Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘Comparative Torts: Discussion around Markesinis’s German Law of Torts by BS Markesinis, J Bell and A Janssen’
The British Association of Comparative Law warmly invite you to two webinars on Comparative Torts: Liability for Emerging Technologies and Comparative Torts: Liability for Ecological Harm on 29th and 30th March 2021. The 2019 fifth edition of Markesinis’ magisterial German Law of Torts (1986), by John Bell and André Janssen, is an ideal and indispensable […]
Andrew Gold, The Right of Redress: Book Launch and Panel Discussion, Zoom, 18 February 2021 4:00 PM EST
The law enables private parties to undo the wrongs committed against them, allowing them to seek redress. Moreover, a distinctive kind of justice governs our legal rights of redress, different from the leading corrective justice approaches. Through analysis of these key ideas, The Right of Redress (Oxford University Press, 2020) helps to make sense of […]
‘Impact of the proposed EU Regulation on Markets in Crypto-assets for IP applications’
“Decentralised ledger technologies (DLT) such as blockchain are the object of broad international regulation efforts. Presumably motivated by Facebook’s Libra/Diem project, the Chinese e-yuan and the growing financial volume of the crypto market, governmental institutions seeking to strike a balance between protecting public interests while simultaneously fostering innovation in the crypto space (‘regulate innovations in […]
‘Call for Papers: ASLH 2021 Annual Meeting’
“The Program Committee of the ASLH invites proposals for complete panels and individual papers for the 2021 meeting to be held November 4-6 in New Orleans. Panels and papers on any facet or period of legal history from anywhere in the world are welcome. We encourage thematic proposals that transcend traditional periodization and geography. Due […]
‘Critical Perspectives on Land Registration’: Online, 22 January 2021, 14:30-16:00 GMT
In 2018, the Law Commission released its extensive report on updating the Land Registration Act 2002. The same year, HM Land Registry announced its ambition to become ‘the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data, and aiming to achieve comprehensive registration by 2030’. Meanwhile, other states around the world […]
‘IFIM Holiday Seminar – Tales of the New Doctors of Law’
“December brought another fascinating conference, this time organised by the Institute of Intellectual Property and Market Law (Institutet för immaterialrätt och marknadsrätt) of Stockholm University, which has a tradition of inviting junior academics and lawyers to speak in its annual Holiday seminar. The 2020 seminar featured researchers who successfully defended their PhD theses in 2020: […]
Call for Papers and Posters: ‘A Sacred Covenant? Historic, Legal and Cultural Perspectives on the Development of Marital Law’: virtual event, 20 May 2021
We seek to explore the changing legal and cultural definitions of marriage in any geographical location or jurisdiction across the period c 1450 – present day, paying particular attention to the changing perspectives on age, same-sex marriage, polygamy, divorce, and remarriage. This conference will create an exciting space where historical, literary, medical, artistic, and cultural […]
Call for Papers and Participation: ‘New Technologies in Courts’: Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 22 October 2021
The Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Department of Law hereby announces the organization of an international conference with the title ‘New Technologies in Courts: Advantages and Limits’. The main topic of the conference is constituted by the legal-science implications of novel information technology and communications (IT&C) solutions applied to the challenges faced by courts and […]
‘Call for papers for Modern Studies in the Law of Trusts and Wealth Management 2021’
“The following is posted as a courtesy to YIP Man (Associate Professor, Director of Centre for Commercial Law in Asia, Singapore Management University School of Law): ‘The fourth conference in the “Modern Studies in the Law of Trusts and Wealth Management” series will take place virtually via Zoom on 22-23 July 2021. The daily conference […]
‘Virtual Workshop (in English!) on 13 January 2020: AG Maciej Szpunar on Extraterritoriality’
“Since the summer, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute has hosted monthly virtual workshops on current research in private international law. That series, so far held in German, has proven very successful, with sometimes more than 100 participants. Starting in January, the format will be expanded …” (more) [Ralf Michaels, Conflict of Laws .net, 5 January] […]