Socio-Legal Studies Association
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 research grants 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.
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SLSA news and important dates
SLSA prizes
Please see our News section for details of recent announcements about: research, publications, vacancies, events and much more. If you would like an item added to our news area, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Open access page
The SLSA Executive Committee has been monitoring responses to the Finch Review on open access (OA) and developments in this area. We have gathered together a variety of resources and created a dedicated OA page on the SLSA website. If you know of any resources or contacts that could usefully be included on this page, please send details to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . The latest additions to the page are Science Europe's position statement on OA and the AcSS's letter of response to Science Europe.
SLSA Annual Conference, York Law School, 26–28 March 2013
Approximately 350 delegates braved the unseasonal weather to gather at York Law School in the week before the Easter break for the SLSA's annual conference. This year's plenary speaker was Baroness Brenda Hale. The text of her plenary address is now available for download. For the first time, the conference included a postgraduate poster competition. Please follow the link to view all the entries. A full report on the conference will appear in the summer issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter. Our next annual conference is being hosted by Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen in 2014.
New membership benefit
The SLSA is delighted to announce a new partnership with Routledge that gives members 20 per cent discount on books bought via the Routledge website. Please visit the Routledge members' discount page to take advantage of this offer.
This membership benefit is in addition to the SLSA members' discounts offered by Ashgate and Palgrave Macmillan that also give members 20 per cent discount on books bought via their websites. Visit the membership benefits page for details. NB you need to be logged in to access all the discount pages.
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:
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meetings, conferences, seminars
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research grants
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prizes
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publications
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liaison with policy makers and research funders
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supporting students
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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.