Events Calendar by Lawbore™

Ensuring decent working conditions in the gig-economy has been one of the key regulatory challenges of the past decade. The European Union has led on that challenge with the adoption of Directive 2024/2831, now only one year away from its transposition deadline of December 2026.

Join this hybrid event organised by the UCL Labour Rights Institute to hear from a group of leading labour and social law experts, discussing a range of aspects of the regulatory puzzle surrounding platform work. The participants have jointly authored a special issue of the European Labour Law Journal dedicated to the analysis of Directive 2024/2831.

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Are you interested in learning more about how you can develop your commercial awareness?

We’ll cover a number of topics in the workshop:

• Commercial awareness – understand the importance of staying updated on current business and legal developments.
• Meet our graduates – connect with our talented trainees and graduate solicitor apprentices who can offer firsthand experiences and valuable advice about life at the firm.

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The Dance and Legal Materialities Network explores how dance can animate legal materials. Led by IALS librarian Marilyn Clarke, legal researcher Marie Andree Jacob and dance artist/researcher Anna Macdonald, this new network is part of the Law and Humanities Hub at IALS. It brings dance methods into conversation with legal texts — asking how embodied practice can open new, decolonial ways of reading, writing, amending and archiving law.

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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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ARNet Internation Conference 2025 is live - attend this event to interact with international speakers as well as networking with like minded individuals. You will receive a certificate should you decide to attend.

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A lecture and discussion ft. Prof. John Hasnas on "Common Law Liberalism" - this is a lecture event held at the London School of Economics featuring a new book titled Common Law Liberalism by Prof. John Hasnas.

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In its Commonhold White Paper in March 2025, Government confirmed its plans to make commonhold “the default tenure” for flats through a “comprehensive new legal framework” based on recommendations from the Law Commission, alongside a ban on new leasehold flats. Draft legislation is due to be published before the end of the year.

Join an expert panel at UCL Faculty of Laws to discuss this significant development and its wider implications.

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Legal philosophy faces an existential crisis. As populism surges, social fractures deepen, and democratic institutions strain under unprecedented pressure, jurisprudence remains paralyzed by what I call the "Barbarism of Reflection"—an excessive rationalism that dissects law while becoming disconnected from its moral and imaginative foundations. Drawing on Giambattista Vico's concept of "poetic wisdom" (sapienza poetica) and Shakespeare's insight that one must "see feelingly," this article proposes Humanistic Jurisprudence as a synthetic framework that transcends the limitations of analytical, critical, and historical approaches to law.

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In conventional political philosophy, law is understood as consciously created rules that are a necessary mechanism for regulating the excesses of the free market. Although coercive in nature, law is seen as a necessary defense against anarchy. But is the situation that simple? In his examination of the purpose and functioning of the legal system, John Hasnas challenges this false dichotomy, presenting a new theory of liberalism that demonstrates that the common law can serve as an effective alternative to traditional politically created legislation.

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Have you ever dreamt of working for the law commission? They are recruiting research assistants!

The Law Commission is an independent statutory body established to keep the law of England and Wales under review and recommend reforms when needed. Its primary aim is to ensure that the law in a particular area is as fair, modern, simple and cost-effective as possible. 

 As we prepare to launch our 2025/26 Research Assistant recruitment campaign, the Law Commission is hosting a special outreach event for prospective applicants from The City Law School. As a research assistant, you’ll master complex areas of law and help shape UK legal reform as part of an expert team. You will develop a range of skills and gain professional experience that is hard to obtain anywhere else.

 The session will offer insights into:

• Who we are and what we do at the Law Commission
• The role and responsibilities of a Research Assistant
• The application process and how to navigate it successfully
• Top tips for crafting a standout application
• A spotlight on a current project at the Commission
• A live Q&A to answer your questions

If you're a final-year LLB student, a postgraduate (LLM, PhD, or GDL), or pursuing a professional legal qualification at City (such as the Bar Course or SQE), we’d love to see you there!

Come along to learn more and explore how you could be part of our team.

To register please email: john-paul.macnamara@citystgeorges.ac.uk

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The Lund Lecture is an address given in honour of one of our past Presidents Sir Thomas Lund CBE. Keynote speeches have been given by senior members of the professions every two years hosted by BAFS.  We invite you to join us for an excellent lecture followed by a drinks reception.

Professor Wilcox will present a review of the recent Air India crash looking at the incident from its legal and evidential perspective, and lessons learned from the disaster victim identification process, and the role of the Coroner in such disasters.

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This book tackles the most pressing problems of contemporary free speech law by examining where the idea of free expression came from in the first place, applying the lessons of the past to address the challenges of the present.

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As the use of artificial intelligence continues to increase, questions around protecting original ideas have become more urgent than ever.

This virtual panel brings together three distinguished specialists to explore the evolving relationship between AI-generated innovation and the law.

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Hear UAL students share and discuss their experiences using AI tools for learning and creativity.

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Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing how lawyers work and has the potential to impact upon how justice is delivered. From AI-powered document review to automated document drafting, technology is reshaping the legal profession at unprecedented speed. But what are the opportunities and risks?  This session explores real-world applications of AI in legal practice - including Generative AI tools transforming research, drafting, and client services. We'll then examine AI's growing role in the justice system, from algorithmic risk assessment and predictive tools informing decisions to current developments in court digitalisation and emerging AI-assisted dispute resolution.  Whether you already have a legal background, or are contemplating a career change, if you are interested in the intersection between technology and the legal sector, join us to discover some of the ways in which AI is redefining the legal profession and is raising critical questions about skills, ethics, and the future of justice.

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In exploring nineteenth-century Germany as a crucible for the possibility of a law that stretched between and across sovereign states, The Quest for Law establishes new connections between European intellectual history, the legal history of empires, and the history of international order.

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Employment law is a dynamic and people-focused area of legal practice that touches on everything from workplace disputes and discrimination claims to contracts and regulatory compliance. In this LawCareers.Net practice area masterclass, sponsored by Gateley Legal, Jones Day and Lewis Silkin, we’ll explore what it’s really like to work in employment law and the key skills you’ll need to succeed.

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This is an opportunity to hear more about the recruitment process and the seats available. Plus, you'll hear from a representative from each department in the firm and also have an in house lunch with the existing trainees and newly qualified lawyers to ask any further question you wish.

This event is aimed at applicants looking to start a training contract in 2028. 

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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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IALS offers a popular Introduction to Legal Research Methods to assist MPhil and PhD students in law registered at universities across the UK. This course, directed provides the chance to explore a range of research methodologies that may be relevant to MPhil/PhD research in law and legally related fields.

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The Crown Office Chambers look forward to welcoming prospective applicants to their upcoming Pupillage Open Evening. Attendees will meet members of Chambers and learn about life at Crown Office Chambers.

To register, email events@crownofficechambers.com

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Join Support Through Court on?Tuesday 20 January 2026 for the annual Family Law Breakfast focusing on trauma in the family courts. This esteemed panel will be exploring how trauma shapes the experience of families and professionals going through the family court system, as well as looking forward and reimagining how we approach trauma in the courts.

The cost for this Family Law Breakfast is the cost of one in person support sessions at one of the service locations.

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Join us for an inside look at our corporate and commercial practice at Bates Wells. In this session, our lawyers will unpack what corporate law actually involves. You’ll hear how we support a wide range of clients, from social enterprises and B Corps to mainstream businesses, helping them grow sustainably, navigate complex legal frameworks and stay true to their mission.

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The law often seeks to keep sound contained and fixed, but sound has a way of leaking out. From the acoustic design of courtrooms to rules of evidence and norms of decorum in trial, the law determines what should be heard and what should not, in legal process as well as in everyday life. Sound can be an evanescent and unruly object, however, evading or penetrating our ears in unexpected ways. As a result, the law applies what I refer to as fictions of hearing – assumptions, ideas, and rules about sound that aim to manage it, but don’t always succeed. Through three examples, I show how such fictions of hearing clash with the human perception of sound. These examples reveal the limitations of legal imagination and understanding of sound and listening.

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It is no coincidence that justifications and historiographies of intellectual property law often neglect colonial pasts. Expanding globally in the late nineteenth century, copyright, trade marks, and patents were often imported or projected by colonising powers to protect settlers’ inventions, books, and art. Similarly, colonial expeditions to extract natural resources and industrial agricultural experiments haunt in the iterations of plant intellectual property in the twentieth century. These pasts were fundamental to the emergence of intellectual property as a distinct field of law. This workshop is aimed at exploring the place of colonialism in the making of intellectual property from its earliest days to the present. 

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Citizens’ relations with governments and corporations are characterised by diminishing transparency and an increasing asymmetry of access to information. Yet the world today is swamped by data. Much of it is disinformation, whether from parties posing as state actors or emanating from “freelance” hackers. Barely a day goes by without news of yet another data leak or hack. We are truly drowning in data.

So, how does one know whether a data dump is important information in the public interest? Does it emanate from a concerned and well-informed whistleblower? Or from a malevolent distraction? Is it simply AI slop? Micah Lee, author of Hacks, Leaks, and Revelations provides the tools to enable journalists and researchers to excavate, and safely make sense of rich data sources.

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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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A body of jurisprudential thought has emerged in the last decade which has predicted fundamental changes to, or even the death of, law as such. On the one hand, technological change is appearing to render certain assumptions about the nature of law obsolete. And on the other, certain other assumptions about the relationship between law and justice, having been under sustained theoretical assault for a century or more, are now very unstable. In this paper, I describe these developments, deliberately provocatively, as gesturing in the direction of tyranny – drawing specifically on the analysis of Xenophon’s Hiero by Leo Strauss in his On Tyranny [1963].

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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? 

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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The Gregorian Reforms of the C11th were an attempt to give coherent unity to Ecclesial (Canon) law and determine the nature and extent of the State's subordination to the Church. 400 Years later, this arrangement proved dissatisfactory, and a combination of peasants' revolts and resistance from several universities and rulers across the Holy Roman Empire catalysed a complete reformation of our concepts of law and state. Luther argued that no human authority could mediate between man's conscience and God, but this left doubt about the place and purpose of civil law. Phillip Melanchthon, a disciple of Luther, attempted the first complete systematisation of law as such, uniting all jurisdictions of law under common principles of 'natural law', concerned with the regulation of the civil community of fallen men and disposing them towards Godly living. We examine the effectiveness of the Reformers' solution to the conflict of civil and ecclesial law. 

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Join us for our virtual insight session! 

Are you currently studying at university or a graduate looking to kickstart your legal career as a solicitor?

We invite you to be a part of our highly anticipated virtual open day.

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Looking for a feminist ‘way in’ to a critique of British public inquiries, I want to discuss families. British public inquiries rarely focus on reproductive injustice. However, social reproduction - family mourning and family care - are always persistent themes. In this lecture, I am interested in the political role of family memory activism; in how those seeking justice may publicly narrate their relationship to a dead or injured relative in the aftermath of state violence. Family members may join or lead campaigns for public inquiries, hoping that their family memory will be taken seriously. They may expect that family memory will influence the inquiry’s official history, and lead, by degrees to some measure of accountability. Often, of course, they are disappointed; as one contributor to Inquest’s recent All or Nothing report remarked; “The justice system is concerned with appearance, propriety and when families come in with their broken bodies, we are pushed aside.” Drawing on feminist work on memory studies, epistemic justice, and theories of inheritance, this lecture offers an account of the British public inquiry. Focusing on those which have reported in the last 25 years, it analyses how public inquiries have imagined the family, and how (if at all) they have engaged with the state’s responsibility to family memory. It shows that family members, as memory activists, have sometimes been able to resist public inquiries’ efforts at narrative control. The lecture asks whether family memory activism can be meaningfully accommodated with the structure of the public inquiry, or whether transformative approaches are needed.

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Drawing on feminist work on memory studies, epistemic justice, and theories of inheritance, this lecture offers an account of the British public inquiry. Focusing on those which have reported in the last 25 years, it analyses how public inquiries have imagined the family, and how (if at all) they have engaged with the state’s responsibility to family memory. It shows that family members, as memory activists, have sometimes been able to resist public inquiries’ efforts at narrative control. The lecture asks whether family memory activism can be meaningfully accommodated with the structure of the public inquiry, or whether transformative approaches are needed.

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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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Liberal values have become prominent the recent case-law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and are becoming the driving force behind the EU’s legal and political discourse. The CJEU insists that these values do not merely function in the sphere of politics but also, as an integral part of the very identity of the European Union as a common legal order, find concrete expression in principles containing legally binding obligations for the Member States. This raises the question of the CJEU’s role. Yet behind this institutional concern lies the further question of how to understand these values themselves. The applied meaning of these values will have to be not too thick, but also not too thin. While the CJEU must not pre-empt reasoned debate over the concretisation of those values where EU citizens (often reasonably) divide (“not too thick”), it must also rule out ethnocentric prejudice and draw red lines (“not too thin”), since value-negation in one part of the EU is felt everywhere in the EU. The lecture, accordingly, explores the institutional and normative conditions of liberal dialogue in the EU also by parsing some of the CJEU’s current caselaw.

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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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In recent decades, legal studies has experienced a 'temporal turn'. This has been influenced by developments in the humanities and social sciences more widely. Beginning at the national level, attention to time is now developing within international law. Institutions such as international courts and tribunals and the United Nations have emerged as an important site of investigation. In this work, focus has been placed on the salience of specific temporal concepts, time-related procedural rules, or the temporal nature of individual areas of institutional activity. Scholarship has not yet extended to consider a crucial aspect of time in international law's bodies: its institutionalisation. In other words, time's manifestation as a structural phenomenon within institutional settings. Taking this more holistic approach involves foregrounding the overarching and joined-up influence of time as it is embedded across all structures and activities in a body, and the significance that this holds. Drawing resources from political science and international relations, in this seminar I outline the concept of 'institutional time' as a means of approaching time in this way. This concept reveals how time shapes the creation, operation and evolution of law's bodies and, from this, their identity and contribution to the legal system they are located within. In enabling these insights, institutional time marks an advancement in how we conceptualise time and temporality in the international legal landscape.

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In recent decades, legal studies has experienced a 'temporal turn'. This has been influenced by developments in the humanities and social sciences more widely. Beginning at the national level, attention to time is now developing within international law. Institutions such as international courts and tribunals and the United Nations have emerged as an important site of investigation. In this work, focus has been placed on the salience of specific temporal concepts, time-related procedural rules, or the temporal nature of individual areas of institutional activity. Scholarship has not yet extended to consider a crucial aspect of time in international law's bodies: its institutionalisation. In other words, time's manifestation as a structural phenomenon within institutional settings. Taking this more holistic approach involves foregrounding the overarching and joined-up influence of time as it is embedded across all structures and activities in a body, and the significance that this holds. Drawing resources from political science and international relations, in this seminar I outline the concept of 'institutional time' as a means of approaching time in this way.

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Speedy, Steady and Soppy each start a business, taking very different paths. Speedy grows rapidly with venture capital, goes public through an IPO, and ends up leading a foundation-owned company. Steady builds a steady-growing, sustainable business that transitions to employee ownership. Soppy creates a social enterprise, leverages impact finance, and develops a network of cooperatives focused on community benefit.

This masterclass follows their (fictitious) journeys to show how critical choices about corporate ownership and law, corporate finance, entrepreneurship and public policy shape not just individual businesses but the political economy we live in.

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During and immediately after World War II, some Australian law schools had the opportunity to rescue European émigré legal scholars fleeing persecution and fascism. Overwhelmingly, Australian universities did not become shelters for refugee intellectuals, despite the extraordinary efforts of some individuals and agencies supporting them. Nevertheless, some émigré legal scholars did come to Australia, some gained positions in Australian universities, and they prompted a significant transformation in legal pedagogy and research.

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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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This essay traces the history of citation indexes in American law, emphasizing their role in shaping the structure of jurisprudence. Central to this history is the figure of the legal reporter –an unofficial actor responsible for transcribing and publishing judicial decisions. In common law, once a judge has decided a case, it serves as a precedent for other cases involving similar facts or legal issues. The early history of legal reporting shows that reporters treated these decisions as commodities to be produced by transcribing, editing and publishing judges' opinions. Until the mid-nineteenth century, reporters worked in a cottage industry. The rapid expansion of the legal system, however, created an urgent need for efficient access to precedents and spurred the industrialization of legal literature. From their offices in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and New York City, giants such as West Publishing and the Frank Shepard Company not only processed an exponentially growing volume of cases but also shaped the common law into a structured body of knowledge. In this process, authority was transformed into a mere sign. Relying heavily on their libraries and external memories, now organized through all intellectual furnishings and new indexing methods, the rise of the case-lawyer coincides with a new regime of reproduction of the law. By examining the material history of the recording, storage and transmission of legal decisions, this essay explores the unification of case law, the rise of the case lawyer and of legal research in the nineteenth century.

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This event will discuss SAS lecturer Pragya Dhital’s recent monograph, The Technopolitics of Communication in Modern India: Paper Chains and Viral Phenomena (Bloomsbury 2025): https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/technopolitics-of-communication-in-modern-india-9781350466661/(Opens in new window)

Miles Ogborn (Professor of Human Geography at QMUL) and Mayur Suresh (Reader in Law at SOAS) will respond to her book. 

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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.

Click here to read more about Sally.

Details of our other great speakers coming soon!

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In this lecture, Professor Stafford-Smith looks at current challenges and opportunities in Syria. He has visited Syria mainly to help Camp Roj and Camp Al-Hol prisoners (including Shamima Begum and 60,000 others), while also dealing with Syrian opposition group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), when they imprisoned and tortured some of his clients. Now in power, HTS are facing the consequences of years of civil war. What are the challenges and what can advocates do to help them?

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Three categories of harms have materialised from unauthorised deepfakes; disinformation, demeaning content and displacing creative workers. As this technology continues to develop, without any safeguards in place, it will exacerbate the inequalities of society. This lecture discusses the regulation of unauthorised deepfakes and explores the introduction of personality rights into laws across the UK as part of a wider solution including educational, cultural and technological intervention.

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Curious what Intellectual Property (IP) law actually covers? This dynamic session demystifies the rights that protect ideas, brands, creative works and inventions, and why they power modern economies. We’ll shed some light on Creative Industries and IP, where we unpack contracts, licensing, and monetisation across film, music, fashion and games.

To make it concrete (and fun), we’ll test these principles against AI: who owns AI-generated content, how do training datasets intersect with copyright, and what does ‘authorship’ mean when machines compose? You’ll leave with a clear map of patents, trademarks, copyright and designs; and practical case studies, and explore how IP turns ideas into assets.

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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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Justice derives its origin, Hume tells us, from the confined generosity of persons and the scanty provision nature has made for our wants. Expanding our understanding of these facts and their relationship to justice, Rawls envisioned these “circumstances of justice” as those conditions under which social cooperation is both possible and necessary. This idea of circumstances has animated others in exploring the relationship between conditions and concepts, including Waldron’s account of the circumstances of politics. The questions I explore all relate to an underdeveloped idea in the philosophy of law: the circumstances of law. Is there a parallel relationship between conditions for and the concept of law? Does reflection on the conditions for law give us reason to favour one or another conception of law? In turn, do different conceptions of law highlight different conditions for law's possibility and necessity? And do we best understand some lasting contributions to jurisprudence, such as HLA Hart's account of the shift from a pre-legal to a legal society, as themselves participating in the idea of law's circumstances?

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This lecture explores the legal lessons Professor Stafford-Smith learned from visiting Afghanistan. He argues critical Western rhetoric betrays the country’s liberal majority (80% of its population and leadership), drawing parallels to U.S. involvement in other drawn-out conflicts. He asks: what positives do we see in Afghanistan? What legal lessons should we learn from it, about how we can best support those who share our values? How can we create a world that upholds individual rights and the rule of law?

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