Call For Papers: Socio-Legal Studies Association 2026 Annual Conference, Dance/Law Current Topic

From Dr. Sean Mulcahy, Research Officer, Gender, Law and Drugs Program, LaTrobe University:

The call for papers for the Socio-Legal Studies Assocation's 2026 Annual Conference is open. The conference will be held at the University of Sussex.

We would be delighted if you would consider submitting an abstract to the Dance/Law current topic co-convened by myself and Dr Maria Frederica Moscati (University of Sussex).

You can find out more information here. Just scroll down to 'Dance/Law'.

The deadline for submissions is 30 October 2025. 

If you have any questions or would like any further information, please do reach out. 

 

Forthcoming: Workshop on the Theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions, July 18-19, 2023 @SLSA_UK @aperrykessaris @KentLawSchool @BrunelLaw

A workshop on the theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions will be held on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 July, 2023 in central London.

Organisers: Victoria Barnes and Amanda Perry-Kessaris

Funded by: Socio-Legal Studies Association and Kent Law School

Exhibitions range widely in form, including from spontaneous pop-up to enduring archive, material to digital, and localised to roving. They vary in purpose, including from documentation to deconstruction, resolution to disruption, inclusion to resistance, and query to explanation. They can include artefacts as varied as objects, records, images, sounds, statutes and specimens.

This hands-on workshop is an opportunity to explore exhibition as a legal research practice, and in particular to consider: What might you achieve, for scholarship and the wider world, through the practice of exhibition that cannot be achieved through other research activities? 

By engaging with expert curators, and completing a series of structured tasks in a range of exhibition contexts, participants will be prompted and facilitated to consider exhibition as part of the wider social, political, economic and cultural context of collection and curation; how they might ‘exhibit’ their legal research; and how in so doing they might enhance the quality of their research, as well as its potential impact, within academia and beyond.

Outputs from the event will include a Pop-up Museum of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions. 

For further details, including how to apply, click here.

Details also available here.

Deadline: 28 April 2023

Call For Papers, Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, April 6-8, 2022 @SLSA_UK

 

Call for Papers, Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, 6-8 April 2022

 

We again plan to run a Graphic Justice panel at the SLSA Annual conference.  The 2022 Conference takes place 6-8 April 2022 at the University of York (UK).

 

The call for papers is now open and details of how to submit a paper are here.

Within the Graphic Justice stream we welcome submissions that explore:

 

*       The relationships between comics and related visual media, and law-culturally, socially, formally, theoretically, jurisprudentially.

*       The use of comics and related visual media in law-in practice, education, theory, research.

*       Analysis of comics as objects of legal regulation in their own right-raising issues of definition, ownership, consumption, value.

*       Studies of individual comics, series and genres.

 

Other areas are also welcome. The call for papers closes on 7 January 2022.

 

 

Call For Papers: The Digital Turn in Socio-Legal Studies @Prof_Andra @SLSA_UK

 

CfP: The Digital Turn in Socio-Legal Studies (current topic at SLSA 2022)

 

The Digital Turn in Socio-Legal Studies has - since its inception in the late 1950/mid-1960s to date - been a vital source for our contextual understanding of law in/and society. In following the main currents of societal life, socio-legal studies have considered a diverse range of encounters between law, legal institutions, legal actors, and their social contexts. More recently, a digital turn in socio-legal studies can be observed; the progressive integration of advanced digital technologies in all aspects of our daily lives, the digitisation of law and legal practice, and even the adoption of digital research methods in our socio-legal repertoire, have broadened horizons and unlocked new possibilities for the socio-legal endeavour. Individual paper submissions as well as proposals for complete panels consisting of no more than three papers, are invited for this current topic at the upcoming annual conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), hosted by York Law School (University of York, UK), on 6 to 8 April 2022. PhD students, early career researchers, as well as senior scholars are welcome.  

 

Paper (and panel) submissions should take the conversation beyond the descriptive and the salient, and explore the impact of the digital turn as a conceptual revolution for the sociology of law. The focus is on how the current and ongoing digital turn has fundamentally transformed the study of law and society and law in society. Papers and panels may, for example, consider the extent to which digital architecture informs or “codes” conduct in the legal and societal sphere, how digital platforms create new or alternative realities that increase the plurality and diversity of norms in law and society, or how the pluralisation of communicative possibilities through digitised means facilitates new avenues for dialogue, and also conflict, whether it is at the interpersonal, inter-state, or intra-state level. In decoding the digital turn in socio-legal studies, the papers of this current topic will ultimately reveal and critically consider the new legal conceptions and societal cognitions that have emerged, and that will continue to inform the socio-legal scholarship of the future. 

 

Conference webpage and submission of papers: http://slsa2022.co.uk/site/ 

Current Topic Convenor Contact: Dr Andra le Roux-Kemp (ALeRouxKemp@lincoln.ac.uk) 

Call For Papers and Posters: Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference, 2019

The Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) has opened its call for papers and posters for its April 3-5, 2019 conference. Send proposals by January 14, 2019. The University of Leeds is hosting the conference. More here.