Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
Call for Papers: ‘Theorising the New Age of Environmental Human Rights Law’: Lancaster Castle, 17-18 September 2026
The 2020s are becoming a pivotal decade for international environmental human rights law. Almost every major international human rights body has recently pronounced on the relationship between human rights and climate change (or is due to do so shortly). At the same time, there has been a rapid growth in theorising about the philosophical foundations […]
Call for Papers: Obligations XII: King’s College London, 13-16 July 2027
The Twelfth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at King’s College London from 13-16 July 2027. The Conference will be jointly organised by James Lee of King’s College London and Andrew Robertson of the University of Melbourne. The theme of the conference will be ‘Reforming the Law of Obligations’. This theme […]
‘What Is the Purpose of a Law Degree? AI In Contract Law Pedagogy from an EDI Perspective’
Too often, students use of generative AI (AI) is framed narrowly in terms of academic misconduct. However, this conference sought to go beyond this narrow conception of how AI is used. In particular, we examined how legal educators, students, and practitioners are using or engaging with AI in order to shift the narrative from one […]
Call for submissions: Berkeley/Texas/Toronto/Yale Private Law Junior Faculty Forum, Berkeley Law School, 9-10 April 2027
The Berkeley/Texas/Toronto/Yale Private Law Junior Faculty Forum (BETTY) is a platform dedicated to fostering in-depth exchange of ideas on the conceptual and normative foundations of private law. It aims to build an engaged community of private law scholars, with a particular emphasis on strengthening connections between junior and senior professors. The second session of the […]
Queering Private Law Conference (3-4 September 2026) – registration now open
Private law presents itself as neutral and technical, a body of rules that simply reflects how the world is. But its foundational concepts carry assumptions about whose relationships, identities, and lives count as normal. This conference brings queer theory into conversation with private law, asking what is revealed when we take those assumptions seriously and […]
‘Contract Law: Past, Present and Future’: University College London, 12 June 2026
The first edition of Chitty on Contracts was published in 1826. To mark its 200th anniversary, the Private Law Group at University College London is hosting a one-day conference on Friday 12 June 2026. There will be papers on Chitty’s place in legal history, on current issues in contract law and on developments that may […]
Call for Papers: 17th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Meeting, University of Pittsburgh, 8-9 October 2026
Following the great success of the prior conferences in, among other locations, Tubingen, Manchester, Oxford, Heidelberg, Kyushu, Madrid, Perth, Santiago, Rome, and Greensboro, it is my great pleasure to invite you to the 17th Transnational Commercial Law Teachers Meeting that will be held on 8-9 October 2026 at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. […]
Call for Papers: ‘Crises in Private International Law’: 6th Early Career Researchers´ Conference, Munich, 9-10 April 2027
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)
Trust and Trusts in Commercial Law: University of Western Australia Law School, 3-4 December 2026
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. We encourage early and mid-career academics and research higher degree students to consider presenting on […]
‘The Frontiers of Arbitration and the Transformation of Private Law’ – The Common Core of European Private Law 31st General Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 6-8 May 2026
Many of the challenges faced by private law cannot be fully understood without paying adequate attention to procedural questions. Digitalisation, enhanced regulation of corporate responsibility and corruption are reshaping private law. This conference highlights the crucial role arbitration plays in interpreting the rules of private law. Join us to explore how the substantive intersects with […]