Socio-Legal Studies Association
Where law meets the social sciences & humanities

News: conferences, events and seminars


This page contains details of conferences, events and seminars either organised and run by SLSA members or of interest to them.

Once posted, entries will be retained until they have taken place. If you would like your event included on this page, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

2023

June  July  August  September  October  November


Latest  events . . .

Digitalisation of Civil Justice Systems in Europe and Access to Justice, online and in-person from Radboud University, Netherlands 

Conceptualizing a Decolonizing Rule of Law for Animals, Liverpool Law School

‘Substituted Parenting’ in the family court context – Project Report Launch, online from Nuffield Foundation

Designing for Inclusion Launch, online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

SLSA events and co-sponsored events 

The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System Conference, Birmingham

Fantasy Legal Exhibitions, London: call for participants

Prisoner Rights – Time for a rethink?, University of Liverpool

Socio-Legal Approaches to Protecting Athletes from Financial and Physical Harm: Challenges, reflections and solutions, Manchester Metropolitan University


2023


June

The Future of Parole: Ideas, institutions and practices

Dates: 1–2 June 2023

Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain

See website for details.

LSA Annual Meeting 2023

Dates: 1–4 June 2023

Venue: Caribe Hilton, San Juan, Puerto Rico

See website for details. 

Lessons of Resilience and Social Inclusion from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Date: 1–2 June 2023

Venue: Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London

See website for details of this British Academy event.

Global South Network Second Guest Lecture: Reinforcing Democratic Values Through Online Hearings – the Maldives Experience

Date: 5 June 2023

Venue: online

Speaker: Honourable Dr Azmiralda Zahir, Justice of the Supreme Court of Maldives

See website for details of this free event.

Academy of Social Sciences 24th AGM and 2023 Annual Lecture

Date: 5 June 2023

Venue: The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London

Speaker: Professor Lucie Cluver

See website for details.

Post-Brexit Governance of the United Kingdom’s Territorial Constitution

Date: 6 June 2023

Venue: Liverpool and online

See announcement for details. 

The Vulnerable Legal Subject and Responsive Law

Date: 7 June 2023

Venue: online VSR event

See website for details.

‘Substituted Parenting’ in the family court context – Project Report Launch

Date: 7 June 2023

Venue: online from Nuffield Foundation

See website for details.

Access to Justice in the South West 2023: Responding to crisis

Date: 8 June 2023

Venue: Reed Hall, University of Exeter

See website for details of this Public Law Project event.

top

The Future of Housing: Resilient property perspectives and sustainable solutions

Dates: 8–9 June

Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain

See website for details.

Socio-Legal Approaches to Protecting Athletes from Financial and Physical Harm: Challenges, reflections and solutions

Date: 9 June 2023

Venue: Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University

See website for details. This event is supported throught the SLSA Seminar Competition.

The Treatment of Immigrants in the European Court of Human Rights 

Date: 12 June 2023

Venue: Moot Court, University of Sheffield School of Law, and online

Author meets Reader event at the Centre for Criminological Research with Dr Amanda Spalding. See website for details.

Oxford Centre: Annual Lecture 2023, Wolfson College

Date: 13 June 2023

Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford, 5pm–6.30pm

Theme: Possession Island: Queering Art, Queering Law

Guest Speaker: Professor Des Manderson, ANU College of Law & College of Arts and Social Sciences

All welcome, but booking is necessary. Drinks will be served afterwards. See website for details.

One-day Symposium on Sexuality, Nationality and Asylum: The New Plan for Immigration

Date: 14 June 2023

Venue: Oxford Brookes University

Organisers: Dr Alex Powell, Lecturer in Law, Oxford Brookes University with the support of The Fundamental Rights and Equality Research Group, the Critical Legal Perspectives on Law, Society, Gender and Diversity research Group, and the Migration and Refugees Research Network, all at Oxford Brookes University. See announcement  for details. 

Democracy in Crisis? Perspectives on democracy, government and participatory politics in both domestic and international legal contexts

Date: 14 June 2023

Venue: The Athenaeum, Liverpool

See website for details and registration for this free event hosted by the Centre for the Study of Law in Theory & Practice (LTAP), Liverpool John Moores University

Designing for Inclusion Launch

Date: 15 June 2023

Venue: online from Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford

See announcement and website for details.

UKRI Open Access Policy: longform publications

Date: 15 June 2023

Venue: UKRI webinar

See webpage for details and registration.

top

Legal Epistemic Authority in a Sociological and Comparative Perspective

Dates: 15–16 June 2023

Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain

See website for details.

Digitalisation of Civil Justice Systems in Europe and Access to Justice

Date: 16 June 2023

Venue: online and in-person from Radboud University, Netherlands 

Speaker: Dr Dory Reiling

Organised by Research Group Institutions for Conflict Resolution. See website for details. 

CRoLEV Summer School and Research Workshops: call for participants

Dates: 15–16 June 2023

Venue: UCLAN Cuprus Campus and online.

See website for details. Deadline to apply: 5 June 2023.

British Academy Summer Showcase

Date: 17 June 2023

Venue: Carlton House Terrace, London

See website for full programme. You can reserve a place at this free event or drop in on the day.

Law in Context Early Career Workshop

Dates: 19–20 June 2023

Venue: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College Oxford

See announcement for full details. 

Conceptualizing a Decolonizing Rule of Law for Animals

Date: 21 June 2023

Venue: School of Law and Social Justice Building, University of Liverpool

See announcement and website for details.

Adversarialism, Participation and Voice in the Criminal Process: International and Comparative Perspectives

Dates: 22–23 June 2023

Venue: School of Law, University of Limerick, Ireland

See annnouncement and website for details. 

top

Constitutionalism and Political Economy: New trajectories and opportunities for socio-legal scholarship

Dates: 22–23 June 2023

Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain 

See website for details.

ISA World Congress of Sociology: Session on Transnational Queer Politics and Human Rights

Dates: 25 June–1 July 2023

Venue: Melbourne, Australia

See website for details.

Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference

Dates: 27–30 June 2023

Venue: Oxford Brookes University

See website for details.

Healthcare Law and Regulation Unit (HLRU) Public Lecture given by Professor Sally Sheldon

Date: 28 June 2023

Venue: School of Law and Social Justice Building, University of Liverpool

See website for details.

9th Annual International Weight Stigma Conference

Dates: 28–29 June 2023

Venue: Denver, Colorado, USA

See website for details. There is a rolling deadline for the call for posters.

top

WG Hart Workshop 2023: Theorists in company law

Dates: 29–30 June 2022

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London

See website for details.  

Global South Network Third Guest Lecture: Mexican Supreme Court of Justice – current goals and challenges

Date: 29 June 2023

Venue: online

Speaker: Ramón Cossío, Former Justice Mexican Supreme Court

See website for details of this free event.

Contextualizing Racialized Social Control in Criminology: Race and Justice Seminar Series

Date: 29 June 2023

Venue: online from University of York

See website for details.

Persistent Imbalances in International Trade and the Prospects for Sustainable Development: Focus on the developing countries: call for papers extended

Dates: 30 June–1 July 2023

Venue: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

See website for details. The deadline for the abstract submission was 30 April 2023, but the selection is continuing on a rolling basis. If you are interested in applying, please contact the organizers as soon as possible. Applications can be still submitted via e-mail to both the following addresses: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

top


July

Sixth Tax Policy Conference

Dates: 3–4 July 2023

Venue: Centre for Tax Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

See website for details. 

International Conference 'Combating Gender-based Violence'

Dates: 3–6 July 2023

Venue: Lille University, France

See announcement for Panel 1 and Panel 2 for details. 

VSR Yearly Conference 2023: The next generation

Date: 6–7 July 2023

Venue: University of Amsterdam

See website and announcement for details. 

Family Justice and Mental Incapacity

Dates: 6–7 July 2023

Venue: IISL, Oñati, Spain 

See website for details.

Authoritarianism and Genocide: Narratives of exclusion 

Dates: 10–14 July 2023

Venue: Barcelona, Spain

This is the 16th Biennial Meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. See website for details.

top

Law and Humanities Roundtable 2023

Date: 14 July 2023

Venue: online and University of Verona

See announcement for details. 

Fantasy Legal Exhibitions

Dates: 18–19 July 2023

Venues: British Museum, Postal Museum, Middle Temple and  IALS, London

See announcement for details. This event is supported through the SLSA Seminar Competition.

Prisoner rights – Time for a rethink?

Date: 26 July 2023

Venue: School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool

See website for details. This event is supported throught the SLSA Seminar Competition.

Ninth Biennial Conference on Applied Legal Storytelling

Dates: 26–28 July 2023

Venue: City Law School, University of London

See announcement for details. 

Just Transition and Environmental Justice: Principles, practice and implementation strategies for a post-oil future – call for papers

Dates: 26–28 July 2023

Venue: University of Bradford and online

See announcement, invitation and website for details. Call closes: 8 June 2023.

Book Launch: Neuroscientific Perspectives of Vulnerable Defendants in the Courtroom by Hannah Wishart and Colleen M Berryessa

Date: 28 July 2023

Venue: online from University of Sunderland

See website for details. 

top


August

Institute for Peace & Dialogue: 13th Summer Academy – call for participants

Dates: 7–21 August 2023

Venue: Basel, Switzerland

See website for detalis. Closing date for late applications: 30 June 2023.

RCSL Annual Meeting: Law, society and digital pasts, presents and futures

Dates: 30 August–1 September 2023

Venue: Lund, Sweden

Organised by the Sociology of Law Department, Lund University. See website and poster for details. 

Working Group on the Sociology of Constitutions, RCSL Annual Meeting

Dates: 30 August–1 September 2023

Venue: Lund, Sweden

See announcement for details.

top


September

Family Law Reform Now Network Conference: Supporting Families – call for papers

Date: 1 September 2023

Venue: University of Birmingham

See announcement for details. Call closes: 3 July 2023.

Celebrating Women in Legal History: The lives and legacies of early women legal historians

Date: 1 September 2023

Venue:  University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice

See attachment for details. 

Tax Research Network Conference 2023

Dates: 5–7 September 2023

Venue: Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

See website for details. 

International Creative Research Methods Conference

Dates: 11–12 September 2023

Venue: Manchester and online

See announcement for details. 

Pregnancy and the Law

Date: 13 September 2023

Venue: Law School, University of Southampton and online

See announcement for details. 

The Vulnerable Accused in the Criminal Justice System Conference

Dates: 13–14 September 2023

Venue: University of Birmingham

Keynote speaker: Professor Penny Cooper

See website for details. This event is supported through the SLSA Seminar Fund.

top

Sixth Annual Conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Law Forum

Date: 14 September 2023

Venue: Nottingham Trent University

See announcement for details. 

IVR Japan International Conference 2023

Date: 16–18 September 2023

Venue: Chiba University, Japan

See website for details. 

2023 COI congress: Just institutional approaches to conflict prevention and resolution

Dates: 28–29 September 2023

Venue: Utrecht University

See website for details.

top


 

October

SAFI Conference on Punishment

Dates: 5–7 October 2023

Venue: Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

See website for details. 

International Access to Justice Forum 2023

Dates: 11–13 October 2023

Venue: University of California Irvine

Hosted by UCI Law’s Initiative for Inclusive Civil Justice and the Victoria Law Foundation. See announcement for details. 

Argumentation 2023: call for papers

Date: 20 October 2023

Venue: Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

Theme: Performativity in law

See announcement and website for for details. Closing date: 31 July 2023.

Socio-Legal Journals Global South Writing Workshops 2023–2025: Workshop 1 – call for papers coming soon

Dates: 26–27 October 2023

Venues: Kabarak Law School, Kenya, Ghana Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Accra, and online 

See poster and announcement for full details.

top


November

AHRC Being Human Festival 2023: call for applications

Dates: 9–18 November 2023

Venues: UK-wide

See website for details. Closing dates vary. 

Sexual Autonomy, Protection and Identity in Care Settings

Date: 10 November 2023

Venue: Northumbria Law School (with some online sessions)

See announcement for details. Registration opens in September – save the date.

top


December

LSAANZ 2023: call for papers 

Dates: 6–8 December 2023

Venue: University of Technology, Sydney

Theme: Voice, Resistance, and Repair: Law and living together

See website for details. Call closes: 25 August 2023.

top


2024


IVR World Congress 2024

Date: tbc

Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy

See announcement. Further details will be published in due course.


January

The Cultural Techniques of Law – call for papers

Dates: 17–19 January 2024

Venue: University of Helsinki, Finland

See website for details. Call closes:16 June 2023.  

 

 

This site uses cookies to handle logins and for site statistics. No personal data is saved. By using our services you agree that we use cookies.
Ok