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The Uniform Laws Update in Probate & Property highlights the evolving landscape of estate planning, which has shifted from primarily local to encompassing multiple jurisdictions due to increased mobility, changing wealth structures, and evolving state laws. With families relocating frequently and wealth being more fluid, estate plans often need to consider laws from various states … (more)
[Gerry W Beyer, Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog, 14 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 … (more)
The theme of the conference is to explore the existing and potential relationships between deepfake technology and the law. It is organised and managed by Thomas Bennett (City) and Rebecca Moosavian (University of Leeds) … (more)
Keynote Speakers: Bernard S Black (Northwestern University); Maria Paula Dallari Bucci (Universidade de São Paulo); Michael Heise (Cornell Law School); ... (more)
The general question discussed is whether private international law can respond to crises, and if so, how. Four thematic blocks are planned, concerned respectively with war and armed conflict, the rule of law, climate change and global supply chains ... (more)
This conference will develop a dialogue between private lawyers and labour lawyers on theoretical and practical issues as they relate to the employment contract (broadly conceived). For historical reasons, this has been an underdeveloped dialogue in English law … (more)
The conference will be held at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. This meeting will be an entirely in-person meeting ... (more)
I am pleased to send you the attached flyer for the upcoming annual conference of SECOLA, which will be held at University College London on June 14 and 15, 2024 … (more)
We aim to discuss such topics as the nature and significance of interpersonal wronging, the role of directed duties and second-personal normativity, the relationship between corrective justice and remedial legal practice … (more)
KCON is the largest annual international academic conference dedicated to contract law and related areas of commercial law. It brings together contract law scholars, practitioners, and graduate students from around the world ... (more)
Dispute Resolution Agreements (DRA) are a very special kind of contract. They allow parties to make a choice on the rights (applicable law) and remedies (competent forum, including procedural rules), which govern their relationship … (more)
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 … (more)
The history of Bristol is closely entwined with the law: the city has long been a significant legal centre, and a great deal of legal business has been done here for centuries. Bristol has also been an important site for protest and resistance to the law … (more)
This will be co-hosted by Harvard Law School and Melbourne Law School and will be convened by John Goldberg, Andrew Robertson and Henry Smith. A call for papers will be issued in 2024 … (more)
Property may be legal or equitable. Examples of equitable property typically given include the interest of a beneficiary under a private express trust and that of a partner in partnership assets. However, beneath this answer lies some complexity … (more)
The Conference will run at our central Bristol campus based in the iconic Wills Memorial Building … (more)
The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law is pleased to offer this expert international forum for the analysis of contemporary and comparative aspects of commercial insurance law. The Colloquium will be held at Swansea University and will convene a forum of professional and academic experts … (more)
This conference brings together legal educators to showcase innovative approaches to teaching Contract Law, a core module with large student numbers. This conference aims to highlight and explore issues and topics that will be of interest and importance not only to those that teach Contract Law, but also to the wider teaching community … (download)
Presentations can be on any aspect of empirical legal research methodology, on any topic, and from any jurisdiction. Conference organisers welcome abstracts from researchers and academics at any stage of their career on subjects relating to empirical research methods including (but not limited to) … (more)
We are pleased to announce a conference on ‘Inheritance Inequality’ (the Fifth Biennial Conference on Critical Trusts and Estates). The conference will take place on Friday September 27 and Saturday September 28, 2024 at Drexel University’s Thomas R Kline School of Law, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and will be sponsored by the Drexel Law Review … (more)
Papers are invited until 15 August 2024. 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 … (more)
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 and publishing in the field. We encourage early and midcareer academics and research higher degree students to consider presenting on aspects of their work relating to the broad conference theme of ‘Wrongs in Private and Commercial Law’ … (more)
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