This conference explores the tensions between horror and hope in legal and cultural life.

Some guiding questions include:

Is law complicit in the horrors of our time, or does it offer ways through?
How do horror, the gothic, the uncanny, the apocalyptic and the speculative illuminate contemporary legal crises?
What forms of hope appear in legal practice, resistance, imagination, or refusal?
How might we rethink law in an era of lawfare, institutional decay, and late-capitalist extraction?
What does it mean to produce scholarship that matters when the world is on fire?

We welcome broad interpretations of the theme, particularly if they're interesting, adventurous or fun, as well as other papers within the field of law and humanities.

Contact the host of Law, Literature and Humanties Conference 2026