Socio-Legal Studies Association

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Welcome to the SLSA – where law meets the social sciences and humanities.

This website contains information about the SLSA and our aims and objectives. You can find out how to join and about the many benefits of membership. There are details on all our activities including our successful socio-legal prizes, our small grant scheme, our new seminar competition and our popular annual and postgraduate conferences. You will also discover a wealth of material relating to socio-legal studies – much of it in classified form in our extensive research area.

SLSA news and important dates

• Please see our News page for details of recent announcements about: research, publications, vacancies, events and networks. If you would like an item added to our news page, please contact Marie Selwood
• SLSA Postgraduate Conference 2011
  London School of Economics, 7–8 January 2011: registration now open for this free event
• SLSA Annual Conferences
  University of Sussex SLSA 2011: call for themes
  Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen 2012
  University of York 2013
• One-day conference
  'Exploring the "socio" of socio-legal studies', 3 November 2010. The preliminary programme and booking form are now available.  Registration deadline: 8 October 2010.
• SLSA-sponsored seminars
  The role of databases in transitional justice research, Belfast and
  Socio-legal perspectives on contemporary mobilities: theoretical and policy implications, Cambridge
• Online Directory prize draw
  The prize draw is being re-run to encourage more members to go online and update their directory entries.
• SLSA prizes
  Closing date: 4 October 2010
• SLSA Small Grants Scheme
  Closing date: 31 October 2010

Aims of the SLSA

'To advance education and learning and in particular to advance research, teaching and the dissemination of knowledge in the field of socio-legal studies.'

The SLSA achieves these aims in a number of different ways:

• meetings, conferences, seminars
• research grants
• prizes
• publications
• liaison with policy makers and research funders
• supporting students
• and many other activities

Details of the SLSA's aims and objectives can be found in our Constitution: download it in Word or pdf format.

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