The Art/Law Network is a gathering of artists, lawyers, agitators, coming together to work and collaborate for change.
The network is a platform where artists can be in contact and collaborate with practitioners working within the law, the legal system, legal teaching and research. Similarly, the network provides a space where lawyers, activists, academics, thinkers of all creeds, can learn new open forms of law and legal thinking through bringing art into law. Participants in the Art/Law Network are Collaborators
17/02/2026
Art/Law Network and IALS LHub Four Nations Workshops Call for Papers - https://mailchi.mp/94880dff18a2/artlaw-network-hello-action-in-artlaw-praxis-participation-and-collaboration-event-belfast-18-july-21558214 - Opportunity for law and humanities scholars to share their work and practice! Plus updates on the Dissonant Laws Exhibiton and more!
21/11/2025
Law & Creative Industries Launch at Goldsmiths Law
Date: Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths
warmly invites you to the launch of its new Law & Creative Industries Clinic. The event will feature a panel discussion on “The Law of Being an Artist: Navigating Legal Issues in the Creative Industries.” Our panellists include leading academics and legal practitioners including Dr Plamen Dinev (Manchester University), Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock (IALS, Art/Law Network), Sian Prime (Goldsmiths), Oliver Fairhurst (Lewis Silkin) and Tim Maxwell (Wedlake Bell), who will participate in the clinic and play active roles as mentors to our students.
So that we have a sense of numbers, would you please register on this link, if you are able to attend.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/law-and-creative-industries-clinic-launch-tickets-1970210875766
31/10/2025
Art/Law Network Updates - Dissonant Laws, Voids and Calls for Writing Contributions - https://mailchi.mp/0b14be188d4d/artlaw-network-hello-action-in-artlaw-praxis-participation-and-collaboration-event-belfast-18-july-21556391 Dissonant Laws exhibtion deadline, calls for writing on art/law on our website, and updates about voids!
31/07/2025
It is with deep sadness to let you know of the unexpected passing of our dearly loved Charlie Blake.
Charlie has been such an integral thinker to the Art/Law Network, stalwart supporter, agitator and philosopher in chief and generally unspeakably inspiring to all who came across him - thank you so much Charlie :D 🤍.
It would be wonderful to honour him in some way through the network in the times to come.
In the meantime we hope he will feel all our gratitude and love and wonder for the world sent back to him, that was infectious to all he came across.
Thank you Charlie xox
Charlie Blake 1956-2025
03/07/2024
Art/Law Network Hello! & Action in ART/LAW - Praxis, Participation and Collaboration Event Belfast 18 July 2024 - https://mailchi.mp/9229d06defd4/artlaw-network-hello-action-in-artlaw-praxis-participation-and-collaboration-event-belfast-18-july-2024
03/03/2024
We at the are very grateful to the work of Artists Union England amongst other artists and organisations that expressed their outrage at Arts Council England guidelines against the funding of ‘controversial’ and politically sensitive works. A juncture in contemporary art and politics for time to come, they have retracted these guidelines given such shocked responses, but what does this say for the connection between law, aesthetics, power, institutionalisation and ultimately violence, whilst similarly we see protest laws closing in? A lot, we think. The art world is the law world
06/05/2022
ALN + Race Precarity and Public Space: Podcast with Adnan Shafi and More! - https://mailchi.mp/881856260d41/artlaw-network-newsletter-20163337
07/12/2021
'HOMEing' Online Seminar Series - Race, Precarity & Public Space WEBINAR (1pm, 14 December 2021) - Erasure & Memorialisation through Space: Tiger Bay & the Medical Military Museum & Coordination Group call out! https://mailchi.mp/f58ff942eae8/artlaw-network-newsletter-19229377
25/08/2021
'HOMEing' Summer Seminar Series - Art, Law, the Border(s) in Ireland: 1 September 2021 (IRE/BST) - https://mailchi.mp/22986ff95de5/artlaw-network-newsletter-19224862
11/08/2021
Come along to our next 'HOMEing' Summer Seminar Series - Migrants in Art: Value of Art: Artist Showcase Akila Richards and Helen Knowles 18 August 2021 – 12pm-1pm (UK Time) - https://mailchi.mp/96aec00b4dcf/artlaw-network-newsletter-19224174
28/07/2021
'HOMEing' Summer Seminar Series - Art, Law, Borders: Borderlands in Theory and the Everyday 4 August 2021 - 12pm-1pm (UK Time) - https://mailchi.mp/b5b9be1bf9b4/artlaw-network-newsletter-19223466