Socio-legal news
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- Publications
- Research and funding
- Vacancies
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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
Victims and the Labour of Justice at the International Criminal Court: The Blame Cascade, Manchester Metropolitan University
British Academy: The European Research Context for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Facing Antisemitism: The struggle for safety and solidarity, Birkbeck, London: research report launch
‘What’s Next for Feminism?’ LSExSWIP 2025 Conference in Feminist and Gender Theory, London: call for papers
Summer Academy for Feminist Legal Studies 2025, University of Hamburg: call for speakers
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Law and Disputing in Early Medieval Britain – Oxford and online
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: How is it possible to write a global history of laws? – Oxford and online
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Criminalising the Unspeakable: Rethinking the history of sodomy – Oxford and online
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Seminar: Rituals of Law: Legal Cosmopolis in an Early Modern Indian Ocean Port – Oxford and online
Screening: Judges Under Pressure, Mansfield College, Oxford
The Rights of Lough Neagh, online from Queen's University Belfast
The MacDermott Lecture: Revisiting the Public/Private Divide: Corporations, legal education and the common good in a globalized world, Queen's University Belfast
The Digitalisation of Defence Rights: Time for new perspectives … and directives?The Digitalisation of Defence Rights: Time for new perspectives … and directives?, KU LEuven, Belgium, and online
Law and the Critique of Political Economy: 60th Anniversary of Reading Capital, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia: call for papers
Rethinking Gender, Sexuality, and the Law: A Conversation between Feminist Scholars in Postcolonial South Asia and the UK, Cardiff: call for abstracts
Publications
Research
AHRC funding opportunity: ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI – UK/US collaborations
Vacancies
Other
Gustav Figdor Award for Law, Social Sciences and Economics: open for applications
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.
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
- 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
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: 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
Gustav Figdor Award for Law, Social Sciences and Economics: open for applications
The Gustav Figdor Award for Law, Social Sciences and Economics is awarded for outstanding scholarly works in the fields of jurisprudence and legal theory, the social sciences and economics that are regarded as achievements equivalent to a habilitation and have been published or accepted for publication by a publishing house (peer review) no more than two years before the date of submission. In 2025, applications are accepted from scholars in the fields of jurisprudence and legal theory. See website for details. Closing date: 20 March 2025.
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.