Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘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)
‘Call for papers: 3rd Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance (Aberdeen)’
The Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance of the University of Aberdeen is pleased to announce that it is now accepting submissions for the 3rd Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law which will take place online on 6 June 2025. Conference Theme: New Dimensions in Private International Law. Original […]
Yale-Toronto Private Law Theory Discussion Group, Annual Workshop, 7 March 2025
The Private Law Theory Discussion Group is a joint initiative between the Center for Private Law at Yale Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The workshop aims to provide a forum for established and early career scholars to present their in-progress work in private law theory to an audience of students […]
Call for Papers: Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal conference, Vancouver, 19-20 February 2026
The Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal is inviting paper proposals for a conference, to be held February 19-20, 2026 at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. We invite paper proposals on any theme having to do with Estates, Trusts or Pensions. Here follows a non-exclusive list of potential topics, divided into broader […]
Call for Papers: ‘Celebrating 100 Years of the 1925 Property Legislation’ (Selwyn College Cambridge, 8-9 September 2025)
In the period 1922 to 1925, a series of groundbreaking legislative enactments reframed English property law in terms favourable to alienation and a market in land, providing the basis on which much of the relevant modern law rests. The Law of Property Act, Trustee Act, Settled Land Act, Administration of Estates Act, Land Registration Act, […]
Call for Papers: ‘The molecules of private law’: University of Oxford, 11-12 September 2025
This symposium aims to stimulate discussion of the fundamental building blocks of private law. Examples include such concepts as obligation, duty, responsibility, thing, ownership, personality, capacity, patrimony, right, power, privilege, immunity. These and other basic constituents of legal thought continue to generate debate, controversy, and confusion in the 21st century, not only in long-established fields […]
Haim Abraham, ‘Private Nuisance, Looking Out, Gazing In’: University of Toronto and Online, 14 February 2025
Haim Abraham of the University College London will speak on the relation between private nuisance claims and privacy, applying rights-based and queer theory lenses. Haim will speak for about 45 minutes after which there will be a Q&A period … (more, Zoom link)
‘Revisiting the Public/Private Divide: Corporations, Legal Education and the Common Good in a Globalized World’, Sundhya Pahuja, Queen’s University Belfast, 4 February 2025
This lecture reflects on the enduring division between public and private international law within legal education and its broader implications for society’s prosperity and well-being. It examines how this division, rooted in historical legacies of empire, shapes our understanding of the role of law in governing relationships between states, corporations, and individuals. By exploring the […]