Call for Papers: Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums - Glasgow and Belfast Workshops.
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📍 Queen's University Belfast
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🔗 More information about the programme
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Professor @susanbreau.bsky.social, Senior Associate Research Fellow at @ials.bsky.social, is featured in a recent article in @theguardian.com as part of a panel of legal experts offering insight into international law issues connected to the war in Iran.
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An event to celebrate the launch of this brilliant new #OpenAccess book, published with @ials.bsky.social:
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@ials.bsky.social is very pleased to announce the appointment of Nothando Lunga as its 2026 Creative Practitioner in Residence.
👉 Read full announcement here: ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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📚 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums 2026
We are excited to announce the calls for papers for Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums 2026!
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We have 2 great #IWD2026 events coming up, organised as part of a larger 2-day conference on the book journey from idea to the global shelf.
📢 Author-Reading Event: The business of producing and promoting women’s writing. How are books born? From idea to the global shelf
📅 12 March, 3:30-6:30
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📣New publication out today from @uolpress.bsky.social: 'Law and Justice in the 1950s: Case Studies From a Neglected Decade'.
Edited by Fiona Cownie and Rosemary Auchmuty.
Published in association with the @ials.bsky.social.
📕Available now for purchase or via open access: https://bit.ly/3NwA1BK
CALL FOR PAPERS: LHub's new project: law and humanities in the 'Four Nations', ECR network: with forthcoming workshops in England, Wales, Scotland and N Ireland. Fab events for our ECR community 👏 👇 @adiver.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yrk86hyp
Get ready to write your dissertation with our afternoon of training sessions - covering finding journal articles, using OSCOLA, and formatting with Word. First session on Tues 7th March, book your place now: libcal.ials.sas.ac.uk
Struggling to find or access library resources? Worried about your OSCOLA citations? IALS librarians are here to help! Booking is now open for one-to-one advice appointments: buff.ly/3W7CkwH
Season's Greetings from all at IALS!🎄
We will be closing for the Christmas break at 17:00 on Tuesday 23rd December, and reopening at 9:00 on Monday 5th January.
Wishing you a peaceful break and we look forward to welcoming you back in 2026!
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Call for Convenors - The Law and Humanities Hub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (LHub) and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) invite proposals from conveners for a new History and Law seminar to be launched in May 2026.
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Mapping the Arts and Humanities is launching Law & the Humanities in Practice with LHub (@ials.bsky.social), spotlighting how law, arts & humanities shape each other. Blog and podcast now live. Explore the map & get involved!
🎧 Listen to the podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/0mif...
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IALS is inviting applications for a practitioner in residence for the academic year 2025-26.
We would be especially interested in proposals that respond to the building, its past and potential futures.
Full details here 👇
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Struggling to cite your sources using OSCOLA? Join our training sessions and we'll explain how to cite everything from legislation to websites. Book here: buff.ly/ccOnUCN
Note: For citing dreams, we'd suggest you follow guidance on personal communications on p.43 of the OSCOLA manual 😉
Come and join us for the Launch of the Dance and Legal Materialities Network which explores how dance can animate legal materials. Led by IALS librarian Marilyn Clarke, legal researcher Marie Andree Jacob & dance artist/researcher Anna Macdonald. Book your place today! ials.sas.ac.uk/events/dance...
My colleagues at the @ials.bsky.social and I were saddened to learn of the death of our staunch supporter, Fellow, and friend, Professor William Twining, on 9th October. I am grateful to @davidsugarman.bsky.social, who has written an appreciation: ials.sas.ac.uk/news/profess...
New forum ‘Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum’ on Thu 6 Nov 2025, Senate House (hybrid) from BRAID Fellow @amsichani.bsky.social with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy
Find out more/register here:
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Feeling confused? Join us for our legal research training sessions to help you get to grips with the library, finding resources, and using databases. See the full schedule and book a place: buff.ly/O25yFnZ
From Monday 29th September, we will return to our term time opening hours. See full details of our opening hours here: ials.sas.ac.uk/library-term...
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LHub has published a number of calls for 2025/26, including for visiting academics at different career levels, visiting artists, networks, and more.
Details, deadlines and application forms are here at: ials.sas.ac.uk/research/lhu...
Our now! Our latest issue of Amicus Curiae, series 2, vol 6, issue 3. Edited by Pablo Cortés, Professor of Civil Justice, University of Leicester with a special section on ESG regulation, guest-edited by Dr Navajyoti Samanta.
Read it here:
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A reminder that our summer opening hours start from today! 🌞 From now until September, we'll be closing earlier on weekdays and Saturdays, and we are closed on Sundays.
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Join us here at the IALS on 10th June 2025 for the next event in the LHub Seminar Series, 'Digitising Exclusion: Identity, Citizenship and RightsLogged'.
Speaker: Dr Dr Eve Hayes de Kalaf, @ihr.bsky.social , School of Advanced Study, University of london
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💥We're very excited to share that we have launched a new free training course! Explore our #OpenAccess in the #Humanities training course on RESHAPED, a new learning platform developed by the School of Advanced Study @uolondon.bsky.social.
Details here:
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A group of people, two with long wooden poles enacting workshop content for an arrest. Blue chairs are stacked in the background.
Join us at @ials.bsky.social on 30 May 2025 at 1:30pm for 'What is an arrest? A performance-as-research legal history workshop'.
Organised by, Dr Jonah Miller, @kingscollege.bsky.social and Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke @sheffielduni.bsky.social
Booking recommended
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New date added! 📅 One more chance to Get Dissertation Ready with our afternoon of training sessions on finding sources, referencing with OSCOLA, and formatting with Word. Held online via Zoom on 29th May at 1pm. Book your place now: buff.ly/kCCQ56q
@ials.bsky.social is happy to announce that the film 'Changes in Light', created by @annamacdonaldart.bsky.social , Practitioner in Residence at IALS in 2024, won the award for best short documentary at the #Kiez Berlin Film Festival.
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Join us on 13 May for the LHub Seminar: Melting into Space: Enemies of Mankind (Pirates and Other Incalculable #Environmental Contingencies). Speaker: Prof. Bernhard Siegert, @bauhaus_uni
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#media #communications
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