Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
Call for Papers: ‘New Trends in Teaching Contract Law’, University of Sussex, Brighton, 12 September 2024
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. The organisers […]
‘What is a Nuisance Anyway?’ – Allan Beever, University College London, 18 April 2024
The recent and controversial decision of the UK Supreme Court in Fearn v Tate Gallery has caused many to question the nature of the law of private nuisance. To many commentators, it has seemed that Fearn expanded the law into new territory, opening up a wide sphere of potential future liability. Many have also felt […]
Sarah Swan, ‘Plaintiff Police’, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Zoom, 22 March 2024, 12:00 EST
‘Plaintiff Police’ explores the recent trend of local police officers increasingly bringing civil lawsuits against those that they police, particularly in high-profile situations where the police have been accused of wrongdoing. For example, police officers have initiated multiple lawsuits suing Black Lives Matter protestors, police officers have sued rapper Afroman for using footage of their […]
‘Private Law Perspectives on the Contract of Employment’, University College London, 7 June 2024
The UCL Private Law Group are pleased to announce a one-day conference on Private Law Perspectives on the Contract of Employment, Friday 7th June 2024, from 09:30 to 5pm, at University College London. This conference will develop a dialogue between private lawyers and labour lawyers on theoretical and practical issues as they relate to the […]
Call for Abstracts: European Privacy Law Scholars Conference, University of Amsterdam, 24-25 October 2024
Following the format of PLSC in the United States, PLSC Europe is a conference for discussing work in progress. In the PLSC format, discussants, rather than authors, present and kick off a discussion on an assigned paper. There are no panels or presentations by the authors and everyone is a ‘participant’, offering their best questions […]
‘Digital Assets and Private International Law’
The question which law applies to the blockchain and assets recorded thereon, such as cryptocurrencies, stablecoins or other token, is one of the most hotly debated issues in the conflict of laws (see eg the recent book ‘Blockchain and Private International Law’). A conference on this topic will take place on 11 and 12 April […]
‘Deepfakes and the Law’: City University and online, 20 May 2024
On Monday 20 May 2024, City, University of London (in collaboration with University of Leeds) will host a day conference on the subject of ‘Deepfakes and the Law’ at its Northampton Square campus, London, from 09:00–17:00. The theme of the conference is to explore the existing and potential relationships between deepfake technology and the law. […]
’20th IEAF Call for Papers: Evolution or Revolution of European Insolvency Law’
The organisers of the 2024 edition of the INSOL Europe Academic Forum kindly shared with us the following call for papers. Please note the deadline for submission is 1 March 2024. The INSOL Europe Academic Forum (IEAF) is inviting submission for its 20th annual conference, taking place from Wednesday 2 – Thursday 3 October 2024 […]
Call for Papers: ‘Why is Tort Law Reform So Difficult?’, University of Girona, 27-28 June 2024
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. In the first decade of the 21st century, a reform of […]
‘Comparative Torts – Liability for AI’
The BACL Annual Seminar, chaired by Professor TT Arvind (York University), took place online on 6th September 2022 at the start of Society of Legal Scholar’s Annual Conference at King’s College London. The video recording is available here. Professors Simon Chesterman, Bernhard Koch and Ugo Pagallo introduced and discussed current and prospective approaches to reforming […]