| Obligations, Property, Legal Theory | Friday, 16 October 2026 - 19:58 |
Contracts play a critical role in clarifying the ownership and transfer of IP, but frequently define the IP with reference to broad and non-specific terms. A recent Australian Patent Office decision in ThermoChem Recovery International Inc v FULC JV LLC [2026] APO 14 highlights how inadequate evidence of the specifics of the contract provisions and the contributors to the inventive concept can jeopardise patent entitlement claims … (more)
[Claire Gregg, The IPKat, 25 August 2026]
Private law has long presented itself as a domain of incremental development, doctrinal coherence, and principled reasoning. Yet contemporary pressures, including digital platforms and AI, climate change, mass harm events, financial innovation, and shifting conceptions of property, personhood, and responsibility, raise profound questions about the stability and adaptability of private law’s core concepts and doctrines … (registration)
This year’s theme is the impact of international trade law and dispute settlement on commercial contracts. Examples are shipping contracts, charterparties, long term investment contracts. The call for papers is open and included here … (more)
The book offers a new theoretical perspective on the relationship between market regulation and private law in the face of contemporary challenges, such as climate change, the digitalisation of the marketplace, and growing inequality, with significant practical implications for a wide range of areas … (more)
The general theme of the conference is ‘The Future of Legal Education: Keeping People at the Centre’. The parallel sessions will begin on Friday 27st November afternoon. The Plenary session will be on Saturday 28nd November in the form of a moderated panel discussion on the theme of the conference … (more, call for papers)
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 private and commercial law … (more, call for papers)
We welcome contributions which reflect a wide range of topics and approaches including doctrinal, theoretical, critical, empirical, reform and social justice, and pedagogical. We are particularly interested in providing opportunities for early career researchers and teachers to present their work and network with other colleagues … (more, call for proposals to present)
KCON welcomes presentations on projects at every level of development, including recently published articles, drafts, works-in-progress, preliminary ideas, and thought experiments … (more, call for proposals)
We welcome contributions on conflict-of-laws and international civil procedural law at the national, European, and international levels. The conference language is German; however, we also welcome warmly presentations in English … (more, call for papers)
The meeting, focused on Long-Term Business Relations and Comparative Private Law, will take place at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland, under the direction of Professor Piotr Tereszkiewicz … (more)
ALPS annual meetings include participants representing numerous countries and working in common law, civil law, Indigenous laws, international law, transnational law, and mixed legal traditions. Presentation submissions on any subject related to property law and the practices that shape property norms and institutions are welcome … (more)
ALPE invites proposals for our second annual meeting. Panels, roundtables, and individual paper proposals are welcome. We encourage submissions by academics, organizers, practitioners, policy professionals, and others … (more)
The theme of the conference is to assess the effectiveness of Canada’s anti-SLAPP laws and to draw lessons from the Canadian experience for other jurisdictions. As one of the earlier jurisdictions to adopt anti-SLAPP legislation, the strengths and weaknesses of Canada’s laws are becoming apparent … (more, call for papers)
The Obligations Conference brings together scholars and practitioners from across the common law world to discuss current issues in contract law, the law of torts, equity, unjust enrichment, and private law theory … (more)
As the world navigates an era of overlapping crises, whether economic, environmental, geopolitical or social, the law of trusts, wealth management and philanthropy faces mounting pressure to reconcile the free movement of wealth with growing demands for responsibility, accountability and impact … (more, call for papers)
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