The seventeenth Gordon Seminar in Criminal Law will take place on Thursday 11 June 2026 on the University of Glasgow campus (from mid-morning until around 5pm; exact schedule to be confirmed nearer the time), when the following speakers will present:

• Dr Grant Barclay (Glasgow): "Hearsay in Scotland: pure and simple?"
  
• Professor Hannah Bows (Durham): "How to kill your wife and get away with it? Mercy killings in England and Wales"
• Dr Samantha Fairclough (Birmingham): "Conceptualising vulnerable defendants' best interests in criminal trials"
• Francesco Florimonte (Liverpool): "Interrogating deception: towards a theory of criminal liability in deceptive sexual relations"
• Dr Rory Kelly (Galway): "Expressive punishment and rule of law values"
• Dr Lewis Ross (LSE): "Release and reconciliation"
• Yu Zhou (Glasgow): "The blind spot on abuse of positions of trust: a comparison between criminal law in Scotland and Taiwan"

The event is supported by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education.