Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘Access to Justice in Arbitration: Concept, Context and Practice’: Online Book Launch Webinar, Middlesex University School of Law, 18 March 2021, 18:00 GMT
Arbitration practice has been experiencing an exponential growth in international commercial and investment disputes, including areas beyond these traditional fields such as employment, sports, and competition law disputes. This has led to developments in the field such as new technology being increasingly introduced for the facilitation of arbitration procedures and increased scrutiny regarding matters such […]
Call for Papers: ‘Law and Inequality’: 13th SOAS Law PhD Colloquium, 8 June 2021
Legal systems across the world recognise the fundamental equality of all human beings and promise equality before the law and the equal protection of law. However, inequalities in accessing and enjoying resources, services and opportunities persist on the grounds of gender, nationality, religion, ideological, political beliefs and so on. They persist at different levels, such […]
20th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, 8-9 April 2021
The European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) and the Institute for European Tort Law of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Graz (ETL) cordially invite you to attend the 20th Annual Conference on European Tort Law (ACET), which will be held in digital format from 8 to 9 April 2021. […]
GMU Law and Economics Center: ‘The Economics and Law of Civil Remedies’: 19 February 2021 from 10:00-3:00
“Blackstone quite famously explained that ‘[I]t is a general and indisputable rule, that where there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy, by suit or action at law, whenever that right is invaded’: William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 23, 109 (University of Chicago Press 2002) (1765). Of course, it […]
‘Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence – Call For Papers’
“Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence is a monthly, online working-paper seminar series, open to everyone working in the philosophy of law. The seminar series began in June 2020. Speakers have included some of the leading philosophers in the field: Victor Tadros, Kimberley Brownlee, Mitchell Berman, Laura Valentini, David Enoch, and others. Seminars have attracted an average […]
University of Bristol Law School Workshop: ‘Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World’, 15 April 2021
This one-day workshop taking place on Thursday 15th April 2021 will examine the development of vicarious liability across the common law world. Vicarious liability, that is strict liability for the torts of others, represents one of the most controversial areas of tort law. It has been debated in recent years in the highest courts of […]
General Call for Papers/Panels for 2021 SLS Annual Conference Subject Sections Programme (31 August – 3 September 2021)
The 2021 Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference will be held both at Durham University and virtually on Tuesday 31 August – Friday 3 September 2021, under the Presidency of Professor Thom Brooks. Those presenting do not need to be members of the Society, although we encourage those eligible to be members to join (and the […]
Call for Papers: Munich Summer Institute 2021 (online)
From June 7 to 9, 2021, the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich, the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management at TUM, the Chair for Economics of Innovation at TUM, the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition will jointly […]
Book launch: Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law (Cherednychenko and Andenas, eds): Online event, 3 February 2021 12 GMT
Confirmed Speakers: Prof Mads Andenas QC, LCF and University of Oslo; Prof Olha Cherednychenko, Professor of European Private Law and Comparative Law and Director Groningen Centre for European Financial Services Law, University of Groningen; Prof Guido Alpa, La Sapienza University of Rome; Prof Jan H. Dalhuisen, King’s College London; Prof Takis Tridimas, Chair of European […]
Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain in Shipping and Commercial Law: Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law Webinar, 11 February 2021, 12:30 GMT
Shipping and commercial lawyers may show a superficial patina of conservatism. Underneath the surface, however, they are as aware as anyone else of the disruptive potential of electronics in law, and as keen as any to take advantage of it. For these technologies to flourish, however, it is essential that the legal rules are kept […]