How and why should legal scholars develop capability to work with legal futures?

by Professors Amanda Perry-Kessaris and Elen Stokes

How might we legal scholars develop our capability to work with legal futures? Why ought we to try? These questions lay at the heart of a one-day capacity-building Workshop held at the University of Bristol in July 2024, led by Elen Stokes and Amanda Perry-Kessaris.

We use the term ‘legal futures’ to refer to relationships that reach between the here-and-now and the yet-to-come, and in which legal thinking and practice might play a role. (more…)