SLSA annual conference

The SLSA has been running an annual conference since the association was founded in 1990. Our conferences are central to our objective of the dissemination of knowledge in the field of socio-legal studies. For details about past conferences, please visit our socio-legal events archive section. To see more pictures of past annual conferences, visit our photo album.

If you think that your institution would be interested in hosting a future annual conference, please see our criteria for future hosts.

York Law School, University of York

26—28 March 2013

The SLSA annual conference 2013 was hosted by York Law School. Around 350 delegates attended. Highlights included:

• brand new Law School building
• over 250 papers in our popular ‘streams and themes format’
• plenary speaker: Baroness Hale of Richmond
• doctoral students’ poster competition
• SLSA prizewinners author-meets-reader sessions
• ... and much more.

Baroness Hale has kindly made the text of her plenary address available for download.

Please visit the conference website for full details. Conference organiser: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Poster competition

At York 2013 for the first time there was a poster competition for postgraduate students. All the entries are now available for viewing, please click on the named links below. The winner was Rachel Cahill O'Callaghan.

Amal Ali, University of Sheffield

Rachel Cahill O'Callaghan, Cardiff Law School

Elaine McLaughlin, Glasgow Caledonian University

Emma Nottingham, University of Southampton

Leigh Roberts, Livepool John Moores University

Judith Townend, City University London

Andrew P Young, Durham University

Robert Gordon University

9—11 April 2014

In 2014, the SLSA will be returning to Scotland as the guests of the Department of Law, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. The conference organisers are This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Future hosts

The SLSA Executive is delighted to announce the venues for 2015—2017 as follows:

• 2015, University of Warwick
• 2016, Lancaster University
• 2017, Newcastle University