Events Calendar by Lawbore™

This seminar brings together two bodies of research – socio-legal studies and dance or movement studies – to explore what insights these different fields can offer one another, in terms of both research and practice. In doing so, it suggests new ways of doing socio-legal work with attention to law’s relation to movement.

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In Doing Business with Criminals: Between Exclusion and Surveillance (Cambridge University Press 2025(Opens in new window)), Dr Anton Moiseienko traces the history of financial surveillance as a core component of the global anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime. 

This online event will feature discussion of some of the book’s key themes, including the inherent contradiction at the heart of the regime, namely the tension between excluding criminals from the legitimate economy and surveillance of their financial activities.

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Join Dr Sally Penni MBE, Barrister at Law and her special guests to explore portfolio careers for lawyers in this online event.

Please note this event is for qualified legal professionals only and not suitable for students.

Part of the Women in the Law UK Career Development Series of webinars.

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This lecture looks at the evolution of Guantánamo Bay, first as a focal point of Haitian immigration in 1991 (Gitmo 1.0), to the more famous detention of terror suspects in 2002 (Gitmo 2.0), and back to immigration in 2025. We will explore how Gitmo 3.0 is probably already over, and how we were able to head it off so quickly through legal challenges. However,?Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the U.S. is “actively searching” for countries to accept migrants deported from the U.S., with both El Salvador and Rwanda under consideration. We will discuss how lessons from legal action around Guantánamo Bay might translate to other settings.

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Colin Davey started his legal practice life as a solicitor near Piccadilly. In a career that has included nearly 20 years as a partner in a large commercial law firm, Director roles at the University of Law, and now as a Visiting Lecturer to the same institution, he has done his time in the world of law. In this talk he will share his insights on lawyers, law firms, clients, and locations in London covering the West End, Holborn and the Inns, and the City, all, of course, without prejudice.

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You asked and we've delivered. This will be the fourth webinar we've ever hosted focusing on topical legal industry news, trends and developments - a topic that we're often asked about during our events.

This event will be hosted by ex-Magic Circle lawyer Jake Schogger and Luke Mitchinson, and will focus on legal news/trends from June - September 2025.

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Join us for an exciting evening at the Pitcher & Piano as we celebrate the launch of our new initiative, Legally Lifelong! This event is the perfect opportunity to meet like-minded individuals and learn more about our mission to promote well-being and community in criminal law. Come enjoy a night of networking, inspiration, and fun. Don't miss out on this chance to be a part of something special!

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Join female barristers from Maitland Chambers for an informal drop-in Q&A session on Friday 19 September 2025. The event is open to women aged 16+ who are interested in exploring a career as a barrister – whether you are at an early stage of thinking about careers, are considering a career change, or are further along in your legal studies.

Places are limited, and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. To register, please email your name, stage of education/career and your current school/university (if applicable) to pupillage@maitlandchambers.com.  Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email and details of where the event is to take place, which will be close to Chambers.

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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 August and September 2025, including insights from a business, markets and legal perspective. 

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Due to the large number of students enrolled in a topic that relates to law and technology the Director of Research Students has established a law and technology discussion group.  One of its members and a new PhD supervisor is Dr David Cowan from Maynooth University.  He is about to publish a book titled Law and Technology from Bloomsbury Professional. 

Law and Technology 'lays the groundwork for a discipline of Law and Technology and is an authoritative text for practitioners and a range of undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional courses in the discipline'. The author examines the field in three dimensions: the law of technology, the technology of law and the impact of technology on the core legal disciplines.

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It more AI! For those of you interested in the topic, this event will consider some of the key legal, ethical and practical opportunities and challenges facing Barristers working in the employed sector.

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A paid event this time, but tickets for students are only £10. Worth if you are interested!

Please join Leigh Day for an afternoon conference covering topics with our inspiring speakers.

Followed by a drinks reception 5-7pm with guest speaker.

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Universities play a crucial role in modern democracies: as knowledge generators through research and facilitators of critical and independent thinking, through learning, teaching and debate.  With the rise of the “third wave” of autocratisation in the last decade, universities have come under attack across the globe and not surprisingly we have seen a sharp decline in academic freedom.  To contribute to an emerging global conversation about how universities should respond to contemporary challenges, this event will draw together scholars from across the globe who have engaged with the challenges universities now face either in their own universities or in building solidarity with other universities. Panelists will examine how universities should understand their role in contemporary democracies and what they should do not only to resist the attacks, but to strengthen universities to ensure that they enable research, learning, teaching and debate for the common good.

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This free workshop offers a whole host of insider insights into commercial legal careers (including freelance legal consulting), the recruitment cycle, what training contracts involve, and the tasks typically carried out by trainees.

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Step inside the hidden world of MI5 and explore the extraordinary stories behind the security of a nation.

For the first time, MI5’s history will go on display to the public in a major new exhibition, made possible through an unprecedented partnership between the Security Service and The National Archives.

Explore the ever-changing world of espionage and security threats through original case files, photographs and papers, alongside the real equipment used by spies and spy-catchers over MI5’s 115-year history.

From counter-espionage and daring double-agents during the world wars, to chilling Cold War confessions and the counter-terrorism of recent times, this historic exhibition will take you behind the scenes of one of Britain’s most iconic institutions.

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Join us at King’s College London’s beautiful Bush House building as the Professional Law Institute welcomes The Ekta Network for an evening of inspiration and information, designed to demystify the financial services sector for aspiring law and business students from KCL and beyond.

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2025 Selected Book: Natasha Wheatley, The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty (Princeton UP, 2023).

This Symposium is co-sponsored by the Selden Society and the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London. It is co-hosted and co-organised by Maks Del Mar and Michael Lobban.

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Join the Center for Neurotech and Law for this free event, featuring a host of talks with the 'whos who' of Law and Neurotechnology. This will be during term time but if you have the Monday free, this should be facinating event!

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A detailed introduction to commercial awareness, delivered by ex-Magic Circle lawyer Jake Schogger and ex-stock broker Peter Watson. 

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This is a uniquely practical session which offers a broad range of specific examples and recommendations of how to secure legal work experience outside the context of the usual highly competitive formal work experience programmes offered by City law firms.

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How do you start planning a large-scale project like a Masters or PhD dissertation? This workshop explores useful strategies for organising your research, including thinking about the scope of your project, plotting out timelines, breaking down your project into smaller tasks, and creating writing routines.

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Join Dr Sally Penni MBE, Barrister at Law and her special guests offering helpful advice and tips for those taking the Solicitors Qualifying Examination

Part of the Women in the Law UK Career Development Series of webinars.

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We need a new conversation about housing in the UK if we’re to build greater public support for the action needed to deliver quality homes for everyone.  That’s why Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Nationwide Foundation have been partnering with FrameWorks UK – to understand how people think about homes, and to research communications strategies that we can all use to reframe our communications.

In this latest series, Sophie Gordon and Natalie Tate from Frameworks UK and Joseph Rowntree Foundation will share insights, guidance and tips, useful for anyone communicating about homes, and those with an interest in how we can build support for change. 

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This event is a two hour book discussion of a volume that former IALS fellow Mirjam Künkler worked on during her time at IALS: The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran(Opens in new window), published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. 

The book is a comprehensive examination of how the legal and justice systems of the Islamic Republic function and have affected socio-political and cultural life in Iran. The chapters contain not only in-depth discussions of the various legal codes themselves but also provide invaluable insights into their application in practice. 

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This is an in-depth masterclass on how to effectively discuss your experiences and capabilities on CVs and application forms, and during interviews, with practical advice from an ex-Magic Circle lawyer who secured vac schemes at Freshfields, Allen & Overy, Linklaters, Cleary Gottleib, Latham & Watkins, and Herbert Smith Freehills. 

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War's environmental legacies disproportionately burden the civilian populations left behind. While research focuses on combatant exposures, civilians face chronic contamination from heavy metals, chemical residues, unexploded ordnance, and asbestos, often exacerbated by disrupted infrastructure and psychological trauma. Framed through the exposome, this lecture highlights the need for greater research and policy focus on these long-term, low-level exposures and their impact on civilian health, advocating for remediation, care, and environmental justice.

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The Law Commission has launched a Call for Evidence as part of its review of homicide law. The review covers the structure of murder and manslaughter, the partial defences of loss of control and diminished responsibility, duress, self-defence, killings in the context of domestic abuse, and sentencing for murder. Join us for a panel discussion of these important issues, with expert insights followed by audience contributions.

This is an in-person event.

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Join Dr Sally Penni MBE, Barrister at Law and her special guest to explore the journey, challenges and rewards of building a UK legal career as a foreign qualified lawyer.

Part of the Women in the Law UK Career Development Series of webinars.

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A distinguished panel of leading academics and practitioners will discuss the themes and findings from the book: Ni Loideain, EU Data Privacy Law and Serious Crime: Data Retention and Policymaking ((Opens in new window)Oxford University Press 2025(Opens in new window)).

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The Independent Review of the Criminal Courts, led by Sir Brian Leveson, makes wide-ranging — and sometimes controversial — proposals for reform of the Criminal Justice System. Among them is the suggestion that the right to a jury trial could be removed in certain circumstances. Join us for a robust panel discussion exploring these proposals and their implications.

This is an in-person event. 

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Calling all aspiring barristers: meet pupillage providers, experts from across the Bar, and get advice on Bar careers at the Bar Council’s Pupillage Fair. 

Designed in partnership with the Inns of Court and Specialist Bar Associations (SBAs), this free event is the largest recruitment fair run by the Bar, for the Bar of the future.

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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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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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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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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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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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In 2025, the World Trade Organization (WTO) marks its 30th anniversary – a significant milestone that calls for deeper reflection and discourse on its impact on the harmonisation of trade rules and overall global trade dynamics. The WTO was established to regulate international trade and played a crucial role in promoting free trade, resolving disputes, and fostering economic collaboration among its member states. However, in recent years, multiple challenges have presented themselves, leading to a call for reform. This symposium seeks to reflect on the successes and challenges faced by the WTO over the last 30 years and discuss potential solutions moving forward, particularly in the area of emerging technologies, digital trade and geopolitical shifts.

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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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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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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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‘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 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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The Dickson Poon School of Law is proud to present our Inaugural Lecture Series. Inaugural Lectures are a celebration of our Professors, as they present an overview of their contribution to their field, as well as highlight its latest developments. The lecture is open to both members of the university community and the wider public, and is followed by a reception in the Great Hall.

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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 2025 - 21 November 2025, 9:00AM - 5:00PM

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).

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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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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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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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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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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. 

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

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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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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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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