Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
Call For Papers: Socio-Legal Approaches to Property
For the Sixth year the Socio-Legal Approaches to Property CRN will be hosting a series of panels at the Annual Law and Society Association Meeting (July 13-16 2022). Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic this year’s conference will be hybrid. Therefore please indicate if you are planning on attending in person or wish to attend […]
Call for papers/panels: The Digital Turn in Socio-Legal Studies (SLSA Annual Conference 2022)
The Digital Turn in Socio-Legal Studies has – since its inception in the late 1950/mid-1960s to date – been a vital source for our contextual understanding of law in/and society. In following the main currents of societal life, socio-legal studies have considered a diverse range of encounters between law, legal institutions, legal actors, and their […]
‘Seminar: The Edinburgh Centre for Private Law presents: Global legal comparisons: what can we compare, how, and to what purpose? – Professor Fernanda Pirie – Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:30 (on Zoom)’
“Looking widely at different laws quickly raises questions about what we can compare. Legal systems have taken very different forms and have been created for very different purposes over the course of human history, so what and why should we try to compare? What, after all, counts as law? Rather than focusing on content and […]
Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright: Sean Flynn, 4 November 2021
Recent scholarship has highlighted the positive impact on scholarship of copyright exceptions for text and data mining and of more ‘open’ exceptions for research uses. Until now, however, there has not been a collection and categorization of the world’s copyright laws according to the degree to which they provide exceptions for research. In this lecture […]
Negotiation-Based Choice of Law Rule For Contract Formation Event: Webinar, 10 November 2021
“What law should govern the formation of international contracts? Common law courts have long been fixated on two choices – the putative proper law or the law of the forum – despite those choices being consistently criticised for perpetuating logical circularity and forum shopping respectively. This lecture dissects and critiques Mance LJ’s judgment in Solomon […]
‘Book of Tort Liability, Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China’: Online Seminar, 27 November 2021
The World Tort Law Society is to hold a special webinar via zoom on 27 November 2021 from 12pm-3pm GMT (8pm-11pm Beijing Time). The webinar will start by Professors Zhu Wang and Hongjie Man introducing what changes the Code has made in the Book on Tort Liabilities compared to its predecessor, namely Tort Liability Law (2009), […]
Mrs Justice Cockerill, ‘Contractual Estoppel: The Case for Coherent Principles’: Aston Law School, 4 November 2021, 18:15
Aston Law School, Aston University, invites you to the next Professor Jill Poole Memorial Lecture: ‘Contractual Estoppel: The Case for Coherent Principles’ by Mrs Justice Cockerill (Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court). The lecture will take place at Aston University’s Main Building. Guests are invited to arrive from 17:30 when drinks will be served […]
‘Duty of Care: Improving the Possible’: Roderick Bagshaw, Current Legal Problems Lecture Series, Zoom, 21 October 2021 6pm
The general focus of this lecture is the approach that courts use to identify whether a defendant owed a duty of care to a claimant and can therefore be held liable in the tort of negligence (provided that the other requirements for that tort – a breach of the duty having caused an actionable form […]
The Making of EU Copyright: online, 18 October 2021
2021 is a momentous year for EU copyright law: it is the 30th anniversary since the adoption of the first ever copyright directive (the Software Directive 1991/250) and the 20th since the passing of the seminal InfoSoc Directive 2001/29. By 7 June this year, individual Member States should have also completed their own national processes […]
Online Presentation: Caterina Sganga, ‘The past, present and future of EU copyright flexibilities’, 28 October 2021
Copyright flexibilities (a term that encompasses not only exceptions, but all copyright rules such as non-voluntary or extended collective licenses, the principle of exhaustion, free and paying public domain, and the like) are tools through which legislators have traditionally struck the balance between the author’s monopoly – which is necessary to incentivize creativity – and […]