Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘KCON XVIII Save the Date’
On behalf of the newly-created International Conference on Contracts (KCON) Steering Committee, I am overjoyed to announce that KCON XVIII will take place February 19-21 at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law in Gainesville, Florida. KCON is among the largest annual international academic conferences dedicated to contract law and related areas of commercial […]
Invitation for proposals to present: Australian and New Zealand Tort and Compensation Researchers and Teachers Network Symposium, 16-17 February 2026
We welcome contributions which reflect a wide range of topics and approaches including doctrinal, theoretical, critical, empirical, reform and social justice, and pedagogical. We are particularly interested in providing opportunities for early career researchers and teachers to present their work and network with other colleagues … (more)
‘Private International Law and Sustainable Development in Africa’
Recall, on 14 October 2024, we invited submissions to the Journal of Sustainable Development and Policy for a special issue focusing on ‘Private International Law and Sustainable Development in Africa’. Make today matter! Under this motto, legal scholars from all over the world gathered at the University of Pretoria on July 8, 2025 to take […]
Call for Papers: Conflicts of Rights in Public and Private Law, Oxford, 16-17 December 2025
Many types of legal dispute present the problem of how to ‘balance’ the competing or conflicting rights or interests of multiple parties. The language of balancing competing rights appears in academic and judicial discourse surrounding human rights, equalities, tort, remedies, property, and many other areas of law. At the same time, there is lively philosophical […]
‘Remembering Guido Alpa’: King’s College London, 29 July 2025
A one day conference addressed to practitioners, teachers, students and researchers of law focusing on developments in consumer law across jurisdictions in the context of technological innovations including artificial intelligence … (more, registration)
Call for Papers: ‘The Ascension of Contract’: Conference on Contract, Consumer, and Commercial Law (C³), University of British Columbia, 5-6 November 2025
The conference aims to bring together scholars, as well as practitioners, regulators, and policymakers whose work has a nexus to contracts, including those working in contract law, consumer law, commercial law, property and private law. Sponsored by Allard’s Centre for Business Law, the theme of the 2025 conference is ‘The Ascension of Contract: Understanding the […]
Call for Abstracts: ‘The Corporate Chameleon: Transformations and Trends in Corporate Law’: University of Western Australia Law School, 1-3 February 2026
The committee invites the submission of abstracts for consideration for the parallel sessions, which critically reflect on various aspects of the conference theme, including: • Theories of the corporate person; • Corporations, partnerships and other business structures; • Trends in corporate liability mechanisms, such as FAR, BEAR, failure to prevent, and outcomes-based regulation; • Conceptions […]
Ingeborg Gruenwald, ‘Conference Report “Remedies to Digital Vulnerability in European Private Law” (DiVE)’
INTRODUCING DiVE Unpredictability, control, and autonomy. It is precisely at this junction that resides Artificial Intelligence (AI). Roughly a century back, Huxley and Orwell cautioned the world against excessive technological reliance. However, the present landscape suggests that in some ways we are in the midst of living the two aforementioned prophecies; with learning increasingly becoming […]
‘Pathways to Justice for Survivors of Institutional Child Abuse’: University of Technology Sydney, 19-20 September 2025
Institutional abuse law is a complex area of expertise, and the legal landscape is continually evolving. This Conference brings together a wide range of experts to examine current issues and challenges. Hear from leaders in the field including from survivor advocates, support services, leaders of commissions of inquiry, the judiciary, specialist institutional abuse law practitioners […]
Call for Abstracts – ‘Emerging Voices in Private International Law’ (Asser Institute)
As part of its 60th anniversary celebrations, the TMC Asser Institute invites abstracts for the panel ‘Emerging Voices in Private International Law’, to be held on 24 October 2025 in The Hague, at the conference Adapting Private International Law in an Era of Uncertainty. The panel will feature two early-career scholars (PhD candidates or postdoctoral […]