Five Professors have been awarded @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grants – the most the UofG has ever received in one round. Congratulations @jadamcarter.bsky.social, @sabrewster.bsky.social, @fergusmcneill.bsky.social, Ruth Dukes and Simon Hanslmayr! More: gla.ac/4lb3FIl #ERCAdG

It was a pleasure to host @leaypi.bsky.social for our annual Adam Smith Lecture and seminar. Special thanks to Mirjam Mueller and Jan Kandiyali as visiting discussants for lively seminars on Lea's work on territorial rights and moral socialism.

How does Law and Political Economy work without a central sovereign? MARCO GOLDONI (@uofglt.bsky.social) show that the study of European Union Law from the perspective of Law and Political Economy can offer valuable insights. verfassungsblog.de/law-and-poli...

Next Wednesday (21st May), we will be hosting our Adam Smith Lecture, delivered by Professor Lea Ypi. This event is welcome to all but please register your interest here: events.bookitbee.com/university-o...

Yesterday we had a fantastic @lsjleeds.bsky.social seminar by Marco Goldoni (@uofglt.bsky.social) on his new project defending a needs-based conception of social rights. It sparked a lively Q&A - Leeds is certainly the place to talk about social rights! Grazie for making the trip down, Marco 🤗

Our annual Call for Abstracts is out! We really look forward to reading about your fascinating research as we select the speakers for our 2025/2026 Seminar Series. Also, feel free to share this call with your friends and colleagues. You can find more details (including deadlines) below:

Lecturer in Legal Theory (R&T) - University of Glasgow: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA841/l...

It is a pleasure to announce that British Academy Fellow Julieta Lobato's conference 'Interrogating the "Post-Neoliberal Moment" in Labour Law' will take place at the University of Glasgow, 13-14 November 2025. Information on Call for Papers is attached, please consider making a submission.

Over the next week or so, we will be hosting a beautiful series inspired by Emilios Christodoulodis' immense work The Redress of Law, it will think about Simone Weil and how we can think with her to approach critical legal studies afresh criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...

Our Research Associate, British Academy International Fellow Dr Julieta Lobato gave an engaging presentation of her paper in progress 'Unveiling the Structural Character of Informal Work: New Labour Subject and Financial Exploitation beyond the Promise of Transition' to cap off our semester!

Here’s some pictures from our annual Disputationes! It was great to learn more about our PhD candidates’ research and to engage in thought-provoking discussions with our colleagues from Glasgow and Surrey. Looking forward to next year!

Our second PhD student to present, Yuhan Wang, discussed her research on feminism and Ronald Dworkin’s theory of integrity

Kicking off our joint disputatio with @legaltheoryed.bsky.social Glasgow’s Pudit Ovattananavakhun presented on Freedom in Hans Kelsen’s theory

This Friday, we will be hosting, together with the Glasgow Legal Theory group, our annual Disputationes! This event brings together PhD students and staff from the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Surrey to share and discuss their research. More info at: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/....