Dear Association of Internet Researchers community, As part of the Critical Legal Conference 2025, to be held in person at the University of Exeter (UK) from 4–6 September 2025, I would like to invite submissions to the stream "Future Tense: Legal Imagination in Times of Acceleration." This stream invites critical engagement with the role of legal thought in the face of accelerating technological, ecological, and political change. As crises multiply and intensify — from AI and automation to climate collapse and democratic erosion — law often appears reactive, slow, and burdened by the past. Legal systems struggle not only to keep pace with unfolding transformations, but also to articulate meaningful futures. We suffer from a crisis of imagination as much as a crisis of regulation. This stream welcomes speculative and creative approaches that explore how law might evolve or be reimagined under radically altered conditions. Possible themes include: * Algorithms and AI as juridical forces * Regulating machine sentience or planetary collapse * Legal utopias and dystopias * Critiques of “the post-” and grounded futurisms If your work examines digital governance, the politics of acceleration, or the speculative intersections of law and technology, we would love to hear from you. The deadline is 1 August. To submit an abstract, please email kl633@exeter.ac.uk with the subject line: 'Future Tense: Legal Imagination in Times of Acceleration'. More detail about the stream https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/clc2025/call-for-papers/#future-tense Full CFP https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/clc2025/call-for-papers/ Stream contact kl633@exeter.ac.uk General enquiries info-clc2025@exeter.ac.uk More information about the Critical Legal Conference 2025 is available at https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/clc2025/ Best regards, Ksenia Lavrenteva PhD Researcher | University of Exeter Latest publication: “Gatekeeping Access: Exploring Open Access Challenges for Museum Collections Held in Russia” Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 12(2) (2025). https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.18274