Events Calendar by Lawbore™

What happens to international law when it is ignored, and regime change is driven by force rather than democracy?

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Marital breakdown is not a modern phenomenon. Options available to separating spouses in the English Common Law World were, however, heavily restricted by gender and economic status, with wives occupying a significantly more vulnerable position. Before 1857, full divorce remained the preserve of wealthy men who could navigate the expensive Parliamentary divorce process. The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 transformed this landscape, establishing the Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes and making divorce accessible beyond the elite. This legislation influenced divorce law in England and Wales and across the Common Law World well into the twentieth century.

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This seminar marks the launch of Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law by Professor Devyani Prabhat (University of Bristol), published by University of London Press as part of the Reimagining Law and Justice series.

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On 21 April, the Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales (BHRC) will examine the legal and policy dimensions of organ trafficking and forced organ harvesting in the context of international human rights norms and standards. With a keynote by Professor Sir Geoffrey Nice KC, Chair of the China Tribunal, the panel will explore pathways for accountability, prevention and victim-survivor protection, and consider the role of states, businesses, international organisations and civil society in addressing global human rights violations.

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Join for a day full of seminars around doctoral research. Topics include:

• Law and Humanities and the Law and Humanities Research Hub
• Managing the supervisory relationship
• Theoretical Frameworks an Introduction
• Introduction to Social Legal research

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Can neuroscience help us understand addiction as a 'broken brain' condition and should this impact how the legal system assigns blame?

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This event marks the15th anniversary of the European Law Institute (ELI), highlighting its mission, global strategy, and future ambitions, while strengthening engagement with the judiciary and legal profession in the UK. 

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Privilege and confidentiality in the world of LLPs and Partnerships...

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We are delighted to announce that the 15th Annual Cambridge International Law Journal Conference is taking place on 23–24 April 2026 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge. The theme this year is ‘Reimagining International Law: Critical, Regional, and Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives’.

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This year's keynote will be delivered by Professor Anoop Nayak, Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Newcastle, followed by a panel discussion consisting of academics who research race and racism or carry out anti-racist work at grass roots level. The discussion will be chaired by our Legacy In Action Senior Research Fellow, Dr Fatima Rajina.

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What happens to sexual and gender identities when crossing borders under duress? This book offers an unprecedented account of how forced migration shapes the lives of queer Iranian individuals. Tracing movements from Iran through transition countries to Western resettlement, the book explores how identities are expressed, negotiated, silenced, and reimagined along the way. Engaging de/postcolonial theory and participatory methods, the authors centre the voices of non-heterosexual and non-cisnormative Iranians in exile.

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Learn how to process an unsuccessful result, protect your confidence and choose your next step after a vacation scheme or training contract rejection.

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Join for an in-person panel discussion about representing children in Section 16.4 Private Children law cases.

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International refugee law and the accompanying frameworks and initiatives can seem remote and impenetrable and are also continually changing. This makes it difficult for refugee and asylum-claiming women and their advocates to keep up-to-date on their rights and how to access them. In this seminar we address that concern, asking what current initiatives offer women by way of improved protection and how can refugee women, practitioners and advocates engage with and inform these mechanisms.

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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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Rapid changes in information and communication technologies over the last two decades have occasioned a radical transformation in the human experience of time, labor, and sensation. Drawing on historical research in experimental psychology and nearly a decade of collaborative “attention activism” aimed at resisting the extractive violence of Big Tech, D. Graham Burnett will present a critical diagnosis of the contemporary program of relentless “human fracking,” and propose that an emerging politics of attention offers the best hope for emancipatory resistance.

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This year, Ten Old Square’s Private Client Evening Seminar takes a look at disclosure in the trust and estate context...

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Join Lindsey Thompson for a practical session on how to strengthen your written applications and understand what law firms are really looking for on paper.

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As part of the Campaign for Social Science’s 2026 series on devolution, we look specifically at how the four different governments of the UK have dealt with the policy challenges of child poverty. Our panel will shine a lens on different approaches to social security for parents with dependent children, asking what the four nations can learn from each other after 27 years of different (and sometimes radically divergent) approaches to issues around child poverty.

This webinar, jointly organised with the Safety Nets project, draws on expertise from social science researchers across the UK to offer insights on different policy interventions, different contexts, and different outcomes to consider what lessons might be learned.

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This breakfast panel discussion will focus on how artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies are reshaping legal and technology careers, and what this means for the future of the profession. The session will consider how the legal and technology job markets are evolving, as well as the impact of technological change on junior lawyers’ roles, skillsets and career development. This event will be of particular interest to trainee solicitors and junior lawyers with an interest in technology law and the future of legal practice.

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This 60-minute webinar discussion offers advice from academic publishing experts on how to get your work published. Four guest speakers will demystify the publishing process, offer advice on when and how to approach publishers, how to pitch, what publishers are looking for, when open access is the right choice, and how to promote your published work to the world.

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A practical session on how to improve performance at interview and assessment centre stage and understand what stronger candidates do differently under pressure

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Join a trainee working at a law firm who successfully reapplied, for a practical session on how to build a stronger plan for your next application.

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This lecture examines Israel–Palestine law, cases vs Netanyahu, and how law may support lasting peace, from a human rights perspective.

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The International Law and Affairs Group is delighted to welcome Dr Ylli Dautaj, Associate Professor at Durham Law School, and Cem Kalelio?lu, Partner at Pinsent Masons London, to discuss recent developments in international arbitration, with a particular focus on immunity, anti-suit/arbitration injunctions, the law applicable to arbitration, and the disclosure of conflicts by arbitrators.

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The Centre for Justice Reform warmly invites you to attend The Future of Past Trauma, a collaborative event with the Wiener Holocaust Library. The programme will feature two workshops exploring trauma-informed archival practice, participatory archiving, and the ethics of survivor narratives. These will be followed by a concluding public discussion: “The Future of Past Trauma – Institutions, Responsibility and Social Change.”

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Dealing With Trade Mark Prosecution and Enforcement Challenges In Africa

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Documentary 'Out Laws' (2025, Lexi Powner & James Lewis) with director James Lewis, Professor Bob Mills (UCL) and activist Friedel Daus.

Out Laws follows three queer activists, from Namibia, Sri Lanka and Barbados, as they fight to overturn the colonial-era laws that still criminalise their lives. The battle unfolds in a moment of escalating jeopardy: activists are being murdered, churches and politicians are mobilising against LGBTQIA+ rights, and foreign actors are exporting hate across the Global South.

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Hosted by ISCI and CJC at BLOC, these events bring together scholars, students, filmmakers and activists to explore crimes of the powerful.

The State Crime Film Club, hosted by ISCI and CJC, will bring together scholars, filmmakers, activists, diaspora communities and journalists in order to promote wider awareness and understanding of the pressing and pervasive, but underreported, issue of state crime. Film screenings will serve as a focal point for a broader programme of events, including director Q&As, panel discussions, book launches, workshops and public seminars. These will deal with diverse aspects of state crime, including: state-corporate crime, genocide, war crimes, torture and international justice, amongst others.

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This talk draws from Despoina Mantzari, ‘Regulating FRAND Access to App Stores under the DMA’ (2026) Journal of Competition Law & Economics, forthcoming. The article develops a normative framework for interpreting the Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) platform-access obligation in Article 6(12) of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), with Apple’s iOS App Store as the central case study.

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The 2026 ICLQ Annual Lecture will be given by Dr Sofia Galani of the Panteio University of Athens, based on her article 'Human Rights Obligations in Maritime Search and Rescue' published in Vol 74(1) ICLQ 

The duty to render assistance to persons in distress is well established in the international law of the sea, but none of the instruments which codify the duty contains human rights obligations. However, serious human rights violations may occur during search and rescue (SAR) operations or because of the lack thereof. This article examines the duty of States to render assistance to persons in distress through the lens of international human rights law and advocates for a human rights-oriented approach to SAR. It discusses the due diligence nature of the duty, the scope of jurisdiction in maritime SAR and how States should act to adhere to their human rights obligations from the moment they receive a distress call through to the moment they disembark rescued persons on land.

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The Codification of international commercial law: the case of the ICC Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees. With Professor Georges Affaki.

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A panel discussion to mark the launch of 'A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and the Environment'

The regulation of sustainable finance connects with existential challenges for the whole planet. The new edited collection A Research Agenda for Law, Finance and the Environment (Edward Elgar, 2026), co-edited by Prof Megan Bowman (King’s College London) and Dr Laura Mai (University of Amsterdam), brings together a diverse range of legal and regulatory voices to debate sustainable finance and offer fresh insights for research and practice around the world.

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Across the UK, efforts to reverse declining biodiversity continue to fall short. This reality has prompted some campaigners to call for the adoption of a Rights of Nature approach. Such a shift would fundamentally change how we protect wildlife by recognising natural entities. A river could be granted the right to flow free of pollution, or a forest the right to naturally regenerate. Comparable approaches already exist elsewhere. Ecuador’s 2008 constitution recognises the Rights of Nature, and in Aotearoa New Zealand the Whanganui River was granted legal personhood in 2017.

What could this approach mean in a country as nature depleted and heavily shaped by human activity as the UK? What role should ecology and ecological science play within this movement? And might strengthening and enforcing existing laws for priority habitats and protected species deliver more immediate benefits?

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Are you an aspiring solicitor looking to take the next step in your legal career?

Join BARBRI for the Future Lawyers Convention 2026 – the popular in-person afternoon event designed to help you plan, build and design your route into the legal profession, with practical insights you can use straight away.

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Join in person for the launch of the Newham Community Law Project. You will be joined by the local community who drove the creation of the NCLP, funders, policy makers and more - come and celebrate!

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In this event, Dr Pinar Oruc will introduce her book “Digitising Cultural Heritage: Clashes with Copyright Law”. It is the second book in the Art Law Library, a book series by Hart Publishing and the Institute of Art and Law. It is available Open Access.

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Frederick M. Lawrence, Secretary and CEO of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and Distinguished Lecturer, Georgetown University Law Centre, and the former President of Brandeis University, will be in conversation with Professor Larry Kramer, President and Vice-Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Together, they will explore the profound political, legal, and cultural pressures reshaping US universities. From academic freedom and campus governance to public trust, funding, and the role of higher education in sustaining democratic values, this discussion will address how higher education institutions are navigating an era of polarisation and constitutional strain. Drawing on their experience leading major research universities on both sides of the Atlantic, they will reflect on what is at stake for higher education as a cornerstone of democratic society. The event will consider how universities can continue to serve as spaces for open inquiry and civic education, and what lessons may be learned for higher education globally.

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Information is never neutral: it is produced, mediated, classified, preserved, corrupted, obscured, mis-used, recovered, and re-used. How this is done, and critically, by whom, shapes whose knowledge is recognised, whose histories are archived, and whose futures can be imagined. The Department of Information Studies (DIS) Annual Research Symposium (19 May 2026) is a UCL Faculty Arts and Humanities flagship event that brings together researchers and practitioners across libraries, archives and records management, publishing, digital humanities, data/AI, and information science to explore information power – information as a currency of power and, potentially, empowerment – as a grand challenge of our time. As part of UCL200, we ask what it means to “rediscover” and “reclaim” information: to recover hidden histories, redesign systems of stewardship, and build equitable knowledge infrastructures that serve communities with fairness, integrity, accountability, and care. The symposium invites colleagues from across UCL, the cultural sector, policy, and civil society to engage with our groundbreaking departmental foundations and current emerging research on knowledge justice, information governance, AI ethics, information activism, and future-facing infrastructures.

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This lecture uses the HRJL as a case study in the opportunities and risks of transplanting legislation developed in the UK to smaller jurisdictions. Jersey adopted a statutory scheme closely aligned with the UK’s Human Rights Act, aiming to ‘bring rights home’ while preserving local constitutional arrangements. Drawing on post-legislative evaluation work, I will explore what has worked well and what has not: patterns of litigation and access to justice, the quality of rights-checking in lawmaking, and the wider challenge of building durable ‘rights infrastructure’ in a small polity. The aim is to identify practical lessons for policymakers and legislators working across the Crown Dependencies and other smaller jurisdictions.

Online and In-person Ticket price: £8
 

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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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The statue of Millicent Fawcett was commissioned to mark 100 years of women’s suffrage in 2018 and was unveiled in April 2018 by the then prime minster Theresa May. It is the work of sculptress Gillian Wearing. The night will include a panel discussion with arts specialist Jordan Kaplan (Contemporary Arts Society) and architect Tony Dyson (Insall Architects) who guided the commissioning process step by step.

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The Americans are very proud of their written constitution. During the first 3/8 of President Trump’s second term of office, the constitution has been severely tested. Where has the Constitution succeeded in providing legal safeguards, clarity and stability, and where has it failed? How will the remainder of this presidency look? And what is coming after Trump? 

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The Law Research Centre at the University of Wolverhampton, in collaboration with the UK Intellectual Property Office are organising a two-day, hybrid event, between 8-9 June 2026 (Wolverhampton, UK). The first day is dedicated to feminist research and teaching of IP laws. The second day will see speakers from the IPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the UK judiciary and other professionals, discussing the policy and practice in the area. We will focus on women's participation in music and the related gender gap in copyright law; and women's health and the related gap in innovation in this field.

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In this panel, speakers will share insights from their career paths, explore the technological advancements that have shaped their work, and the opportunities and challenges these changes create for both clients and legal professionals. The session will end with a Q&A, followed by a chance to network.

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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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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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The lecture will be delivered within three months of Sir Andrew McFarlane’s retirement after 21 years on the Family Bench. Whilst the phrase ‘un-plugged’ may not be appropriate, it is anticipated that the lecturer will no longer feel restrained by judicial caution when commenting upon the future development of Family Justice. In addition to a focus on the future of adoption law and the need for significant reform in relation to the financial rights of cohabitants, the lecturer will use a perspective gained from 8 years as the judicial Head of Family Justice to offer suggestions for reform of the system itself.

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Speaker: Martin Firrell is a public artist who has gently and consistently sought to humanise the times we live in. He uses the poster form to campaign for greater social equality. His bold and simple texts address LGBT+ equality, the women’s movement, feminism and gender equality; and universal human rights. The artist's aim is 'to make the world more humane'. For more than 25 years, Firrell has hijacked advertising’s means to achieve artistic-activist ends. His co-opting of commercial technique and syntax, together with his sustained and wholesale colonisation of advertising’s oldest and boldest medium, the billboard, makes him one of the most apposite and significant artists of the 21st Century. 

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Lady Simler’s unusual life story and career have been described as a testament to her commitment to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. Lady Simler will discuss her journey to the Supreme Court in interview with Samantha Leek KC.

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The North’s leading pupillage event! Connect directly with chambers, law firms, educators and other organisations to get real insight, and take your next step towards the Bar. Register now to secure updates and priority access.

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Gain a better understanding of construction law in England and Wales through free training from the City of London Law Society.

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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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On 8th January 2026, Littleton is hosting an information evening in Chambers for prospective pupillage applicants. The event is open to those currently on the GDL or Bar Course with a serious interest in Chambers’ practice areas: employment, commercial and sports law.

The evening will include talks from Members of Chambers about their practices and from Chambers’ most recent pupil, followed by drinks and nibbles.

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