Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
Call for Papers: ‘Protecting the Digital Consumer in Asia’, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 16 May 2025
As digital platforms, services and applications are becoming indispensable for everyday life, ensuring that consumers are adequately protected is more critical than ever. This conference aims to bring together legal scholars, practitioners and others to discuss emerging trends of consumer protection law across Asia and beyond. With a focus on private law, we seek to […]
‘Private International Law and Sustainability Development in Asia at Wuhan University – Report’
The Conference on Private International Law and Sustainability Development in Asia was successfully held at Wuhan University School of Law on 23rd November 2024. This international symposium was organized by Wuhan University Academy of International Law and Global Governance, Wuhan University School of Law and China Society of Private International Law … (more) [Zixuan Yang, […]
Sarah Morales – ‘a ‘lha’tham: Involuntary Obligations that Flow from a Web of Relations – University of Toronto and Zoom, 13 December 2025
The next session of the Tort Law and Social Equality Project Speakers Series takes place Friday, December 13 at 12:00-1:30 pm EST over Zoom. Sarah Morales of the University of Victoria Faculty of Law will speak on the concept of involuntary obligations in the Island Hul’qumi’num legal tradition of the Coast Salish Indigenous peoples in […]
‘Multistate Torts’: EAPIL Winter School, University of Insubria, Italy, 10-15 February 2025
The European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL), together with the Department of Law, Economics and Cultures of the University of Insubria, with the Law Faculty of the University of Murcia (Spain) and the Law Faculty of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland), is organising the Second EAPIL Winter School. The 2025 edition will be […]
Call for Papers and Panels: ‘A Century of Transformation – What should property legislation look like in 2125?’, Inner Temple, London, 10 April 2025
In 1925, a ground-breaking suite of property legislation revolutionised land law, simplifying transactions and laying the foundation for modern property dealings. Now, 100 years later, we’re reflecting on that pivotal moment, assessing its legacy and looking ahead to the future of property law. Join us at the landmark confirmation to celebrate the centenary of these […]
‘Call for Papers: Intellectual Property and Capitalism’
The 16th Annual Workshop of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) will be hosted by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, 25-26 June 2025. Papers that address this call from historical or theoretical perspective are welcome from scholars from all disciplines. As always, we are happy to consider any other […]
David Wasserman, ‘Parental Liability for Prenatal Negligence?’, University of Toronto and Zoom, 15 November 2024
Our speaker will be David Wasserman of the Department of Bioethics at the US National Institutes of Health. David will speak on moral issues raised by parental liability for negligence causing prenatal injury to a fetus. He will speak for about 45 minutes after which there will be a Q&A period … (more)
‘Legal Histories in Unexpected Places: 29 November 2024’
The Open University is organising what looks to be a most interesting conference under the above title on Friday, 29 November 2024. The programme is as follows … (more) [John Cairns, The Edinburgh Legal History Blog, 25 October 2024]
‘Journal of Private International Law 20th Anniversary Conference: Call for Paper Proposals’
We are pleased to invite the submission of paper proposals for the conference. Submission is open to anyone regardless of seniority or academic affiliation, including postgraduate students and practitioners, with an expectation that you will produce a paper for submission to the Journal of Private International Law by the end of the 2025 calendar year […]
‘Conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws” at Oxford, 20-21 March 2025’
At the University of Oxford, a conference on ‘Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws’ will be held on 20 and 21 March 2025. It is jointly organised by Dr Johannes Ungerer (University of Oxford and University of Notre Dame in England), Dr Caterina Benini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan), and PD Dr Felix […]