Virtual Criminal Law Group

Join us today for our VCLG hybrid session from Aberdeen!

Next week, we will be having this term's hybrid session, at the University of Aberdeen and online as usual. We will be discussing Dr Clare Frances Moran's book chapter draft "The Concept of Shielding" on Wednesday 4 March, from 3.30pm UK time. Email us for further details, and hope to see you then!

2 lecturer posts have been advertised today, at the University of Aberdeen, for criminal law and criminal justice. Come and join a great law school, and a subject area that seeks to be a strong part of the school's profile! Happy to discuss with anyone interested!
www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

Join us tomorrow for a discussion of Gülce Ecem Uçar's paper, "The Digital Unperson: The Materiality of Nothingness and the Myth of Innocence in the New Oceania", at 3pm UK time. We hope to see you online!

The VCLG is back for the new term! We begin our series with a paper from Lindsay Farmer, 'Climate protest, political dissent and the criminal law: The rise and fall (and rise again) of conspiracy'. The session will be on Wed 28 Jan, 3.30-5.00pm UK time (for this session only). Hope to see you then!

This is today! Come and join us at 3pm, we look forward to discussing!

Next week, Wednesday 10 December, we will discuss the recent Scots Law decisions - Daly v HM Advocate and Keir v HM Advocate - which change the position on the admissibility of sexual history and character evidence. We hope to see you then!

Join us thus Wednesday at 3pm, to discuss Ellens Nowell’s paper “Narratives of Criminal Justice and Sexual History Evidence Rules”. Link for seminar has been sent out this morning to our mailing list. We hope to see you then!

We have been in full flow of events during the Autumn, and our next session will be hosting Ellie Nowell (Glasgow), discussing her paper “The Relationship between Statistics and Sexual History Evidence Reform”, on Wednesday 26 November, 3pm UK time. Hope to see you online!

Call for Abstracts - Virtual Criminal Law Group Spring Series 2026 We are pleased to announce that we are opening our call for abstracts for the VCLG Spring Series. We welcome submissions from researchers across topics related to criminal law theory and practice, criminal procedure, and criminal justice, broadly construed. We welcome submissions from a variety of career stages, including ECRs and PGRs. Our seminars will run at 3-4:30 pm GMT on alternating Wednesdays (dates TBD, between January and March). Seminars are pre-read and we circulate papers one week in advance. The seminar itself will include a very brief (5-10 minute) introduction by speakers, followed by Q&A. We normally meet over Zoom, with one hybrid session in each series. If you are interested in presenting with us, please email an abstract (500w max) to vclgscotland@gmail.com by 10 October. We will respond in due course after the call closes.

Call for Abstracts for the Spring 2026 seminar series. Details in the image, and we hope to hear from you with your abstracts by 10 October. Please circulate widely and feel free to contact us with any questions. See you online!

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