Events Calendar by Lawbore™

Please join us for an evening seminar and discussion with Bridget Mac Eochagain, PhD Candidate at USYD and visiting research student in the law school sharing her research in law & performance. Bridget will be in conversation with Julie Stone Peters, Global Professorial Fellow at QMUL, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia and Affiliated Faculty Member at Columbia Law School and Maksymilian Del Mar, Professor of Legal Theory and Legal Humanities in the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London.

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With Rebecca Field (HGF), Linus Chu (BIOHME),& Christine Loizides (Sheridans) in conversation with Prof Johanna Gibson!

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For intending solicitors, this in-person session will include a demonstration, a Q&A session with current students & alumni and a chance to meet some of the staff. 

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The International Law and Affairs Group is delighted to welcome Dr Alex Powell, Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick, to discuss his recently published monograph entitled ‘Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration’. Please join us and our discussants, Dr Alexander Maine, City St George’s and Dr Calogera Giamatta, University of Leicester on 11th February for what promises to be an insightful and engaging discussion of Alex’s work.

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A hybrid session will focus on police and other professionals that are working in or who are interested in modern slavery and human trafficking.

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

This workshop will involve:

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

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

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

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For intending barristers, this in-person session will include an Advocacy demo, information about the Pupillage Advice Service, a Q&A session with current students & alumni and a chance to meet some of the staff.

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This event will convene a panel discussion on compensation in the ILC, reflecting on the conceptual and practical issues that the ILC is likely to face in the task of codification and progressive development in relation to this topic. The discussion will be chaired by Martins Paparinskis who will introduce the work of the ILC and his appointment as Special Rapporteur.

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This Student Volunteering Week, come and join us for a talk with Citizens Advice on Thursday 12th February 2026. The session will be tailored to students, providing an overview of our work, the types of roles we offer, and guidance on how they can get involved. 

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

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Get ready for an exciting free in-person gathering at the iconic City Hall in London! Join us as we celebrate the launch of the Sapphire Circle with great company, an inspiring panel discussion on "Rising with Resillience", and a vibrant atmosphere. Whether you're here to network or just soak up the energy, this event promises a fantastic experience in the heart of the city. Don’t miss out on an evening filled with fun and new connections!

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This session builds on Professor Ching’s recent article examining the new qualification regime for solicitors in England and Wales, and the different forms of “liberty” it claims to offer aspiring lawyers. Her analysis highlights how reforms framed around choice and flexibility may distribute opportunity unevenly, and how routes to qualification can embody fundamentally different relationships between autonomy, structure, support, and power. The session situates these issues within broader debates about diversity, regulation, and the risk that apparent freedom may mask new forms of constraint or vulnerability within professional legal education.

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Part of the CSG Festival of the Professions. 

Jake Schogger, former Freshfields Trainee Solicitor, will deliver this interactive workshop aimed at equipping students with the skills they need in (law firm) job interviews.

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Working Girls is a vibrant, thought-provoking journey into the often-unseen world of women’s labour across India. From the bustling streets of Kolkata, Pune and Mumbai to the sloping streets of Shillong, the temple town of Madurai, and the fields of Latur, and through the lives of domestic workers, dancers, mothers, farmers, ASHA workers, surrogates, sex workers, union leaders, and grassroots organisers, the film explores the many faces of work that remain invisible yet essential.

Blending sharp wit, rich music, and a deep engagement with the legal and historical forces shaping women’s lives, Working Girls redefines what we think of as “work” and challenges our assumptions about labour, gender, and power.

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Various law firms will be visiting us as part of their own recruitment initiatives and to discuss legal careers with students.

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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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We are pleased to invite students to take part in an upcoming Early Careers Fair hosted by The Social Mobility Committee at Leigh Day. The fair will showcase the wide range of practical areas across the firm, including clinical negligence, employment, human rights, international law and personal injury. This is an opportunity for students to learn more about legal careers beyond corporate practice.

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This webinar convenes a panel of experts to discuss recent examples of international law violations and to examine the implications of tremors in geopolitics for the future of the international legal order.

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This event features a panel discussion celebrating the launch of The History of European Union Law: Constitutional Practice, 1950 to 1993, edited by Bill Davies (American University, Washington DC) and Morten Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen), for Cambridge University Press.

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

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The Centre for Governance and Democracy and the Institute for Global Law, Economics and Finance invite you to a public lecture by Eftychia "Effie" Achtsioglou, a Member of the Greek Parliament (SYRIZA and New Left) and the former Greek Minister of Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity (2016-2019). Effie Achtsioglou will speak about the reform strategies she advanced while in office, aiming to tackle a broader question that remains relevant today: how do we combine growth, stability, and social justice? In the second part of the lecture, she will also discuss the challenges and difficulties she faced as a young woman in the political limelight.

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Drawing upon archival records, unpublished sources and interviews with former students, the paper offers a case study of a network of jurists in order to investigate the impact of migration on Australian legal institutions, education and practice. The project, and perhaps also this paper, aims to locate Australia as a destination for refugee intellectuals, and to understand Australia’s response to legal scholars in exile.

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Generative AI has rapidly created wide-ranging challenges for law schools, first surfacing through concerns about student use in assessments but soon revealing deeper implications for curriculum design, teaching, and learning overall. While these disruptions resemble past waves of digital technology in legal education, the unprecedented speed of GenAI’s adoption driven largely by students rather than institutions, combined with post-pandemic strain on staff and typically slow, fragmented institutional responses, has made the transition especially destabilising. Universities have tended to react with limited research, resistance, and piecemeal safeguards, while passively relying on tools shaped by commercial rather than educational priorities. The session argues, however, that a more imaginative response is possible: by looking to models from progressive primary education in twentieth-century England, we can find alternative approaches to learning, assessment, and regulation that could help redesign legal education to use GenAI constructively across all levels.

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How to Be a Persuasive Advocate is a practical skills-focused session led by criminal barrister and founder of Speed Mooting, John Dove. This session will explore what persuasive advocacy really looks like and will finish with a live Q&A, giving you the opportunity to submit questions in advance and ask John directly about advocacy, confidence, persuasion, and developing as an advocate.

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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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We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the Gypsy and Traveller Law Network. This is a newly established network of legal professionals representing Gypsy and Traveller clients, particularly around accommodation matters. This event is organised by Public Interest Law Centre and Friends, Families and Travellers.

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Speaker: Lord Justice Richard Arnold (Court of Appeal of England and Wales)

Eminent judge and scholar, and honorary visiting professor at The City Law School, Lord Justice Arnold will appraise the merits of UK and EU copyright law. This comes at a time of great uncertainty as courts continue to assess the relevance of EU copyright doctrine within the UK jurisdiction.

The event is part of the CLS’s public speaker series.

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How did people defy state prejudice to find love and relationships?

The National Archives’ collections offer a valuable insight into how the government interacted with and viewed LGBTQ+ communities in the past, at a time when the state played a major role in repressing and controlling the lives of gay and bisexual people.

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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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A practical briefing on the Employment Rights Act 2025 and what the biggest employment law changes in decades mean for employers.

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How can we use the law to ensure governments deliver climate justice?

At a time when the impacts of the climate crisis are becoming ever more urgent, this event offers a vital space for people committed to using the law to hold those in power to account. Low cost and no cost tickets are available.

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This afternoon of training sessions is aimed at students preparing to write a postgraduate level law dissertation or thesis. Participants are invited to attend the entire afternoon or individual sessions

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Join female barristers from Maitland Chambers for an informal drop-in Q&A session on Wednesday 4 March 2026. 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.

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Celebrating Women in Legal History champions the work of women in legal history, and their contributions to both the discipline and feminist activism over nearly two centuries. Whilst some women were pioneers and worked to change gendered aspects of the law, others led more ordinary lives, disappearing from the gaze of legal history even as they contributed to it. 

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Generative AI (GenAI) tools appear to be widely used by members of the UK's research community for the purpose of research assessment yet also, paradoxically, significantly resisted. In this webinar, Richard Watermeyer will present findings from a recent study of how generative AI (GenAI) is impacting the UK's Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. He will discuss how GenAI tools are currently being used, prospectively used, and/or otherwise resisted by higher education institutions (and their staff) in responding to the demands of the REF, in addition to presenting views on the application of GenAI tools by REF disciplinary panels and the future of the REF in a datafied age.

We will also hear reflections from Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Strategy at HEPI.

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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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After an immensely successful Women in Law events from 2022 to 2025, A&O Shearman look forward to providing a platform for inspirational women and meeting many more AS members on Thursday 5 March 2026.

The sign up deadline is 29 January 2026 at 5pm.

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In association with the Mishcon de Reya Academy. 

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James Scozzi, CEO of Elite Law Solicitors, is coming to the City Law School to recruit the firm's next paralegal. This will be an exciting assessment day starting with 16 candidates and eventually resulting in one student being recruited directly by The Boss.

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Part of CSG Festival of the Professions. 

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

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In Public Law in 1987 a seminal article was published by Anthony Lester and Jeffrey Jowell on ‘Beyond Wednesbury: Substantive principles of administrative law’.  The traditional view of public law is that it is concerned with procedure, not substance: how a decision is made rather than the substantive outcome.  That seminal article questioned that view.  This lecture will consider what has happened since 1987, in particular looking at the principles which have developed about legitimate expectations, protection of human rights, equality and conformity with policies.  It will also consider the evolution of “rationality” as a ground of judicial review, with increasing emphasis being placed on the principles of proportionality and reasonableness.

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This session situates the field of Gender, Sexuality and Law within its historical, theoretical, and institutional context, using it as a lens through which to reflect on the changing priorities, pressures, and possibilities facing legal education today.

Gender Sexuality and Law emerged in the UK Legal Academy initially in the 1990s, gaining traction in the early part of the twenty-first century and was strongly associated with the socio-legal movement in the UK, USA, Canada, and New Zealand.  In 2026, it's a discipline increasingly matured - with the first English textbook on the subject being published in 2024 (edited by Ashford and Maine) - and now firmly established at the heart of socio-legal studies and with doctrinal contributions also

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Discover King Henry VIII’s groundbreaking act and its far-reaching consequences.

The Act of Supremacy of 1534 declared Henry VIII the supreme head of the Church of England, formally rejecting the authority of the Roman Catholic Church. Primarily a political manoeuvre to grant Henry the power to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, the act made it treason to support the Pope's authority.

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Lady Fox served as the Director of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) from 1982 to 1989, making history as the first female director of the Institute. When taking up the position of Director she also became the General Editor of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ), a position she held for another decade after stepping down as Director. 

Join us on the 16th of March 2026 for a special memorial event, as we commemorate her invaluable service to the advancement of international law and her unwavering support of BIICL with a panel discussion led by some of those who worked most closely with her.

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Drawing on over three decades of judicial and tribunal practice and a further two decades of practice before courts and tribunals in the capacity of barrister, Lord Neuberger will deliver a masterclass on effective advocacy before courts and arbitral tribunals. 

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The speakers will discuss ‘Duty to Rescue’, the legal concept that holds people (and possibly states) responsible for helping others in dangerous situations such as people drowning at sea, loss of life as a result of state action/ natural disaster/climate change. The extent of any legal duty, the significance of the behaviour of the victim and the remedies for any breach vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction and approaches differ widely. Some states punish failure to attempt rescue by the criminal law, some by the civil law. Others do not accept that there is any legal duty at all.

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

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

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Join us for the launch of The Law Teachers Special Issue on 'New Trends in Teaching Contract Law.'

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

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

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

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

Click here to read more about Sally.

Details of our other great speakers coming soon!

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

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

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

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

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Tuesday, 7th – Thursday, 9th April 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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