Socio-Legal Studies Association

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Welcome to the SLSA – where law meets the social sciences and humanities.

This website contains information about the SLSA and our aims and objectives. You can find out how to join and about the many benefits of membership. There are details on all our activities including our successful socio-legal prizes, our small grant scheme, our new seminar competition and our popular annual and postgraduate conferences. You will also discover a wealth of material relating to socio-legal studies – much of it in classified form in our extensive research area.

SLSA news and important dates

• SLSA seminar competition winners announced 
• SLSA one-day conference: Exploring the 'socio' of socio-legal studies, 3 November 2010: call for papers. Call closes 1 June 2010 
• SLSA 2010 prizewinners announced 
• Free prize draw: all members who have updated their Online Directory profiles by 10 May 2010 are eligible to be entered into a prize draw
• Please see our News page for details of recent announcements about: research, publications, vacancies, events and networks. If you would like an item added to our news page, please contact Marie Selwood
• SLSA events:
  University of the West of England hosting SLSA 2010 31 March to 1 April
  University of Sussex to host SLSA 2011
  SLSA-supported seminar: 'Socializing economic relationships - new perspectives and methods for analysing transnational risk regulation', 15 & 16 April 2010, Oxford
  One-day conference, 'Exploring the "socio" of socio-legal studies', 3 November 2010
• SLSA Statement of Principles of Ethical Research Practice: extensively revised and updated, now available for download

Aims of the SLSA

'To advance education and learning and in particular to advance research, teaching and the dissemination of knowledge in the field of socio-legal studies.'

The SLSA achieves these aims in a number of different ways:

• meetings, conferences, seminars
• research grants
• prizes
• publications
• liaison with policy makers and research funders
• supporting students
• and many other activities

Details of the SLSA's aims and objectives can be found in our Constitution: download it in Word or pdf format.

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