First Call for Papers Deadline 13th March 2026

The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums

Glasgow Workshop

21st May 2026

in collaboration with:

Queen’s University Belfast; University of Warwick;

and Cardiff University.

We are excited to announce the calls for papers for the first of the Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums 2026!

Located at the University of Glasgow, this first forum in the series will happen in May, providing an important space to develop research excellence at the intersections of law and the humanities, and foster intellectual community, supporting early-career scholars.

The Glasgow forum is one of four across the UK nations, initiated by the Law and the Humanities Hub (LHub) at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Encouraging early career researchers’ based in or from Scotland to come and share their work in progress, the day will offer a rigorous context addressing the nature of interdisciplinary research in law and the humanities and opportunities for career and publishing development.

The forums aim to bring law and humanities scholarship to wider audiences through the engagement of legal scholars as well as humanities scholars,  ensuring that the research is not confined to law or the humanities, respectively.

Criteria for Selection

Contributions developed by early-career scholars will be selected based on their:

• Demonstration of excellence in scholarship and practice. Proposed participation may be written papers or creative work (in visual, sonic, film, etc. form), at any intersection within Law and the Humanities, including research that connects law with history, philosophy, literature, art, performance, linguistics, cultural and media studies, creative practice, and other humanistically-informed fields and methods.
• Pursuit of a PhD or DPhil, or who are within seven years of having completed their PhD, with due accommodation for career breaks, who are actively carrying out research in Law and the Humanities.

NB: We encourage those based in and/or from the relevant nation, in this instance Scotland to apply, however those who are not based in Scotland will also be considered.

The day at Glasgow of scholarship, creative practice, and networking will be further fostered and supported through the participating institutions and LHub, via the Four Nations website, a concluding online plenary, and associated networks such as Legal Humanities Association and the Art/Law Network.  Publication opportunities are also available with the collaborating Journal of Law and Humanities.

Submissions

Please submit by 13th March 2026 – a CV; statement of interest in the forum, including an explanation of your eligibility (up to 250 words); and a proposal for a paper (500-1,200 words); or in the case of an artwork submission, the work and a description(300 words).  Please send to Lucy.FinchettMaddock@gold.ac.uk and LHub@sas.ac.uk

If accepted, submission of the completed paper will be expected on 21st April, and should be up to 6000 words, or the completed artwork if non-text.

For more information on the forum at Glasgow, and the remaining workshops of the Four Nations Law and Humanities Forums series, see the Four Nations website or contact Lucy.FinchettMaddock@gold.ac.uk and LHub@sas.ac.uk.

With thanks to funding from IALS LHub, Learned Society Wales, and University of Dundee, for their additional funding and support.