Socio-legal news
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- 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
Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Human Rights, Brunel University, London
Workshop: Legal perspectives on climate reparations, University of Bristol: call for expressions of interest
Other events
Workshop on Creative Writing in Research: free online event from University of Manchester
The Age of Mistrust?, British Academy, London, and online
Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference: Anatomy of a Crisis, Montreal: call for abstracts
Temporality and Coloniality: Public Lecture by Professor Philipp Dann, QMUL, London
Law and Marxism Book Series: A legal concept of work, online from QMUL, London
Relating Law and Literature in the Long 19th Century, QMUL, London
How to Achieve Justice for Victims and Survivors of International Crimes in Today’s Global Landscape, University of Sussex
Holocaust Memorial Day, in person and online, University of Sussex
WG Hart Workshop 2025 Regulating the Global Movement of Care, IALS, London: cfp extended
Advancing Wellness in Law Network: Digital conversations, online
Sylvia Pankhurst Centre Annual Lecture 2024–2025: Interrogating movement, online from Manchester Metropolitan University
Dysfunctional Governance: 'Crisis', 'scandal', 'tragedy', 'emergency': Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff: call for abstracts
Racial Justice and the Limits of Law, online from University of York
Publications
Latest from Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies: three new posts from the CSLS blog
Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales, by Jennifer Aston and Olive Anderson: 20% discount available
Judicial Appointments Commission: latest issue of Judging Your Future
SAFI Newlsetter: end of year update 2024
NCRM Research Methods News: December 2024
Nuffield Foundation latest newsletter: December 2024
Joseph Rowntree Foundation latest newsletter: December 2024
Public Law Project: Latest newsletter
New journal – Cambridge Forum on AI: Law and Governance
Sentencing Council Submission to Sentencing Review 2024–25
Law and Social Justice: Intersections, challenges and opportunities, edited by Simon Best, James Shipton and Jess Guth: call for abstracts
Legal Education and Social Justice, edited by Jess Guth, James Shipton and Simon Best: call for abstracts
Research
AHRC responsive mode: opportunities to work with researchers in the US, Brazil and Luxembourg
AHRC responsive mode: standard research grants
Vacancies
Barbara Huber Scholarship Program: Max Planck Institute – call for applications
Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Three vacancies: Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships open for applications
Other
British Academy: International Writing Workshops – call for proposals
Create learning materials for NCRM
Vacancies
Barbara Huber Scholarship Program: Max Planck Institute – call for applications
The program is open to outstanding academics from foreign research institutions for particularly innovative research projects that contribute significantly to scientific progress through new perspective, questions, or findings in the subject areas of Criminology, Public Law, or Criminal Law. Each department may award one Barbara Huber Scholarship per calendar year. See website for details. Closing date: 30 September 2025.
Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Reporting to the Professor Linda Mulcahy, The post holder will work at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies as a postdoctoral fellow on a Nuffield Foundation funded project entitled ‘Developing a mixed funding model for free and early legal advice’. See website for details. Closing date: 20 January 2025.
Three vacancies: Nuffield Family Justice Observatory
The Nuffield Family Justice Observatory invites applications for the following posts:
- Head of Practice and Policy: closing date 20 January 2025
- Researcher: closing date 14 January 2025
- Project Officer (Children, Families and Justice): closing date 20 January 2025.
British Academy ODA Global Innovation Fellowships open for applications
The British Academy invites applications for the following fellowships:
- ODA Global Innovation Fellowships 2025 (Remote)
- ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: The Igarapé Institute
- ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: C40 2025
- ODA Global Innovation Fellowships: Conciliation Resources
Closing date for all positions: 19 February 2025.
Baldy Center, University of Buffalo, New York: Mid-career and senior fellowships in legal studies 2025-26 open for applications
The Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo School of Law plans to award Senior or Mid-career fellowships to scholars pursuing important topics in law, legal institutions, and social policy. See webpage for details. Closing date: 24 February 2024.
AHRC International Fellowships for PhD and Early Career Researchers 2025: open for applications
Applications are invited for these fellowships based in the USA, Japan and China. See website for details. Closing date: 13 March 2025. See website for details.
Call for a Volunteer to Join the IALS Library Committee
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London (IALS) is seeking a volunteer to become one of the members representing UK law schools outside of the University of London on the IALS Library Committee. If you are an academic and interested in the national law collections and services provided by IALS Library and in representing the viewpoints of UK law researchers outside of the University of London, the IALS team would very much like to hear from you! See announcement for details. Call closes: 28 February 2025.
ESRC postdoctoral fellowships: open for applications
Applications are invited for these ESRC fellowships for scholars who have completed a PhD at a UK research organisation. See website for details. Closing date: 25 March 2025.
New Generation Thinkers 2025
This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to be ‘researchers in residence’ where they will work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4 and produce a piece of writing to be recorded for radio. See website for details. Closing date: 28 January 2025.
Consultations and surveys
Criminal Justice Modernisation and Abusive Domestic Behaviour Reviews, Scotland
The Scottish Government is proposing a new law about modernising procedures in criminal courts and
a process for reviewing deaths which relate to abusive behaviour within relationships to allow lessons to be learned. See website for details. Closing date: 10 January 2025.
Welsh Government: White Paper on securing a path towards adequate housing, including fair rents and affordability
The Welsh Government invites responses by 31 January 2025. See website for details.
UK Government: Reforming the Right to Buy in England
Responses are invited by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government by 15 January 2025. See website for details.
UK Government: Tackling modern slavery in NHS procurement: proposed regulations and guidance in England
Responses are invited by the Department of Health and Social Care by 13 February 2025. See website for details.
Law Society Consultation: Disabled Children’s Social Care
The Law Commission is reviewing the legal framework governing social care for disabled children in England to ensure that the law is fair, modern and accessible, allowing children with disabilities to access the support they need. See website for details. Closing date: 20 January 2025.
Other announcements
British Academy: International Writing Workshops – call for proposals
The British Academy is inviting proposals for Writing Workshops in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries. See website for details. Closing date: 29 January 2024.
Create learning materials for NCRM
The National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) is offering researchers up to £600 to produce tutorials for its website. The tutorials will focus on a specific research method. They can include videos, graphics, worksheets and datasets. The resources will be help the centre to grow its collection of more than 90 tutorials, which cover a wide range of topics. Researchers are invited to review NCRM’s online tutorials and identify a gap that could be covered by a tutorial. They can then express their interest in producing a resource on this topic by emailing Dr Gil Dekel:
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.