One-day conferences
The SLSA occasionally sponsors one-day conferences, seminars or workshops of broad interest to the socio-legal community. One-day events should be fully costed and self-funding, and will usually involve a member of the SLSA Board in an organisational role. The SLSA may be able to underwrite the event to a limited extent and/or provide endorsement. If you have an idea for a one-day conference and would like an indication of the SLSA’s interest, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or approach a member of the SLSA Board directly to discuss your ideas. Proposals for underwriting should include an outline of the concept, an indication of proposed speakers and/or call for papers, venue, timing, number of attendees and a draft budget showing full costs and how those costs will be covered by registration fees and/or from other sources.
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See our Seminars page for details of other SLSA-supported events.
Past events
SLS-JAC-SLSA Workshop on Judicial Appointments: ‘Academics as Judges’
Socio-Legal Studies in Germany and the UK: Theory and methods
Impact and Law Reform Conference
Socio-legal Studies/Sociologie du Droit: Methods, traditions, theories in France and the UK
Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in Family and Social Welfare Law
Sources and methods in criminology and criminal justice
Exploring the comparative in socio-legal studies
Law, gender and sexuality: sources and methods in socio-legal research
Exploring the legal in socio-legal studies
Doing, funding, teaching – socio-legal scholarship
Exploring the 'socio' of socio-legal studies
Equality, human rights and good relations
Socio-legal studies and the humanities
New ethical challenges in socio-legal research
Socio-legal Studies/Sociologie du Droit: Methods, traditions, theories in France and the UK: call for contributions and registration
Date: 16 April 2018
Venue: University of Kent in Paris
Organised by: Emilie Cloatre (Kent Law School) and Olivier Leclerc (CNRS/Centre de Recherches Critiques sur le Droit)
- A report of this event appeared in the summer 2018 issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter.
Socio-Legal Sources and Methods in Family and Social Welfare Law
Date: 18 May 2018
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Organised by: the SLSA, British Library and Institute of Advanced Studies.
- A report of this event appeared in the summer 2018 issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter.
Sources and methods in criminology and criminal justice
Date: 20 November 2015
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Organisers: SLSA, British Library, British Society of Criminology
- A report of this event is available in the autum 2015 issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter.
Exploring the comparative in socio-legal studies
Dates: 15–16 December 2014
Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
Organisers: Fernanda Pirie, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Agnieszka Kubal.
- A report of this event is available in the spring 2015 issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter.
Legal biographies workshop
Date: 15 May 2013
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London,
Organisers: jointly by the British Library, IALS and the SLSA.
- Please see flyer and conference programme is for further details including speakers
Exploring the legal in socio-legal studies
Date: 21 September 2012
Venue: London School of Economics,
Organiser: Dave Cowan
The SLSA is grateful to the University of Bristol and the LSE for their support in organising and hosting this conference
- Further information: timetable and call for papers.
- A report of this event is available in the winter 2012 issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter.
- An edited collection based on papers originally presented at this conference was published in the Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies series.
Doing, funding, teaching – socio-legal scholarship: a trio of one-day conferences
- Doing socio-legal research: empirical challenges and solutions: 13 March 2012, Nuffield Foundation
Organisers: Linda Mulcahy and Amanda Perry-Kessaris - Funding socio-legal research: 14 May 2012, Nuffield Foundation
Organisers: Rosemary Hunter and Anne Barlow - Teaching socio-legally: socio-legal studies in the law curriculum: 31 October 2012, Nuffield Foundation
Organisers: Penny English and Chris Ashford - Please see flyer for further details.
Exploring the 'socio' of socio-legal studies
Date: 3 November 2010
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Organiser: Dermot Feenan
Keynote speaker: Susan Silbey
- A report of this event is available in the spring 2011 issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter.
- An edited collection based on papers originally presented at this conference was published in the Palgrave
- Macmillan Socio-Legal Studies series.
Equality, human rights and good relations: evidence-based interventions and policy making
Date: 21 May 2009
Venue: Liverpool Law School
Hosted by: SLSA and Equality and Human Rights Commission
- For more information, see conference details and programme.
Socio-legal studies and the humanities
Date: 5 November 2008
Venue: Insitute for Advanced Legal Studies, London
Keynote Speaker: Melanie L Williams, Professor of Literary Jurisprudence, School of Law, Exeter University, author of Secrets and Laws – Collected essays: true tales of law, lives and literature.
Academic Coordinator: Dermot Feenan
- Final abstracts
- Final programme
- A report of this event is available in the spring 2009 issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter.
Grant-writing workshop
Date: 6 November 2008
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London
Discussants: Professor Sally Wheeler and Professor John Morrison
Organiser: Anne Barlow
Justice, power and law: in pursuit of development
Date: 10 December 2007
Venue: Birkbeck, University of London
- Programme and selected abstracts
- Julio Faundez, The World Bank's Dilemma: Rule of law promotion or doing business
Powerpoint - Andreas Kotsakis, Locality of Tension: The entry of community into biodiversity
Powerpoint - Fiona Macmillan, Development, Cultural Self-Determination and the World Trade Organization
Powerpoint - June McLauglin, Dispute Resolution at African Stock Exchanges
Powerpoint - Valentina Sara Vadi, International Knowledge Governance and Investment Agreements: The case of access to medicines
pdf of article published in the Journal of World Investment and Trade
Examining text books
Date: October 2007
Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London
Facilitators: Anthony Bradney, Helen Carr, Fiona Cownie, Kate Malleson, Linda Mulcahy, Sally Wheeler,
Sessions:
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What are textbooks for?
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Should we write textbooks?
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Do we need textbooks?
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Textbooks and the RAE
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Different kinds of textbooks (interactive textbooks, cases and materials, textbooks for non-lawyers)
New ethical challenges in socio-legal research
Date: September 2004
Venue: University of Westminster
Organiser: Anne Barlow
- A report of this event was published in the winter 2004 issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter.
Innocence Projects Colloquium
Date: 3 September 2004
Venue: University of Bristol
Organisers: Michael Naughton and Carole McCartney
- A report of this event was published in the winter 2004 issue of the Socio-Legal Newsletter.