Conferences

This page contains a list of conferences in four areas of law:

If you notice any conferences omitted from the list, please email me at d.simon[at]northeastern[dot]edu.

AALS also maintains a list of symposia, which is available here.

General Law Conferences

Conference Date Location Contact Link
Central States Law Schools Association September Rotating Link
Junior Scholars Conference March 1-2, 2024 Northeastern University School of Law David A. Simon (Northeastern) Link
Michigan Junior Scholars Workshop April University of Michigan Link
Chicagoland Junior Scholars Conference October Chicago (rotating schools) TBD
Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) Annual Conference July Florida TBD Link
Richmond Junior Faculty Forum May University of Richmond T. C. Williams School of Law Allison Tait Link
American Association of Law School (AALS) Annual Conference January Rotating San Francisco (2025) Link
Stanford-Harvard-Yale Junior Faculty Forum July/August Rotating Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard), Matthew Stephenson (Harvard), Norman Spaulding (Stanford), Christine Jolls (Yale), Yair Listokin (Yale)

Health Law Conferences

Conference Date Location Contact Link
Health Law Conference March/April Northeastern University School of Law Wendy Parmet (Northeastern)
Governance of Emerging Technologies and Sciences (GETS) Conference May 19-20, 2025 Rotating (2025 ASU) Gary Marchant (ASU)
Seasoned RIBS (Regulation and Innovation in the Biosciences) April 19-20, 2025 Rotating (UIUC 2025) Jake Sherkow (UIUC)
Annual Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat February Seton Hall Law School Carl Coleman (Seton Hall) Link
American Public Health Association (AHPA) Annual Meeting & Expo November Rotating TBD Link
Biolawpalooza May Stanford Law School TBD
Network for Public Health Law Annual Conference September Rotating TBD Link
American Society for Bioethics & Humanities Annual Conference October Rotating TBD Link
Health Law Scholars Workshop September/October St. Louis University School of Law Abigail Allred (abigail.allred@slu.edu) Link
Wiet Life Science Law Scholars Workshop September Loyola Chicago School of Law Cynthia Ho (Loyola) & Jordan Paradise (Loyola)
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (ASLME) Health Law Professors Conference June Rotating TBD Link
Jaharis Symposium in Health and IP March/April DePaul College of Law Wendy Netter Epstein (DePaul)

Intellectual Property Law Conferences

Conference Date Location Contact Link
Art Law WIP Colloquium May Rotating (UNH, Temple) Guy Rub (Temple), Peter Karol (UNH)
Association littéraire et artistique internationale Link
CLIC New England IP Roundtable Fall Northeastern Alex Roberts (Northeastern)
Chicagoland IP Workshop Fall Chicago-Kent Cathay Smith (Chicago-Kent)
Copyright Scholarship Roundtable October/November University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law Shyam Balganesh (Columbia), Matthew Sag (Emory), Christopher Yoo (Penn)
European Policy for Intellectual Property Association (EPIP) September 10-12, 2025 Rotating (University of Antwerp 2025) epip2025@uantwerpen.be Link
IP Mosaic October 24-25, 2025 info@iipsj.org Link
IP Scholars Roundtable October Texas A&M University School of Law Peter Yu (Texas A&M)
Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (IPSC) August (2nd week) Rotating (Stanford, Cardozo, DePaul, Berkeley) 2024 @ Berkeley Link
International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) Annual Congress June 22-25 Rotating (Copenhagen 2025) Link
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) Annual Conference July Rotating (Internationally) TBD Link
International Trademark Association (INTA) Scholarship Symposium May Atlanta, GA Juan Felipe & Enrique Moller Link
Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM September Rotating (Stanford, Northwestern, Penn) Mark Lemley (Stanford), David Schwartz (Northwestern), Christopher Yoo (Penn) Link
Lastowka Cyberlaw Colloquium Spring Rotating (Rutgers-Penn-Wharton, others) Michael Madison (Pitt)
Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence April 10-11, 2024 Rotating (Emory/Loyola) Matthew Sag (Emory), Charlotte Tschider (Loyola)
M3 Winter/Early Summer TBD Sarah Fackrell (Chicago-Kent), Jake Linford (FSU), Andres Sawicki (Miami)
Mid-Atlantic Patent Works-in-Progress Colloquium Fall Georgetown University Law Center Jay Thomas (Georgetown)
Mountain West IP Workshop October 4, 2024 University of Utah Jonas Anderson (Utah)
NCCU Law & Technology Summit (in-person & virtual) Friday, October 17, 2025 Durham Convention Center April Dawson (NCCU Law)
PatCon April 11-12, 2025 Rotating (U. San Diego 2025) David Olson (Boston College), David Schwartz (Northwestern), Ted Sichelman (San Diego), Andrew Torrance (Kansas)
Race + IP April 17-19, 2025 University of Pittsburgh Anjali Vats (Pitt) @ raceipconference@gmail.com Link
The Future of the Copyright Act October 2-3, 2026 The George Washington University Law School Bob Brauneis (GW), Elizabeth Townsend Gard (Tulane), Fred Yen (Boston College)
The Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues (SERCI) Annual Congress July 2025 Rotating (2025 Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at HKU) Ryan Whalen (HKU) (2025) Link
Three Rivers Intellectual Property & Technology Law Colloquium January U Pitt Michael Madison (Pitt)
Trademark Law Roundtable September/October American University Washington College of Law TBD
Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable October Rotating (Harvard, Penn, NYU) Jennifer Rothman (Penn): rothmj@law.upenn.edu, Barton Beebe (NYU): beebeb@mercury.law.nyu.edu, Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard): rtushnet@law.harvard.edu Link
UNH Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable September/October University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law TBD
Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium (WIPIP) January 30 - February 1, 2025 Rotating (2025 William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV) TBD
Workshop on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property May Rotating (Northwestern, Duke, Texas) Christopher Buccafusco (Duke), David Schwartz (Northwestern), Melissa Wasserman (Texas)

Law & Philosophy/Humanities Conferences

Conference Date Location Contact Link
Obligations Conference Biennial (next 2025) Rotating (next Harvard Law School) Link
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting July Rotating Link
International Conference on Jurisprudence, Law, Legal and Justice Studies June Rotating (international) Link
Oxford Seminars in Jurisprudence Monthly Online Link
Analytical Legal Philosophy Conference April Rotating Kimberly Kessler Ferzan (Penn) Link
Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities Annual Meeting June Rotating TBD Link