Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘7th World Congress on Adult Capacity 2022’
“I have heard that the 7th World Congress on Adult Capacity 2022 was quite successful. I was excited to see that the conference organizers have published a link to download the various presentations …” (more) [Rebecca C Morgan, Elder Law Prof Blog, 26 July] First posted 2022-07-26 16:45:58
Call for Abstracts: Irish Jurisprudence Society Workshops 2022-23
The Irish Jurisprudence Society invites proposals to present at its 2022-23 workshop series. The purpose of the series is to develop and promote work that engages with legal philosophy, broadly understood, including all aspects of legal and political theory (analytical jurisprudence, constitutional theory, democratic theory, human rights etc) and theoretical work with relevance to any […]
BACL Annual webinar: Comparative Torts – Liability for AI: Webinar, 6 September 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally alter the way we live, work and interact with each other, and tort law has an essential regulatory role to play in the deployment of AI systems. Legal scholars and policymakers across jurisdictions have considered a wide array of solutions to cover possible compensation gaps for damage caused by AI-systems, […]
‘Rethinking Unjust Enrichment: History, Sociology, Doctrine and Theory’: Online Symposium, 13-15 September 2022
This project is about the incoherency of private law which should be attributed to the advances of the so-called ‘unjust enrichment’ movement across the world. Over the recent decades, the law of unjust enrichment has established itself as a new category of private law, alongside such classical categories as property, contract and tort … (more, […]
‘Call for Papers: AALS Remedies Section’
“The AALS Section on Remedies invites paper submissions for a panel on ‘Remedies in the Restatements’ at the January 3-7, 2023 Annual Meeting. Please note that this meeting is currently planned to be held wholly in person. The Remedies session is scheduled for 3 to 4:40 pm on Thursday, January 5 …” (more) [New Private […]
Civil Remedies: Private and Commercial Law Annual Conference, University of Western Australia Law School, 8-9 December 2022
The theme of the conference will be Civil Remedies, capturing a broad range of potential topics across common law, equity and statute. Accordingly, the UWA PCL Research Cluster is pleased to invite all academics who teach or research in fields relating to Civil Remedies to the conference. The aims of the conference remain to provide […]
Call for Papers, Panels and Posters: Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 11-12 November 2022
The conference will begin on the QUB campus on Friday afternoon with registration from 4pm and a round of parallel sessions commencing at 5pm followed by a buffet dinner in the Great Hall at Queen’s. On Saturday morning and afternoon there will be further parallel sessions on campus. The plenary lecture and roundtable will also […]
‘International commercial courts: a paradigm for the future of adjudication?’ Online, 14 July 2022
“On July 14, 2022 an online seminar jointly organized by the Universities of Bologna, Milan and Verona (Italy) will provide a comparative perspective on the recent development of the setting up of specialized courts dealing with international commercial disputes …” (more) [Apostolos Anthimos, Conflict of Laws .net, 4 July] First posted 2022-07-04 14:00:19
‘Call for Papers: XV Conference ASADIP and General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law’
“ASADIP and IACL invite proposals for presentations for a panel on ‘Private International Law and Sustainable Development: Latin American Perspectives’. The panel will be part of the XV Conference of ASADIP ‘A Private International Law to Transform the World’ on 27 October 2022 in Asunción, Paraguay during the General Congress of the International Academy of […]
Aston and Hamilton, ‘On the Development of Marital Law’
ABSTRACT This issue of the Journal of Legal History results from a conference organized by Dr Jennifer Aston (Northumbria University) and Dr Frances Hamilton (University of Reading) held virtually at Northumbria University on 20th May 2021. At this event we explored the changing legal and cultural definitions of marriage in any geographical location or jurisdiction […]