Events Calendar by Lawbore™

The war between Russia and Ukraine, as well as the conflict in Gaza, have galvanised thinking about, and action by, the bodies administering, the laws of war. How might we change the way we – and all our leaders think – so that we never go to war?

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Interested in how innovative companies secure funding to grow? Join us for an introduction to early stage investments and venture capital, with a particular focus on the tech and life sciences sectors. Our speakers will explain how venture capital works in practice, the types of deals and structures commonly used, and the role of lawyers in guiding founders and investors. This session will provide valuable insight into one of the most dynamic areas of corporate law, offering a chance to understand the commercial drivers shaping emerging industries.

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Commercial disputes are an inevitable part of business life and resolving these issues efficiently is fundamental to commercial success. TLT is experienced in providing practical, commercial solutions ranging from advice in the first stages of a disagreement through to court proceedings and enforcement. Alternative dispute resolution such as mediation and arbitration is also a major part of our work.

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Applying for a vacation scheme or training contract can feel overwhelming — but knowing what recruiters are really looking for makes all the difference. In this session, Bevan Brittan’s Graduate Recruitment team will share their top tips for crafting strong applications, from how to structure your answers to the common mistakes to avoid. You’ll leave with practical advice you can put into action straight away, helping you approach your applications with confidence.

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Thinking about a career in law or curious about what property litigation involves? Join Rachel from Wedlake Bell’s Property Litigation team as she introduces the type of work she does day-to-day. She’ll share insights into the kinds of disputes the team handles, the skills needed to succeed, and what makes property litigation an exciting and challenging area of practice. This session is a great opportunity to learn more about the profession and ask questions about pursuing a career in this field.

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Want to know what it’s really like to train at Sharpe Pritchard?

Join us for an interactive session where we’ll share an overview of the firm, our recruitment process, and what we look for in future trainees.

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Spreading Awareness of Commercial Awareness - with Jones Day. The importance of commercial awareness is a familiar refrain for anyone applying for graduate jobs. University careers services, grad recruitment teams and interviewers love to bring it up – but what does it really mean and why is it necessary? Join associates Sherif Saad and Lizzy Geraghty as they unpick the term by considering commercial awareness as a skill and explaining how and why it should be developed by lawyers of all levels.

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The Centre for Constitutions in Context (CCC) is hosting an online roundtable discussion of the new book Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment (OUP, 2025) by Professor Rehan Abeyratne (Western Sydney University).

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The Mooting Programme is designed to give students an accessible and encouraging introduction to advocacy. Mooting and advocacy are core skills for aspiring lawyers, yet they are often not formally taught during undergraduate study. This programme aims to bridge that gap by providing practical training in a welcoming and non-intimidating environment.

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Ever wondered what it’s really like to train at a US law firm in London? In this session, Morrison Foerster’s trainees and Learning & Development team will share their experiences and provide an inside look at the firm’s training contract. You’ll hear about the type of work trainees are exposed to, the support available for professional development, and what makes training at a US firm unique. This is your opportunity to ask questions and gain first-hand insights into life as a trainee at Morrison Foerster.

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Making your first application to a law firm can feel daunting — but knowing what works (and what doesn’t) will set you apart. In this session, an experienced graduate recruiter will share insights into what firms are really looking for, how to interpret application questions, and the best ways to showcase your skills and experiences. You’ll also learn the steps you can take early on to prepare for success. The session will finish with a Q&A, giving you the chance to put your questions directly to a recruiter.

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Join us for an insider’s guide to Ashfords and our training contract application process. This session will walk you through each stage, offering practical tips and highlighting common pitfalls to avoid. You’ll also gain an introduction to life at Ashfords and what we look for in future trainees.

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Are you considering a legal career and want to know what sets Skadden’s training contract apart? Join us for an in-depth webinar dedicated to demystifying the Skadden training contract experience.

This session is designed for aspiring lawyers who are eager to understand the unique opportunities, challenges, and rewards that come with training at one of the world’s leading law firms.

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Join Harry Buchanan, a Private Equity associate and former trainee at Willkie Farr & Gallagher, for an in-depth look at what it’s really like to work on high-profile private equity transactions.

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Consistently ranked Tier 1 in Employment and with the largest Employment team in the UK, trainees are likely to do an employment seat throughout their training contract at Lewis Silkin. But what does an employment lawyer at Lewis Silkin actually do? From tribunal litigation and investigations, specialist support with DE&I or culture issues to general advisory support, the work within our employment team is multi-faceted and is an invaluable seat for a trainee to do. Join Partners and an NQ solicitor for an insightful overview on the different types of work that our employment team does and what you can expect from an employment seat as a trainee.

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To tax or not to tax - that is the question! Join Charles Russell Speechlys for an insightful presentation and Q&A session on the latest changes in tax law and their impacts on both businesses and individuals. From high-net-worth individuals relocating from the UK to destinations like Dubai, to tax law changes sparking tractor protests in London, Charles Russell Speechlys explores the effects and how law firms can prepare their clients in our presentation, "Tomorrow's Tax Tactics."

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This session, led by the Graduate Recruitment team, will guide aspiring solicitors through the key stages of applying for a vacation placements at Pinsent Masons - an essential step for securing a Training Contract with the firm. Attendees will gain insights into the application process, including registration, academic and worm experience documentation, online blended assessments, video interviews and the case study component.

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Shami Chakrabarti is a Human Rights lawyer, campaigner and Life Peer. She is the author of three books, the latest being HUMAN RIGHTS: THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE.

In this Public Lecture and discussion, Baroness Chakrabarti will talk about this latest book, placing our endangered fundamental rights and freedoms in the context of contemporary global and domestic challenges, arguing that far from being outdated luxuries, they might offer a compass to help navigate the most difficult times.

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To confront the challenges and threats unleashed by the likes of Putin and Trump, Europe should reconcile the demands for a more Geopolitical Union with its commitment to a Constitutional Union based on shared fundamental values. That means reimagining and revisiting certain existing assumptions and practices, including about what it means to be a Member State of the European Union. In this lecture, we will explore how far EU law could help in reshaping some of the expectations surrounding participation as a Member State, so as to discourage damaging unilateral behaviours and promote more collaborative conduct, but without disturbing the underlying constitutional balance premised upon state sovereignty.

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Learn to Build Your Own App! Ever thought about creating your own app or starting a business but didn’t know where to start? Join us for a fun, hands-on session where you’ll learn how to build your very own app. No coding experience needed!

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Open to everyone! Whether you’re curious about tech, law, entrepreneurship, or just want to try something new, we’ve got you covered.

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Your personal brand isn’t a logo— it’s the impression you leave, the values you bring, and how others experience working with you.

Join us for an interactive session on personal branding — and learn how to bring yourself to your professional journey.

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Ever wondered what it’s really like to start your career in law and work as a lawyer?

Join us for an inside look at life in commercial and commercial litigation law, led by lawyers from VWV.

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Join members of Howard Kennedy's Ignite startup programme to gain an exclusive look at what it's like working with innovative startups. Learn how Trainees at Howard Kennedy get to collaborate with high growth startups from day one at the firm.

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Practical advice to help candidates stand out in a competitive market.

Drawing from Express Solicitors’ paralegal recruitment process, this workshop will cover crafting strong CVs, performing well in interviews, and how to demonstrate the qualities of a future trainee solicitor. 

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Our very own Women in Law Society are hosting their Black Women in Law panel discussion and networking event, with multiple inspiring speakers. The line up is:

Telisha Matthews: an unregistered barrister and the founder of Shiprah Legal Services Ltd.

Michelle Addo: Legel Councel at AtkinsRealis, and recently nominated for Outstanding Mentor by Bridging Barriers charity.

Isabelle Sadler: an associate at Squire Patton Boggs.

Dr Sabrina Germain: City Law School's very own Associate Dean for Equality Diversity and Inclusion, who has been recognised for her expertise on inequalities in healthcare relating to race and gender diversity.

We highly encourage you to come along.

Join our expert panel as they help us unpack the systemic causes of climate inequality, assess the current situation, and explore the realistic prospects for change.

Together, they will offer a candid appraisal of global climate efforts: Who has the power? Who bears the cost? And what will it take to realise a fairer future, given the economic systems, geopolitical forces, power imbalances and uncertainties that govern our world?

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In this masterclass, we’ll provide comprehensive guidance on how to answer “Why do you want to be a commercial lawyer?” and “Why do you want to work for this firm?”. In particular, the session will cover:

• Tips and techniques that we’ve developed whilst coaching, mentoring and training thousands of aspiring commercial lawyers.
• How to articulate your career motivation in a way that comes across as personal and credible.
• How to identify key law firm differentiators and – crucially – link these back to yourself.
• How to structure your answers to motivation questions.
• How to carry out targeted research into the legal profession and different firms.

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Why has automation anxiety – the fear that new technologies cause mass unemployment – proven wrong over the centuries? This lecture explores how technology affects the labour market. While new technologies can substitute for workers, reducing demand for their efforts at certain activities, they can also complement them, increasing demand for them to do activities that haven’t been automated. Historically, people have focused on the former, harmful force and underestimated – or ignored – the latter helpful force. Today, headlines all too often make the same mistake.

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Jake Schogger (ex-Magic Circle lawyer and founder of City Career Series) and Peter Watson (ex-stock broker, head hunter and founder of Watson's Daily) provide a summary of the key current affairs and trends from October 2025, including insights from a business, markets and legal perspective. 

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As a system of Public International Law (PIL), International Refugee Law (IRL) diverges from those that evolved concurrently in certain distinct ways.  Though internationally recognised, with a widely ratified Convention, and with complementary regional instruments and municipal legal regimes that require adherence to its fundamental tenets, the absence of clear instances of the attribution of international State responsibility is conspicuous, and merits a thorough inquiry.  ‘State Responsibility and International Refugee Law: History, Theory, and Application’ provides an authoritative response to that inquiry.  This first monograph by Dr. Sophie Capicchiano Young (Maria Sk?odowska-Curie scholar, University of Galway) provides a rigorous account of the history, theory, and application of State responsibility in IRL through an in-depth analysis of the evolving relationship between IRL and general PIL, spanning two centuries, five continents, and drawing on a vast wealth of sources.  This event will feature an in-depth conversation between Dr. Capicchiano Young and Professor Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler (University of Reading), followed by an audience Q&A

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Contemporary forms of slavery and exploitation, including forced labour, debt bondage, and domestic servitude, are some of the most pressing human rights issues of today. In this webinar, Professor Tomoya Obokata, the current UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery since 2020, will discuss his mandate and views on states’ and non-state actors' responses to these concerns.

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2025 marks the 30th anniversary of the WTO — a moment to reflect on its impact on global trade. This symposium will examine its achievements and challenges, and discuss future directions in the face of digital trade, emerging technologies, and shifting geopolitics.

This is an in-person event.

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By and large, EU competition law coexists peacefully with other regulatory norms. The existence of regulation does not oust the application of competition law, and compliance with one regime does not certify compliance with the other. In Meta Platforms, however, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice held that regulatory compliance (or non-compliance) may nonetheless provide a ‘vital clue’ as to whether behaviour is compatible with competition law in certain circumstances. This lecture will explore the implications of the Meta Platforms judgment and seek to explain and justify—if not necessarily defend—its approach.

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The conference will look at the history of tribunals in the UK and other European countries and how they have expanded over the years. It will also look at the effectiveness of the system and whether it delivers justice for workers.  The conference will then examine the system in the context of changes in employment structures in the 21st century and what, if any, changes are necessary to deliver a fair and just system. 

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1885 was a year of scandals around child sexual exploitation, high-profile clients, and trafficking of young girls. Popular outrage led to legal changes, including raising the age of consent to 16 and criminalising ‘gross indecency between males’. This workshop explores the dramatic events and the people involved, and offers an opportunity to consider original documents.

The workshop is led by Caroline Derry and Claire Cunnington.

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This webinar offers a comprehensive insight into the psychometric tests most commonly included in commercial law assessment processes, including Watson Glaser tests, verbal reasoning tests, situational judgment tests, logical/abstract reasoning tests, and e-tray exercises. 

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Come and speak to members of chambers about life as a family barrister in one of the most prestigious family sets in London. There will be an opportunity to ask questions about family practice, pupillage applications and get some excellent hints and tips ahead of application season. 

All welcome but please register via link below. 

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This is a free in-depth masterclass on how to ace assessment centres and virtual interviews. 

The event will be hosted by ex-Magic Circle lawyer Jake Schogger, who passed assessment centres and secured internship offers from Freshfields, A&O, Linklaters, Cleary, Latham & Watkins, and Herbert Smith Freehills. 

It will also feature Victoria Wilson from The Student Lawyer who attended five TC interviews for high street and regional firms (and secured a TC having previously worked as a paralegal).

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This is the annual Royal Historical Society Lecture.

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The Annual Inspirational Women in Law Awards from Next 100 Years seek to identify individuals from across the legal profession who are leading the way in improving equality and diversity.

In their 10th edition, this year the celebration of the award winners will be framed by a celebration of the achievements of all those who continue to be role models in the legal profession. With keynote speeches delivered by three industry-leading VIP guests, as well as a sparkling drinks reception, networking opportunities with top lawyers from across the UK and beyond and, of course, the Awards Presentation to the 2025 Winners, this Celebration of Our Role Models in Law is not one to be missed!

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The UK's biggest law fair for first year students! Join a series of insightful panel discussions, enhance your employability and kick-start your legal career.

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In this lecture, Mark Taubert, who chairs the national DNACPR policy for Wales, and is a palliative care clinician, reviews current practices. He will encourage you to consider your own end of life care advance care plan, and attempt to write down your prior wishes. He reviews recent concerns, scandals and media outputs and looks at current resuscitation policies, guidelines and resources. He also discusses, from a clinician’s point of view, how the prospect of a natural, anticipated and accepted death in the near future can be a trigger to better advance care planning. Furthermore, he looks at online conspiracy theories, and poor Covid-19 clinical practice, and outlines resources such as the Welsh TalkCPR videos, that can help improve communication in an area rife with misconceptions and misunderstanding.

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Join us for our autumn Postgraduate Open Evening on Wednesday 5 November 2025 to explore the wide range of postgraduate opportunities available at our Clerkenwell and Moorgate campuses. Whether you’re just beginning to consider further study or have already submitted your application, this event will help you make a confident and informed decision about your future.

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The symposium will feature presentations by selected speakers whose work addresses historical and contemporary forms of resistance to racial injustice, the experiences of racialised communities in contact with state institutions, and the production of knowledge around race and ethnicity in legal, carceral, and social contexts. Topics covered will include:

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This two day conference will explore the role of the ECHR and the Venice Commission in promoting human rights and the rule of law, and how a multi-layered human rights protection may contribute to constitutional resilience in the UK and across Europe.

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This is a unique opportunity to hear insights from and ask questions to experts on the reality of family justice reform. Pathfinder is transforming how family courts handle child arrangement cases by facilitating multi-agency collaboration and creating safer experiences for families.

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The Workshop offers an opportunity for young researchers (PhD and MPhil students) to discuss their work with leading EU law scholars and practitioners and to network with other academics working in the same or related fields. EU law experts Prof Paul Craig, Prof Panos Koutrakos, Prof Elaine Fahey, and Prof Theodore Konstadinides will provide feedback on the presented papers. This year’s Workshop will include two brief master classes.

Programme:

• Prof Paul Craig: “How to Craft a Doctoral Thesis”
• “Reassessing the Goals of EU Competition Law: The Case of Dark Patterns in Digital Markets” (Nam Phuong Ngo, University of Liverpool)
• “Smart Contracts and EU External Relations: Challenges and Opportunities for Consumer and Business Protection” (Andikara Honour Etiubon, University of Law)
• "Towards a Framework of Effectiveness for Competition Law Remedies”  (Christos Kalykas, King’s College London)
• “Surveilled - Unresolved Rights” (Ashwati Soman, Brunel University)
• Prof Panos Koutrakos: “How to Write an Article for Publication”

This event is open to students and academic observers. Places are limited so please secure yours by emailing Kerstin.Wachholz@kcl.ac.uk  Fee: UKAEL Student Members free, everyone else £5.

The City Law School are celebrating everything we do relating to pro bono during special evening event for Pro Bono Week! We would be delighted if you are able to join us as one of our valued partners, supporters, and student volunteers. 

City Law School staff will talk about about the impact of our work and the difference we have made collectively towards access to justice. This will be followed by a panel discussion on how pro bono experiences can help in practice, featuring; a solicitor from a major firm, a barrister from a notably chambers, one of our alumni who is now in practice, and a Student Director from City's multi-award-winning legal advice centre

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‘People, Planet, and Profit.’ What sustainability means for companies and company lawyers against surging global trade uncertainty and ongoing economic challenges? Join us and explore this together at the Company Law and Sustainability Conference (The Society of Legal Scholars Company Law Section). 

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This will be the fifth in a series of free online seminars hosted by the Women in Refugee Law (WiRL) network on the theme of “Refuge in a cold climate: the impact on women”. These are public events, ideal for anyone whose work relates to refugee or asylum-claiming women or with an interest in the needs and experiences of refugee women. This series draws on WiRL’s global membership to apply a gendered lens in analysing the impact of increasing hostility to refugees in different states and contexts.

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On 12 November 2025, Arbitration Lab is organising the London Career Readiness Workshop in hybrid format to equip its participants with the essential knowledge, practical skills, and mindset required to secure a job in today’s competitive market. 

NEW: The provisional programme is now available here.

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This seminar examines the role of international courts in advancing justice for war crimes and the crime of aggression, with a particular focus on the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. As both crises continue to present profound humanitarian and legal challenges, the international community faces renewed pressure to uphold accountability through established legal mechanisms. Central to this discussion are the capacities and limitations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in responding effectively to these challenges and resisting impunity for serious violations of international law.

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This lecture responds to a longstanding challenge posed by the communitarian theory of insolvency: to interrogate the normative foundations of insolvency law and its dominant theories, and to elucidate more fully the values and assumptions that underpin the field. Gross, the leading communitarian theorist, contended that both the creditors’ bargain theory (CBT) and values-based approaches failed to articulate the philosophical basis of their claims, thereby leaving the field without a fully developed account of its normative foundations.

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This bootcamp aims to equip you with the key commercial knowledge and insights needed to ace City law commercial awareness and case study interviews. It will also help you to structure your preparation moving forwards.

INCLUDES

• 1 month Commercial Law Academy membership (RRP £18.99) [new subscribers only]
• 1 month Watson's Daily membership (RRP £9.99) [new subscribers only]
• 4 downloadable e-guides covering boosting your employability, commercial awareness, what trainees do, and succeeding during internships.
• 25% off discount code for City Career Series handbooks.
• Access to a 3+ hour intensive commercial awareness bootcamp, with a long interactive Q&A.

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Here's what Prof Lee says about his forthcoming lecture! 

Now here’s a story. It’s about a late Georgian billionaire, whose assets were strewn and hidden across multiple jurisdictions. His family want to recover those assets. Various characters agree to help them. Companies are created and then there are secret business deals. People fall out, and try to turn situations to their own advantage. There is even a moral at the end. This intriguing tale could be the plot of a movie, but these are actually the facts of a recent UK Supreme Court decision, in Rukhadze v Recovery Partners GP Ltd [2025] UKSC 10.

In this lecture, I shall examine the role of narrative in creating and curating institutions, and in effecting and affecting legal change. A key claim is that the narratives told by institutions (and the individuals who serve in them) make a difference, as do the narratives which we tell about them. This point has consequences for how we understand the work of the courts in developing the law, and law reform agencies in proposing change. I explore these themes through critical examination of Recovery Partners, our case on fiduciaries and causation.

I shall show how in Recovery Partners, the Justices deploy different narratives to examine the relevance of what did happen on the facts and of what could have happened had the defendants behaved differently. Across four contrasting judgments, the Justices reach the same ultimate conclusion but for various reasons and with some significant disagreements along the way. The Court also forcefully declined an invitation to depart from previous authorities. There are different stories told about what the law is, and what it should be, and how the courts can bring about change in the law. A connected, concluding claim is then that understanding the role of narrative is important for a wider and deeper appreciation of the common law imagination.

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For 200 years, the penal equation 'crime plus blame equals punishment' has meant prison crises, a permanent crime problem, violent and damaged lives. The retributive theory of punishment supports this; fully developed, it could transform it. A moral psychology of violation distinguishes primitive and mature retributivism, explaining punishment's necessary failure and guilt, forgiveness and reconciliation's power. 'Atonement' means both punitive 'payback' and being 'at one' again with self and others. Reconciliation for offender, victim and society leads to punishment's deep, tendential abolition.

Intellectually innovative and bold, Alan Norrie's mature retributivism is rooted in human ontology, in the metaphysical animal that thinks and loves. Speaking to law, philosophy, criminology and criminal justice, his moral psychology considers victims who victimise, grief at violation, denial and mourning and the loving prison.

Exploring ethics, psychoanalysis, social theory, testimony and film, his psychologically developed moral philosophy challenges basic assumptions about punishment and the penal equation.

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We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s10th Annual Conference on 20-21 November 2025 hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and supported by the School of Advanced Studies (SAS). You can read about our previous annual events on our website.

We are looking for high-quality contributions exploring approaches, laws, mechanisms, and models of the enforcement and oversight of AI-based and data-driven systems, particularly their implications for the rule of law and other related areas of digital policymaking and law. Including, but not limited to, competition law, consumer law, data protection, human rights.

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Feminist theory has long established the links between patriarchal values and violence against which is rooted in hierarchical gendered structures, gendered stereotypes and inequalities. Taken together it is unsurprising that the mother-child relationship is often a key aim for perpetrators who intentionally try to undermine, distort and disrupt it in order to achieve power and control within the family. Understanding the construction of motherhood and fatherhood within the family justice system is therefore crucial in terms of combatting the damaging effects of gender stereotyping within the context of allegations of domestic abuse. With reference to a major empirical study of five European jurisdictions, this lecture will demonstrate how, when domestic abuse takes place, it is mothers who are often the focus of the State in terms of their ability to protect the children from the father perpetrator and at the same time, to sustain the father-parent relationship. Moreover, mothers experiencing domestic abuse are often negatively judged through normative paradigms of ‘good motherhood’, even when evidence shows they are acting to protect their child and enhance their safety in very difficult circumstances. As a result, the study demonstrates how damaging discourses of the ‘good mother’ as fully responsible for their children animate persistent discourses of mother-blame and should be understood as a gendered driver of domestic and family violence.

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20 November - In-person only and 21 November - Online only via Zoom

The ILPC Annual Conference will include the ILPC Annual Lecture 2025, and we are delighted to announce that this will be delivered by Marcus Bokkerink.

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This is a free in-depth masterclass on how to ace assessment centres and virtual interviews. 

The event will be hosted by ex-Magic Circle lawyer Jake Schogger, who passed assessment centres and secured internship offers from Freshfields, A&O, Linklaters, Cleary, Latham & Watkins, and Herbert Smith Freehills. 

It will also feature Victoria Wilson from The Student Lawyer who attended five TC interviews for high street and regional firms (and secured a TC having previously worked as a paralegal).

Find out more on their event details page (external site).

The proposition that universal access to justice should be a guiding aim of any system of law is, today, commonly recognised. Less clear, however, is what the implementation of this principle should entail in practice if a party cannot afford legal assistance. This seminar explores the role European human rights law can play in narrowing the asymmetry of access to justice under Article 6(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Professor Lee’s lecture explores British colonial rule in Hong Kong, British imperialism in China, and the British imperial law of extradition, c. 1842-1873.  Further details are set out in the abstract below.  Professor Lee will take questions from the audience following his lecture. Professor MacMillan will chair the session.

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For the CEL 51st Annual Lecture, President Koen Lenaerts will explain, in the light of the relevant case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, that respect for the value of democracy cannot be limited to protecting the ballot box.

Free and fair elections are vital for a democracy. However, that is not enough. In his view, the value of democracy requires much more. It requires a transparent and accountable government, an active civil society, free and pluralistic media, and minorities who feel protected. It also requires future generations of Europeans to learn and understand how EU demoicracy operates in practice, and to share and cherish the values on which the EU is founded.

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This is a highly personal, immensely practical session - delivered by an ex-Magic Circle (and current practising) lawyer - designed to equip you with the professional skills and insider insights needed to effectively navigate a corporate environment as an intern, a paralegal, or a trainee solicitor. 

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Are you…?

• Articulate, analytical, diligent, and self-motivated?
• Looking for a career which is
• Challenging?
• Stimulating?
• Varied?
• Well-paid?

A career at the Chancery Bar might be for you - sign up to this careers event.

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Jake Schogger (ex-Magic Circle lawyer and founder of City Career Series) and Peter Watson (ex-stock broker, head hunter and founder of Watson's Daily) provide a summary of the key current affairs and trends from June 2025, including insights from a business, markets and legal perspective. 

Find out more on their event details page (external site).

Tuesday, 2nd – Thursday, 4th December 2025

From live sessions with academic staff to guidance from our admissions and student support teams, the Postgraduate Virtual Fair gives you a closer look at postgraduate study at City St George’s – all from wherever you are.

Join us online from Tuesday 2 December to Thursday 4 December 2025 to discover everything City St George’s, University of London has to offer.

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One of the first executive orders issued by President Trump in January was EO 14164 designed to “restore the death penalty”, though actually aimed at far more (including making the prison conditions of those commuted by Biden reflect the “monstrosity” of their crimes). We will explore what this means for the 2,400 people on America’s death row, at the same time as reviewing the rising levels of innocent people being executed – my own ‘Post Mortem Project’ indicating that as many as 13 percent of those killed since 1976 have strong innocence cases.

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Thinking about a career in one of the United Kingdom’s foremost law firms? Then LawCareersNetLIVE is a must-attend event, looking at the skills, attributes and techniques that are necessary to launch a career at this type of firm. This conference is for talented students (law and non-law) who want to learn more about how to build a successful career as a solicitor in a prestigious firm.

Places are limited, apply now!

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We are excited to invite you to the first annual WeilAccessAbility insight evening this year. WeilAccessAbility is one the firm's network groups. Its mission is to enhance the firm's recruitment, retention and progression of disabled people, people with long term health conditions and people who are neurodivergent.

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LawCareersNetLIVE Virtual is an online careers conference that brings the valuable opportunities of attending one of LawCareers.Net’s in-person events to you at home. It's a unique chance to network with and gain insights into a stellar roster of law firms. Alongside our London and Manchester conferences, LawCareersNetLIVE Virtual is designed to widen access to leading legal employers.

Places are limited, apply now.

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This FREE commercial awareness-themed masterclass offers the perfect way to hone your knowledge and understanding of current affairs. In this webinar, current affairs guru Peter Watson, founder of Watson's Daily, will be offering:

• Reflections on the key current affairs, political events and commercial news from 2025.
• A high level look at 2026.
• An overview of the key commercial awareness themes to look out for over the coming months.
• The opportunity to ask any pressing questions.

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Throughout the popular and scholarly discourse on artificial intelligence (AI) and the impact on works of authorship, several themes continue to dominate the discussion: speed in the production of materials; volume in the capacity of machine outputs; and the nature of the human use of AI for the purposes of authorship, leading to calls from some quarters for new theories of creativity and indeed new legal conceptualisations of originality. All of these concerns converge in the concept of effort; either alleviating it or measuring it for the purposes of authorship. But what is effort? Tech companies might have us believe that a prime objective of generative-AI is to reduce the effort expended by humans, in time, in cost, and in ingenuity. But this has curious legal, social, and cognitive connotations and consequences. In the context of academic and legal practice, the rise in misrepresentation and misconduct is a cause for considerable concern and paradoxically leads to further effort, rather than relieving it. Alongside these issues, reports of general decline in cognitive attention and curiosity suggest not only an undesirable consequence of this machinic delegation, but also a very real loss in the play of authorship. The question is, do we really want to make less effort? Effort, and the loss of it, comes at a cost. Without effort, does the tremendous speed and volume of generative-AI translate merely into idle talk rather than the joy of the work? This lecture will consider the nature of authorship, the attention in creativity, and the potential for a theory of effort in contemporary copyright law.

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Our Winter Postgraduate Open Evening on Wednesday 4 February 2026 is your opportunity to visit our main campus in Clerkenwell, meet the academics behind our programmes, and experience what studying at City St George’s is really like.

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When death occurs, the state has a duty to investigate. Every death must be registered locally with a cause of death. And now, more than any other country, all deaths are double-checked, with coroners having a significant role in over 30% of them, explaining the unexplained and reporting to prevent future deaths.

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The Pupillage Interview Workshop will focus on how to prepare for and perform in pupillage interviews.

This workshop will involve:

• A talk from a female barrister with tips and advice on interview skills
• A live, practical exercise in small groups, with the opportunity for individual feedback
• A Q&A session with a panel of female members of chambers

This workshop is open to those applying for pupillage at the Commercial Bar in 2026 or in the near future.

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Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) represent a novel form of digital organisation, designed to raise funds and allocate control for various objectives, ranging from issuing cryptocurrencies and managing dispute resolution processes to stabilising the value of crypto assets. Their defining features of ‘decentralised’ and ‘disintermediated’ introduce significant governance and legal risks. By operating through decentralised ledger technologies (DLT) and other emerging systems, DAOs not only increase cybersecurity vulnerabilities but also present legal risks. DAOs have facilitated capital raising, notably through initial coin offerings (ICOs), and have also functioned as mechanisms for ‘monetary’ stabilisation. These developments highlight the need to reassess regulatory assumptions and adapt legal frameworks to the evolving nature of digital organisations. DAOs have catalysed a new wave of legal studies in organisational law, financial regulation, property law, and private international law. They operate at the intersection of technology, finance, and law, prompting a new wave of legal scholarship in financial regulation, property law, organisational law, and private international law. As these programmable/code-based organisational structures challenge traditional legal forms, a coherent regulatory and conceptual paradigm is needed to ensure trust and safety in this emerging digital space.

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Jake Schogger (ex-Magic Circle lawyer and founder of City Career Series) and Peter Watson (ex-stock broker, head hunter and founder of Watson's Daily) provide a summary of the key current affairs and trends from June 2025, including insights from a business, markets and legal perspective. 

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Public discourse in the UK has been saturated with controversies and conflicts about the definition and significance of gender and sex, to the extent that some have described this moment as one of gender / sex ‘culture wars’ (Duffy 2025; Cammaerts 2022). In many of these clashes, the legal system is expected to arbitrate disputes about apparently conflicting rights, often by ‘balancing’ the needs and interests of vulnerable groups, such as women, and trans people.

This lecture focuses on the crucial question of the part law has played in the formation of contemporary understandings of gender and sex. It asks when, why and how our legal system became a central forum for debating the meaning and salience of gender and sex; and what the impact of law’s engagement in complex gender and sex disputes has been on those whose rights are called into question.

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Understanding how environmental laws, and the ideas underlying those laws, spread, diffuse, or proliferate transnationally is a formidable task. This lecture investigates the global spread of environmental law through the frequently unacknowledged use of models, templates, and best practices. Drawing on a case study of the global diffusion of environmental assessment, this work harnesses the power of computer-assisted research techniques and textual similarity analysis to illuminate the spread of legal tools, terminologies, techniques and mindsets. In so doing, it disrupts the narratives of time, space, and authority that have dominated accounts of environmental law’s spread. Ultimately, this work suggests that the ‘quiet’ activities of lawyers and legal scholars may matter rather more than we are comfortable acknowledging.

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Please join us for a full day of inspiring talks by our fantastic line up of speakers, including:

Sally Penni, Founder and Chair of Women in the Law UK

Sally is a practicing Barrister and is Vice Chair of the Association of Women Barristers.

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Details of our other great speakers coming soon!

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Tuesday, 7th – Thursday, 9th April 2026

Taking place from Tuesday 7 April to Thursday 9 April 2026, this three-day online event focuses on programmes offered at our Clerkenwell and Moorgate campuses. Whether you’re just beginning to explore your options or have already applied, it provides the perfect opportunity to learn more, ask questions, and get the information you need to move forward with confidence.

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This lecture is part of the annual Lord Mayors event. If you're able, make sure to put this in your diary ahead of time.

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28 April 2026 - 29 April 2026, 9:30AM - 5:00PM

This 2-day workshop brings together eight scholars from a range of disciplines – including History, English, Law, and French – who tackle various aspects of comic pleading in legal, religious, poetic, and dramatic texts, and think together about the intersection of law, comedy, and dialogue in the long medieval. The papers discussed will be published in a special issue of Law & Literature. 

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Plato in the fourth century BCE penned an indelible sequence of constitutional decline ending in tyranny, as well as a more complex set of possibilities for mixing different constitutional kinds. Two centuries later, Polybius portrayed constitutional change as cyclical, with an eventual collapse of democracy into ‘ochlocracy’ (mob rule) and then reversion to monarchy. These and other ancient authors proposed that a mixed constitution might prevent unwanted political change – an idea that would influence many later generations of political thinkers.

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Join us for our spring Postgraduate Open Evening on Wednesday 3 June 2026 to explore the wide range of postgraduate opportunities available at our Clerkenwell and Moorgate campuses.

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An enthusiast of the Roman mixed constitution, Cicero was elected consul and in that role dramatically curbed the tyrannical ambitions of Catiline. He would later become fatally embroiled in the shifting politics of later generations of ambitious strongmen, while also writing his own theories of constitutional change. This lecture explores Cicero’s life and death as a way to articulate the crises of the late republic.

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An annual lecture delivered by Britain's leading legal professionals, held in partnership with Gray's Inn.

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