LAW CONFERENCE DIRECTORY
2017 CALENDAR
JANUARY
19th & 20th “Law & its boundaries” Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference
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FEBRUARY
22nd "Changing Lives” MMU Postgraduate Research Conference
23rd Irish Postgraduate Criminology Conference
MARCH
8th 'Discrimination against Women in Sport - How to continue narrowing the Discrimination Gap'
13th Prison and Justice Conference
14th 'Symposium: Tackling Gender-Based Violence in Universities'
18th-19th "Critical Law Conference: Law in Times of Crisis" Kent Critical Law Society
30th & 31st “The Interwoven Relationship of Law and Media” Aberystwyth Law School
Postgraduate Conference
APRIL
3rd & 4th “Law and Crisis” International Graduate Legal Research Conference
5th-7th SLSA Annual Conference
5th "Brexit Criminology: Crime, Justice and Society" Plymouth University
7th "Green Economy" PIEL UK (Cass Business School)
10th-11th Crime, Politics and Citizenship Conference (Centre for Criminological Research)
11th 'Do lawyers make a distinctive contribution to tax policy-making?' Centre for Tax Law University of Cambridge
26th 9th Postgraduate Research Symposium on Environmental Law
MAY
3rd "Artificial and De-Personalised Decision-Making: Machine-Learning, A.I. and Drones" Center for Information Rights
6th Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference
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JUNE
4th-7th World Congress on Family Law and Children's Rights
7th Policing Futures: Contexts, Practices and Debates
13th Exempting Conscientious Belief in UK Law
13th Ask the Experts: Legal and Constitutional Implications of Brexit UCL Public Policy
13th Re-imagining the Probation Landscape, 2nd Annual Probation Practitioner Conference
13th-14th Rethinking Prisons Research
16th 'Overturning Paradigms' Queen Mary Postgraduate Legal Research Conference
16th 'Legal Education, Legal Practice and Technology' Nottingham Law School, Centre for Legal Education
16th Keele Symposium on Gender, Sexuality and Law Research
19th "INTERPLAY BETWEEN LANGUAGE, PARALINGUISTICS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE" THE SCHOOL OF LAW AND THE CENTRE FOR CRIMINOLOGY (UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH, UNITED KINGDOM)
19th-20th 'Contemporary Challenges in Constitutional Theory: International, European and Domestic Perspectives' Liverpool University
23rd Criminology at the Crossroads: Music in Criminal Justice
27th 'Terrorism and Social Media Conference' Swansea University Bay Campus
28th-30th 'Regarding Children and Young People in the 21st Century' Bangor Interdisciplinary Conference on Childhood and Youth
29th 'Disaster Risk Reduction and International Law'
29th 'Seeds of Knowledge' University of Worcester Postgraduate Research Student Conference
30th - 1st 'Chaucer and the Law' Biennial London Chaucer Conference
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JULY
3rd-4th UCLAN 2nd Annual Conference on Cybercrime
4th-7th “Forging Social Justice: Local Challenges, Global Complexities” British Society of Criminology Annual Conference
5th-8th British Legal History Conference UCL
6th The Legal Challenges of Social Media
7th Effective Law and Regulation
10th WG Hart Legal Workshop 2017: Law, Society and Administration in a Changing World
13th Compassion: Child and Family Law
14th Implementing the Urban Law Agenda
19th Law, State, and Marxism: Setting the Research Agenda, SOAS London
20th-21st 'Imagining Africa's Future - Language, Culture, Governance, Development' SOAS Centre of African studies
AUGUST
30th-31st Seminar: Stigma in Childhood
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SEPTEMBER
4th-5th Symposium on Global Environmental Law
4th-5th Colloquium: Maritime Liabilities in a Regional and Global Context: The EU and Beyond
5th Seminar: Comparing UK and Irish Law - a Special Relationship
5th-8th Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference
7-8th Borders, Racisms and Resistance, Abertay University
11th Law, Finance and Sustainability
11th Group Agency - Ontology and Implications
11th-12th Cyber Network Conference
12th-13th Cape Town Convention Academic Project 6th Annual Conference
12th The EU (Withdrawal) Bill: Principles, Powers and Parliaments
13th-16th 'Challenging 'Crime' and 'Crime Control' in Contemporary Europe', European Society of Criminology (Cardiff)
15th 2017 Legal Wales Conference
15th Competition Law in a Global Context - Analysing the Trans-Atlantic Divide
15th Social & Legal Studies 25th Anniversary Celebration
15th Competition Law in a Global Context - Analysing the Trans-Atlantic Divide
15th-16th Future of Media Content: Interventions and Industries in the Internet Era
20th Mass Supervision, Misrecognition and the 'Malopticon'
20th Approaches to Inequalities - Whose Business is it?
21st Providing Support in Periods of Transition for Children and Adolescents with Autism
21st Law, Translation and Migration - an enlightening relationship
22nd 30 Years of Medical Ethics and Law - Looking Back, Moving Forward
25th 'Child Friendly Youth Justice' National Association for Youth Justice
27th Scarman Lecture: What is the Future of Criminal Justice and Human Rights?
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OCTOBER
3rd Putting Children First: Working in Partnership to Safeguard Children from Child Sexual Exploitation
5th Internet Intermediaries - from defamation to Directive to data protection
6th ACJRD 20th Annual Conference "The Brexit Impact on Criminal Justice Co-operation in Ireland"
11th SCCJR 2017 Annual Lecture:Policing in Times of Community Distrust
13th JUSTICE Human Rights Conference Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
13th Compulsory Mediation in the Courts - Opportunity or Threat?
19th Polycentric Competition Law
20th CFP The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform
20th 10th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
20th The Revolutions of Law, Strathclyde Postgraduate Conference
24th The Abortion Act - A Promise Fulfilled?
25th-26th 'Death in Punishment' Centre for Criminological Research
27th - 28th Professionalism and Vulnerability
31st Precaution in the Governance of Technology
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NOVEMBER
1st 'Contemporary Research in Crime and Justice'
7th 2nd Annual Emotion & Criminal Justice Conference​
7th Tackling Root Causes? EU Aid and Governance to Control Migration
9th 'Whose Law, What Order in and Age of Austerity?' Centre for the Study of Crime, Criminalisation and Social Exclusion Postgraduate Conference
15th 'Moving Beyond the Echo-Chamber? The Case for Improving Responses to Hate Crime'
17th Children and Digital Rights: Regulating Freedoms and Safeguards
17th UK IVR Annual Conference: Law, Rationality and the Market
22nd Brexit and the Future of EU Law in the Law Curriculum
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DECEMBER
15th SIPR/Police Scotland Postgraduate Symposium
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