Events

Law and the Humanities Seminar 2025-26

Tuesday, 17:00-18:30 (UK local time)

11 Nov 2025 (Online),Renske Vos, Assistant Professor in International Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam “If the law were a colour, fit would be gold)”: The Architecture of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Discussant: Shailesh Kumar, Lecturer in Law at the Department of Law & Criminology, Royal Holloway

9 Dec 2025 (In person) Lorenzo Zucca, Professor in Law & Philosophy, King’s College London Seeing Law Feelingly: Humanistic Jurisprudence, Poetic Wisdom, and the Future of Law
Discussant: Katherine Ebury, Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature, University of Sheffield & LHub Visitor

20 Jan 2026 (In person) Nomi Dave, Associate Professor of Music, University of Oxford
Fictions of Hearing in the Law
Discussant: Danilo Mandic, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Westminster

24 Feb 2026 (Online) Katherine Biber, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney European Émigré Legal Scholars after the Second World War
Discussant: David Seymour, IALS Senior Associate Research Fellow.

10 Mar 2026 (In nerson)
Xavier Nueno, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
In Media Lex: Authority and the Mechanization of Judgment in the 19th Century
Discussant: Lionel Bently, Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property, University of Cambridge

28 Apr 2026 (In person)
D. Graham Burnett, Professor of History, Princeton University
TBA

19 May 2026 (Online)
Jennifer Petersen, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Southern California Computational Communications and Freedom of Speech
Discussant: Berhard Keenan, Lecturer in Law, UCL

23 Jun 2026 (In person)
Martin Firrell, Artist
ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY – AND LESBIANS: Public Art Law, and Concepts of Normativity