Rousseau: Business law and practice seminar
Date: 7 November 2018
Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
Collaborating to Shape the Future of Sentencing Research: Innovation and impact
Date: 7 November 2018
Venue: City Law School, City University of London
Please see attachment for further details.
The Least Unified Branch? Searching for the client and the client’s interest in the legislature
Date: 7 November 2018
Venue: Senate Room, Queen's University Belfast
Speaker: Dr Ben Yong, Lecturer in Law at the University of Hull & Honorary Research Associate at the Constitution Unit (UCL)
Please see website for details of this free event.
Law Commission Symposium: New review of the law on confiscation in Part 2 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
Date: 7 November 2018
Venue: Great Hall, Sutherland Building, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Please see website for details.
Regulation Discussion Group Seminar: 'Running out of capacity: accountability and stakeholder engagement in economic regulation'
Date: 8 November 2018
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Speaker: Professor Martin Lodge, LSE
Please see flyer for details.
Personhood as a Foundation of the Western Legal Order: Professor Gerard Quinn inaugural lecture
Date: 14 November 2018
Venue: Liberty Building, University of Leeds
Please see website for details.
Intersectionality and Human Rights Law
Date: 14 November 2018
Venue: Lady Hale Moot Court, Berkely Square, University of Bristol Law School
See website for details and booking.
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: How technology is transforming migration and refugee law
Date: 15 November 2018
Venue: King's Building, King's College London
Speaker: Professor Katerina Linos, UC Berkeley Law
This is the second in the 2018–19 Transnational Law Institute Signature Lecture series. Please see website for details.
Transforming Cities with Artificial Intelligence: Law, policy, and ethics
Date: 23 November 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Please see website for details.
How to Get a PhD in Law: Day One on 'The PhD in law and research methods'
Date: 24 November 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This day will cover: becoming a legal researcher; vomparative legal research; literature review; qualitative and quantitative methods; IALS Library: successful researching using IALS' electronic legal resources. Please see website for details and booking.
EU Health Law and Policy: Shaping a future research agenda
Dates: 29–30 November 2018
Venue: University of Edinburgh
Please see flyer for details.
December
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: Blood oil – tyrants, violence, and the rules that run the world
Date: 5 December 2018
Venue: Somerset House East Wing, King's College London
Speaker: Professor Leif Wenar, King’s College London
This is the third in the 2018–19 Transnational Law Institute Signature Lecture series. Please see website for details.
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshop
Dates: 5–6 December 2018
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya
Please see website for details.
European Governance of Health Crisis and Disaster Management
Dates: 6–7 December 2018
Venue: Amsterdam Law School
Co-Conveners: Mark L Flear (Queen’s University Belfast) and Anniek de Ruijter (Amsterdam)
Please see attachment for details.
Race: Why can’t the law effect genuine equality?, London: call for papers
Date: 7 December 2018
Venue: St Mary's University, Twickenham, London
Organised by the Centre for Law and Culture at St Mary's University with the University of Westminster and GSM London. Please see flyer for details. Closing date: 28 September 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.
Vertigo: Fake news/real theory
Date: 12 December 2018
Venue: Sir Roland Wilson Building, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Presented by the Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities. Please see website for details.
LSAANZ Annual Conference
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.
Socio-legal Journals Global South Initiative: Writing workshop
Dates: 13–14 December 2018
Venue: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Please see website for details.
Relationship breakdown: Informal and legal solutions
Date: 14 December 2018
Venue: De Montfort University, Leicester
Please see website for details.
This event is organised by the International Network of Scholars Researching Unregistered Marriages.
'Orient Far and Near' Conference: call for papers
Dates: 14–15 December 2018
Venue: University of Wrocław, Poland
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 23 November 2018.
Law, Human Rights and Religion: Flashpoints: call for papers
Date: 17 December 2018
Venue: Nottingham Trent University
The call for papers is now open . All topics on law, religion and human rights welcomed. Specialist streams on: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Issues, Childrens Rights, Duties of the State, and Public Bodies and Historical Papers. Please see attachment for details of call and website to register. Call closes: 1 November 2018.
2019
January
Introduction to MPhil/PhD Legal Research Methods
Date: 7 January 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This course aims to introduce a range of research methodologies that may be relevant to MPhil/PhD research in law and legally related fields. Please see website for details.
The Regulation of Partnerships and Closely-Held Corporations: call for papers
Date: 10 Janaury 2019
Venue: Newton Building, City Campus, Nottingham Trent University
Joint Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum and the Nottingham Law School Centre for Business and Insolvency Law. Please see attachment for details. Call closes: 31 October 2018. Please see website for registration after 31 October 2018.
Inaugural PropTech and Blockchain discussion on land registration and recording of real property interests: call for papers
Dates: 17–18 January 2019
Venue: RMIT Europe, Barcelona
Please see attachment for details. Closing date for submissions: 1 October 2018.
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: Speaker: Professor Emily Grabham (title tbc)
Date: 30 January 2019
Venue: Somerset House East Wing, King's College London
Speaker: Professor Emily Grabham, University of Kent
Please see website for details. Title to be confirmed, but save the date.
February
Excluded Voices and Suppressed Narratives: Speaker: Professor Walter Kaelin (title tbc)
Date: 6 February 2018
Venue: Somerset House East Wing, London
Speaker: Professor Walter Kaelin
Please see website for details. Title to be confirmed, but save the date.
How to get a PhD in Law: Day Two on 'The PhD journey: supervision, research ethics and preparing yourself for upgrade and vivas'
Date: 28 February 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This day will cover: the PhD journey - the staging posts of your PhD and support for research students; handling the supervision relationship; preparing for the Ethics Committee; preparing for upgrade viva and the PhD viva; discussion panel of students who have nearly completed their PhD in law; the foreign, international and comparative research collections of IALS Library. Please see website for details.
March
Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop: call for applications
Date: 21 March 2019
Venue: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Please see attachment for details. Closing date: 30 November 2018.
Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Annual Conference: call for papers
Dates: 22–23 March 2019
Venue: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Please see website for details. Closing date: 17 October 2018.
April
Workshop on 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
How to get a PhD in Law: Day Three on 'Researching, disseminating and publishing in the digital world'
Date: 10 May 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
This day will cover: the PhD in law in the digital world; legal writing; disseminating your legal research; getting your research published in journals; what books are law publishers looking to publish; publishing in Open Access online law journals; tips on keeping up to date with your research topic after completion. See website for details.
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.
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2019: Dignity: call for papers
Dates: 30 May–2 June 2019
Venue: Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington DC, USA
Please see website for details of call. Closing date: 7 November 2018.
June
Impact and Law Reform Conference
Date: 11 June 2019
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Please see webpage for details.
ASLI Conference: The rule of law and the role of law in Asia: call for papers
Dates: 11–12 June 2019
Venue: Asian Law Institute, Faculty of Law, Bukit Timah Campus, National University of Singapore
Please see website for details. Closing date: 3 December 2018.
2020
June
Labour Law Research Network LLRN4 Valparaíso: A global conversation on labour law – call for papers
Dates: 23–25 June 2019
Venue: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Please see website for details of call. Closing date for abstracts and panel proposals: 15 October 2018.
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.