Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
Call for submissions: Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE), Annual Meeting, Boston MA, 9-10 June 2027
ALPE invites proposals for our second annual meeting, to be held on June 9-10, 2027, in Boston, MA. Panels, roundtables, and individual paper proposals are welcome. We encourage submissions by academics, organizers, practitioners, policy professionals, and others engaged in research that examines the relationship between law and political economy … (more)
‘The Common Core of European Private Law’, 32nd Annual General Meeting, Krakow, 13-14 May 2027
The 32nd Annual General Meeting of ‘The Common Core of European Private Law’ project, focused on Long-Term Business Relations and Comparative Private Law, will take place on May 13-14, 2027 at the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland, under the direction of Professor Piotr Tereszkiewicz. The program and the registration details […]
‘Roderick Bagshaw on the Tort of Unlawful Means Conspiracy’
The Tort Law Research Group’s fall term public lecture was held on September 24, 2026. The speaker was Professor Roderick Bagshaw of the University of Oxford. His talk was entitled ‘Unlawful Means Conspiracy: Time to Say Goodbye?’. His core contention was that it is not time to abolish the tort because it continues to provide […]
Call for Papers: Association for Law, Property & Society (ALPS) Annual Meeting, Cardiff School of Law and Politics, 27-30 May 2027
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. Possible organizing themes include, but are not limited to: … […]
Call for proposals: 19th Annual International Conference on Contracts (KCON XIX), Case Western Reserve University, 19-20 March 2027
KCON strives to be an open community for supporting and enriching scholarship. It welcomes presentations on projects at every level of development, including recently published articles, drafts, works-in-progress, preliminary ideas, and thought experiments. It provides an unparalleled opportunity to engage with colleagues and potential collaborators and mentors in the field. Junior scholars are especially encouraged […]
Call for Papers: 7th Modern Studies in the Law of Trusts, Wealth Management & Philanthropy conference, Monash Malaysia, 20-21 July 2027
Conference theme: Wealth Without Borders: Trusts, Philanthropy and Responsibility in an Age of Polycrisis. 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 […]
Call for Papers: Berkeley/Texas/Toronto/Yale Private Law Junior Faculty Forum, Berkeley Law School, 9-10 April 2027
The second session of the BETTY Forum will be hosted by the Berkeley Center for Private Law Theory on April 9-10, 2027. We are currently seeking submissions for this meeting. Six to eight junior scholars will be selected following a blind peer-review process to present their work at the Forum. A senior faculty will provide […]
Call for Papers: Anti-SLAPP Law in Canada and Beyond: University of New Brunswick, 17-18 June 2027
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, providing lessons for jurisdictions that have recently adopted anti-SLAPP legislation […]
Call for proposals to present: Australian and New Zealand Tort and Compensation Researchers and Teachers Network Symposium: University of Sydney and Online, 15-16 February 2027
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 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 […]