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
If you are organising a conference, workshop, seminar or other event and would like it to be advertised to SLSA members, please contact
See our Seminars page for details of other SLSA-supported events.
Past events
The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System: 13–14 September 2023
Influencing Law Reform: Tips for Effective Engagement with the Law Commission: SLS/SLSA/ALT Webinar
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 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.