Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘The Public Interest, Law, and Regulation: Clear, Consistent, and Coherent Relationships?’
Widely in legal education, research, and practice, and across different areas of legal jurisdiction, law is a discipline that is characterised by its sharp division into sub-disciplines. With this division comes super-specialisation. That specialisation has the effect of inviting in-depth focus on discrete areas of law and regulation, without claims to expertise or application across […]
Call for Papers: ‘Digital Vulnerability in European Private Law’, University of Trieste, April 2025
Building on previous findings, the third conference will take for granted that many people, if not all, are vulnerable in the digital world. The questions we will discuss at the conference therefore are: what can be done? How can digital vulnerability be remedied? What measures can be adopted, ex ante or ex post, to avoid […]
Call for Papers: ‘Private Law Inside and Out’, Harvard Law School, 8-11 July 2025
The Eleventh Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at Harvard Law School from July 8-11, 2025. 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 biennial Obligations Conferences bring together scholars and practising lawyers […]
Call for Papers: Legal Personhood in Private Law – Notre Dame’s Global Gateway Campus in Rome, 6-8 November 2025
Legal Personhood in Private Law aims to examine questions concerning the nature of legal personhood in private law. Questions to be addressed include: the concept of legal personhood as such; the relationship between private and public law in attributions of personhood and/or delineation of legal concept(s) of personhood; the kind(s) and salient characteristics of individuals […]
Call for Papers: Campbell at Twenty, 19-20 September 2024
Campbell v MGN [2004] UKHL 22, [2004] 2 AC 457 is one of the most important privacy and media law decisions handed down in recent decades in the common law world. As is well-known, the case established the tort of misuse of private information (MPI) and has been influential in the development of privacy laws across […]
Call for Papers: ‘Common and Civil Law: Different Paths or Convergence?’, Montréal, 3-4 October 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS July 1, 2024 Common and Civil Law: Different Paths or Convergence? Montréal, Québec OCTOBER 3-4, 2024 In our legally plural world the discourse on norms and rules is expanding rapidly. No where is this more true than in the realm of private law. As the global economy expands, and barriers to trade and […]
The Value of Personal Rights of Action: Hanoch Dagan and Avihay Dorfman, University of Toronto and Zoom, 17 May 2024
The paper claims claim that contemporary champions of personal rights of action do not explain why and when these rights matter. Moreover, contemporary critics of these rights do not explain why all such rights should be replaced with other alternatives to the traditional system of common-law litigation, such as collective litigation. Their core thesis is […]
‘Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law, 6 May 2024’
The Second Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law will be taking place on 6 May 2024, 09:00 – 17:00 GMT. This is a virtual event bringing together early career scholars working in the private international law field or fields with an intersection to private international law such as EU Law, Human […]
Call for Papers: Private and Commercial Law Annual Conference, University of Western Australia Law School, 9-10 December 2024
The annual Private and Commercial Law Conference will be hosted at The University of Western Australia Law School from 9-10 December 2024. The aims of the conference are to provide academics with an informal and supportive environment in which to present work in progress, and to facilitate a collegial discussion of issues related to teaching […]
Call for Papers: ‘The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform’: Westminster Law School, 25 October 2024
Papers are invited until 15 August 2024. Please send abstracts of up to 500 words to either of the convenors. Special themes in 2024 are: (1) sustainable finance and emissions disclosure and their impact on commercial contracts; (2) standard forms and terms in construction contracts – comparative aspects; (3) supply chain and contractual ethics – […]