Events Calendar by Lawbore™

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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 book launch will celebrate the publication of Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments, which envisions a brighter future in which law and legal institutions respond to intersecting forms of oppression, discrimination, and other human rights harms.

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These events are aimed at those intending to apply for pupillage in the next round of pupillage applications which open on the Pupillage Gateway in January 2026. To confirm attendance, please indicate which session you would like to attend (either online, in person, or both) by emailing marketing@hailshamchambers.com

The in person event is an opportunity for attendees to meet members of Chambers and staff, and to ask any questions they may have about pupillage and Chambers in an informal setting. These events are an opportunity for prospective applicants to find out about Hailsham Chambers. Student are welcome to attend both the online and in person events.

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The words and actions of States have a significant influence on law-making across all fields of international law. But what of silence and inaction? This event celebrates the launch of the new book, State Silence Across International Law, coming from the State Silence project led by Dr Danae Azaria and funded by the European Research Council (grant ID: 850706). This new book argues that State silence is interpreted in its ‘context’.

This ground-breaking book brings together 21 renowned international law experts in various fields of international law who endeavour to provide a better understanding of how State Silence has been interpreted taking into account the hierarchy of norms, the rise of international organizations and multilateralism in fields of international law that concern peace and security, human rights, cyber law, the law of the sea, environmental law and international economic law.

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Join us for our upcoming immigration law conference on Tuesday 25 November. View the agenda below for the schedule.

Confirmed topics: immigration review of 2025; nationality law changes of 2025, including new good character requirement; impact of immigration practice direction of November 2024; artificial intelligence in immigration law practice; migrant welfare including section 95 support; trafficking including public order disqualifications; discrimination in immigration cases.

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Judges can’t blindly apply unjust laws; legitimacy requires they co-author justice by reshaping law, not merely obeying or disobeying.

The YTL Centre is delighted to welcome Professor Alon Harel from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to discuss the role of judges in addressing unjust laws and their authority to align legal norms with justice.

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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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Transnational subsidies, that is subsidies across jurisdictions, are a phenomenon of our times and are difficult to square within the four corners of the WTO rule-book. This talk will first investigate the different approaches of the EU and the US in regulating transnational subsidies. In so doing, it will explore the different (or similar?) approaches to international law across the Atlantic. The lecture will then conclude with the analysis of the issues before the WTO Panel in EU – CV/AD on Steel products from Indonesia (DS 616) which recently published its report. We will comment on the Panel’s findings and implications, on what the Panel did and on what it should have done. Ultimately, the lecture is about the different shapes international law can take - domestically and internationally.

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The BVS Taster session is an exclusive in person event for CLS students which will take place in our dedicated professional programmes teaching space in Whiskin Street Building. It will give you an opportunity to find out more about the course and get a real taste of what it would be like to train to become a barrister at City St George’s.  The event includes a talk from the Programme Director, an Advocacy demonstration, information about the Pupillage Advice Service and a Q&A session with current students and alumni. 

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Join us and our panel from 33 Bedford Row as we discuss strategies in the pupillage application process and also hear from members of a Common Law set of chambers.

Location: Law School Lecture theatre and online (Join the meeting now)

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VWV's Training Contract Information Evening is a fantastic chance to learn more about the working environment and life as a Trainee at VWV. Join us in our London office for an engaging evening as we provide insights into our training contracts and early talent opportunities.

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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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As one of the leading figures in the struggle for trade union rights, Lord Hendy KC (Honorary Professor UCL Laws, Old Square Chambers, Institute of Employment Rights) will reflect on his remarkable life in the law in conversation with Professor Keith Ewing (KCL, Institute of Employment Rights). The event will be chaired by Mrs Justice Eady DBE, formerly of Old Square Chambers and now a High Court judge.

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Practising Mediator Nigel Waddington is giving a guest lecture on “Mediation – Principle, Problems and Practice” on 27 November 2025 in AG21 (College Building) from 16:00-17:00.

If you are interested in Mediation this is a “Must Attend” event to gain valuable insights into this aspect of practice and to network with a high profile Mediator.

There will also be an opportunity to discuss opportunities with London Arbitration Week.

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Talking about Homes is running two new webinars where you can discover how to frame your conversations about homes. The first webinar is about doing justice to stories from lived experience, focusing on how we frame individual stories about homes so they are heard and understood. 

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Are you considering a pupillage during your legal education? Attend this webinar to get insight into the what you can expect!

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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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Jointly hosted by BACFI and the Employed Bar Forum, 'Contracts, Certainty and the Supreme Court'

• Lecture by Professor Ewan McKendrick KC (Hon)
• Chaired by Gaynor Wood (Chair, BACFI)
• Followed by reception with canapes

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Join the LSBU community to celebrate the outstanding contribution of Max Weaver to the teaching and learning of law at London South Bank University. Max was instrumental in establishing the law degree and the law department at LSBU (then Southbank Polytechnic) in 1972. Over the years, his research and teaching has touched the lives of many.

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Kenneth M Ehrenberg is Professor of Jurisprudence and Philosophy at the University of Surrey School of Law, where he is also Co-Director of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy. He writes on the social ontology of law (especially law’s institutionality and artefactual nature), legal and political authority, the relation of law to morality, legal normativity, and the epistemology of evidence law. He is the author of The Functions of Law (OUP 2016).

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“Does my Bot have rights?” and other curious questions about AI and Human Organoids.

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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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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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The Centre for Journalism & Democracy, The City Law School and Department of Journalism mark the 25th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act. As the Act marks its 25th birthday, this event will celebrate its achievements, but will also assess the threats to this landmark transparency law and what can be done to counter them.

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Join FrameWorks UK, in partnership with JRF and the Nationwide Foundation, for a useful webinar that will provide insights and tips to help you:

• Find common ground and make supported housing feel more relevant to everyone
• Explain what supported housing is, how it works, and why it’s good for our whole society
•  Hone your skills – with practical guidance and examples

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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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Environmental law is not a subject known for its good news stories. It deals with some of the gravest challenges facing humanity — among them, climate change, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity — which place unprecedented demands on practices and institutions of governance and forms of legal order. Environmental law is routinely confronted with its own limitations. It is also increasingly seen as part of the problem. The situation invites, or demands, engagement with the possibility that things may become otherwise — not as a form of denial or wishful thinking, but rather as a way of interrupting the status quo and reorienting to questions of hope.

In my lecture, I want to explore what might be gained by thinking about hope in this context. My aim is to reflect on various ways in which the relationship between environmental law and hope could be framed, by inquiring into the forms that hope takes in environmental law, and by asking whether hope also has a role to play in environmental law teaching and research.

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Join us and our panel of barristers as we hear from a variety of recent pupils and their insights into the pupillage application process.

Location: Law School Lecture theatre and online (Join the meeting now)

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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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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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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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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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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, where their keynote speaker, Sir Andrew McFarlane, will open with an introductory speech, followed by a panel discussion with input from an esteemed panel of experts:

• Nicholas Allen KC, Joint Head of Chambers at 29 Bedford Row
• Dr Sheena Webb, Clinical Psychologist
• Laura Rosefield, Divorce Consultant 
• HH Stephen Wildblood KC, Family Judge

A selection of breakfast refreshments will be available. Every ticket sold will enable an individual to better access justice with the support of volunteers

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Click here to read more about Sally.

Details of our other great speakers coming soon!

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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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