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Where law meets the social sciences and humanities: advancing education, research, teaching & knowledge in socio-legal studies.
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🚨This is a fabulous Blog series for the SLSA on #Climate (im)mobilities/ Please do check it out this weekend.

Check out this blog post from January by Edward Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social and Will Smith @willsmithvision.bsky.social

Looking forward to spending time thinking about law, disability and motherhood at this event in March organised by Jaime Lindsey and supported by @slsauk.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/laws-role-...

New Blog Post by Dr Katie Hunt at University of Lincoln Misageyny: Equality Law and the Bias Against Older Women slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-po...

@slsauk.bsky.social holds a triannual writing group for PGRs conducting socio-legal research; our second session of the year is scheduled in a week's time, 12Feb! We also have a special guest from the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand! Do sign up, limited spots left!

Many congratulations!

Thanks to the @slsauk.bsky.social for shortlisting our book 'Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers' for their Hart-SLSA Prize 2025! @cbarnard.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social @ukandeu.bsky.social. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/low-paid-eu-...

Many congratulations!

Really honoured that School Tasking (@schooltasking.bsky.social) has been shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Studies Association's (@slsauk.bsky.social) Annual Impact Prize 🤩 So many people work ridiculously hard in keeping the momentum going with this project in these most difficult of times 🤍

Early bird rate closes today!

Early bird registration for SLSA 2025 @livunislsj.bsky.social closes on 5 February 2025! Access to all conference activities, drinks reception and Gala Dinner in Liverpool's iconic St George's Hall. Note: places at the dinner are limited and may not be available for standard and late registration.

The SLSA Board has opened the call for future hosts for the SLSA Annual Conferences in 2027 and 2028. Any institutions keen to host have a look at the website. As the SLSA grows these conferences can have upwards of 500 delegates 🙌🥳 Closing date: 31 March 2025. See slsa.ac.uk/index.php/ne...

Second week of our @slsauk.bsky.social Special Issue on Climate (Im) Mobilities: read "‘The #Climate #Refugee’ – a short review: Developing new solutions through the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable #Environment" by Carla Field (University of Leicester) slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-po...

Attending the SLSA (@slsauk.bsky.social) Conference 2025? We're offering a bursary scheme to help with attendance costs! To qualify, you must have an accepted abstract or an invitation to participate in a session. ⏰ Applications close Fri 14 Feb 👉Find out more and apply: bit.ly/slsa-bursaries

Next session of the writing group for @SLSA_UK PGRs is 12/2/25 -🖊️and catch up. Attendance capped at 25 - first-come, first-served basis to facilitate meaningful discussion. Please register here: forms.gle/fdkGgcexB17z.... Deadline: 11:59pm UK time on 5th February 2025. New format!

🌏 Our @slsauk.bsky.social blog series on #climate (im)mobilities is out! This special issue includes some of the papers presented at our workshop in Nottingham last year. Read my editorial written with @arapilessara.bsky.social & Pratik Purswani here 👇 slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-po...

Looking forward to a great 2 days in Manchester for the @slsauk.bsky.social PGR conference @manmetuni.bsky.social - lovely law school building.

We’re thrilled to be hosting the SLSA (@slsauk.bsky.social) Conference this year – the UK’s premier socio-legal research event! 📚✨ Join us in Liverpool, April 15-17, to engage with leading experts in the field & experience all this vibrant city has to offer. 👉 Find out more: bit.ly/slsa2025

Abstracts deadline for papers and posters for the SLSA conference is TODAY www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202... Get them in NOW

Happy New Year #SocioLegal scholars! The call for abstracts for the @slsauk.bsky.social conference CLOSES TODAY, 6 Jan! Please send in any last-minute abstracts for the #Lawyers and #LegalProfessions stream. Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...

Its @slsauk.bsky.social Blog Friday... The Human Side of Health Apps: Why User Experience Matters By Lyla Latif slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-po...

TODAY IS THE DAY! Please complete our EDI survey - I've just done it. Takes less than 10 minutes.

📢 Only one day left to share your views with the SLSA through this anonymous, 10-minute survey. Thanks in advance!

This week, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies is marking Disability History Month! We have just published a special post by Bev Clough and Ruby Reed-Berendt who explore developments in disability law and consent whilst noting the lasting traces of the past: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/mental-capac...

(Conference committee includes UoPLaw colleagues and as advertised by the @slsauk.bsky.social and SLS today) Digital Rights (online conference) 23 January 2025 10:00-16:30 (British time) Call for Abstracts Abstract deadline: 9 December 2024 Call at e.g. slsa.ac.uk/images/2024_...

All SLSA members, please do fill this in if you can - it's super important for us to keep abreast of this information.

If you are interested in anything relating to disability, identity, and social justice, please join us in the DLSJ stream at the @slsauk.bsky.social conference, especially if you are an ECR! CfP deadline is Dec 18. Drop me a message if you have any questions!

Right, as of this second, if I have liked your reply, I have added you. Keep screaming at me to add people, though! We got an @slsauk.bsky.social community to build people!!!

Morning, folks. We are just over 80 people on this SP, and I know there must be more of you out there, so please share, etc. If I've liked your comment, all the names in it, including yours, have been added! This really helps out @slsauk.bsky.social, so I appreciate it!

Thanks @glexareen.bsky.social - much appreciated and this will get us off to a great start

Hey folks, help me out with this one? I'm putting together a starter pack for socio-legal scholars for @slsauk.bsky.social and others to use. Let me know if you or anyone else should be added! go.bsky.app/T5W1tVv

You know the current topic I'm gonna tell you to submit your abstracts to - do not resist. 'The Law(s) of the Future' are inevitable. Send me all your papers!

Just under a month left to submit an abstract to the Mental Health and Mental Disability Law stream ⬇️ Struggling with an idea for a paper? Consider presenting on an aspect of the new Mental Health Bill or developments from other jurisdictions. We welcome a wide range of topics and approaches!

Here is a link to the second #SLSA EDI survey. The survey is anonymous and will take less than 10 minutes to complete. It asks about your characteristics and your experiences as a member of the SLSA. Closing date is 13 December at 5pm. slsa.ac.uk/index.php/ne...

Five posts on here now, but please be patient with me. Trying to follow people back but it will take a while to build up. Still getting my head around it all (whilst also still posting on the other place as we have a lot of followers on there). ALT text is better on here-has suggested wording - Yay!

In this week’s #Frontiers, 📚A Good Read section, Dr Dominik Krell (CSLS Oxford) reviews David Graeber and David Wengrow's new book, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Penguin Books, 2022). Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/what-if-the-...

Pleased to use my first post here to say that we're running the Disability, Law and Social Justice stream again at the @slsauk.bsky.social 2025 conference. We'd love to hear about all your DLSJ-related research! Deadline for abstracts is 18 December www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-2025/ #slsa2025

New #SLSA blog post 'Does Right to Life equate to Life with Dignity?' by Maral Nosratzadeh Postgraduate Researcher and Teaching Assistant, University of Leeds, School of Law slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-po...

☺️The deadline for abstracts for the #SLSA2025 annual conference @liverpooluni.bsky.social is 18 December - don't miss out. Lots of lovely streams and current topics and people to discuss your socio-legal research with. Early bird registration, also open. See: www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...

What if a citizens’ assembly were to design a future Cyprus peace process? Report on experimental workshop focused on practical + imaginative dimensions of deliberation organised w Meltem Samani (Cyprus Peace + Dialogue Centre) + @FionaMullenCY.bsky.social 🙏 @SLSAUK.bsky.social for £ wp.me/p9jYIY-Yq

New in blogs - SLSA_UK Guest series 'Preserving Public Values in The Automated State' by Orla Lynskey @lynskeyo.bsky.social UCL Laws and the College of Europe, Bruges and Giulia Gentile Essex Law School. linkedin.com/in/orla-lyns... linkedin.com/in/gentile-g... slsablog.co.uk/blog/uncateg...

Ok here we go... our first foray in the SLSA community into Blue Sky - be gentle!