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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New for week ending 14 October 2021
Events
PhD Application Workshop, online from York Law School
Decertification: What can Removing Sex from Legal Personhood do? Kitchen Table Chat online from Sexuality and Law Research Cluster
But that’s what it says … Seminar with founder of theatrical jurisprudence, Honorary Professorial Fellow Marett Leiboff, online from LIRC, Universiyt of Wollongong, Australia
Book Launch: Properties of Law by Kaarlo Tuori, online from Helsinki Socio-Legal Initiative
The Centre for Climate Crime and Justice: 2021 inaugural lecture, QMUL, London
2021 Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium, online from QMUL
'Authoritarian Constitutions' Online Series: Democracy, the rule of law, and the rise of populism: ‘illiberal democracy’ within Europe, online from QMUL
QMUL Immigration LLM Annual Lecture 2021, online from QMUL
Book Launch: The New Sex Wars: Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era, online from QMUL
Meet the Practitioners: 5 Conversations between key practitioners in borders, immigration and asylum law and practice from a UK perspective, online from QMUL
SLSA events and co-sponsored events
LSA Global Meeting 2022, hybrid conference, online and Lisbon, Portugal: submissions c;pse: 10 November 2021
LSA Graduate Student and Early Career Workshop 2022, online and Lisbon, Portugal: call for applications
Mental Capacity in the Context of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy, Keele University
Publications
Access to Justice for Vulnerable and Energy-Poor Consumers: Just Energy? by Naomi Creutzfeldt et al – 20% discount
Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 11, by Sue Farran et al – 20% discount
Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies CSLS blog: Dr Lucy Series on 'Social Care Detention: A Socio-Legal Puzzle'
Research
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2022: funding call
British Academy: Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU Partners
Vacancies
Research Associate, University of Sheffield, School of Law
PhD funded scholarships, School of Law, University of Sheffield
Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and European Union Law, University of Stirling
Vacancies
Research Associate, University of Sheffield, School of Law
Applications are invited for this full-time, 18-month post. Please see website for full details.
PhD funded scholarships, School of Law, University of Sheffield
Applications are invited for these full-time and part-time scholarship from individuals both in the UK and overseas. See announcement for details. Closing date: 12 November 2021.
Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law and European Union Law, University of Stirling
Applications are invited for this full-time, open-ended post. See website for details. Closing date: 2 November 2021.
Professor of Sociology of Law, Lund University, Sweden
Applications are invited for the above post. See website for details. Closing date: 21 November 2021.
UK Committee on Research Integrity: Appointment of chair and members
UK CORI was launched on 15 September and is now seeking to appoint the inaugural chair and founding members. See website for full details. Closing date for all positions: 22 October 2022.
Lecturer (business and law), Manchester Metropolitan University
Applications are invited for the above permanent post. Please see website for details. Closing date: 24 October 2021.
Lecturer in family law, University of Sussex
Applications are invited for the above vacancy. See website for details. Closing date: 18 October 2021..
Consultations, inquiries and surveys
Can you help a team at the Oxford Centre for Socio-legal studies support people attending hearings online?
A team at the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal studies, led by Linda Mulcahy, has been funded by the ESRC to help develop some short introductory films for tribunal users who are due to appear in court online. The team are working in partnership with HMCTS on this project. They have developed a short pilot film aimed at helping members of the public and are in the process of testing it out with as many people as possible in the hope of better meeting the information needs of lay users. Do you have 15 mins to watch the film and give the team some feedback?
The film and survey are accessible via this link.
If you know of anyone else who may be interested in taking part, then please feel free to circulate the survey to them as well.
For more information or to discuss this project with me or another member of our project team, then please don’t hesitate to get in contact with This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. Thanks for your help!
Other announcements
Queer Judgments Project: call for expressions of interest
The Queer Judgments Project is an initiative that evolved from discussions on how legal judgments related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) could have been written in more appropriate terms in light of the legal framework at the time. This initiative is inspired by past similar projects, such as the Feminist Judgments projects (in the UK, Ireland, Australia and USA), the Children’s Rights judgments project, the upcoming Earth Law judgments project and Alex Sharpe’s article 'Queering Judgment’. Please see announcement for full details. Closing date for expressions of interest: 19 October 2021.