Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘Private Law and Emerging Technology’ – Virtual Workshops on April 11th, 18th, and 25th’
April 11 – Property and Ownership ‘The Death of Ownership: Sale, Use, and Control of Goods with Embedded Software in the Digital Era’ – Sean Thomas (U York Law, UK) ‘Custom and Separate Ownership of Natural Resources’ – Joseph Schremmer (Oklahoma Law) April 18 – Torts and Corporate Liability ‘The Trustworthy Company’ – Bryant Walker […]
‘Report of the Oxford Conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws”’
On 20-21 March 2025, a conference on ‘Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws’ was convened at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Under the auspices of the Institute of European and Comparative Law in the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford, the conference was jointly organised … (more) [Meltem Ece Oba, Conflict of Laws .net, 2 […]
Obligations XI conference open for registration
The Eleventh Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, which will be held at will be held at Harvard Law School from July 8-11, 2025 is now open for registration. The conference will be co-hosted by Harvard Law School and Melbourne Law School, and will be co-convened by John Goldberg, Andrew Robertson and Henry Smith. […]
The Common Core of European Private Law 30th General Meeting, Stockholm, 15-16 May 2025
We are glad to announce that the 30th General Meeting of the Common Core of European Private Law, Serving Future Generations Through Legal Culture – Thirty Years of Common Core Research, will take place in Stockholm on May 15 and 16 2025 at Östasiatiska Museet … (program, registration)
Call for Papers: ‘Land and Property Beyond the Centenary’, online, 16 May 2025
The centenary of the 1925 property statutes enacted in Westminster marks an opportunity to explore the legal history of land and property. We welcome papers relating to the following, non-exhaustive list of topics considering any jurisdiction, domestic or international … (more)
Call for Panels and Papers: ‘European Law Unbound: What Kind of Europe Can We Reach For?’: Charles University, Prague, 25-27 September 2025
The conference is titled “European Law Unbound: What Kind of Europe Can We Reach For?” and it aims to stimulate debate on the role law in addressing Europe’s massive challenges. Through the organization of this, and hopefully many more annual conferences, the new European Law Unbound Society aims to create an infrastructure to enable, through […]
Cristina Tilley on ‘Tort Originalism’, Zoom, 21 March 2025, 12 EST
Cristina will speak on how originalist interpretive methodologies reveal that at its inception American tort law was concerned with promoting social justice. She will speak for about 45 minutes after which there will be a Q&A period … (more)
‘Remedies to Digital Vulnerability in European Private Law’: University of Trieste, 10-11 April 2025
The Trieste conference follows two previous conferences held within the same project in Ferrara (2023) and in Rome Tor Vergata (2024), which examined the legal status of digital vulnerability in European private law and its interaction with artificial intelligence, respectively. Building on the previous findings and starting from the assumption that many, if not all, […]
‘Contract Law and the Unexpected’: University College London, 16 May 2025
Commercial parties face uncertainty on a regular basis. Their contracts provide for risks and events that might occur during their contractual relationship, including those that cannot be (fully) controlled by the parties, and whose nature is not easy to foresee or be captured by the contractual parties’ expectations. One possible way of addressing the uncertainty […]
SLS Seminar Series Program: Litigation against extractives: Anglia Ruskin University, 9-10 April 2025
Examine the role of litigation in holding extractive industries accountable for environmental degradation and human rights violations … (more, registration)