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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums 2026

📚 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!

Download call here 👇

Author-Reading Event: The business of producing and promoting women’s writing. How are books born? From idea to the global shelf

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

The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums Collaborative forums connecting early-career scholars across the UK to explore interdisciplinary approaches to law and the humanities.

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.

Download call 👇

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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...

#MAHP

Call for Practitioner in Residence 2026 Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

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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#LawAndCreativity

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 😉

Dance and Legal Materialities Network: Embodied acts of Reading

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...

Professor William Twining: An Appreciation It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death of Professor William Twining (aged 91) peacefully at home on 9 October 2025.

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...

BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.

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:
bit.ly/4mUdESC

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:

journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/index

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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New Open Access in the Humanities online training course launched! - University of London Press We are excited to share details of our new online training course on open access publishing, developed by the University of London Press with the School of Advanced Study. The course is free and avail...

💥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:
uolpress.co.uk/2025/06/new-...

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

'Changes in Light' wins award at the Kiez Berlin Film Festival Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

@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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Lhub Seminar Series: Prof. Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus Universität Weimar), Melting into Space: Enemies of Mankind (Pirates and Other Incalculable Environmental Contingencies) Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

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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How are we doing? Let us know what you think and help us to improve our services by taking part in the IALS library annual reader satisfaction survey. All named entries will be automatically entered into a £50 prize draw! 👉 buff.ly/8IHm7dg

Not long until the Easter weekend! Here are our opening times over the bank holiday period for your calendar 🐰🐣

UK Constitutional Law Association In an earlier blog post, I noted that we would be waiting with interest to see how the (then […]

IALS is delighted to share a post by Prof David Sugarman, “The Politics of #Judicial Decision-Making in the UK’s Top Court: Lessons from the #Pinochet Case”, U.K. Const. L. Blog (31st March 2025) 👇

IALS Library spring newsletter 2025 Cover of the IALS Library spring newsletter on a light blue and mauve background with purple crocus shoots randomly placed around the cover image.

OUT NOW! The IALS Library spring newsletter. Included in this issue: a look at using AI for academic work and an update on our reading room projects.

Read it here 👇