Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
Call for submissions: Berkeley/Texas/Toronto/Yale Private Law Junior Faculty Forum, University of Texas at Austin, 17-18 April 2026
We are pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new scholarly initiative: the Berkeley/Texas/Toronto/Yale Private Law Junior Faculty Forum (BETTY), a platform dedicated to fostering in-depth exchange of ideas on the conceptual and normative foundations of private law. It aims to build an engaged community of private law scholars, with a particular emphasis on […]
‘Conference: “The Next 25 Years of Private International Law: What Does the World Need?”, 23 June 2025 in Groningen’
This conference marks a significant occasion: the celebration of Professor Mathijs ten Wolde’s 25-year tenure as a professor and director of the Ulrik Huber Institute. In honour of his contribution to the field and his mentorship of generations of legal scholars, the event will bring together former PhD students and distinguished colleagues from across the […]
‘Comparative law today: digging trenches, bridging knowledge?’: 75th Anniversary BACL Workshop, King’s College Cambridge, 7-8 July 2025
The Centre of European Legal Studies and the British Association of Comparative Law (BACL) warmly invite you to attend their workshop to mark BACL’s 75th Anniversary. BACL’s ancestor, the UK National Committee of Comparative Law, was established in 1950 to promote ‘the development of legal science, by using in particular the comparative method’. Today, comparative […]
Call for Papers: ‘Legal and economic issues of emerging (liability) risks and insurance’: Jesus College Cambridge, 18-19 June 2026
The 21st Joint Seminar of the International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics (Geneva Association) and the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) on the topic ‘Legal and economic issues of emerging (liability) risks and insurance’ will be hosted by Jesus College, Cambridge on 18-19 June 2026. Submissions are invited for papers dealing […]
‘Tales of the unexpected’
A colleague told me about a conference at UCL on contract law and the unexpected saying, ‘Looks like a nice day out Jason’. When I was emailed 12 hefty draft papers by way of pre-reading, I realised it was a rather different conference to the sort I am used to. Each draft paper was an […]
‘The New Product Liability Directive: Open Questions on the Eve of Implementation’: Institute for European Tort Law, Vienna, 12 June 2025
On 23 October 2024, the European Union passed a new Product Liability Directive (PLD) and repealed the initial version from 1985. The new text has brought considerable improvements, but many fundamental questions are still left open on the eve of the Directive’s implementation, which the Member States must complete by 9 December 2026 … (more)
Call for Papers: ‘Modern Studies in Property Law’: Southampton Law School, 30 March – 1 April 2026
The 16th Biennial MSPL Conference will take place at Southampton Law School Highfield Campus from 30th March 2026 to 1st April 2026, hosted by the Law School’s Research Centre for People Property and Community. The call for papers is now open. The closing date for submissions is 15th September 2025. MSPL is a world-leading forum […]
‘5th German Conference for Young Researchers in Private International Law in Heidelberg – Conference Report’
On February 14th and 15th, 2025, more than one hundred young academics gathered at Heidelberg University for the 5th German Conference for Young Researchers in Private International Law to discuss the topic ‘Digital Transformation and Private International Law – Local Connections in Boundless Spaces’ … (more) [Victoria Hélène Dintelmann, Conflict of Laws .net, 25 April […]
Call for Papers: British Legal History Conference, Nottingham, 1-4 July 2026
This year the conference theme is ‘Law and Governance’. This draws upon the longstanding interplay between law and governance, emphasising the ways in which legal systems are shaped by, and in turn shape, structures of authority and power. While law has often been understood as a system of rules or doctrines, its relationship with governance […]
‘Crossroads in Private International Law Seminar Series, University of Aberdeen’
‘In April, the Aberdeen Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance will be relaunching its Crossroads in Private International Law research seminar series …” (more) [Tobias Lutzi, Conflict of Laws .net, 14 April 2025]