Category Archives: Law and Society

Law & Society Association Junior Scholar Essay Competition

The Law and Society Association has announced a call for short essays from junior scholars on the following topic: What is the future of socio-legal studies, what new possibilities exist,…

Poverty in the New Gilded Age: Inequality in America—Washington, DC

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law presents Poverty in the New Gilded Age: Inequality in America April 2, 2014. Abstracts are due Jan. 10, 2014. See…

The New Frontiers of Privacy Harm—Boulder, CO

The Silicon Flatirons Center (“A Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado) presents The New Frontiers of Privacy Harm Jan. 17, 2014. mw

Postdoc Fellowships—Violence/Non-Violence—Cambridge, MA

The Mahindra Humanities Center (Harvard University) invites applications for one-year postdoctoral fellowships in connection with the Center’s new Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on the topic of violence/non-violence. Applicants for…

The Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law presents International Congress on: Global-regional-local. Institutions, relations, networks. Past and future of the sociology of law May 21-23, 2014. The deadline…

Language and Law in Social Practice—Caserta, Italy

The Centre for Research in Language and Law (RILL) of the Second University of Naples (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli) Department of Law presents the 3rd International Conference on…

Call for Conference Proposals: Socio-Legal Studies Association

The Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) is keen to sponsor one-day conferences of interest to the socio-legal community. One-day conferences should be self-funding, although the SLSA is prepared to underwrite them…

Socio-Legal Studies Association—Aberdeen, UK

The Department of Law, Robert Gordon University hosts the Socio-Legal Studies Association annual conference April 9-11, 2014. The conference organisers are Sarah Christie and Margaret Downie. Panel proposals are due…

Nottingham Trent University

Crime & Media in Historical & Contemporary Perspective—Nottingham, UK

Nottingham Trent University presents Crime and Media in Historical and Contemporary Perspective: A Research Symposium Nov. 15, 2013. mw

Legal Ethics at a Time of Regulatory Change—London, UK

The International Association of Legal Ethics presents the 2014 International Legal Ethics Conference VI, “Legal Ethics at a Time of Regulatory Change,” July 10-12, 2014, at City Law School London….