Socio-Legal Studies Association


Where law meets social sciences & the humanities

Past Annual Conferences

The SLSA has been running an Annual Conference since it was founded in 1990. Our conferences are central to our objective of the dissemination of knowledge in the field of socio-legal studies. The conference moves around the UK, hosted by a different academic institution every year. Below is a full list of the conference venues since our debut conference with links to the host law schools and archived conference websites where available.


2024

University of Portsmouth

  • conference programme

2023

University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Derry-Londonderry

2022

University of York, hosted by York Law School – this was the SLSA's first ever hybrid conference

2021

Cardiff University, hosted by Cardiff Law Schoo' - this was the SLSA's first ever virtual conference

2020

University of Portsmouth (cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis)

2019

University of Leeds

2018

University of Bristol Law School

2017

Newcastle Law School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

2016

Lancaster Law School, Lancaster 

2015

Warwick Law School, Warwick 

2014

School of Law, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

2013

York Law School, York

2012

Leicester De Montfort Law School, Leicester

2011

Sussex Law School, Brighton

2010

Bristol Law School, University of the West of England, Bristol

2009

Leicester De Montfort Law School, Leicester

2008

Manchester Law School, Manchester

2007

Kent Law School, Canterbury

2006

School of Law, University of Stirling

2005

Liverpool Law School, Liverpool

2004

School of Law, Glasgow University

2003

Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University

2002

Law Department, University of Wales, Aberystwyth

2001

Law School, University of Bristol

2000

School of Law, Queen's University Belfast

1999

University of Loughborough

1998

Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester

1997

Cardiff Law School, University of Wales, Cardiff

1996

Southampton Law School, University of Southampton

1995

School of Law, University of Leeds 

1994

School of Law, University of Nottingham

1993

Law School, University of Exeter

1992

School of Law, Keele University

1991

Leicester Law School, Leicester University

1990

Law School, University of Bristol

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