Category Archives: Conferences Seminars and Lectures
‘Deepfakes and the Law’: City University and online, 20 May 2024
On Monday 20 May 2024, City, University of London (in collaboration with University of Leeds) will host a day conference on the subject of ‘Deepfakes and the Law’ at its Northampton Square campus, London, from 09:00–17:00. The theme of the conference is to explore the existing and potential relationships between deepfake technology and the law. […]
’20th IEAF Call for Papers: Evolution or Revolution of European Insolvency Law’
The organisers of the 2024 edition of the INSOL Europe Academic Forum kindly shared with us the following call for papers. Please note the deadline for submission is 1 March 2024. The INSOL Europe Academic Forum (IEAF) is inviting submission for its 20th annual conference, taking place from Wednesday 2 – Thursday 3 October 2024 […]
Call for Papers: ‘Why is Tort Law Reform So Difficult?’, University of Girona, 27-28 June 2024
The Symposium aims to analyse the reasons why it has been relatively uncomplicated in some countries to adapt tort law to the demands of the times, whereas in others the reform attempts – if any – are still lost in ministerial or academic drawers. In the first decade of the 21st century, a reform of […]
‘Comparative Torts – Liability for AI’
The BACL Annual Seminar, chaired by Professor TT Arvind (York University), took place online on 6th September 2022 at the start of Society of Legal Scholar’s Annual Conference at King’s College London. The video recording is available here. Professors Simon Chesterman, Bernhard Koch and Ugo Pagallo introduced and discussed current and prospective approaches to reforming […]
‘7th World Congress on Adult Capacity 2022’
“I have heard that the 7th World Congress on Adult Capacity 2022 was quite successful. I was excited to see that the conference organizers have published a link to download the various presentations …” (more) [Rebecca C Morgan, Elder Law Prof Blog, 26 July] First posted 2022-07-26 16:45:58
Call for Abstracts: Irish Jurisprudence Society Workshops 2022-23
The Irish Jurisprudence Society invites proposals to present at its 2022-23 workshop series. The purpose of the series is to develop and promote work that engages with legal philosophy, broadly understood, including all aspects of legal and political theory (analytical jurisprudence, constitutional theory, democratic theory, human rights etc) and theoretical work with relevance to any […]
BACL Annual webinar: Comparative Torts – Liability for AI: Webinar, 6 September 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) will fundamentally alter the way we live, work and interact with each other, and tort law has an essential regulatory role to play in the deployment of AI systems. Legal scholars and policymakers across jurisdictions have considered a wide array of solutions to cover possible compensation gaps for damage caused by AI-systems, […]
‘Rethinking Unjust Enrichment: History, Sociology, Doctrine and Theory’: Online Symposium, 13-15 September 2022
This project is about the incoherency of private law which should be attributed to the advances of the so-called ‘unjust enrichment’ movement across the world. Over the recent decades, the law of unjust enrichment has established itself as a new category of private law, alongside such classical categories as property, contract and tort … (more, […]
‘Call for Papers: AALS Remedies Section’
“The AALS Section on Remedies invites paper submissions for a panel on ‘Remedies in the Restatements’ at the January 3-7, 2023 Annual Meeting. Please note that this meeting is currently planned to be held wholly in person. The Remedies session is scheduled for 3 to 4:40 pm on Thursday, January 5 …” (more) [New Private […]
Civil Remedies: Private and Commercial Law Annual Conference, University of Western Australia Law School, 8-9 December 2022
The theme of the conference will be Civil Remedies, capturing a broad range of potential topics across common law, equity and statute. Accordingly, the UWA PCL Research Cluster is pleased to invite all academics who teach or research in fields relating to Civil Remedies to the conference. The aims of the conference remain to provide […]