| Obligations, Property, Legal Theory | Sunday, 16 June 2024 - 17:40 |
Litigation funding supports the public interest and access to justice but will remain niche in aiding consumers, according to major research which identified 44 cases in the last five years. It also highlighted a risk of litigation funding being used for economic crime – where it is difficult for law firms to know the ultimate source of funds used by their litigation funder – but suggested this risk was currently more theoretical than real …. (more)
[Neil Rose, Legal Futures, 23 May 2024]
We aim to discuss such topics as the nature and significance of interpersonal wronging, the role of directed duties and second-personal normativity, the relationship between corrective justice and remedial legal practice … (more)
KCON is the largest annual international academic conference dedicated to contract law and related areas of commercial law. It brings together contract law scholars, practitioners, and graduate students from around the world ... (more)
Dispute Resolution Agreements (DRA) are a very special kind of contract. They allow parties to make a choice on the rights (applicable law) and remedies (competent forum, including procedural rules), which govern their relationship … (more)
The University of Cambridge and the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London and the British Association of Comparative Law, warmly invite you to attend (in person) a one-day workshop … (more)
The Symposium aims to analyse the reasons why it has been relatively uncomplicated in some countries to adapt tort law to the demands of the times, whereas in others the reform attempts – if any – are still lost in ministerial or academic drawers … (more)
The history of Bristol is closely entwined with the law: the city has long been a significant legal centre, and a great deal of legal business has been done here for centuries. Bristol has also been an important site for protest and resistance to the law … (more)
Property may be legal or equitable. Examples of equitable property typically given include the interest of a beneficiary under a private express trust and that of a partner in partnership assets. However, beneath this answer lies some complexity … (more)
The Conference will run at our central Bristol campus based in the iconic Wills Memorial Building … (more)
The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law is pleased to offer this expert international forum for the analysis of contemporary and comparative aspects of commercial insurance law. The Colloquium will be held at Swansea University and will convene a forum of professional and academic experts … (more)
This conference brings together legal educators to showcase innovative approaches to teaching Contract Law, a core module with large student numbers. This conference aims to highlight and explore issues and topics that will be of interest and importance not only to those that teach Contract Law, but also to the wider teaching community … (download)
Presentations can be on any aspect of empirical legal research methodology, on any topic, and from any jurisdiction. Conference organisers welcome abstracts from researchers and academics at any stage of their career on subjects relating to empirical research methods including (but not limited to) … (more)
Campbell v MGN [2004] UKHL 22, [2004] 2 AC 457 is one of the most important privacy and media law decisions handed down in recent decades in the common law world. As is well-known, the case established the tort of misuse of private information (MPI) and has been influential in the development of privacy laws … (more)
We are pleased to announce a conference on ‘Inheritance Inequality’ (the Fifth Biennial Conference on Critical Trusts and Estates). The conference will take place on Friday September 27 and Saturday September 28, 2024 at Drexel University’s Thomas R Kline School of Law, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and will be sponsored by the Drexel Law Review … (more)
How these two systems connect or interact is the subject of the Fourth Canadian Law of Obligations Conference to be held at the Faculté de droit at the Université de Montréal on October 3-4, 2024. This year’s conference is devoted to exploring the extent to which common and civil law are moving toward convergence in the area of private law … (more)
Papers are invited until 15 August 2024. Special themes in 2024 are: (1) sustainable finance and emissions disclosure and their impact on commercial contracts; (2) standard forms and terms in construction contracts – comparative aspects … (more)
The aims of the conference are to provide academics with an informal and supportive environment in which to present work in progress, and to facilitate a collegial discussion of issues related to teaching and publishing in the field. We encourage early and midcareer academics and research higher degree students to consider presenting on aspects of their work relating to the broad conference theme of ‘Wrongs in Private and Commercial Law’ … (more)
This will be co-hosted by Harvard Law School and Melbourne Law School and will be convened by John Goldberg, Andrew Robertson and Henry Smith. A call for papers will be issued in 2024 … (more)
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