June 2025
70 Red Lion Street Holborn 68 London WC1R 4NY
Legal Action Group's annual Housing Law Conference on 13th June 2025 promises an exciting and diverse programme covering the latest developments in housing law. Please join us for this one day in-person conference which will be held at BPP University.
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Russell Square London WC1B 5DQ
From SOAS
"The genocide in Palestine and the war in Yemen were and are a litmus test for humanity. Most European governments, including the UK, undoubtedly failed the test. At the same time, Europe is on a path of militarisation following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In this context, what are the impacts of European countries dismantling arms trade restrictions and the international rule of law? How can European countries break out of the downward spiral of militarisation, increasing their exports of war weapons, and unaccountability for war crimes?
Campaign Against Arms Trade, Shadow World Investigations, the European Network Against Arms Trade, and Influencing the Corridors of Power at SOAS University of London invite you consider these questions with our distinguished panel of experts."
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Crown Office Row London EC4Y 7HL
We are honoured to announce an exceptional evening bringing together three ground-breaking legal figures: Dr Síofra O’Leary, former President of the European Court of Human Rights; Dame Siobhan Keegan, Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland; and The Rt Hon The Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill DBE, the first Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales.
This is a rare opportunity to hear from three women who have each made legal history, breaking centuries-old barriers at the very highest levels of the judiciary.
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16 th - 17 th June 2025
This two-day workshop, funded by the Centre of Law and Society (CLS) and Journal of Law and Society (JLS), seeks to facilitate a conversation on the approaches, theories, and experiences of researching gender, sexuality and the law, between scholars in postcolonial South Asia and the UK. The workshop also promises a riveting masterclass in feminist research ethics.
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Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS
Staff Work-in-Progress session: 'The Crisis of Modernity and the Turn to Time in International Law'
David M Scott (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Law, QMUL) will present their Fellowship research on 'The Turn to Time in International Law' with Ruth Fletcher (Professor, School of Law, QMUL) and Tanzil Chowdhury (Senior Lecturer, School of Law, QMUL) as discussants.
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Join us for the launch of Diverse Voices in Health Law and Ethics: Important Perspectives (BUP, 2025), a textbook that has the ambition to redefine the field of health law and ethics by foregrounding inclusion, equity, and social justice in its teaching.
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17 Bloomsbury Square London WC1A 2NJ
In the early medieval period, we can observe the rise of ethically defined legal pluralism. This meant that in the courts of the Frankish kingdom, Franks, Romans, Alamans, Bavarians, Burgundians, Lombards, and members of further ethnic groups had to be treated according to their respective laws. In contrast to recent scholarship, which has emphasized the fluidity of ethnic and other categories of distinction, the lecture proceeds from the observation that law in this period tended to simplify ethnic categories and make them as unambiguous as possible, because otherwise it was not possible to clarify the legal identity and status of an individual. On this basis, it will describe the rise of ethically defined legal pluralism, discuss some of the more theoretical and practical problems inherent in it, and analyse attempts to solve potential norm conflicts arising from ethically defined legal pluralism.
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At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.
Our postgraduate online information sessions are scheduled throughout the year and range from subject/course specific sessions to general advice ones – all designed to give you further guidance about life at City, student experience and support available to you.
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Lanyon Building Queen's University Belfast BT7 1NN
June 19 · 9am - June 20 · 4pm
Criminal justice and legal responses to sexual violence have long featured in academic and policy debates. Yet, despite a raft of substantive and procedural reforms, there continues to be evidence of steep attrition in sexual offences cases, as well as secondary victimisation experienced by complainants.
This two-day conference is dedicated to an in-depth multi-jurisdictional discussion of the ongoing complexities surrounding reform in this area. It will bring together scholars and practitioners engaged in cutting edge research to reflect upon recent progress, share their expertise, and discuss best practice.
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We are delighted to invite you to the second official meeting of the Community of practice for migrant victim-survivors of domestic abuse, which is a follow up from the conference held on 16th April 2024.
The roundtable aims to spotlight the experiences of migrant victim-survivors across the region to ensure the fullest understanding of problems not simply limited to the experiences of those in the more socio-economically affluent and socially mobile London area.
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Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG
Judicial dialogue is a concept that has gained academic and institutional attention for decades. There are various forms of cooperation conducive to judicial dialogue, including judges’ associations, as well as international organisations. Entire systems are premised on such dialogue, such as the European Union, whose preliminary ruling procedure has helped the development of a legal order as well as the socialisation of national judges thereto. Whilst many studies are dedicated to demonstrating the consequences of judicial dialogue, or the way in which judicial dialogue occurs in various fora, there is little systematic inquiry with regards to how to make such judicial dialogue effective for the good development of the law and promoting rule of law values.
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Pembroke College Oxford OX1 1DW
In a lecture to be delivered by the renowned professor of law and campaigner, Phil Scraton, this talk will address political, ethical, and personal challenges bearing witness to the 'pain of other', representing personal testimonies, revealing institutionalised deceit and pursuing 'truth recovery'. It explores the proposition that ciritcal values are the foundation of hope in their commitment to truth recovery, social justice, and political transformation when faced with disappearance.
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- How do past decisions influence today’s criminal justice policy and practice?
- What decisions being made now will shape the choices of future generations?
- How does our anticipation of what the future may bring affect our decisions about crime and justice in the present?
Join three leading criminologists – Michael Fiddler, Travis Linnemann and Theo Kindynis – as they discuss these and related questions with our Director, Richard Garside. Using the metaphor of ‘ghosts’ to capture the way that present-day policy-making is ‘haunted’ by past decisions and future expectations, Fiddler, Linnemann and Kindynis offer fresh ways of understanding current policy dilemmas, and why our current approaches to crime and punishment seem to rely so much on older, failed experiments.
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At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.
Our postgraduate online information sessions are scheduled throughout the year and range from subject/course specific sessions to general advice ones – all designed to give you further guidance about life at City, student experience and support available to you.
Find out more on their event details page (external site).
2-3 Gray's Inn Square London WC1R 5JH
Join leaders from bar associations and legal alliances across the globe to explore:
- how climate change is impacting legal practice and lawyers’ professional responsibilities;
- how bar associations and legal alliances are supporting lawyers to build climate resilient practices, and
- what more is needed for lawyers to become true champions of sustainability.
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From LSE Law:
"We are deeply honoured to announce an exceptional lecture by Justice Surya Kant, who will assume office as the 53rd Chief Justice of India, titled “75 Years of India’s Constitution: Contribution of the Indian Supreme Court.”
We are delighted to host this significant event, which will explore the enduring legacy of India’s Constitution and the pivotal role of its Supreme Court over the past 75 years."
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This one-year conversion course is for graduates from any discipline wishing to go on pursuing a career as legal practitioners. Graduates can progress onto the Solicitors’ training programme or the Bar training programme.
The GDL covers the seven foundations of legal knowledge. Our GDL course has an unrivalled reputation within the profession for the quality of the education, the ability of our graduates and the preparation it provides you for a career as a solicitor or barrister. The Solicitors route provides useful preparation for any non-law graduate hoping to undertake the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE).
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Despite frequent calls to integrate the study of law into broader scholarship on the ancient world, the study of law and legality often remains isolated. This seminar series, ‘Performing normativity in the ancient world’, seeks to move away from the traditional, narrow conception of ‘capital-L’ Law and hopes instead to focus on the performance, construction, negotiation, and enforcement of regimes of normativity across various spheres of human action by encouraging participants to explore a wider array of consolidated arrangements of “discourses, norms, practices, and institutions” (Duve, 2023) and their functions within the societies in which they emerged and operated. These spheres might include, but ought not be limited to, magic, religion, politics, theatre, literature, and art.
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An all day event on New Perspectives on Law and Literature from Birkbeck, including a variety of speakers and topics.
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The legal profession comes together in solidarity, celebration and pride!
Join us for food and drinks at a landmark cross-profession LGBTQ+ Pride event, jointly hosted by the four Inns of Court, the Bar Council and Law Society of England and Wales. This collaboration marks a continued commitment to inclusivity, visibility and unity across the legal world and will provide an opportunity to connect with colleagues, allies and trailblazers from every corner of the legal profession.
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The Workshop is organised by Dr Ilias Kapsis (City St George’s, University of London) and Dr Sanna Elfving (University of Lincoln), the two co-convenors of the EU and Competition Law Section of the Society of Legal Scholars and is supported by the Society of Legal Scholars and the Institute for the Study of European Law at the City Law School. The Workshop focuses on emerging issues facing the EU, as outlined in the EU’s 2024–2029 strategic agenda, which sets out several priority areas to guide the work of the EU institutions until 2029: upholding European values within the EU, ensuring coherent and influential external action, bolstering the EU’s competitiveness, and making a success of the green and digital transitions.
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This is the fourth and final seminar funded by the AHRC to examine the use of minority languages in courtrooms in Ireland and the United Kingdom. This seminar will explore the use of minority and “newly” recognised statutorily protected languages (e.g. Irish in Northern Ireland, and British Sign Language in England and Wales) in courtrooms in the United Kingdom and Ireland including. The aim of the seminar is to disseminate the experiences of minority language speakers and users and to inform the development of courtroom procedures and processes in relation to the use of minority languages in courtroom proceedings.
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The purpose of the event is to look back at the history of remedies for intellectual property (IP) infringement, and to consider their future.
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This is the fourth and final seminar funded by the AHRC to examine the use of minority languages in courtrooms in Ireland and the United Kingdom. This seminar will explore the use of minority and “newly” recognised statutorily protected languages (e.g. Irish in Northern Ireland, and British Sign Language in England and Wales) in courtrooms in the United Kingdom and Ireland including. The aim of the seminar is to disseminate the experiences of minority language speakers and users and to inform the development of courtroom procedures and processes in relation to the use of minority languages in courtroom proceedings.
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Debate on legislative expression has long been preserved for the drafting academic and practitioners. But in doing so they have failed the super goal of producing good laws. And they now need to confess that they do not have the answers to everything and collaborate with linguistics to learn from, and borrow, know-how, experience, and resulting successes.
Indeed, there are inherent difficulties in the drafting of legislation. The drafter is not a mere scribe, and drafting is affected by the environment of the Parliamentary (or legislative) process.
If an instrumental position is taken, the background can be seen to include recognition of a problem, determination of objectives, and the choice of means for their achievement.
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July 2025
The law often seeks to keep sound contained and fixed, but sound has a way of leaking out. From the acoustic design of courtrooms to rules of evidence and norms of decorum in trial, the law determines what should be heard and what should not, in legal process as well as in everyday life. Sound can be an evanescent and unruly object, however, evading or penetrating our ears in unexpected ways. As a result, the law applies what I refer to as fictions of hearing – assumptions, ideas, and rules about sound that aim to manage it, but don’t always succeed. Through three examples, I show how such fictions of hearing clash with the human perception of sound. These examples reveal the limitations of legal imagination and understanding of sound and listening.
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Join us at this day long event, featuring three panel discussion on:
- The future of data
- Future of international economic law, policy and dispute resolution
- Futures for regulation and governance ambitions, synergies and convergences
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Endsleigh Gardens London WC1H 0EG
The White House’s effort to jolt the terms of the Fourteenth Amendment’s birthright citizenship provision away from its longstanding status quo raises not just a constitutional law question, but a foundational question, sounding in political morality, as to the scope and nature of our polity. And of course, there is the (hardly minor) matter of whether and why government officials who heap public condemnation on federal judges will comply with those judges’ ordinarily binding orders. This talk offers an overview of these and other changes, and asks: Is this a “real” moment of constitutional change in the United States? And if so, what is the new constitutional dispensation?
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The conference will explore how media law responds to those who make public allegations of wrongdoing and what impact those responses have on a range of media actors. It will examine a range of different recent media law developments – in privacy, breach of confidence, defamation, and contempt – and place those developments in their wider societal context (including the #metoo movement). The presenters are leading media law academics and practitioners from New Zealand, Australia, the United States and United Kingdom and, although the papers’ principal focus will be the law of England & Wales, a range of comparative perspectives will also be included.
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On Thursday, 3 July 2025, the City Law School, City St George’ s, University of London, will host the 4th Conference on Financial Law and Regulation. This year’s Conference is designed to support PhD students and early-career researchers with an interest in Financial Law and Regulation and to gather influential scholars and practitioners in the field from the UK and Ireland. The Conference delegates will present new research and discuss the recent legal and regulatory developments in the field. The Conference will encourage lively debate and will bring together a wide range of perspectives, including from regulators and industry.
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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.
Session Two: How to communicate the link between housing and poverty
A focus on how to frame communications to demonstrate the role that social and affordable housing plays in tackling poverty. This session looks at how to tell compelling stories about how these issues overlap.
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August 2025
At City, University of London we understand the importance of choosing the right place and course to continue your studies.
Our online events provide the perfect opportunity for you to find out more about our postgraduate courses and what it's like to study with us from the comfort of your own home.
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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.
Session Three: How to build consensus for more homes
A focus on how to frame communications so that we boost local support for building more homes in communities. This session will show you how to establish common ground and give people a reason to care.
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September 2025
27 Goswell Road
London
EC1M 7AJ
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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The National Archives
Kew, Richmond
TW9 4DU
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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October 2025
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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November 2025
Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
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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