Past events
Events 2022-23
- 12 October 2022 Gerry Simpson’s The Sentimental Life of International Law
- 14 October 2022 New Directions in Law and Time Scholarship Workshop
- 12 December 2022 Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism
- 11 April 2023 CLSGC Annual Lecture: A Century after Pan-African Congress, London: Pan-Africanism and the Making of Black Inter-national Constitution(s) with Professor Tshepo Madlingozi
- 17 April 2023 Human Rights Standards of Marriage as Response to the Need to Nudge Capitalist Expansion in the Post-Colonies
Events 2021-22
CLSGC events are open to all. To book your place, please use the Eventbrite links on the relevant pages. Subscribe to our mailing list for the latest information.
CLSGC Annual Lecture 2022: “Hannah Arendt in Kafr-Qasim”
When: Wednesday 8 June 2022, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Where: ArtsTwo Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
Speaker: Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge
Find out more about the CLSGC Annual Lecture 2022.
UK-IVR 2022 Annual Conference - Call for Papers
When: Friday 10 June 2022 - Saturday, June 11, 2022, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Where: University of Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy (online event only)
Topic: Law, Rationality and Practical Reason: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives
If you would like to participate with a paper, please submit an abstract of maximum 500 words to the following email address ivr.uk2022@gmail.com by 15 March 2022.
Find out more about the event.
New book symposia
- 6 October 2021 Book Symposium: Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction and Fantasy
- 15 December 2021 Law and Imagination: A discussion around Maks Del Mar’s book Artefacts of Legal Inquiry
- 14 January 2022 Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law (CUP, 2021)
- 23 February 2022 Dr Cormac Mac Amlaigh’s ‘New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory’
- 10 May 2022 Book Discussion: ‘Out of Joint: Power, Crisis, and the Rhetoric of Time’ (postponed)
- 13 May 2022 Andrew Fitzmaurice’s King Leopold’s Ghostwriter
Workshops
2020-21
The Law and Marxism Series
The ‘power and capital stream’ of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context launched the ‘Law and Marxism Series’, a new forum featuring the work of the many exciting scholars researching and writing within the Marxist tradition from around the world. We began the new series with a discussion of recently published books within this tradition, in conversation with the authors and other scholars from across the humanities and social sciences.
Watch all the events in the Law and Marxism Series.
New book symposia
- 24 November 2020 (B)ordering Britain: Law, Race and Empire with Dr Nadine El-Enany
- 5 March 2021 Time, Temporality and Legal Judgment
Lectures
- 20 November 2019 CLSGC Annual Lecture by Professor Fleur Johns
- 5 March 2020 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence by Professor Renisa Mawani
Conferences
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20 - 21 July 2020 UK-IVR 2020 Annual Conference - Law, Rationality and Practical Reason: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives - cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic
New book symposia
- 30 October 2019 Book launch: Ratna Kapur's Gender, Alterity and Human Rights
- 11 November 2019 The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism
- 19 November 2019 The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line
- 29 January 2020 Symposium on Timothy Hyde's Ugliness and Judgment
- 3 March 2020 Symposium on Professor Renisa Mawani's Across the Oceans
- 24 March 2020 Scandinavian Legal Realism Symposium: OUP’s new translation of Ross, On Law and Justice (This event has been cancelled)
Ad hoc seminars
- 9 October 2019 Sino-Marxism with Philipp Renninger
- 25 September 2019 ‘The Politics of Legibility: Contemporary battles over “the family” in International Human Rights Law’ with Professor Dianne Otto
2018-19
CLSGC events are open to all. To book your place, please use the Eventbrite links on the relevant pages. Subscribe to our mailing list for the latest information.
Conferences
- 10 - 11 June 2019 International Conference on the Internationalisation of EU Law and EU-China Relations
Lectures
- 17 October 2018 CLSGC Annual Lecture 2018 by Professor James Tully
- 5 December 2018 CLSGC 2018 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence by Annelise Riles
- 15 January 2019 CLSGC 2018-2019 Annual Lecture by Professor Jennifer Pitts
- 13 March 2019 CLSGC 2018-2019 Cotterrell Lecture by Professor Scott Veitch
Seminars
- 15 October 2018 Seminar on Cosmopolitanism and Pluralism by Paul Schiff Berman
- 19 October 2018 CLSGC 5th Annual Seminar in Scandinavian Legal Realism
- 7 November 2018 Ad Hoc Seminar on Neoliberal Legality: Understanding the Role of Law in the Neoliberal Project
- 15 March 2019 Seminar on Legal advocacy as liberal resistance: the experience of China’s human rights lawyers
- 25 March 2019 A Gendered Crime of Trafficking in Human Beings
New book symposia
- 10 October 2018 Book Symposium on Authority and the Globalisation of Inclusion and Exclusion
- 17 January 2019 Book Symposium on Boundaries of the International
- 20 March 2019 Book Launch and Forum: Jessie Hohmann & Daniel Joyce (eds) International Law's Objects
- 10 April 2019 Book Symposium: Noam Gur's Legal Directives and Practical Reasons
- 03 June 2019 Book Symposium ‘Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism’ by Quinn Slobodian
Workshops
- 17 & 18 October 2019 After Abstraction: Intellectual Thought in International Law
- 14 November 2018 Conversations on International Law and Materiality: International Law and Architecture
- 22 November 2018 Comparative Disciplines Series: Sociology, Economics, History and Law
- 28 February 2019 Regulating the Commons: Making Sense of the Emergence of China as a Rule-Shaper and Rule-Maker
- 07 May 2019 The Normativity of Law: Metaethical and Metaphysical Foundations
Graduate workshops
- 10 October 2018 CLSGC Graduate Special Workshop with Paul Schiff Berman
- 07 February 2019 CLSGC Graduate Workshop with Professor Hans Lindahl
- 27 February 2019 CLSGC Graduate Workshop with Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
- 7 March 2019 CLSGC Graduate Workshop with Professor Ralf Michaels
Workshop Series for PhD Students: Legal Realism & Cross-Disciplinary Interaction Between Law and Social Sciences
2017-18
Conference
- 15-16 November 2017 CLSGC Annual Conference: Global Legal Pluralism, co-organised by Maks Del Mar and Paul Schiff Berman.
Lectures
- 5 December 2018 The 4th Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence by Professor Annelise Riles
- 17 October 2018 CLSGC Annual Lecture 2018 by Professor James Tully.
Lecture Series
The lecture series will be on 'Methodology of Comparative Disciplines'.
- 11 October 2017 CLSGC Comparative Disciplines Series: Religion, Anthropology and Law
- 29 November 2017 CLSGC Comparative Disciplines Series: Linguistics, Literature and Law
- 17 January 2018 GLSGC Comparative Disciplines Series: Philosophy, History and Law
- 22 November 2018 CLSGC Comparative Disciplines Series: Sociology, Economics and Law.
New book symposia
- 18 April 2018 Symposium on Sociological Jurisprudence by Professor Roger Cotterrell
- 10 May 2018 'Law and Revolution: Legitimacy and Constitutionalism After the Arab Spring' by Dr Nimer Sultany
- 29 May 2018 CLSGC Book Symposium on Toward Democracy by Professor James Kloppenberg
Workshops
- 31 October - 1 November 2017 International Human Rights and Freedom: Possibilities, Epistemologies, Legacies and Alternatives co-hosted with the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI)
- 21 November 2017 Conversations on International Law and Materiality: International Law, Materiality and Art co-hosted with the Centre for European and International Legal Affairs (CEILA)
- 14 February 2018 Territory’s Value: An Interdisciplinary Workshop with Charles Maier
Ad Hoc Seminars
- 10 January 2018 CLSGC Ad Hoc Seminar - Professor Elaine Mak (Utrecht)
- 9 March 2018 CLSGC Legal advocacy as liberal resistance: the experience of China’s human rights lawyers
- 24 April 2018 CLSGC Ad Hoc seminar with Associate Professor Keisuke Kondo
International dialogues
- 22 November 2017 Erasmus-CLSGC Dialogues
2016-17
Conference
- 16-17 November 2016 'Arbitration and Legal Reasoning, co-hosted with the School of Arbitration', organised by Maks Del Mar and Stavros Brekoulakis
Lectures
- 16 March 2017 The 3rd Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence by Anthony Appiah. Watch the full lecture.
- 17 May 2017 CLSGC Annual Lecture by Lauren Benton. Watch the full lecture.
Policy Lectures
- 30 November 2016 Policy lecture by Professor Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im. Watch the full lecture.
- 2 December 2016 'Holding the UN to account for Cholera in Haiti: Are lawyers the real problem?' by Professor Philip Alston.
Seminar Series
The seminar series will be on 'Global Jurists: Past, Present and Future', and is co-hosted with CEILA.
- 2 November 2016 Global Jurists Seminar One - The Idea of the Global Jurist
- 14 December 2016 Global Jurists Seminar Two - Global Jurists in History
- 25 January 2017 Global Jurists Seminar Three - Comparisons, Transplants, Migrations
- 22 February 2017 Global Jurists Seminar Four - Radical/Activist visions
- 22 March 2017 Global Jurists Seminar Five - Adjudication and Global Jurists.
Half-Day Workshops
- 23 November 2016 Diversity and Legal Reasoning (co-hosted with LEAD)
- 7 December 2016 Comparative History of Legal Reasoning
- 12 January 2017 Civil War, Intervention and International Law
- 8 March 2017 Comparative Methodology
- 15 March 2017 Literature and the History of International Law
- 19 May 2017 Law and Normativity: Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues on a Troubled Relation
New book symposia
- 23 September 2016 'Whaling in the Antarcric: Significance and Implications of the ICJ Judgment' by Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice.
- 19 October 2016 'The Power of Process: The Value of Due Process in Security Council Sanctions Decision-Making' by Devika Hovell
- 10 November 2016 'Controlling Administrative Power: A Comparative History' by Peter Cane
- 6 December 2016 Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society
- 13 January 2017 'Civil War: A History in Ideas' by David Armitage
- 25 May 2017 'Rage for Order: British Empire and Origins of International Law' by Lauren Benton and Lisa Ford.
Distinguished Visiting Fellow for 2017
Lauren Benton will visit as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow from 15-28 May 2017
Her visit is organised by Dr Maks Del Mar, and is co-hosted by the Departments of Law, History and Geography.
Four events:
- 17 May 2017 CLSGC Annual Lecture
- 18 May 2017 Lauren Benton Masterclass with postgraduate students (law, history and geography)
- 23 May 2017 Workshop on the Search for Sovereignty (organised by Miles Ogborn, Department of Geography)
- 25 May 2017 New Book Symposium on new book co-authored with Lisa Ford.
International dialogues
- 25 November 2016 CLSGC – Erasmus Rotterdam Dialogue.
- 22 November 2017 CLSGC-Erasmus Dialogue
Ad Hoc Seminars
- 12 October 2016 'Alterity, Gender Equality and the Veil' by Ratna Kapur
- 21 November 2016 'The Return of the Corporate Lawyer-Statesman?' by Professor Robert W. Gordon
- 30 November 2016 'Risk-Based Governance of Terrorism Financing and the Fate of Legal Responsibility' by Dr Nathanael Ali
- 31 January 2017 'Official Point of View and the Official Claim to Authority' by Dr Nicole Roughan
- 3 May 2017 'Fourth Annual Scandinavian Legal Realism Seminar'
- 19 May 2017 'Law and Normativity: Cross-Disciplinary Dialogues on a Troubled Relation' by Professor Stuart Toddington.
Masterclasses
- 18 May 2017 Postgraduate Masterclass by Lauren Benton.
2015-16
Lectures
- 16 March 2016 The Second Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence: Professor Eve Darian-Smith. Watch the full lecture.
- 31 March 2016 Professor Anne Orford (Melbourne) will deliver the 2015-16 CLSGC Annual Lecture titled 'Mare Nostrum: International Law, Spatial Order, and the Mediterranean'. Watch the full lecture.
Policy Lecture Series
- 28 January 2016 'Sexual, Gender and Bodily Diversity in the Inter-American Human Rights System' by Tracy Robinson. Watch the full lecture.
- 23 March 2016 'The Politics of Climate Change Negotiation’ by Dr Dan Bondi Ogolla. Watch the full lecture.
Half-Day Workshops
- 27 January 2016 Half-Day Workshop on 'Adjudication and Indigenous Peoples'
- 20 May 2016 Half-Day Workshop on 'Imperialism and Orientalism in Global Legal History'.
Seminar series on 'Jurisdiction'
- 19 November 2015 Histories of Jurisdiction: Ancient, Imperial, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern
- 3 December 2015 Public / Private Dimensions of Jurisdiction
- 21 January 2016 Universal / Regional / Individual Jurisdiction
- 18 February 2016 Health and Jurisdiction
- 17 March 2016 Cyberspace and Jurisdiction
- 28 April 2016 Roundtable: Jurisdiction in a Pluralist World - History, Theory, Challenges.
New book forum seminars
- 25 November 2015 New Book Forum: 'Intimations of Global Law' by Professor Neil Walker
- 2 December 2015 New Book Forum: 'Social Systems Theory and Judicial Review - Taking Jurisprudence Seriously' by Dr Katayoun Baghai
- 10 December 2015 New Book Forum: 'Justice in the EU' by Dr Floris De Witte
- 11 February 2016 New Book Forum: 'Allowing for Exceptions - A Theory of Defences and Defeasibility in Law' by Dr Luís Duarte d’Almeida
- 2 March 2016 New Book Forum: 'Sovereignty in a Post-Sovereign Society' by Professor Jiri Priban
- 30 March 2016 'Understanding the Nature of Law' by Professor Michael Giudice
- 6 April 2016 New Book Forum: 'Whaling and International Law' by Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice
- 23 September 2016 New Book Forum: 'Whaling in the Antarcric' by Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice.
Ad Hoc Seminars - A Bite of Theory Series
- 3 February 2016 Ad Hoc Seminar by Dr Jonathan Crowe
- 19 February 2016 Ad Hoc Seminar by Dr Chloe Kennedy. Watch the full workshop.
- 23 March 2016 Ad Hoc Seminar by Klara Polackova van der Ploeg
- 12 April 2016 Annual Seminar on 'History and Theory of Property Law'
- 13 April 2016 Ad Hoc Seminar by Professor Oren Perez
- 14 April 2016 Ad Hoc Seminar by Dr Matthias Goldmann
- 20 April 2016 Third Annual Seminar on Scandinavian Legal Realism
- 27 April 2016 Ad Hoc Seminar by Professor Steven Wheatley
- 25 May 2016 ‘What is International Law?’ by Professor Brian Tamanaha.
Masterclasses
- 30 March 2016 'Critical method and legal writing' - CLSGC Postgraduate Masterclass with Professor Anne Orford
- 24 May 2016 Postgraduate Masterclass: The Rule of Law
- 14 June 2016 CLSGC PhD Masterclass with Professor Paul Schiff Berman
- 20 June 2016 CLSGC PhD Masterclass with Professor Laura Dickinson.
2014-15
Annual Lecture
20 April 2015: CLSGC Annual Lecture: Professor Peer Zumbansen
Annual Seminar Series
CLSGC’s 2014-15 Seminar Series is on the theme of 'Beyond Pluralism? Co-Implication, Embeddedness and Interdependency between Public International Law and EU Law'. It is co-convened by two members of the Centre, Dr Paul Gragl and Dr Violeta Moreno-Lax.
- 15 October 2014: Introductory Roundtable: General Aspects of the Interrelationship between the Law of the European Union and Public International Law
- 12 November 2014: Dialogue on Context 1: Aspects of Monetary Policy
- 3 December 2014: Dialogue on Context 2: Environmental Law / Energy Law
- 21 January 2015: Dialogue on Context 3: Crime, Justice and Terrorism
- 18 February 2015: Dialogue on Context 4: Human Rights
- 18 March 2015: Dialogue on Context 5: Common Foreign and Security Policy
- 25-26 June 2015: CLSGC Annual Seminar Series Two-day Workshop
Half Day Workshops
- 22 October 2014: 'The History and Theory of Treaty-Making with Indigenous Peoples'
- 11 February 2015: 'Transnational Federalism'
- 25 March 2015: 'Thinking about Law Comparatively'
- 13 May 2015: 'Mapping Law Globally'
New Books Series
- 29 October 2014: Professor Wibren van der Burg, The Dynamics of Law and Morality: A Pluralist Account of Legal Interactionism
- 20 April 2015: Professor Mariana Valverde, Chronotypes of Law: Jurisdiction, Scale and Governance
- 27 May 2015: Dr Stephen Allen, The Chagos Islanders and International Law
'A Bite of Theory'/Ad Hoc Seminars
- 1 October 2014: Brunch with Professor Martin Krygier, University of New South Wales
- 19 November 2014: Second Annual Seminar for Scandinavian Realist Studies
- 29 April 2015: Second Seminar on Private Law Theory and History: Reasoning in Tort Law
Other Events
- 28 November 2014: Cycles of Care: ReValuing the Possibilities of Connection
Some of these events were held under the auspices of the Research Group in Legal Theory and Legal History.
- 19 September 2014
Book Launch - Law, Society and Community: Socio-Legal Essays - a work in honour of Professor Roger CotterrellThis book launch was preceded by a workshop involving many of the authors discussing their chapters in the context of an overall assessment of the current standing of socio-legal theory, and the significance of Professor Roger Cotterrell's oeuvre in it. - 5-6 June 2014
Rancière and the Possibility of Law - 26 March 2014
CLSGC Annual Lecture: 'The Sociological Origins of Global Law' - 8-9 November 2013
Modern Law Review Seminar: Authority in a Transnational Age- View photos of this event on Flickr: QM School of Law
- 7 November 2013
Inaugural Meeting of the International Network on Transnational Legal and Political Theory - November 2013
Mental Health and the Law: Global Perspectives - 12-13 April 2013
UK IVR Conference 2013 - hosted by the Legal Theory and Legal History Group
Listen to podcasts from the UK IVR Conference: Legal Theory and Legal History: A Neglected Dialogue? - 20 March 2013
Taking Account of Post-Colonial Legal Theory (co-hosted with the Centre for Ethics and Politics) - 21 November 2012
Professor Eric Heinze's Inaugural Lecture - What is Injustice? Political, Legal and Literary Perspectives - 7 September 2012
Systems Theory Workshop: Socio-legal conversations across systems in a world in crisis
Research Seminars 2013-14
The theme for the Seminar Series in 2013-14 was ‘Transnationalism in History and Theory’:
- 23 October 2013: Professor John Linarelli, Law, University of Swansea 'On the Philosophy of Transnational Law'
- 27 November 2013: Professor Saul Dubow, History, Queen Mary University of London, 'Rights, Constitutionalism, and Political Transition in South Africa'
- 26 February 2014: Dr Charlotte Smith, Law, University of Reading, , 'A Tale of Two Bishops: Colenso, Gray, and the attempt (or not…) to export English ecclesiastical law across the British Empire'
- 19 March 2014: Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott, Law, University of Oxford, 'The Brave New World of Transnational Law: From Legal Autonomy to Turbulent Beauty?'
'A Bite of Theory' Seminar Series 2013-14
- Friday 25 October 2013, 11am to 1pm: Brunch with Professor Stuart Toddington and Professor Henrik Palmer Olsen
- Thursday 16 January 2014, 1pm to 3pm: Lunch with Dr Nick Sage, Dr Charlie Webb and Dr Sandy Steel, on 'The Methodology of Private Law Theory'
- Thursday 27 February 2014, 1pm to 3pm: Lunch with Professor Larry Solum
