FIVE LEAF Institute for Law and Aesthetics Conference 2027
After its successful launch in 2026, the FIVE LEAF Annual Conference in Law and Aesthetics is back! Join us in London, 1-2 June 2027 for this year’s theme "A Sense of the Law". Find out about this years conference and how you can submit an abstract.
We welcome abstracts in all areas of law and aesthetics, including, but not limited to:
- Aesthetic judgment in law.
- Aesthetic methodologies in law.
- Aesthetics and legal education.
- Architecture and design.
- Artificial intelligence.
- Audiovisual aesthetics.
- Body in law.
- Censorship and aesthetics.
- Consumer aesthetics.
- Costume and makeup.
- Dance and movement.
- Digital aesthetics.
- Embodied aesthetics.
- Emotion and law.
- Environmental aesthetics.
- Everyday legal aesthetics.
- Expression and creativity.
- Fashion.
- Feminist legal aesthetics.
- Film and video art.
- Finance aesthetics.
- Imagination and law.
- Live art and performance.
- Media and reputation.
- Museums and heritage.
- Nonhuman aesthetics and law.
- Objectivity in law and aesthetics
- Phenomenology of law
- Photography
- Play and pleasure
- Political economy of legal aesthetics
- Protest aesthetics
- Representation
- Space and environment
- Theatre and performing arts
- Unlawful aesthetics
- Visual arts and sculpture
- Visual jurisprudence
Important dates
Abstracts should be of original work suitable for publication in the collection A Sense of the Law after the conference.
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words and may be submitted to ccls-fiveleaf@qmul.ac.uk by 31 January 2027. Submissions should include the names of all authors which author or authors will present the paper at the conference, their affiliations, and email.
The Conference Committee will communicate the outcome for all submissions by Monday 15 February 2027.
The Conference will be held 1-2 June 2027, at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, 67-69 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JB.
Conference book
All submissions should be available for publication after the conference in the FIVE LEAF Conference book, A Sense of the Law, published in the Law and Aesthetics series with Routledge and edited by Johanna Gibson. Proposals should therefore be for papers not previously published in the same form elsewhere.
Further information
For further information or any questions, please contact FIVE LEAF on ccls-fiveleaf@qmul.ac.uk or FIVE LEAF Director, Johanna Gibson, on j.gibson@qmul.ac.uk.