Society of Legal Scholars

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 6 February 2023. This one-day workshop will bring together legal academics from across Cambridge and beyond, and cover a broad range of topics arranged around four key themes. Participant numbers are limited: please register your interest by emailing Dr Stefan Theil [email protected] a 500-word abstract before the deadline (6 February 2023). Successful individuals will be contacted shortly thereafter and asked to develop their abstract into a between 1,500- and 2,000-word discussion paper. Further details at: flyer .

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/workshop-empirical-contributions-to-doctrinal-research/

Workshop: Empirical Contributions to Doctrinal Research - Society of Legal Scholars CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 6 February 2023. This one-day workshop will bring together legal academics from across Cambridge and beyond, and cover a broad range of topics arranged around four key themes. Participant numbers are limited: please register your interest by emailing Dr Stefan Theil st608@c...

As law schools seek to diversify, liberate and decolonise the curriculum, legal history can and should play a vital role. This one-day (10.30-16.00) online conference, organised by the Open University Law School, explores how legal history contributes to the curriculum of the modern law school. Bringing diverse perspectives from across the globe, speakers discuss how and why legal history plays a role and consider the benefits an historical perspective can bring....

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/conference-diversity-dilemmas-and-discoveries-legal-history-in-the-curriculum-2/

Conference: Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries – Legal History in the Curriculum - Society of Legal Scholars As law schools seek to diversify, liberate and decolonise the curriculum, legal history can and should play a vital role. This one-day (10.30-16.00) online conference, organised by the Open University Law School, explores how legal history contributes to the curriculum of the modern law school. Brin...

This one-day event (09.30-15.45) is organised by the Law School and the Nursing School with the support of ANHH Consulting - Building Better Governance. Further details and registration at: attached and

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/seminar-confronting-dishonesty-the-significance-of-context-in-considering-liability/

Seminar: Confronting dishonesty - The significance of context in considering liability - Society of Legal Scholars This one-day event (09.30-15.45) is organised by the Law School and the Nursing School with the support of ANHH Consulting – Building Better Governance. Further details and registration at: attached and https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confronting-dishonestythe-significance-of-context-in-considering...

The University of Bristol Law School and The George Washington University Law School Government Procurement Law Program are presenting a free, 90-minute (14.00-15.30) webinar that will address the promise of technological solutions for procurement challenges. For any question, please email [email protected]. Further details and registration at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/webinar-tech-fixes-for-procurement-problems/

Webinar: Tech fixes for procurement problems? - Society of Legal Scholars The University of Bristol Law School and The George Washington University Law School Government Procurement Law Program are presenting a free, 90-minute (14.00-15.30) webinar that will address the promise of technological solutions for procurement challenges. For any question, please email a.sanchez...

In her inaugural lecture (17.00-18.0), Professor Stephanie Pywell will explore some effects of the empowerment of individuals and organisations to make delegated legislation, including the regulations about wearing face coverings in 2020. She will also reflect on the empowering effect of education – especially that offered by The Open University. Further details at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/lecture-aspects-of-empowerment-in-legislation-and-education/

Lecture: Aspects of empowerment in legislation and education - Society of Legal Scholars In her inaugural lecture (17.00-18.0), Professor Stephanie Pywell will explore some effects of the empowerment of individuals and organisations to make delegated legislation, including the regulations about wearing face coverings in 2020. She will also reflect on the empowering effect of education ....

This seminar will provide a unique opportunity to learn about legal design and how design thinking principles can be applied to law to make it more user friendly and more accessible for people to understand. Further details at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/seminar-design-thinking-and-legal-design-in-clinical-legal-education/

Seminar: Design thinking and legal design in clinical legal education - Society of Legal Scholars This seminar will provide a unique opportunity to learn about legal design and how design thinking principles can be applied to law to make it more user friendly and more accessible for people to understand. Further details at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-thinking-and-legal-design-in-clini...

This Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion (CAJI) guest webinar with Dr. John Sorabji will be held from 12.00-13.00 (UK time). Further details and registration at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/webinar-the-effects-of-digitisation-on-access-to-justice/

Webinar: The Effects of Digitisation on Access to Justice - Society of Legal Scholars This Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion (CAJI) guest webinar with Dr. John Sorabji will be held from 12.00-13.00 (UK time). Further details and registration at: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwrcu-vqDgpH9GgUja37wCPvy-BdciT7pMr

This event is organised by the Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL), City Law School and is part of the City Law School’s ‘ISEL Seminar Series’ Autumn Term 2022/23. Further details at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/seminar-towards-a-european-digital-citizenship-building-the-right-to-have-rights-in-society-online/

Seminar: Towards a European Digital Citizenship? Building the ‘right to have rights’ in society online - Society of Legal Scholars This event is organised by the Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL), City Law School and is part of the City Law School’s ‘ISEL Seminar Series’ Autumn Term 2022/23. Further details at: https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2022/december/towards-a-european-digital-citizenship-...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 19 February 2023. This fifth annual Law and Humanities roundtable invites original, interdisciplinary, and humanities-focused paper presentations occasioned by the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623. Further details at: attached.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/roundtable-shakespeare-at-large-law-and-the-first-folio/

Roundtable: Shakespeare at Large - Law and the First Folio - Society of Legal Scholars CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 19 February 2023. This fifth annual Law and Humanities roundtable invites original, interdisciplinary, and humanities-focused paper presentations occasioned by the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623. Further details at: attached.

A one-day (09.30-17.30) conference on major issues in International Migration law and Citizenship law, for practitioners, academics, and students. Further details at: attached.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/conference-international-migration-and-citizenship-law-in-memory-of-sir-richard-plender/

Conference: International Migration and Citizenship Law: In Memory of Sir Richard Plender - Society of Legal Scholars A one-day (09.30-17.30) conference on major issues in International Migration law and Citizenship law, for practitioners, academics, and students. Further details at: attached.

This event (4.00-5.30pm)is jointly hosted by QM Criminal Justice Centre and the Centre for Financial Law, Regulation and Compliance (FinReg), Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. This event is free but advance registration is required. Further details and registration at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/talk-chinas-foreign-exchange-regulations-and-illegality-in-private-international-law/

Talk: China’s Foreign Exchange Regulations and Illegality in Private International Law - Society of Legal Scholars This event (4.00-5.30pm)is jointly hosted by QM Criminal Justice Centre and the Centre for Financial Law, Regulation and Compliance (FinReg), Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. This event is free but advance registration is required. Further details and registration at: https://www.eventbrite.co.u...

This talk (12.00-1.00pm) offers a counterintuitive explanation for why tensions in the South China Sea have risen, not declined, in the UNCLOS era. The new international regime reconstituted China and its neighbours’ interests in jurisdiction at sea to produce harder, yet also more ambiguous claim. Speaker: Dr Andrew Chubb, Lancaster University China Centre. Teams link: Further details at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/international-law-as-a-driver-of-confrontation-unclos-and-chinas-policy-in-the-south-china-sea/

International Law as a Driver of Confrontation: UNCLOS and China’s Policy in the South China Sea - Society of Legal Scholars This talk (12.00-1.00pm) offers a counterintuitive explanation for why tensions in the South China Sea have risen, not declined, in the UNCLOS era. The new international regime reconstituted China and its neighbours’ interests in jurisdiction at sea to produce harder, yet also more ambiguous claim...

This event (3.00-4.00pm) is organised by the Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar Series. Kritika Sharma is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. Her paper aims to analyse and demonstrate a common thread that weaves through Marvel’s original 1977 ‘What if’ comics and the feminist judgments project, through their reliance on counterfactuals. The goal underlining this is to demonstrate how science fiction can be employed as a tool to map and analyse feminist approaches to (international) law, including the feminist judgments projects. The presentation will emphasise on three areas that this common reliance on counterfactuals invokes: contingency, causality and inter-temporality.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/talk-science-fiction-or-feminism-studying-the-counterfactual-through-feminist-legal-thought-and-marvel-comics/

Talk: Science fiction or feminism? Studying the counterfactual through feminist legal thought and Marvel comics - Society of Legal Scholars This event (3.00-4.00pm) is organised by the Law, History and Visual Culture Seminar Series. Kritika Sharma is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. Her paper aims to analyse and demonstrate a common thread that weaves through Marvel’s original 1977 ‘What i...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline: 20 December 2022. Abstract submissions are invited for a one-day interdisciplinary conference funded by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). Without limiting the call for papers, the organisers are interested in exploring the following themes: Young people and social media Sports law and social media The regulation of social media (criminal or civil) Marginalised groups and social media Mental health and social media Practitioners’ experiences of dealing with cases involving social media The development of the Online Safety Bill Further details at: attached.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/sls-supported-event-conference-contemporary-social-and-legal-issues-in-a-social-media-age/

SLS-SUPPORTED EVENT Conference: Contemporary Social and Legal Issues in a Social Media Age - Society of Legal Scholars CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline: 20 December 2022. Abstract submissions are invited for a one-day interdisciplinary conference funded by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). Without limiting the call for papers, the organisers are interested in exploring the following themes: Young people and social media...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 2 December 2022 (priority deadline) and 3 February 2023 (extended deadline). The Applied Legal Storytelling Conference brings together academics, judges, other law-makers, practitioners, and any other type of legal storyteller. Applied Legal Storytelling (AppLS) examines the use of stories, storytelling, or narrative elements in law practice, legal education, and the law. Further details at: call for papers.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/conference-applied-legal-storytelling/

Conference: Applied Legal Storytelling - Society of Legal Scholars CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 2 December 2022 (priority deadline) and 3 February 2023 (extended deadline). The Applied Legal Storytelling Conference brings together academics, judges, other law-makers, practitioners, and any other type of legal storyteller. Applied Legal Storytelling (AppLS) examines th...

This one-day (10.00-16.15 UK time) international virtual conference discusses the nature and scope of judicial independence in the Global South. Further details at: attached or visit

http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/conference-judicial-independence-in-developing-democracies/

Conference: Judicial Independence in Developing Democracies - Society of Legal Scholars This one-day (10.00-16.15 UK time) international virtual conference discusses the nature and scope of judicial independence in the Global South. Further details at: attached or visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/judicial-independence-in-developing-democracies-tickets-395803778757

The RSE-funded Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN - invite members of the Society of Legal Scholars to this hybrid (en)lightening talk by Mona Winau, visiting researcher at the universities of Stirling and Edinburgh. The event will take place at 2.00-3.00pm - meet point at the entrance the Andrew Miller Building at 13:45 (see maps). Further details at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/talk-enforcement-deficits-in-data-protection-law-significant-challenges-for-data-protection-authority-under-gdpr/

Talk: Enforcement Deficits in Data Protection Law – Significant Challenges for Data Protection Authority under GDPR - Society of Legal Scholars The RSE-funded Scottish Law and Innovation Network (SCOTLIN – https://www.scotlin.org/) invite members of the Society of Legal Scholars to this hybrid (en)lightening talk by Mona Winau, visiting researcher at the universities of Stirling and Edinburgh. The event will take place at 2.00-3.00pm – ...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 15 August 2022. UTS Faculty of Law is hosting the ANZ Law and History Society conference which will take place from 1-3 December 2022 in person with online options. Further details at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/conference-tenuous-histories-and-provable-pasts-how-legal-historians-create-knowledge/

Conference: Tenuous Histories and Provable Pasts - How Legal Historians Create Knowledge - Society of Legal Scholars CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 15 August 2022. UTS Faculty of Law is hosting the ANZ Law and History Society conference which will take place from 1-3 December 2022 in person with online options. Further details at: https://anzlhs.org/conferences-2/

Swansea University’s Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law is hosting its 17th colloquium in person at Swansea from 6-7 September 2022. This latest colloquium shines the spotlight on issues related to damages and remedies within the shipping, commercial and insurance spheres, focussing on a number of new trends and liability issues. As ever, the discussions will range freely over national, international, and EU legal dimensions, and will in each case be led by panels of top professional and academic experts. Further details at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/colloquium-damages-remedies-and-recoveries-in-shipping-and-commercial-law/

Colloquium: Damages, Remedies and Recoveries in Shipping and Commercial Law - Society of Legal Scholars Swansea University’s Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law is hosting its 17th colloquium in person at Swansea from 6-7 September 2022. This latest colloquium shines the spotlight on issues related to damages and remedies within the shipping, commercial and insurance spheres, focussing...

Newcastle Law School, with funding from the Society for Legal Scholars, invites registrations for a half-day conference about extra-judicial engagement (broadly defined to include any judicial discourse outside of legal judgment, such as: television, radio and print-media interviews, select committee appearances, speeches, academic publications, diaries and memoirs). Lord Dyson will give the keynote speech and two distinguished panels will consider the nature, value and significance of extra-judicial activities. Registration for in-person or online (keynote only) is free although places are limited. Further details at: link.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/sls-supported-event-seminar-beyond-the-bench-2/

SLS-SUPPORTED EVENT Seminar: Beyond the Bench - Society of Legal Scholars Newcastle Law School, with funding from the Society for Legal Scholars, invites registrations for a half-day conference about extra-judicial engagement (broadly defined to include any judicial discourse outside of legal judgment, such as: television, radio and print-media interviews, select committe...

The British Association of Comparative Law invites you to its 2022 webinar which will take place from 10.00-11.30 BST. Speakers: Professor Bernhard Koch, University of Innsbruck Professor Ugo Pagallo, University of Turin Professor Simon Chesterman, University of Singapore Professor TT Arvind, York University chairing. Further details and registration at:

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/webinar-comparative-torts-liability-for-ai/

Webinar: Comparative Torts - Liability for AI - Society of Legal Scholars The British Association of Comparative Law invites you to its 2022 webinar which will take place from 10.00-11.30 BST. Speakers: Professor Bernhard Koch, University of Innsbruck Professor Ugo Pagallo, University of Turin Professor Simon Chesterman, University of Singapore Professor TT Arvind, York U...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 9 September 2022. The event will critically explore current legal responses to gender-based violence both in the home and in public. It will use narrative fiction, specifically the novel After Dark which envisages a very radical alternative legal framework for tackling domestic violence, to prompt discussion of how the law should respond to GBV. This event is supported by the SLS Small Projects and Events Fund. Further details at: attached.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/sls-supported-event-conference-reflections-on-the-world-envisaged-in-after-dark-by-jayne-cowie/

SLS-SUPPORTED EVENT Conference: Reflections on the World Envisaged in “After Dark” by Jayne Cowie - Society of Legal Scholars CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 9 September 2022. The event will critically explore current legal responses to gender-based violence both in the home and in public. It will use narrative fiction, specifically the novel After Dark which envisages a very radical alternative legal framework for tackling dome...

This one-day event (9.30-17.30) aims to celebrate and engage with Rosa Luxemburg’s scholarship and activism. The online workshop will bring together scholars from different parts of the world to collectively explore Rosa’s work in the field of international law: her thinking and commitment to address issues of ableism, racism, classism and misogyny in the global economic order can add significantly to the analysis of current international legal debates around inequality, climate disaster and the pandemic....

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/workshop-rosa-luxemburg-and-international-law/

Workshop: Rosa Luxemburg and International Law - Society of Legal Scholars This one-day event (9.30-17.30) aims to celebrate and engage with Rosa Luxemburg’s scholarship and activism. The online workshop will bring together scholars from different parts of the world to collectively explore Rosa’s work in the field of international law: her thinking and commitment to ad...

Newcastle Law School, with funding from the Society for Legal Scholars, invites registrations for a half-day conference about extra-judicial engagement (broadly defined to include any judicial discourse outside of legal judgment, such as: television, radio and print-media interviews, select committee appearances, speeches, academic publications, diaries and memoirs). Lord Dyson will give the keynote speech and two distinguished panels will consider the nature, value and significance of extra-judicial activities. Registration is free although places are limited. Further details and registration at: here.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/sls-supported-event-seminar-beyond-the-bench/

SLS-SUPPORTED EVENT Seminar: Beyond the Bench - Society of Legal Scholars Newcastle Law School, with funding from the Society for Legal Scholars, invites registrations for a half-day conference about extra-judicial engagement (broadly defined to include any judicial discourse outside of legal judgment, such as: television, radio and print-media interviews, select committe...

Registration has now opened for the 5th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum, which aims to bring together all those with an interest in partnerships, LLPs, LLCs and other alternative forms of business organisation in the UK and overseas, including related areas such as tax, employment, property, corporate social responsibility etc. The Forum endeavours to be as inclusive and welcoming as possible....

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/cpnference-partnership-llp-and-llc-law-forum/

Cpnference: Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum - Society of Legal Scholars Registration has now opened for the 5th Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum, which aims to bring together all those with an interest in partnerships, LLPs, LLCs and other alternative forms of business organisation in the UK and overseas, including related areas such as tax, e...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline: 29 July 2022 This workshop is organised in the framework of EUFutures, a UACES Research Network supported by the James Madison Charitable Trust. The workshop will formally launch the Network and will provide an opportunity for network members to come together to reflect on the future methodological direction(s) of EU law and EU integration; to identify training needs for EU lawyers interested in interdisciplinary study; and to consider both how law could open itself up to methodologies from other disciplines, and what legal analysis could offer political, economic and historical approaches. Further details at: call for papers.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/workshop-understanding-legal-integration-disintegration-in-search-of-new-perspectives/

Workshop: Understanding legal integration/disintegration - in search of new perspectives - Society of Legal Scholars CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline: 29 July 2022 This workshop is organised in the framework of EUFutures, a UACES Research Network supported by the James Madison Charitable Trust. The workshop will formally launch the Network and will provide an opportunity for network members to come together to reflect on...

At the 22nd BIICL Annual WTO Conference 2022, four eminent panels will feature a wide range of speakers from government, international organisations, academia and legal practitioners. Further details at: here.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/conference-climate-change-border-carbon-adjustment-bca-approaches-and-the-wto/

Conference: Climate Change - Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA) Approaches and the WTO - Society of Legal Scholars At the 22nd BIICL Annual WTO Conference 2022, four eminent panels will feature a wide range of speakers from government, international organisations, academia and legal practitioners. Further details at: here.

The findings from the Nuffield IFS Review of Inequalities, chaired by the Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton, uncovered stark inequalities, especially for health, livelihoods, education, and the financial stability of the young generation. In the context of these findings, this international conference will cover topics currently being researched by CAJI on marginalised communities and which will provide the academic base for discussion: the meaning of inequality, access to justice, the common good, racial equality, and digital inclusion. Further details at: attached.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/conference-justice-in-crisis-equality-access-to-justice-and-digital-inclusion/

Conference: Justice in Crisis? Equality, Access to Justice and Digital Inclusion - Society of Legal Scholars The findings from the Nuffield IFS Review of Inequalities, chaired by the Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton, uncovered stark inequalities, especially for health, livelihoods, education, and the financial stability of the young generation. In the context of these findings, this international conference...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 5 August 2022. The workshop will consider the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic globally and the strategies for recovery. This workshop is funded by the SLS Small Projects and Events Fund. Further details at: call for papers.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/sls-supported-event-workshop-perspectives-for-post-covid-19-recovery-and-sustainable-development-a-law-and-development-discourse/

SLS-SUPPORTED EVENT Workshop: Perspectives for Post-COVID 19 Recovery and Sustainable Development - A Law and Development Discourse - Society of Legal Scholars CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 5 August 2022. The workshop will consider the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic globally and the strategies for recovery. This workshop is funded by the SLS Small Projects and Events Fund. Further details at: call for papers.

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 1 July 2022 (23.59) This in-person, one-day conference will examine the development, continuing legacy and continuing relevance of constitutional statutes. Proposed papers are invited from academics and practitioners at all stages of their careers and papers by early career academics and PhD students are particularly welcome. Further details at: call for papers and link.

https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/event/conference-constitutional-statutes-twenty-years-on/

Conference: Constitutional Statutes - Twenty Years On - Society of Legal Scholars CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline 1 July 2022 (23.59) This in-person, one-day conference will examine the development, continuing legacy and continuing relevance of constitutional statutes. Proposed papers are invited from academics and practitioners at all stages of their careers and papers by early career...