CAJI Annual Conference 2026:  Law, Power and the Changing Global Order 

Welcome

The annual Centre for Access to Justice and Inclusion (CAJI) Conference 2026 is organised around a shared concern: how changes in the global order are reshaping the way law is made, interpreted, and used. Across jurisdictions and fields of practice, long-standing assumptions about legal authority, regulatory stability, and the reach of rights are being unsettled by shifting geopolitical power, economic realignment, technological concentration, and new forms of cross-border influence. 

These transformations are not confined to international law. They are increasingly visible in domestic courts, regulatory regimes, corporate governance, and the everyday operation of justice systems. Questions of whose rules apply, whose interests are protected, and whose voices count are becoming more contested. Law is no longer merely a framework for resolving disputes; it is also a site in which global power is exercised, resisted, and re-negotiated. 

The CAJI Conference 2026 provides an open, interdisciplinary forum for scholars, practitioners, civil society actors, and policy-makers to explore these developments. Rather than imposing a single doctrinal lens, the conference uses law in a changing global order as a shared horizon within which diverse fields of research and practice can engage with one another. The aim is to examine how contemporary power shifts are affecting access to justice, accountability, and the capacity of legal institutions to respond to social, technological, and environmental harm. 

By bringing together contributions from different jurisdictions and traditions, the conference seeks to generate dialogue across areas that are often treated separately; from environmental protection to digital governance, from criminal justice to dispute resolution, and from human rights to new forms of exclusion. 

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