Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
24th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, 24-25 April 2025
The 24th Annual Conference will be held in Vienna from April 24 to 25, 2025 in the Festive Hall of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Dr Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna). It provides a unique opportunity for both practitioners and academics to discover the most significant tort law developments from across Europe in 2024 … […]
‘Do People Matter? The importance of the individual in the construction of legal history’, Catharine MacMillan, King’s College London, 22 January 2025
The Dickson Poon School of Law is proud to present our Inaugural Lecture Series. Inaugural Lectures are a celebration of our Professors, as they present an overview of their contribution to their field, as well as highlight its latest developments. The lecture is open to both members of the university community and the wider public, […]
Call for Papers: Business and Tax Roundtable for Upcoming Professors, UCLA, 13-15 June 2025
This in-person Roundtable will feature commentary by invited senior scholars as well as an opportunity to meet fellow aspiring scholars while enjoying Los Angeles. We warmly invite scholars preparing for the academic job market to participate … (more)
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)