Public Lecture: Artificial Intelligence and International Law 04/06/2026, 5pm-6.30pm, Birkbeck Clore Management Centre. Exploring AI’s impact on legal systems and global governance. Addresses by Justice Surya Kant, Prof. Carl Stychin, IALS and Harish Salve KC Book now: ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join us online for IALS event Computational Communications and Freedom of Speech 19/05/26. Speakers include: Jennifer Petersen, @usc.edu, @bernardkeenan.bsky.social, UCL, Claudy Op den Kamp, @bournemouthuni.bsky.social Free to attend, booking required: tinyurl.com/2234xrn3 @sas-news.bsky.social

The IALS Library Reader Satisfaction Survey 2026 is now open to all members. Your feedback helps shape our services. Running through April and May, past responses led to improved spaces, facilities, and accessibility. Take the survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/mseTGyWfLY

What could you win? 🎁 ✅ Signed Chelsea FC shirt or Arsenal FC football ✅ £100 restaurant vouchers ✅ Wine, comedy tickets, fitness programmes & more 🎟️All for just £2 per ticket. 👉 Buy your tickets for the London #LegalWalk raffle today: zurl.co/ip1Ei

The IALS Library Reader Satisfaction Survey 2026 is now open to all members. Your feedback helps shape our services. Running through April and May, past responses led to improved spaces, facilities, and accessibility. Take the survey: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/mseTGyWfLY

Call for Papers: Four Nations Law and the Humanities. CFPs open for Cardiff (2 July 2026) and Warwick (17 July 2026) workshops. Deadline: 30 April 2026. Initiative supports UK‑based early‑career scholars working in Law and Humanities. Details: ials.sas.ac.uk/research/lhu... @sas-news.bsky.social

📝NEW BLOG POST! Read Dr Toni Lester's post on the "Colonial Legacies of Intellectual Conference", held in January at the IALS. Read the full post here at 👇 🔗 ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #IALS #LawAndInnovation #Conferences #IntellectualProperty #Decolonisation

Congrats to Devyani Prabhat @bristoluni.bsky.social on the publication today of 'Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law'! Part of the #OpenAccess Reimagining Law and Justice series published with @ials.bsky.social. uolpress.co.uk/book/migrati... @sas-news.bsky.social @icws-sas.bsky.social

ICYMI - @susanbreau.bsky.social, Professor of International Law at the @ials.bsky.social, was a guest on BBC Radio 4's The Law Show this afternoon. Listen now on BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Applications for IES Fellowships in the 2026/27 academic year are now open! You can apply for an ECR or Research fellowship, with terms from 6 months to 3 years. The application deadline is 10 April. ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...

Join us tonight at the IALS for 'In Media Lex: Authority and the Mechanization of Judgment in the 19th Century', with Xavier Nueno (EPFL) 📅 10/03/2026 🕒 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm 📍 IALS Conference Room All welcome - this event is free to attend but booking is required 👇

📚The IALS Annual Review for 2025 is now available to download or read online. Available here 👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... @sas-news.bsky.social #IALS #AnnualReview2025 #SchoolofAdvancedStudy #UniversityofLondon

Call for Papers: Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums - Glasgow and Belfast Workshops. 📍 Glasgow ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/defaul... 📍 Queen's University Belfast ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/defaul... 🔗 More information about the programme ials.sas.ac.uk/research/lhu... @sas-news.bsky.social

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. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

An event to celebrate the launch of this brilliant new #OpenAccess book, published with @ials.bsky.social: uolpress.co.uk/book/migrati...

@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/... #CreativePractitionerInResidence #LegalStudies #AcademicSpaces

📚 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 👇

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 1/2

📣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!

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 👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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

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 👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/news/call-pr... #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 😉

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: 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...

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.

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 ials.sas.ac.uk/events/dr-ev...

💥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-...

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 ials.sas.ac.uk/events/what-...

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.

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 buff.ly/Gm1IXB3 #media #communications @lsemedia.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social

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 🐰🐣

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) 👇

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 👇

@lselaw.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social @oxfordcrim.bsky.social Join us on 18 March for the LHub Seminar Series: Re-orienting #Punishment towards #Forgiveness: The role of interpersonal concepts in legal reconstruction. Free to attend, all welcome. 👇

Registration is now open for the Humanities Summits 2025! Join a vital discussion about the future of the humanities with colleagues from across the UK. Manchester 15 May, and London 22 May. Free to all but booking is essential. Register now: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Out now, the latest issue of Amicus Curiae (Series 2, Vol 6, Issue 2, 2025). Included in this issue, a special section on surrogacy, edited by Professor Maya Unnithan and Dr Maria Federica Moscati, @sussex.ac.uk Download or read online here 👇

Join us for the LHub Seminar Series event, Mycelium Law on 25 Feb. Speaker: Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, University of Westminster . All welcome but booking essential 👇