Lawbore Legal Events Calendar

This 2-day conference will discuss the objectives, potential, and future of empirical legal research in the EU.

There is a new empirical turn in scholarship on EU law. It forms part of a broader trend towards methodological self-reflection in the discipline, which has led to a questioning of traditional doctrinal approaches and the embracing of novel research tools. 

This conference brings together the main protagonists of the movement – as well as some of its critics – to discuss the objectives, potential, and future of empirical legal research in the EU. It is organised by Dr Jan Zglinski in co-operation with Professor Urška Šadl (European University Institute) and Professor Daniel Naurin (University of Gothenburg, ARENA). The conference will feature 30 leading legal and political science scholars working in the field of empirical legal studies.

Attendance is free – everybody is invited to join, including students and non-LSE researchers.

The proceedings will be live streamed. Please register through our online event registration to if you would like to participate through zoom.

View the schedule and register here.

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

Join the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies for an in-person seminar on the role of forenisc imaging technology in law. The paper will analyse how forensic imaging technology has transformed medico-legal investigations since the twentieth century and how it continues to affect the way coroners and other legal personnel working in the jurisdiction perform their roles in the legal system.

The paper will focus on how legal institutions have sought to visualise the corpse through forensic imaging technology since the twentieth century. This has demanded that coroners, pathologists and lawyers acquire new skills in deciphering the meaning of pixelated shadows and interpreting CT scans as evidence of death causation. This paper argues that forensic imaging technology makes demands on legal institutions to question the truth of what they see and acknowledge the limits of their capacity to know the corpse.

Dr Marc Trabsky is an Associate Professor in Law, and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow on ‘Socio-Legal Implications of Virtual Autopsies in Coronial Investigations’ (DE220100064) at La Trobe University. He has published extensively on the topic of law and death.

Register here to attend.

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

As part of the 2023 Legal Pride series, the InterLaw Diversity Forum will bring together a panel of LGBTQ+ women in the profession who will share their career journeys. We explore LGBTQ+ inclusion through the lens of gender and learn about the work our panellists are doing to support the progression of LGBTQ+ women.

6:00 PM: Arrivals

6:20 PM - 7:45 PM: Panel discussion

7:45 PM - 8:45 PM: Networking Reception

Register here.

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The Sheffield Institute for Corporate and Commercial Law (SICCL) is hosting an Intellectual Property Law Conference in honour of Margaret Llewelyn.

Full event title: Planting seeds for the future of intellectual property law – A conference in honour of Margaret Llewelyn.

Full event Programme - Subject to small changes

Event abstract: Professor Margaret Llewelyn was well known to the international Intellectual Property Law community as an authority on plant intellectual property. She completed her PhD in intellectual property law at Aberystwyth before pursuing an academic career at institutions across Europe, and was based at the University of Sheffield from 1994 until her retirement.

Professor Llewelyn published widely on intellectual property, with a particular focus on plant breeders’ rights, culminating in the monograph, (with Dr Mike Adcock), European Plant Intellectual Property. Other highlights of her career included an influential study on the European Commission’s ill-fated proposal for an EU Utility Model in 1996 and ground-breaking work on law and human genetics. As a leading expert in her field, she was an adviser to many governments and non-governmental organisations. Professor Llewelyn was editor of the Intellectual Property Quarterly from 2001 and remained editor until her death. Under her long editorship each issue demonstrated both topical diversity and intellectual excellence.

The IP community and the University of Sheffield Law School owe a debt of gratitude to Margaret’s scholarship, hard work and collegiality over many years. We hope that this academic conference and dinner exploring excellent IP scholarship will be a fitting tribute to her.

Date of event: Thursday 8 June 2023 - Friday 9 June 2023

Event Times: 

• Thursday: 9.30am - 5pm 6.30 - Late (Gala Dinner)  
• Friday: 9am - 1pm

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

Socio-Legal Approaches to Protecting Athletes from Financial and Physical Harm: Challenges, Reflections and Solutions

S?upported by the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Institute of Sport, and the Future Economies Research Centre, the Manchester Law School is pleased to host this one-day conference discussing key issues in sport, including gender equity, concussion protocols, and financial regulation.

F?eatured speakers include:

• Dr Alex Culvin - FIFPRO and former professional footballer
• Prof William Stewart - Consultant Neuropathologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, honorary Associate Professor the University of Glasgow and the University of Pennsylvania
• Gareth Farrelly - Commercial Litigation and Sports Lawyer at Bermans and former professional footballer

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This event reports on a project, funded by the Society of Legal Scholars, on the motivations and experiences of international law students in England and Wales. It will provide opportunities to compare experiences of law students with other students, and of the UK experience with that of the USA.

The event will discuss the findings of this project and compare them with data about international students generally and law students in the USA. There will be space to discuss your own views and experiences, as well as your response to the data.

Find more information on the project and book your place here.

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The Centre for Criminological Research is pleased to host this 'Author Meets Readers' event headed by Dr Amanda Spalding of the University of Sheffield (Law) and author of The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights: Moving Beyond Criminalisation (Hart, 2022). The panel will consist of Professor Ana Aliverti (Law, University of Warwick) and Dr Jonathan Collinson (Law, University of Sheffield).

Register for the event here.

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

City Law School's Student Experience Team presents the Summer Careers Academy, with events taking place from Monday 12th June to Thursday 15th June. Join for careers advice, refreshing your CVs, practicising interview techniques and getting fired up for your law career!

Monday 12th June: Irwin Mitchell Mentoring Open Event
Aimed at current Year 1 and Year 2 LLB students. Talk followed by networking.

Monday 12th June: Accutrainee
Networking and Accutrainee speaking to all students about opportunities.

See Tuesday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's events on the Lawbore calendar.

Please look out for more details to follow, or email Jane Bradley-Smith jane.bradley-smith@city.ac.uk for any information.

The second online event in the Howard League Spotlights series will also be looking at how lessons from the past can help us to tackle issues in the present day.

Jess Kebbell will present a summary of her findings from her ESRC Doctoral Studentship producing the first history of the Howard League for Penal Reform, and the chair, Professor Fergus McNeill, will share his letters to John Howard, comparing the state of the penal system today with that seen by the great prison reformer in the late 18th century. The event will consider how the Howard League’s work today is connected to its aims and campaigns of the past, while looking ahead to what the future may hold.

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

City Law School's Student Experience Team presents the Summer Careers Academy, with events taking place from Monday 12th June to Thursday 15th June. Join for careers advice, refreshing your CVs, practicising interview techniques and getting fired up for your law career!

Tuesday 13th June: Gradvantage practice assessment centre

Tuesday 13th June: Commercial Awareness Course Day 1 - open to 30 students

See Monday's, Wednesday's and Thursday's events on the Lawbore calendar.

Please look out for more details to follow, or email Jane Bradley-Smith jane.bradley-smith@city.ac.uk for any information.

Keele University are hosting a one-day interdisciplinary conference on Contemporary Social and Legal Issues in a Social Media Age funded by the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) and Keele University's Digital Sociey Institute at Keele Hall, Keele University.

The keynote speaker will be Graham Smith. Graham is a lawyer in private practice in London focusing on tech, copyright and internet. His background is litigation and advisory work. Graham Smith is the editor and main author of the UK legal textbook Internet Law and Regulation (Sweet & Maxwell, 5th edition Jan 2020). He has written extensively about the UK Government’s Online Safety Bill on his blog Cyberleagle: www.cyberleagle.com.

The conference will provide a stimulating discussion on the breadth of social media and the law, whilst bringing practitioners and academics together.

Read the conference schedule and sign up here.

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

City Law School's Student Experience Team presents the Summer Careers Academy, with events taking place from Monday 12th June to Thursday 15th June. Join for careers advice, refreshing your CVs, practicising interview techniques and getting fired up for your law career!

Wednesday 14th June: Commercial Awareness Course Day 2 - open to 30 students

Wednesday 14th June: Square Root Careers Day

Wednesday 14th June: Coaching appointments for LLB3

See Monday's, Tuesday's and Thursday's events on the Lawbore calendar.

Please look out for more details to follow, or email Jane Bradley-Smith jane.bradley-smith@city.ac.uk for any information.

City Law School's Student Experience Team presents the Summer Careers Academy, with events taking place from Monday 12th June to Thursday 15th June. Join for careers advice, refreshing your CVs, practicising interview techniques and getting fired up for your law career!

Thursday 15th June: Career appointments

Thursday 15th June: Commercial Awareness Course Day 3 

See Monday's, Tuesday's, and Wednesday's events on the Lawbore calendar.

Please look out for more details to follow, or email Jane Bradley-Smith jane.bradley-smith@city.ac.uk for any information.

Join The Commercial Court of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales a webinar chaired by Lord Burrows JSC, Justice of the UK Supreme Court and featuring:

• “Should judges make more use of academic writing and should academics make their writing more useful to judges?”, Mr Justice Andrew Baker (Admiralty Judge and Judge of the Commercial Court) Sir Andrew will explore the extents (and limits) of the use of academic writing in Commercial Court decisions concerning the law of unjust enrichment.
   
• “The bigger picture: a comparative perspective on unjust enrichment issues in the Commercial Court”, Professor Birke Häcker, Schlegel Chair in Civil Law, Common Law and Comparative Law at the University of Bonn and formerly Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford Professor Häcker will look at various issues which have arisen in unjust enrichment case that have come before the Commercial Court, and consider how similar issues may be analysed and resolved in German law
   
• “The Commercial Court’s contribution to the law of unjust enrichment: themes and landmarks”, Simon Salzedo KC (Brick Court Chambers and a Deputy High Court Judge sitting in the Commercial Court) The presentation will consider some of the key decisions on the law of unjust enrichment determined in cases litigated in the Commercial Court, and the influence of the commercial context in which they arose.

Sign up here.

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

Lord Collins is one of the most distinguished lawyers of our time. He was the first solicitor to become a Lord of Appeal/Justice of the Supreme Court, having served as a Lord Justice and a judge in the Chancery Division after a notable career as a solicitor with Herbert Smith, where he took Silk. In addition, he is a leading legal scholar, not least as General Editor of Dicey, Morris and Collins on The Conflict of Laws. Come along and hear about Lord Collins’ life and career, his commitment to Judaism and his love of jazz.

Tickets for sale here.

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

This workshop explores the development of company regulation by examining the role that theorists played in it. In doing so, it adds to the burgeoning research on the lives and impact of theorists, scholars, academics and litigants.The idea that a judicial figure can through a series of judgments and extra-judicial comments craft and shape a branch of law has been largely missing from twentieth and twenty-first century jurisprudence.

The aim of this workshop is first to rediscover forgotten and neglected authors. Second, it encourages us to think about the biographical element of an author’s work and to put theoretical work in its social, economic and historical context. Finally, a discussion of the theorists in company law allows further insight into the distinctiveness of Company Law in the United Kingdom as opposed to the Anglo-American or European model. With the growth of the Law and Economics movement in the United States, the right of centre shift in American political thought has also been dominant in several theoretical discourses. There are – and were – other ways of viewing company law.

View programme and sign up here.

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

The University of Bristol is hosting for a public lecture by Professor Albert Sanchez-Graells, Co-Director of the Centre for Global Law and Innovation and Professor of Economic Law.

The event is in person only, although a recording of the lecture will be made available after the event. The lecture will be followed by a coffee and cake reception. 

The public sector is quickly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to manage its interactions with citizens and in the provision of public services – for example, using chatbots in official websites, automated processes and call-centres, or predictive algorithms.

There are inherent high stakes risks to this process of public governance digitalisation, such as bias and discrimination, unethical deployment, data and privacy risks, cyber security risks, or risks of technological debt and dependency on proprietary solutions developed by (big) tech companies.

However, as part of the UK Government’s ‘light touch’ approach to digital technology regulation, the adoption of AI in the public sector remains largely unregulated. In this public lecture, Professor Sanchez-Graells will present the findings of his research funded by the British Academy, where he has analysed how, in this deregulatory context, the existing rules on public procurement fall short of protecting the public interest.

Register for a place via Eventbrite.

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

A full day, comprehensive training on understanding, working with and responding to domestic abuse within Gloucestershire.

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