Socio-legal news
Welcome to the news section of the SLSA website. This area is divided into the following categories:
- Events
- Publications
- Research and funding
- Vacancies
- Consultations, inquiries and surveys
- Other announcements
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News
SLSA events
Law’s Role in Shaping and Responding to Disability and Motherhood, Reading: call for papers
Irish/English and Welsh/English Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpretation, Cardiff
SLSA PGR Writing Group 2024–2025: first session
Other events
Festival of Social Science, multiple venues
Law and Society Association Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop, Chicago: call for applications – correction to application link
JUSTICE Annual Conference 2024: Protecting the Rule of Law, London: early bird rate closing soon
A Critical Race Theory Analysis of the Attack on Critical Race Theory, online from QMUL
The Power and Potential of Public Education: Translating the Street Law methodology, QMUL, venue tbc
Book Launch: Non-Human Rights. Critical Perspectives by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa & Costas Douzinas, QMUL Mile End and online
Tom Sargant Memorial Lecture 2024: Lord Justice Dingemans, London
Book Launch: Gender, Sexuality and Law: A Textbook, edited by Chris Ashford & Alexander Maine, online
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago: submission deadline extended
Empowering Athletes’ Human Rights: Global research conference on athletes’ rights, The Hague, Netherlands
International Sports Law Journal Conference 2024, The Hague, Netherlands
Climate Change, Displacement and Gender, online from Women in Refugee Law
Publications
New book: Landscapes of Law: Practicing Sovereignty in Transnational Terrain — 30% discount
New book: The Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the Common Good — 30% discount
New book: Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity — 30% discount
New book: Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods — 30% discount
Academy of Social Sciences: October ebulletin
SAFESOC: end of project publications
Public Law Project: latest news bulletin
From Pillar to Post: Barriers to Dealing with Deductions from Universal Credit: PLP Report
Remote Immigration and Asylum Advice: What We Know and What we Need to Know: PLP Report
International Journal of Law in Context – open access from 2025 volume
Research and Funding
British Academy/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships 2024–25: call for applications
UKRI policy on the use of generative AI in application preparation and assessment
Policing Academic Centres of Excellence: call for applications
AHRC Standard Research Grants: call for applications
British Academy: ODA Research Management Capacity Strengthening – open for applications
Vacancies
Two Law Commissioners: call for applications
Consultations
Law Commission Consultation on Burial and Cremation
Other
Dr Agnieszka Kubal appointed new Associate Professor at CSLS, Oxford
Academy of Social Sciences Annual Lecture by Will Hutton: available to view online
Vacancies
Two Law Commissioners: call for applications
The Law Commission is recruiting two new Law Commissioners and is keen to encourage applications from within the membership of the SLSA. See Letter to SLSA Chair for full details. Closing date: 24 October 2024.
British Academy Senior Research Fellowships open for applications
The BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a significant piece of research, through sustained period of leave for one year. See website for details. Closing date: 15 October 2024.
Research Officer, Bangor University
Applications are invited for this fixed-term post in the School of History, Law and Social Sciences. See announcement for details. Closing date: 21 October 2024.
Consultations and surveys
Law Commission Consultation on Burial and Cremation
The Law Commission is seeking to reform the law of burial in England and Wales, which is piecemeal, complex and outdated. It is also gauging solutions for unresolved issues in cremation law. The Commission has published a consultation paper and a summary and is looking for views on its proposals. The consultation is open until 9 January 2025. See website for details.
Department of Health consultation on commencement of provisions under the Mental Capacity Act (NI) 2016 relating to acts of restraint
The Department of Health is undertaking a consultation on the commencement of provisions under the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 related to 'acts of restraint'. See website for details. The consultation will close on 1 December 2024.
Scottish Government consultation on Adults with Incapacity Amendment Act
This consultation seeks views on proposed changes to the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000. See website for details. Closing date: 17 October 2024.
Scottish Government consultation on children's hearings redesign
This consultation is part of a series of steps to ensure that Scotland’s children’s hearings system can be redesigned to build on its strengths so that it can deliver the best possible experience to the children and families in need of its support. See website for details. Closing date: 28 October 2024.
Consultation on guidance on modern slavery and human trafficking
The College of Policing is seeking views on its updated guidance on modern slavery and human trafficking. See website for details. Closing date: 12 November 2024.
Sentencing Council: Miscellaneous amendments to sentencing guidelines
The Sentencing Council is seeking views on a series of proposed changes to existing guidelines in the fourth annual miscellaneous amendments consultation. See website for details. Closing date: 27 November 2024.
Other announcements
Dr Agnieszka Kubal appointed new Associate Professor at CSLS, Oxford
The Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies has announced the appointment of a new Associate Professor, Dr Agnieszka Kubal. Agnieszka will play a key role in advancing the Centre’s regional expertise in Eastern Europe and will lead its research cluster on Lived Experiences of Human Rights. See announcement for details.
Journal of Law and Society and the Centre of Law and Society Special Issue Workshop: call for proposals
This is an open call to conduct a workshop potentially leading to a Special Research Issue of the Journal of Law and Society (subject to quality and space considerations) organised through the Cardiff Centre of Law and Society. See announcement for details. Call closes: 20 November 2024.
Academy of Social Sciences Annual Lecture by Will Hutton: available to view online
AcSS President Will Hutton delivered the AcSS Annual Lecture on 10 October 2024. You can watch the lecture or download a transcript on the Academy's website.
Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law: Invitation to join network
Dr Anna Nelson, University of Sheffield, and Professor Beverely Clough, Manchester Metropolitan University, have set up a mailing list with a view to building an interdisciplinary network of scholars who are interested in 'Shifting Dynamics in Medical Law'. This network is for anyone engaging in – or interested in – work which explores the shifting landscape of medical law as a discipline, from one which is focused on static analysis of legal doctrine to one which is attentive to the different spatial, temporal and agential dynamics which influence the way the law operates in practice.
This mailing list is envisaged as a space to share published papers, books, events, calls for papers, panel proposals for conferences etc. To join, please follow the link and subscribe in the top left corner. If you have any questions, please contact
Five SLSA nominees appointed AcSS Fellows
We are delighted to announce that the Academy of Social Sciences has appointed five SLSA nominees in its latest list of 45 new Fellows. They are: Professor Ana Aliverti, Professor of Law, University of Warwick; Professor Anne-Maree Farrell, Chair of Medical Jurisprudence, University of Edinburgh; Professor Neve Gordon, Professor of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, Queen Mary University of London; Professor Kirsty Horsey, Professor of Law, University of Kent; and Professor Helen Stalford, Professor of Law, University of Liverpool. See website for the full list of new Fellows.
Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff University, appoints new co-directors: Professor Dave Cowan and Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan
Following the appointment of Professor Jiří Přibáň as a Judge of the Czech Constitutional Court and his stepping down as director of the Centre of Law and Society, Professor Dave Cowan and Professor Rachel Cahill-O’Callaghan have taken over as the new co-directors of the Centre. Dave is a former Vice Chair of the SLSA having served twice from 2002–2004 and again from 2008–2011. The Centre is a hub for socio-legal studies, working to promote socio-legal research. See website for details.
Nuffield Foundation Emerging Researchers Network launched
As part of its 80th-anniversary programme, the Nuffield Foundation has launched this new network to invest in the research community of the future. The network supports early career researchers to develop successful careers and build skills in achieving impact, so their findings can influence real-world change. See website for details.
Research Study on the International Reach of Policy Clinics and Policy Work in Law Schools: invitation to participate
Rachel Dunn (Leeds Beckett University), Lyndsey Bengtsson and Siobhan McConnell (Northumbria University) are conducting research on the reach of policy and law reform clinics in law schools. In policy clinics, students conduct desk-based and/or empirical research for clients that aims to influence policy and/or law reform. This work may be done inside or outside of a law school clinic and may or may not be credit bearing. The research team would be very grateful if you could complete a short survey which is accessible here.
Academic Mentoring: Professor Didi Herman
Professor Didi Herman has retired from Kent Law School and is now offering confidential help to individuals and universities looking to improve scholarship for publication, mentoring, and the REF. See her website for details.
Professor Herman is now also offering expert consultancy to law schools for advance preparation for REF 2028.