SLSA E‐Newsletter
| Published date | 01 September 2016 |
| Date | 01 September 2016 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2016.00766.x |
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Socio-Legal
No 77
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lSLSA news – pages 3–4
lSLSA Seminar Competition – page 5
lsocio-legal news – pages 6–9
lpublications – pages 9–13
levents – page 14
lSLSA 2016 streams and themes – pages 15–17
lSLSA 2016 call for papers – pages 17–18
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The SLSA Executive Committee is delighted to announce
that Professor Martin Partington has been awarded this
year’s prestigious Prize for Contributions to the Socio-
Legal Community. Dave Cowan and Helen Carr explain
why they nominated him and highlight a few of his many
achievements.
We are delighted that Martin has won this year’s SLSA annual
prize. Martin was a founding member of the SLSA who chaired
its steering committee and organised its first conference in 1990.
Subsequently he served as its chair from 1993–1999. Much of the
stuff that we now take for granted is due to him, for example,
the various ways of interacting with policymakers and
significant subject-specific innovation (housing, administrative
justice) as well as a focus on legal education and even the
directory of members. Martin co-directed the WG Hart
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Lancaster University Law School is looking forward to
welcoming SLSA members and non-member colleagues to
the SLSA annual conference 2016. The Law School has
seen an exciting period of growth and change in recent
years, including a merger with our colleagues in
criminology, while Lancaster University concluded its
50th anniversary celebrations last year.
The conference plenary panel, ‘Social constructions of crime’,
encompasses many of the interests of our research centres, but
also showcases the broad range of areas which socio-legal
studies has influenced and continues to impact upon.
This year, in addition to bursaries for postgraduate
researchers to attend the conference, we are also offering a
number of bursaries to non-higher education charitable
organisations to support their attendance at the conference,
introduce their work to researchers and start to build research
relationships.
The call for papers and posters is now open (see pages
17– 18). Closing date: 6pm, Monday 18 January 2016.
The conference will take place on our 360-acre parkland
campus with views across beautiful countryside and only a
short journey from the Lake District National Park and the
Forest of Bowland and Arnside and Silverdale areas of
outstanding natural beauty. Delegates will also be able to take a
walk through the campus’s 150-year old woodland on our
Woodland Walk, visit the Peter Scott Gallery showcasing
contemporary art, and perhaps take in a show from the
Lancaster Arts at Lancaster programme.
In the city of Lancaster itself, delegates can take a tour round
Lancaster Castle, visit the Ashton Memorial, a Victorian folly set
in the picturesque Williamson Park, or eat and drink at the many
great pubs, restaurants and cafes that Lancaster has to offer.
The conference will continue to be family friendly. We hope
to provide a space for parents and young children away from
the hustle and bustle of the conference. There are also several
holiday schemes available in the area including the local
authority programme of activities, the University Sports Centre
programme and other providers such as Mad Science (details
will be made available when the programmes for the Easter
break are announced).
The university also has an excellent sports centre
encompassing fully equipped cardio and weights gymnasiums,
a swimming pool and a climbing and bouldering wall. If you
want to exercise outdoors, delegates can take on our Trim Trail,
running around campus, or take advantage of the excellent cycle
routes heading away from the campus.
For delegates arriving by train, Lancaster is 1 hour north of
Manchester by rail, and 2.5 hours’ travel from London Euston.
For those travelling by car, Lancaster University Campus is just
off Junction 33 of the M6. If you are visiting from further afield,
Manchester Airport has its own train station with regular
services north towards Lancaster.
Please visit the conference website for further details
wwww.lancaster.ac.uk/law/slsa2016. For queries please
contact the organising committee via eslsa@lancaster.ac.uk.
Workshop on Empirical Research in Law at the Institute of
Advanced Legal Studies in 2005 and founded the Legal
Empirical Research Support Network in 2007.
Martin’s pioneering publications established housing law,
welfare law and administrative justice as significant, and now
flourishing, fields for academic enquiry. Grounded in the real
world and motivated by social justice, his work has prompted
fruitful collaborations with practitioners and policymakers and
inspired a generation of both academic and practising lawyers.
As a law commissioner, Martin used and developed socio-
legal research in an innovative programme of law reform. The
Welsh Assembly is currently debating a Bill that will implement
his proposed reforms to tenure law, affecting the lives of more
than one million people involved in residential renting. Other
notable examples of public service include acting as a consultant
to the Lord Chancellor’s Department/Treasury Review of Legal
Aid (1994–1995), as an expert consultant to the Leggatt Review
of Tribunals (2000–2001) and as a specialist adviser to the House
of Commons Public Administration Select Committee
(2011–2012).
Most of all, though, he has been a wonderful friend to the
next generation of socio-legal scholars.
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research methods and the use of data analysis software (eg SPSS
and NVivo) for SLSA members who do not possess but wish to
acquire these skills and do not have access to sources of
institutional support to do so. The SLSA will provide bursaries
to cover the cost of attendance at a relevant training course
offered by an established provider. See, for example, the courses
offered by the National Research Methods Training Centre at
the University of Southampton wwww.ncrm.ac.uk. Eligible
applicants will be members of the SLSA who are early or mid-
career researchers and not currently undertaking a PhD. Full
details are available at wwww.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes-
grants-and-seminars/research-methods-training-bursaries.
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The aim of this scheme is to support travel and accommodation
for SLSA members who wish to visit and spend up to a week
working with a chosen mentor. Applicants must be paid-up
members of the SLSA who are not currently undertaking a PhD.
Full details are available at wwww.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/
prizes-grants-and-seminars/mentorship-scheme.
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This year’s postgraduate conference is being organised by the
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford. It is
open to both members and non-members of the SLSA and is
FREE (including accommodation in St Catherine’s College and
subsistence but not travel). Sessions are run by top socio-legal
academics from across the UK. Topics usually covered include:
lgiving a conference paper;
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lmanaging your supervisor;
lgetting through your viva;
lacademic job-hunting;
land socio-legal researching.
There is also a free conference dinner on the Thursday evening.
Registration is now open. Please visit the website for further
details and to download the booking form. Closing date for
booking: 11 December 2015. wwww.law.ox.ac.uk/events/slsa-
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membership fee is £40 (student rate £20). Our preferred method
of payment is via the online PayPal facility (available at
wwww.slsa.ac.uk), where you can renew your membership, or
join the association, using a credit or debit card.
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lLost in Translation? From science to regulation
19 January 2016, University of Birmingham
Organiser: Aleksandra Cavoski
See website for details wwww.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes-
grants-and-seminars/seminar-competition#LIT.
lClimate Governance after the Paris Summit
16 March 2016, University of Warwick
Organisers: Celine Tan and John McEldowney
See website for details wwww.slsa.ac.uk/index.php/prizes-
grants-and-seminars/seminar-competition#IEL.
See page 5 for details of this year’s Seminar Competition.
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Ed Mowlam, Bradford University Law School, reports on
his grant project for which he received £1000.
In 2013 I was a very grateful recipient of a £1000 small grant
from the SLSA to support my PhD fieldwork. It was humbling
to receive the SLSA’s recognition of the value of my research at
an early stage in the PhD process. It also came as something of a
lifeline, as I was paying for the PhD by way of a fee-waiver
arrangement with the School of Law at the University of
Bradford, coupling my full-time research with teaching as an
associate member of staff. This was not an ideal arrangement,
but I can have no complaints. Bradford has since employed me
as a full-time lecturer.
My research looks at homelessness and other forms of
destitution among the European Economic Area (EEA) migrant
community in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire. In order to
understand the rights, services and the operation of the legal
framework at the heart of this matter I have conducted
numerous interviews with stakeholders (homeless shelter
directors, outreach workers, homelessness key workers and
former service-user volunteers), local administrators
(Department for Work and Pensions, police and council officers)
and the homeless/destitute EEA migrants themselves,
occasionally with translators present. My use of the SLSA
money effectively boils down to the purchase of incalculable
cups of coffee (or rather, I cannot account for all those for which
I neglected to ask for a receipt). We have all been asked to give
money to the homeless for a hot cuppa, and it was very pleasing
that the SLSA allowed me to formalise this form of charitable
giving, and for allowing a struggling student to continue
supporting the homeless in this small way.
My research is inspired by my work as a trustee of Bradford
Cyrenians, a charity providing shelter and support to mostly UK
nationals. Providers of temporary hostel accommodation, such as
ours, cannot provide shelter for those who are not eligible for
welfare support. Many EEA-migrants who do not satisfy the
habitual residence test standard or otherwise fail to be recognised
as a worker under EU law therefore slip through this welfare gap.
Problems are, of course, exacerbated by issues of substance
dependency, exploitation and an array of cultural and linguistic
barriers. There are organisations which offer some support, but
they were not especially easy for me to find, despite being armed
with extensive local knowledge and all the resources a law PhD
researcher could want. It is even more difficult for a poor recent
arrival, unused to Bradford’s quirks, institutions and support
services and how to navigate them. Crucially, demand far
outstrips supply and many find themselves on the street, in
squats, couch-surfing, paying for sub-standard accommodation,
and relying on the great work of Bradford’s various providers of
free hot meals, day-shelters and advisors.
My fieldwork is now largely complete and I will be
embarking upon the writing-up stage when my work schedule
allows in January 2016. The SLSA grant will be warmly thanked
in my thesis for its role in allowing me to add to what is
currently a frustratingly limited discourse on transnational
homelessness.
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Benefits of SLSA membership include:
lthree 16-page newsletters per year;
lpersonal profile in the SLSA online directory;
ldiscounted SLSA conference fees;
lweekly ebulletin;
leligibility for grants schemes, seminar competition,
prizes, training bursaries and mentorship scheme;
lmembers’ priority in newsletter publications pages;
ldiscounted student membership (with first year free);
lfree annual postgraduate conference;
lstudent bursaries for SLSA annual conference;
ldiscounts on subscriptions to a selection of law journals;
l20 per cent discount on Ashgate, Hart, Palgrave
Macmillan and Routledge books bought online;
lspecial membership category for retired members
. . . and much more. Visit wwww.slsa.ac.uk for details.
Journal of Law and Society (winter 2015)
Articles
Riders on the storm: Wales, the union, and territorial
constitutional crisis – Richard Rawlings
The legal case file as border object: on self-reference and
other-reference in criminal law – Irene van Oorschot and
Willem Schinkel
Judges, conflict and the past – Kieran McEvoy and Alex
Schwartz
Radical transactionalism: legal consciousness, diverse
economies and the sharing economy – Bronwen Morgan
and Declan Kuch
Country rag merchants and English local currencies in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth century – Iain
Frame
From brand performance to consumer performativity –
assessing European trade mark law after the rise of
anthropological marketing – Luke McDonagh
The impact of socio-legal studies in family justice: from
Oxford to Whitehall – Mavis Maclean
Review article
Richard Nobles and David Schiff (eds), Law, Society and
Community: Socio-legal essays in honour of Roger Cotterrell
– Michael King
Book Reviews
Boaventura De Sousa Santos, If God were a Human Rights
Activist – Adam Gearey
Lois Bibbings, Binding Men – Richard Collier
Mariana Valverde, Chronotopes of Law – Andreas
Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos
Amy Ludlow, Privatising Public Prisons: Labour law and the
public procurement process – Roseanne Russell
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This year’s Seminar Competition is now open for
applications. The total prize fund is £10,000.
The money can be used to support the delivery of an individual
seminar or short conference, or a series of events. There are no
restrictions on subject matter, provided that applicants can
show relevance to the socio-legal community. Applicants must
be SLSA members. Applications will not be considered where
the amount of support required is less than £500, or where the
event is targeted at staff or students of a single institution. The
fund has so far supported 18 successful events.
If you are considering an application, please ensure that
your proposal accords with the published guidance,
downloadable from the SLSA website wwww.slsa.ac.uk. If you
have any queries, please contact Rosie Harding
er.j.harding@bham.ac.uk. Closing date: 11 December 2015.
Reports of two SLSA seminars held this year follow.
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Dermot Feenan (lead) reports on this one-day symposium held on
1 July 2015 at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London.
This symposium provided a forum for presentations and
discussion on the relationship between law and compassion,
focusing on the conceptual and theoretical approaches to
compassion, and the relationship of compassion to litigation,
judging and regulation, with particular concern to learn from
critical interdisciplinary and socio-legal approaches.
The keynote speaker was Professor Susan Bandes, DePaul
University, USA, editor of The Passions of Law. Presentations
were given by Dermot Feenan and Daniel Bedford, Portsmouth;
Dr Maks Del Mar, Queen Mary; Dr Iain Wilkinson, Kent;
Dr Marinos Diamantides, Birkbeck; Victoria Butler-Cole,
barrister; Professor Hazel Biggs, Southampton; Judge Anselm
Eldergill, Court of Protection; Professor Jonathan Herring,
Oxford; Professor Jonathan Montgomery, UCL; and Professor
Bettina Lange, Oxford.
Thirty-six people attended the symposium, comprising
postgraduate students, early career and senior academics, legal
and medical practitioners, and members of legal professional
bodies and local government. Feedback after the event was
excellent. One delegate said: ‘It was good to see so many
academics and practitioners together talking in a like-minded
interdisciplinary way.’ Another said: ‘I work in the intersection
of legal and ethical theory with mental health and capacity law,
and the themes raised in the symposium are ones which I intend
to explore in this context in future work.’ For a quarter of
respondents, this was their first SLSA event.
The symposium is one of a number of projects on law and
compassion of the Law and Social Enquiry Group founded in
2014, which is planning an international research group in the
field. The International Journal of Law in Context has agreed to
consider for publication a special issue of selected papers from
the symposium. Two other papers from the symposium, by
Victoria Butler-Cole and Judge Eldergill were published in the
Elder Law Journal, with a commentary on Eldergill’s paper
provided by Feenan, Bedford and Herring in the journal’s
November issue. Further relevant research from the project is
designed also to inform practice, policymaking and legislative
processes, where appropriate.
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David Gurnham reports on his SLSA seminar held at the University
of Southampton School of Law on Friday 25 September 2015.
I am very grateful for the generous support of the SLSA that
made this seminar possible. It was also supported by the Journal
of Law and Society (JLS) as the papers presented are part of a
larger collection submitted for publication in the JLS spring 2016
special issue (also called ‘Law’s metaphors’) that I am guest-
editing. In brief, metaphor is the practice of representing one
thing in the terms of another; a means by which meaning may
be ‘transported’ or ‘carried over’ between, say, the literal and the
abstract. We find this everywhere with regards to law: from the
very language of a ‘body’ of law with the police as its ‘long arm’,
to justice imagined as a blindfolded lady in myriad
representations, to equity as the thick fog that shrouds the
streets of Dickens’ London of Bleak House. This event brought
together a diverse collection of colleagues to discuss the
significance of metaphor in legal language, education and
scholarship: how notions such as law and justice are shaped
consciously and unconsciously by particular uses of metaphor
and how scholars can engage critically with such uses in
understanding and shaping law and legal studies. The open call
for participants via SLSA ebulletins attracted early career
researchers as well as established and senior scholars as
presenters and non-presenting participants (the latter including
postgraduate researchers). I shared chairing duties with Dr Paul
Scott (also University of Southampton School of Law) and a
lively discussion ensued.
In the morning, three papers addressed metaphor in legal
language. Dr Angela Condello (University of Roma Tre) set the
scene by examining the relationship between metaphor and
analogy in legal reasoning and demonstrated how both concepts
may be seen to work in the courts when judges attempt to apply
legal rules in new or previously unforeseen circumstances. This
was followed by Professor Adam Gearey’s (Birkbeck)
presentation on metaphors that may form the basis for action in
the service of invigorating the political community and the
democratic ethos and he used the writings of F W Maitland as a
point of departure. The morning session closed with Dr Julia
Shaw (de Montfort) speaking from a ‘law and literature’
perspective about metaphor in legal culture; she used
metaphors to critique the disciplinary and oppressive aspects of
law and to suggest a way to overcome these by deploying new
and more productive metaphors. After lunch, Professor
Michelle LeBaron’s (University of British Columbia) innovative
paper drew attention to the multiplicity of metaphors and
metaphoric allusions in legal education and the day finished
with my own paper on the metaphor of the ‘uncanny double’ in
writings about rape myth acceptance, locating that strange and
unsettling figure in mock jury research, in scholarship critical of
feminist work on rape myths, and in fictional works such as the
recently popular novel and film Gone Girl.
The discussion was productive and gave presenters whose
work is to appear in the special issue a valuable opportunity to
generate interest in and feedback on their work before final
versions of their article submissions were due. We hope that the
published collection in the JLS will offer a useful contribution to
ongoing debates about the ways that language works to produce
law’s effects and how it can be harnessed to critique the same.
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newsletter, plus information about books, journals and
events. The next deadline is 1 February 2016. Contact Marie
Selwood emarieselwood@btinternet.com or t01227 770189.
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On 7 July 2015 the School of Law, University of Leeds, welcomed
over 65 researchers, practitioners and policymakers for the inaugural
conference of the Community of Restorative Researchers.
The community is an international, interdisciplinary research
network, connecting individuals who work in the field of
restorative practice in different capacities. It promotes an open,
critical dialogue within the field in order to maximise the
benefits and minimise the risks of the growing use of restorative
practices in this and other jurisdictions. The objective of the
event was to contribute towards these goals by enhancing
communication and collaboration between key individuals and
organisations in the field.
The event was introduced by community founder Ian
Marder who spoke about the purpose of the event and network,
as well as outlining some of the practical steps that delegates
could take in order to use restorative principles and practices to
their full potential. He suggested that this might involve the
organisation of local, cross-sector events, as well as the
application of delegates’ knowledge and experience of the arena
of social divisions and reconciliation processes.
A discussion panel followed, on the role of non-state actors
in developing, delivering and regulating restorative practice.
The panel was chaired by research student Roxana Willis from
the University of Oxford and included Ali Gohar from Just
Peace Initiatives, Jon Collins from the Restorative Justice
Council and Andrew Hancock from Darlington Neighbourhood
Resolution. The panel discussed the nature of community
participation and the role of volunteers in delivering restorative
practices, with Andrew speaking passionately about his
experience of managing volunteers. Jon, meanwhile, discussed
the role that his third-sector organisation plays in regulating the
field and Ali outlined his organisat ion’s work to update
indigenous dispute resolution processes in Afghanistan and
Pakistan so that they adhere to human rights values.
A second panel debated the role of state actors in
developing, delivering and regulating restorative practice. It
was chaired by Lizzie Tiarks from Northumbria University, and
featured Jonathan Doak from Durham University and Nicola
Preston and Becky Beard, experienced practitioners and
strategists in the coordination and delivery of restorative justice
at a local level. Jonathan drew a number of comparisons
between the functions of the state in the jurisdictions of
Northern Ireland, on the one hand, and England and Wales, on
the other. Based on their work in Thames Valley and
Gloucestershire respectively, Nicola and Becky delineated the
practicalities involved in implementation. Nicola also
contributed some insights about the use of restorative practice in
educational institutions, while Becky spoke about the
establishment and maintenance of restorative multi-agency
partnerships.
The final session started with a presentation from Deborah
Mitchell, a founding member of RJ Working CIC. Entitled
‘Creating restorative collaborations’, her engaging and
provocative talk outlined the enablers of and barriers to
cooperation between the variety of statutory and third-sector
agencies required to instigate and sustain a viable, local
restorative service. ‘Handshakes are as important as
documents,’ she said, ‘but someone has to extend their hand
first.’ For the remainder of the session, all the day’s speakers and
chairs participated in a final discussion, speaking about their
varied experiences of collaboration in the pursuit of
implementing restorative practices.
Feedback from delegates suggested that the day was highly
successful: attending researchers expressed an improvement in
their understanding of the pressures and constraints of
implementation, while practitioners, project managers and
policymakers said that they would now be more likely to engage
with academia. The range of experience and professions of the
attendees and the positive, friendly atmosphere were both
integral to achieving these ends. We have no doubt that
relationships formed at this event will play a central role in the
development of processes and practices across the country in the
years to come.
Thanks are due to the School of Law, which hosted and
funded the day, and to sponsors Gramlich. We would also like
to thank all participants for making it such a success. It is hoped
that further local, cross-sector events will take place in the
future, including a research dissemination conference in the
autumn of 2016.
The day was dedicated to Professor Nils Christie, a scholar
from Oslo who recently passed away and whose seminal
writings (such as Conflicts as Property and A Suitable Amount of
Crime) underpin much of the discourse in this field.
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Agata Fijalkowski, University of Lancaster, is currently working
on a project considering law as a matter of aesthetics and
memory. It builds upon earlier work concerning the
maladministration of justice in post-dictatorial Europe* and
seeks to make an original contribution to the fields of
transitional justice, comparative criminal justice and, more
broadly, interdisciplinary studies. The study considers the
visual images of political trials carried out in Albania, East
Germany and Poland during the Stalinist period (broadly
1944–1957). The project’s key question considers the power of
the image and what it conveys about the law through the eye of
the observer and the spectator. Some of these visual images
currently form part of these states’ contemporary approaches to
‘remembering the past’, making the complex use of the image,
when handled as part of a transitional justice measure, an
important part of the study.
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Societies (2015) Intersentia (co-edited with Raluca Grosescu) and her
work on the Albanian political dissident, Musine Kokalari 28(3)
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 577–602.
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Professor Tsachi-Keren Paz, Keele Law School, has been
awarded an ESRC Seminar Series grant (£30,300) for his
international project entitled ‘Liability vs innovation: unpacking
key connections’. The 24-month award starts in December and
will bring together jurists, economists, ethicists and medics from
several jurisdictions, including the UK, Australia, the USA and
Israel, to explore from interdisciplinary and comparative
perspectives the theoretical assumptions, empirical findings,
and normative ramifications of the debates about the
relationship between tort liability, disciplinary proceedings,
defensive medicine and innovation, and the practical
implications of legal reforms. The co-investigators are Professor
Alicia El Haj from the Institute for Science and Technology in
Medicine, Keele University, Associate Professor Tina Cockburn,
Queensland University of Technology Law School, Australia,
Dr Michael Fay, Keele Law School, and Professor Richard
Goldberg, Durham Law School.
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During Professor Martha Fineman’s visit to the universities of
Birmingham and Leeds this summer, I had the privilege of presenting
my work to her at Birmingham Law School’s dedicated postgraduate
discussion group.
This event was part of an extensive series of conferences and
lectures that took place across the two universities which were
widely attended by academics who have used Professor
Fineman’s vulnerability theory as a means to understand and
enhance socio-legal and social policy-oriented research. The
discussion group was an opportunity for postgraduate
researchers to hear how their peers were using Professor
Fineman’s work, as well as to informally discuss vulnerability
theory and ask questions concerning two of her most recent
papers. The discussion group took place on 3 September 2015
and was attended by several postgraduate researchers from
UK universities and beyond who are making use of
vulnerability theory.
The discussion group began with three postgraduate
student presentations to Professor Fineman and the group. As
one of these students, I presented the findings of my thesis
(masters by research) that I am currently undertaking at the
University of Leeds. This discusses the way in which
‘vulnerability’ has been used in government policy concerning
the reform of legal aid eligibility for family law matters and the
experiences of litigants who are subsequently attempting to
present their own cases to the family court in the absence of this
support. In addition to hearing Professor Fineman’s feedback on
my work, I found it fascinating to see how other students had
made use of vulnerability theory in areas quite distinct from my
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The Law and Society Association (LSA) has awarded the status of
International Research Collaborative (IRC) to the network entitled
Law, Reason and Emotion.
This IRC brings together scholars from a range of disciplines
studying aspects of the relationship between these key themes –
law, reason and emotion – including in legal reasoning, in the
creation of legal norms, in the behaviour of legal actors
(eg judges, juries, victims, lawyers, defendants) and in the
structure and function of legal institutions, broadly defined. IRC
status guarantees sessions at the LSA conference in Mexico City,
June 2017, with potential for consolidation of the IRC as an
ongoing Collaborative Research Network or Working Group for
future LSA conferences.
The network currently includes over 40 scholars across
disciplinary fields (such as law, classics, history, psychology,
philosophy, criminology and sociology) at leading universities
in the UK, Australia, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Sweden and
the USA. The IRC is coordinated by Dermot Feenan, University
of Portsmouth, and Susan A Bandes, DePaul University, who
plan to edit a special collection of papers from the IRC sessions.
Those interested in membership should: (a) provide details
of their research interests (including publications) related to the
theme ‘Law, reason and emotion’ in not more than 200 words;
(b) confirm that they are willing to present their research on this
theme at Mexico City; (c) indicate whether they would be able to
contribute a paper for publication, and if so, the provisional title.
(Commitment to publish is not required; nor can those who
want to publish papers be guaranteed the opportunity to do so.)
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studentships which will recruit students from October 2019. As
part of this process, it is inviting the arts and humanities
community to reflect and comment on its proposals. The next
stage of development seeks to build upon the strengths and
flexibility of the current arrangements as well as simplify the
AHRC’s approach to doctoral funding.
Further details can be found on the AHRC website
wwww.ahrc.a.c.uk and feedback is invited via a Smart Survey
wwww.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/C3PQ4.
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own. For instance, PhD student Chris Dietz, from the University
of Leeds, presented the ways in which Professor Fineman’s
work is contributing to his assessment of a Danish alternative to
UK gender recognition legislation. In contrast, Ellen Gordon-
Bouvier, from the University of Birmingham, discussed her use
of vulnerability theory in relation to the use of constructive
trusts in the breakdown of cohabitee relationships.
A general discussion of Professor Fineman’s work followed,
in particular her recent papers, which were dedicated reading
for the group. During this session, attending postgraduates
were able to consult Professor Fineman herself on the ways in
which vulnerability theory can contribute to current PhD
projects and future early career research. I found that this
portion of the event was particularly useful as I will be
continuing my project by way of an empirical, interview-based
PhD this autumn and now feel extremely motivated to make use
of a vulnerability-focused analysis derived from Professor
Fineman’s work.
After the roundtable sessions, the group chatted informally
about their projects over refreshments. This was an excellent
opportunity to connect with other PhD students using Professor
Fineman’s work, as well as to receive further one-on-one
critiques from her. This event was of great benefit, particularly
this early on in my research, as it provided the opportunity to
assess the ways in which I and others make use of vulnerability
in our projects and to ensure that we do justice to the theory in
our continued application of it. As a result of this, I believe this
event paved the way for a network of early career researchers
engaging with vulnerability theory, which will prove invaluable
for their future work in this and many other socio-legal fields.
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The Law Commission is currently inviting responses to three
open consultations. They are: Bills of Sale – closing date
9 December 2015; Transfer of Title and Change of Occupancy
Fees in Leaseholds – closing date 29 January 2016; and
Sentencing Law in England and Wales – closing date 9 April
2016. See wwww.lawcom.gov.uk.
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Entries are invited for this annual prize for law teachers who use
high-tech, innovative techniques to engage students. This prize
recognises, rewards and champions innovation in teaching and
learning with a £1200 cash prize. The competition is free to enter
and is open to all law teachers in the UK. Closing date:
15 January 2016. wwww.routledge.com/law/posts/7649
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Dermot Feenan and Andrew Gilbert, acting co-convenors of the
‘Law, politics and ideology’ SLSA conference theme explain why it’s
important to recognise this field at SLSA conferences.
It might seem odd to have a specific theme on law, politics and
ideology at the annual SLSA conferences. Socio-legal scholars
have often contributed to understanding law as ideological and
shaped by the system of political ideas in which it is made. Yet,
at the annual conference at Warwick Law School in 2015, a
theme on this topic was introduced by Graham Gee and
Andrew Gilbert to consider contributions which explored
explicitly the relationships between law, politics and ideology.
The theme attracted 11 submissions, of which eight were
presented at the conference. Dermot Feenan was invited
subsequently to join as co-convenor of the theme. Following the
success of the theme in 2015, we thought it important to
continue the theme for the following reasons.
Firstly, the conjunction of law, politics and ideology
captures much that characterises the quintessence of socio-legal
studies. For instance, there are 395 references to ‘ideology’
within the text of articles in the Journal of Law and Society, with
seven such references in titles of articles (all pre-dating 2003,
most before 1983). In the same journal, there were 644 references
to ‘politics’ within the text of articles (including some citations),
with 29 such references in titles of articles. There is a similar
incidence in the Law and Society Review, and in Social and Legal
Studies there are numerous references to ideology and politics.
So discussion around these terms is very much alive in the
literature.
Secondly, the SLSA, founded in 1990, conceives of socio-
legal studies as concerned with, inter alia, the influence of
politics on law and legal institutions. Critical legal scholarship
has developed and extended analysis in these fields.1
Thirdly, there has been a renewed interest in the place of
ideology and politics in relation to law. US-based scholar
Elizabeth Mertz2(2001) refers to concerns about the absence of
engagement with ideology in law and society scholarship at the
turn of the millennium. Significant political transformations
since then, from the recession of 2008 through seismic shifts to
the left in a number of countries, have posed new questions for
legal scholars in terms of the relations between the state and
law. Such transformations sit alongside re-emerging analysis of
ideologies such as socialism, conservatism and neoliberalism.
Post-structuralist and postmodernist opposition to ideology
as an analytical category in favour of discourse, though
valuable, did not eliminate the need to understand and analyse
ideology3and its new configurations.4
Finally, the annual conferences have traditionally operated
with agreed ‘streams’. In 2015, there were 28 such streams.
These ranged from traditional areas such as ‘Labour law’,
through well-established mixed themes such as ‘Gender,
sexuality and law’ to more recent streams such as ‘Art, culture
and heritage’. Lately, the SLSA has run themes as well as
streams, including ‘Families and work’. The theme ‘Law,
politics and ideology’ invites papers that explicitly make
connections between these fields – though the degree of
connection between each may vary.
One of the challenges for this theme is how to understand
‘ideology’. There are diverse definitions5However, we offer a
working framework as follows: a pervasive normativity of ideas
and concepts held by people or institutions (such as
government) that sustains, typically by concealing, relations of
social power. And it is in the theme’s conjunction of ideology
with politics and the latter’s broad concern with the exercise of
influence over people, principally through governance, that we
hope to stimulate fresh enquiry.
Papers in this theme might include such questions as:
lHow can socio-leg al stud ies ext end unde rstanding of
ideology and politics in relation to law?
lHow is the relationship between the state, law and the
individual conceptualised in particular ideologies?
lWhat political ideas inform law-making (from a
contemporary or historical perspective)?
lHow are political ideas used in law-making, and by whom?
lHow and why do particular political ideas fall in and out of
fashion among law-makers?
The relations between law, politics and ideology might be
explored in diverse ways, eg: between people and institutions;
in formation of social identities, consciousness, and practices; in
different jurisdictional spaces (local/municipal, devolved,
regional, international, global). But above all, we will be inviting
papers (see page 18) – conceptually rich and preferably
empirically based – that bring novel theoretical analysis to the
intersection of law, politics and ideology.
1 M Stone, I R Wall and C Douzinas (eds) (2012) New Critical Legal
Thinking: Law and the political, Routledge
2 E Mertz (2001) ‘Book review: Susan Philips, Ideology in the Language
of Judges’ 30(1) Language in Society 111–15.
3 J Schwarzmantel (2008) Ideology and Politics, Sage
4 R Soborksi (2013) Ideology in a Global Age, Palgrave Macmillan
5 D Hawkes (2003) Ideology, 2nd edn, Routledge
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Professors Jenny Kitzinger and Celia Kitzinger have been
awarded this prestigious ESRC prize for their ESRC-funded
research into the support available for relatives of patients in a
coma, vegetative or minimally conscious state. Many patients’
relatives suffer from feelings of isolation, guilt and confusion
and are often given incorrect legal advice. The team developed
an online resource providing information and support for
families, solicitors and health professionals. The online resource
is available at whealthtalk.org.
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Nominations open in the autumn for the fourth year of this prize
that recognises and rewards the successes of ESRC-funded
researchers who have achieved, or are currently achieving,
outstanding economic or societal impacts. Prizes range from
£5000 to £10,000. wwww.esrc.ac.uk
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This provides funded research fellowships at world-leading
international research institutions for early career researchers,
doctoral-level research assistants and AHRC/ESRC-funded
doctoral students. Placements for 2016 will be in the USA, Japan
and China, are between two and six months in duration and
include a travel grant, visa costs and a monthly stipend. See
wwww.ahrc.ac.uk. Closing date: 21 January 2016.
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Few concerns preoccupy contemporary progressive thought as
much as the issue of how to achieve a sustainable human
society. The problems impeding this goal include those of how
to arrest induced global environmental change (GEC),
disagreements about the contribution of economic activities to
GEC, and differences in views on how these activities can be
reformed to reduce the rate of change and thus mitigate threats
to much life on Earth. This volume aims to help resolve these
problems in two ways. Since addressing GEC requires global
coordination, the book first clarifies the conditions necessary to
achieve this effectively. The author explores these conditions
through analysis of key concepts in influential disciplines,
particularly social and political theory and law, relating to the
transition to a sustainable economy. Second, he tackles the
problem of how to arrest GEC by evaluating two leading
theoretical positions in terms of their capacity to support the
conditions required for effective global coordination. From this
basis, the book offers an extensive critique of the idea that global
environmental problems can be solved within the framework of
global capitalism. It also critically reviews and advances the
proposition that global sustainability can be achieved only by
changing the capitalist form of organising the economy.
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We live in a society that is preoccupied with blame. Bringing
together philosophical, psychological and sociological accounts
of blame, this is the first detailed criminological account of the
role of blame. The authors present a study of the legal process of
blame attribution in the context of criminalisation as a social and
political process. Blame is a prism through which to view
contemporary criminal justice policy and practice. It also has
another function: it can be used to explain and evaluate.
Blaming may be a process worthy of examination but, because
of the potentially adverse consequences of this, it is imperative
to assess whether it is necessary and the finding and
consequences warranted. Just as politicians and the media
readily invoke blame to justify repressive measures, some
criminologists are guilty of dismissing all instances of
criminalisation as further proof of invidious state control. Both
accounts dissolve when exposed to the complexity of
contemporary criminal justice. Any meaningful assessment has
to be more nuanced and context-specific. Blame may be a
contested concept, but it has resonance and power and there
appears to be widespread agreement that it should play a role in
setting the parameters of the criminal law. Rather than
challenging this, progressive reformers would be advised to
deconstruct the process of attribution and formulate a more
compelling alternative. (Tim Hillier discussed the ideas in the
book on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Talking Allowed’ on 3 June 2015.)
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This project examined how contact and residence orders were
granted in five County Courts in England and Wales within a
six-month period in 2011. Researchers looked at the type of
applications that came to court, the role of the court in
adjudicating such disputes and the different types of timeshare
arrangements reached by parents during the court process. The
project was carried out by researchers at Warwick and Reading
universities. wwww.nuffieldfoundation.org/how-do-county-
courts-share-care-children-between-parents
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Applications are open for the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science (JSPS) fellowships. The scheme is for early career
researchers who wish to conduct research in the fields of social
science or the humanities in Japan for up to 24 months.
The scheme provides subsistence funding as well as a
settling-in allowance, a return air ticket and insurance cover.
The Japanese host institution may also apply for a grant-in-aid
for scientific research of up to ¥1.5 million per year for
cooperative research-related expenses. Closing date:
9 December 2015. wwww.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/intl/
jsps.cfm
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The British Academy has announced a call for a revised
scheme of research funding support within the Languages and
Quantitative Skills Programme. The revised scheme, British
Academy skills innovator awards, is intended to extend the
Academy’s support to promote innovative research methods
using languages and quantitative skills, be it through skills
development, acquisition, collaboration or dissemination. The
scheme is intended for researchers who wish to experiment
with new quantitative methods through a variety of means, or
to experiment with methods and vehicles for teaching
languages in higher education. The awards will in particular
be valuable to researchers wishing to pilot new methods and
approaches in order to apply for larger grants in the longer
term. Awards of up to £15,000 are available. Closing date:
2 December 2015.
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The Newton international fellowships scheme has been
established to select the very best early stage postdoctoral
researchers from all over the world and enable them to work at
UK research institutions for a period of two years. Funding
consists of £24,000 per annum for subsistence costs and up to
£8000 per annum research expenses, as well as a one-off
payment of up to £2000 for relocation expenses. The next round
will open in January 2016 with a closing date in February.
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The Association of Law Teachers (ALT) committee is seeking
expressions of interest from universities wishing to host its
annual conferences in 2018 and 2019. The conference usually
takes place during the Easter break each year. In 2016 it will be
in Newcastle, hosted by Northumbria University, and in 2017 it
will be at Portsmouth University. The closing date for the call for
expressions of interest is 11 December 2015. wwww.slsa.ac.uk/
images/2015autumn/ALT_Conference_Call_2018_and_
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The Law and Society Association (LSA) invites nominations for
two book prizes: the J Willard Hurst Prize for the best work in
socio-legal history; and the Herbert Jacob Prize for books from
all other fields of law and society scholarship. Both prizes offer
a $500 prize and authors are invited to participate in an author-
meets-reader session if they are attending the LSA Annual
Meeting. Closing date for both prizes: 16 December 2015. For
full details, please see wwww.lawandsociety.org/awards.html.
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Socio-legal studies has had an ambivalent relationship with the
‘legal’ – one of its defining aspects, but at the same time one that
the discipline has sought to transcend or even leave behind.
While socio-legal studies benefits hugely from the insights,
methods and theories of other social science and humanities
disciplines, the contributions to Exploring the ‘Legal’ in Socio-
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chapters in this book combine traditional legal materials and
analyses with other ways of engaging empirically with the legal.
They illustrate the rich potential of the legal as a site both for
theoretical and methodological reflection and for case study
analysis. Taken as a whole, this volume demonstrates that
methodological discussion is most helpful when rooted in
empirical cases and that the best case studies also help us to
develop our methodologies. Bringing methodology and
empirical analysis together offers an opportunity to reflect on
socio-legal studies and develop the discipline in productive new
directions. This is the latest in the Palgrave Macmillan Socio-
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out of an SLSA one-day conference in 2012.
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international policies developed to stop rape, together with case
study examples on how they work. The book engages with the
law and criminal justice system, health services, specialised
services for victim-survivors, and educational and cultural
interventions, as well as how they can be best coordinated. It is
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conflict face formidable challenges concerning accountability for
human rights violations. This edited collection considers
criminal justice as a method of addressing state violence
committed by non-democratic regimes. Its main objectives
concern a fresh, contemporary and critical analysis of
transitional criminal justice as a concept and its related
measures, beginning with the initiatives since the fall of the
communist regimes in Europe in 1989.
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The aim of this book is to explore what response the law has or
should have to different family practices arising from cultural
and religious beliefs. The issue has become increasingly debated
as Western countries have become more culturally diverse.
Although discussion has frequently focused on the role Islamic
family law should have in these countries, this book seeks to set
that discussion within a wider context that includes
consideration both of theoretical issues and also of empirical
data about the interaction between specific family practices and
state law in a variety of jurisdictions, ranging from England and
Wales to Bangladesh, Botswana, Spain, Poland, France, Israel,
Iran and South Africa. The contributors to the 17 chapters
approach the subject matter from a variety of perspectives,
illustrating its complex and often sensitive nature. The book
does not set out to propose any single definitive strategy that
should be adopted, but provides material on which researchers,
advocates and policymakers can draw in fu rthering thei r
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In recent years, there have been a number of concerns about
the recognition of religious laws and the existence of religious
courts and tribunals. There has also been a growing literature
on legal pluralism which seeks to understand how more than
one legal system can and should exist within one social space.
However, whilst there have been a number of important
theoretical works concerning legal pluralism in the context of
cultural rights, little has been published specifically on
religion. Religion and Legal Pluralism explores the extent
to which religious laws are already recognised by the state
and the extent to which religious legal systems, such as sharia
law, should be accommodated. A 50 per cent discount is
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Papua New Guinea’s two most powerful legal orders –
customary law and state law – undermine one another in
criminal matters. This phenomenon, called legal dissonance,
partly explains the low level of personal security found in many
parts of the country. This book demonstrates that a lack of
coordination in the punishing of wrong behaviour is both
problematic for legal orders themselves and for those who are
subject to such legal phenomena. Legal dissonance can lead to
behaviour being simultaneously promoted by one legal order
and punished by the other, resulting in injustice and, perhaps
more importantly, undermining the ability of both legal orders
to deter wrongdoing.
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The work of Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922) is directly relevant for
an understanding of law in society and of the role of sociology
of law, for both law and social sciences. Now, it is possible to see
behind the smokescreen of historical debates and to assess his
key ideas in the light of today’s problems. The coexistence of
state and local law still challenges lawyers and decision-makers.
Ehrlich suggests sociology of law as an instrument to address
social and legal problems that supplements standard legal
methodology. Articles in this book place Eugen Ehrlich in the
context of his times, outline the international reception of his
work, and show the relevance of his thoughts for contemporary
issues.
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This book represents a critical examination of key aspects of
crime and criminal justice in Northern Ireland which will have
resonance elsewhere. It considers the core aspects of criminal
justice policymaking in Northern Ireland which are central to
the process of post-conflict transition, including reform of
policing, judicial decision-making and correctional services
such as probation and prisons. It examines contemporary
trends in criminal justice in Northern Ireland with regard to
various dimensions of crime relating to: female offenders;
young offenders; sexual and violent offenders; race and
criminal justice; community safety; and restorative justice. The
book also considers the extent to which crime and criminal
justice issues in Northern Ireland are being affected by the
broader processes of ‘policy transfer’, globalisation and
transnationalism and the extent to which criminal justice in
Northern Ireland is divergent from the other jurisdictions in
the UK. Written by leading international authorities in the
field, the book offers a snapshot of the cutting edge of critical
thinking in criminal justice practice and transitional justice
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A unique collection exploring
the nature of legalities in the
understanding of socio-legal
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Recent years have seen extensive discussion about the
continuing retreat from marriage, the increasing demand for the
right to marry from previously excluded groups, and the need
to protect those who do not wish to marry from being forced to
do so. At the same time, weddings are big business, couples are
spending more than ever before on getting married and
marriage ceremonies are increasingly elaborate. It is therefore
timely to reflect on the rites of marriage, as well as the right to
marry (or not to marry), and the relationship between them. To
this end, this new interdisciplinary collection brings together
scholars from numerous fields, including law, sociology,
anthropology, psychology, demography, theology, and art and
design. Focusing on England and Wales, it explores in depth the
specific issues arising from this jurisdiction’s Anglican heritage,
demographic development, current laws and social practices.
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The issue of whether transnational risk can be regulated through
a social sphere goes to the heart of what John Ruggie has
described as ‘embedded liberalism’: how capitalist countries
have reconciled markets with the social community that markets
require to survive and thrive. This collection, located in the
wider debates about global capitalism and its regulation, tackles
the challenge of finding a way forward for regulation. It rejects
the old divisions of state and market, citizens and consumers,
social movements and transnational corporations, as well as
‘economic’ and ‘social’ regulation. Instead this rich,
multidisciplinary collection engages with a critical theme – the
idea of harnessing the regulatory capacity of a social sphere by
recognising the embeddedness of economic transactions within
a social and political landscape. This collection therefore
explores how social norms, practices, actors and institutions
frame economic transactions and thereby regulate risks
generated by and for business, state and citizens. A key strength
of this book is its integration of three distinct areas of
scholarship: Karl Polanyi’s economic sociology, regulation
studies and socio-legal studies of transnational hazards. The
collection is distinct in that it links the study of specific
transnational risk regulatory regimes back to a social–theoretical
discussion about economy–society interactions, informed by
Polanyi’s work. Each of the chapters addresses the way in which
economics, as well as economic and social regulation, can never
be understood separately from the social, particularly in the
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This book aims to produce lawyers who can debate, criticise
and change professional ethics as well as understand its
underlying rationale. Written by the author of the leading work
on the subject, The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and
Wales, this book is aimed at the undergraduate or postgraduate
student taking a half or full course in the subject. The book is
divided into four parts dealing with the professional and
regulatory framework for delivering legal services, the
obligations owed to clients, wider duties and responsibilities,
and practice settings. It sets out the important background to
the modern practice of law and explains the theoretical
underpinning of professional ethics and its everyday
application through conduct rules and principles. Extracts from
legislation, cases and conduct rules are provided, and
comparative issues are considered where relevant. The book is
also interactive, raising issues and posing questions that will
encourage students to engage with the material as they read,
which will also be helpful for classroom discussion.
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When faced with tackling food-borne illness, regulators have a
number of competing goals. They must investigate in order to
discover the source of the illness. Once the source is identified
they must take action to prevent further cases of illness
occurring. Finally, once the illness is under control, they may
wish to take enforcement action against those responsible.
Regulating Food-Borne Illness uses interviews and documentary
analysis to examine the actions of regulators and considers
how they balance these three tasks. Central to the regulators’
role is the collection of information. Without information
about the source, control or enforcement action cannot be
taken. Investigation must therefore take place to produce the
necessary information. Utilising theoretical frameworks
drawn from regulation and biosecurity, the author shows that
control is prioritised and that investigatory steps are chosen in
order to ensure that the information necessary for control,
rather than enforcement, is collected. This has the effect of
reducing the possibility that enforcement action can be taken.
The difficulty of evidence-gathering and case-building in
food-borne illness cases is exposed, and the author considers
the methods aimed at reducing the difficulty of bringing
successful enforcement action.
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In recent years, the notion of ‘family’ in the law has seen
enormous changes, with the enactment, for example, of the Civil
Partnership Act 2004, the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and,
more recently, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act
2008. As we begin to move forward into the new millennium,
this is therefore an excellent time to engage in ‘stock-taking’ of
the landmark decisions, many of which were decided in the
1970s, which have shaped modern family law. Indeed, the
landmark cases in family law in England and Wales deserve
detailed historical examination. These cases tend to raise highly
controversial issues, often on striking facts, frequently
provoking wider social debate and/or extensive publicity.
Consequently, the landmark cases chosen for this collection
provide considerable scope for doctrinal analysis as well as for
in-depth examination of the social or policy developments that
influenced them. The stories behind the cases often provide a
fascinating insight into the complexities of family life and the
drama that can be found in the family courts.
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medical intervention is considered, a range of influences will
determine whether the treatment becomes accepted as lawful
medical treatment. The development and introduction of
abortion, organ donation, gender reassignment and non-
therapeutic cosmetic surgery have, for example, all raised
ethical, legal and clinical issues. This book examines the various
factors that legitimate a medical procedure. Bringing together a
range of internationally and nationally recognised academics
from law, philosophy, medicine, health, economics and
sociology, the book explores the notion of a treatment, practice,
or procedure being proper medical treatment, and considers the
range of diverse factors which might influence the acceptance of
a particular procedure as appropriate in the medical context.
Contributors address such issues as clinical judgment and
professional autonomy, the role of public interest and the
influence of resource allocation in decision-making. In doing so,
the book explores how the law, the medical profession, and the
public interact in determining whether a new or ethically
contentious procedure should be regarded as legitimate.
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This latest edition of Moffat’s Trusts Law has been fully revised
and updated to cover recent statutory developments and
explores the impact of a wealth of new cases including the
Supreme Court decisions in Pitt v Holt (2013), FHR European
Ventures v Cedar Capital Partners (2014) and Williams v Central
Bank of Nigeria (2014). It has been restructured to incorporate a
new chapter on the internationalisation of the trust which
provides an understanding of the new directions being taken
in the areas of trust law and equitable remedies.
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occupational pension schemes. With suggestions for further
reading guiding the student to contemporary debates, this
textbook retains its combination of a contextualized approach
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treatment of cohabiting couples has changed over the past four
centuries, from punishment as fornicators in the seventeenth
century to eventual acceptance as family in the late twentieth;
second, to chart how the language used to refer to cohabitation
has changed over time and how different terms influenced
policy debates and public perceptions; and, third, to estimate the
extent of cohabitation in earlier centuries. To achieve this it
draws on hundreds of reported and unreported cases as well as
legislation, policy papers and debates in Parliament; thousands
of newspaper reports and magazine articles; and innovative
cohort studies that provide new and more reliable evidence as to
the incidence (or rather the rarity) of cohabitation in eighteenth-
and nineteenth-century England. It concludes with a
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framework in which to understand how the company
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doctrine. It shows how modern company law is shaped by a
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power. Through the lens of political economic theory, the book
shows how the company becomes the mechanism through
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society’s wealth and through which it responds to economic
crises. The current law reflects an economy marked by a
disjuncture between the low profits of the productive economy
and the high profits of the finance economy. The book
examines areas of company law to show how they reflect a
fragile economy inexorably drawn to social and economic
inequality and short-termism. In this hybrid book, the legal
topics are treated with detail and clarity, providing an
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state between parliamentary, judicial and executive power has
remained unresolved. Lions under the Throne is the first
systematic account of the origins and development of the great
body of public law by which the state, both institutionally and
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Language skills, study skills, argument skills and legal
knowledge are vital to every law student, professional lawyer
and academic. This book discusses the main sources of English
law and explains how to work with legal texts in order to
construct credible legal arguments which can be applied in
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Ireland’s practice in international affairs and foreign policy,
filling a gap in existing legal scholarship and assisting in the
dissemination of Irish thinking and practice on matters of
international law. On an annual basis, the Yearbook presents
peer-reviewed academic articles and book reviews on general
issues of international law. Designated correspondents provide
reports on international law developments in Ireland, Irish
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for three new 2000-word categories: case notes and comments;
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To give readers a better idea of the breadth and diversity
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theme and stream organisers expand on their aims and
focuses. See pages 17–18 for the full call for papers, details
of submission and all convenors’ contact details.
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Administrative justice is a broad topic that captures traditional
administrative law concerns, such as judicial review and
tribunals, alongside the whole range of alternative providers of
justice. Administrative justice also captures the concept of
‘getting decisions right’ in the first place and the stream
welcomes research on primary decision-makers as well as
dispute resolution procedures. The stream is also happy to
receive papers on regulators responsible for promoting
administrative justice and papers that cross over the
public/private divide. Papers from a broad array of
perspectives are invited, including empirical, theoretical or legal
examinations of different areas of the administrative justice
system, with papers from international jurisdictions particularly
welcome. Informal inquiries on proposed abstracts are also
welcomed, as are proposals to run sessions on more focused
topic areas or significant pieces of work recently published.
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Art, culture and heritage are concerned with people and their
relationships throughout history. It was therefore unsurprising
that the papers presented in this stream at the conference at
Warwick University earlier this year were a fascinating and
memorable mix. One area that was explored was tangible
property. Heritage objects are distinguishable from ordinary
commodities because they are concerned with relationships far
more than with financial value. However, this means that any
debate regarding dealings with such objects may have a
particular poignancy. Papers in 2015 therefore included topics
such as the repatriation of cultural property. A number of
papers raised issues about the relationship between culture and
politics and the media. More generally, the papers were
concerned to examine appropriate ways to protect, promote and
regulate cultural matters. The co-convenors are looking forward
to hearing a fresh and diverse group of papers at the 2016
conference.
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This stream will be examining the legal, social and economic
role of banking and finance nationally and internationally. The
enthusiastic and high calibre presentations of previous years
demonstrate how important this stream is within the SLSA
conference and we welcome old and new delegates to
participate in the lively academic debates. Whether you are
researching the historical developments of money or
considering the legal implications of bitcoins within crisis
economies, we invite you to consider submitting a paper to this
stream. Please email any questions to the co-conveners. We look
forward to seeing you.
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We are again looking forward to the ‘Challenging ownership’
stream and to repeating the success of last year which was our
busiest yet, attracting a range of stimulating papers which filled
sessions running over all three days. The title of this stream
embraces conflicts over ownership, as well as challenges to the
meaning of the concept of ‘ownership’. Papers are welcomed
which address any context in which the law seeks to define,
regulate, limit or conceptualise the ownership of tangible or
intangible property. In particular this might include: the
emergence of new forms of land ownership or regulation;
housing and homelessness; the boundaries between public and
private ownership or regulation; and the relationship of
property (including intangible, indigenous and cultural
property) to individual or collective identity. Contributions
which cross traditional disciplinary boundaries are particularly
welcome.
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Contributions are invited for this stream that provides a
platform for interdisciplinary dissemination and exchange of
the latest children’s rights research. We welcome papers
exploring children’s rights from a methodological, ethical,
theoretical and normative perspective at local, national,
European or international level. We are particularly interested
in papers on substantive children’s rights issues that respond to
the following broad themes: children’s access to justice;
children’s participation; balancing children’s autonomy with
adult/parental authority; and children’s rights monitoring and
evaluation. For informal discussion, please email the stream
convenors.
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Papers are welcomed on any aspect of indigenous or minority
rights, whether domestic, regional or international. Papers from
students researching this area are also welcomed as we strive to
offer a supportive and constructive environment for discussion
for all presentations. Of interest are the ways in which
indigenous and minority rights intersect with other legal areas,
as well as a focus on the rights themselves. Please email the
convenor with any queries about possible papers.
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Society is increasingly data-driven. Whether it is the provision
of information to citizens to help them make decisions, or the
state’s collection of information to target their actions (whether
criminal, regulatory or military), information is an important
topic of study. From the acquisition of information via
surveillance or whistleblowers, to access to information by the
citizen and the presentation of information to a court, all aspects
of the citizen–state relationship can be conceptualised in
information-driven terms. This provides ample scope for
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Socio-economic rights versus social revolution?
Constitution making in Germany, Mexico and Ireland,
1917–1923 – Thomas Murray
Copyright and mass social authorship: a case study of the
making of the Oxford English Dictionary – Elena Cooper
Reframing the universalist republic: legal pluralism in the
French periphery – Eoin Daly
Law on a slanted globe: travelling models of criminal
responsibility for state violence – Christiane Wilke
Providing justice for low-income youths: publicly funded
lawyers and youth clients in Hong Kong – Kevin
Kwok-yin Cheng, Wing Hong Chui and Rebecca Ong
Dialogue and debate
Social rights and markets – Fernando Atria
Social rights, social contract, socialism – John Holmwood,
Russell Keat and David Garland
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analysis. The convenors organised successful panels in York and
Warwick, with topics ranging from accessing court-held
information to the sharing of forensic bio-information between
EU member states. Participants demonstrated a wide variety of
perspectives and considered the challenges and opportunities
presented by information. The area of study is expanding and
the theme convenors anticipate many more excellent
discussions in this area.
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In 2016 we wish to continue discussions and debates
commenced in previous years that have engaged with the legal
regulation of cyberspace from diverse and various perspectives
and approaches. We continue to live in times that contain both
exciting and troubling developments in the interface of law and
information technology. The ongoing war on terror has sparked
calls for new forms of state surveillance that rely on a mesh of
legal processes and technological oversight that claim to protect
us while removing many aspects of privacy. The use of social
media to send chilling messages of hate, harassment and offence
continues to conflict with its role as a place for uncensored
public debate. Wearable technology has created new forms of
social interaction that both liberate and enslave. Cyberspace is a
contradictory space that both seduces and frightens us. How
should the law respond? This stream welcomes papers that seek
to critically unwrap the manner in which the law has been co-
opted into the information and technology age and the new
forms of social and legal space that it has created. Presenters will
be invited to submit finished papers for inclusion in a potential
special issue of the journal Information and Communications
Technology Law, to be edited by the stream convenors following
the conference.
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A special edition of Signs – The Journal of Women in Culture and
Society in summer 2013 argued that intersectionality has ‘become
one of feminist and critical race theory’s most generative
concepts’. Yet it is still relatively little used within legal studies
when compared to other disciplines. This broad stream
welcomes papers which analyse the creation or perpetuation of
discrimination from an intersectional perspective; whether
conceptual, theoretical or empirical. Papers might examine
political, structural, or representational intersectionality. They
could address national, European or international law, norms
which influence rights interpretation or constitutional discourse,
cover aspects of policy or practice, or examine the dynamics
within social or political movements for change. These are
examples only and this list is not exhaustive. Please contact the
convenor if you want to discuss your paper.
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Labour law is a very broad stream covering every aspect of the
law relating to the work environment, including (but not
restricted to) the employment relationship, trade unions and
collective and individual employment rights. It also
encompasses labour-related equality, human rights and
immigration issues. Given the SLSA’s international
membership, it is not surprising that, in addition to the UK
perspective, there is also often an international or comparative
dimension to many papers. The eclectic mix of topics each year
makes for challenging, interesting and informative sessions. We
try to be as inclusive as possible in terms of inviting and
welcoming presenters and participants.
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The global legal professions continue to undergo radical changes
although there are contradictory trends. Many countries aspire to
embrace the rule of law and seek to establish independent legal
professions as a step in that process. In the meantime, in many
Western jurisdictions, legislation, technology and competition
are driving change in the role, structure, organisation and culture
of lawyers and legal professions. As professions change, so,
arguably, do the nature and connotations of professionalism.
This stream is concerned to understand the work of lawyers and
the role of professions historically, presently and in the future.
We invite papers on any aspect of the legal profession – law
firms, lawyers’ work, organisation, practice, ethics of practice,
training, globalisation and more. We encourage work reflecting
sociological, philosophical, theoretical and empirical
perspectives on these themes.
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The core assumptions derived from the implementation of
socio-linguistic mechanisms and imagistic language transform
the nature of legal analysis and are embedded within a diverse
interplay of meanings, yet, as Peter Goodrich suggests in Law in
the Courts of Love: Literature and other minor jurisprudences: ‘Law
is a literature which denies its literary qualities. It is a play on
words which asserts an absolute seriousness; it is a genre of
rhetoric which represses its moments of invention or fiction; it is
a language which hides its indeterminacy in the justificatory
discourse of judgment; it is a procedure based upon analogy,
metaphor and repetition, and yet lays claim to being a cold or
disembodied prose, a science without either poetry or desire; it
is a narrative which assumes the epic proportions of truth; it is,
in short, a speech or writing which forgets the violence of the
word and the terror or jurisdiction of the text.’ Far from being
mere embellishment or decoration, the application of allegorical
terminology, imagery and metaphor is fundamental to the
formation of legal principles, concepts and judgments without
which law would lose most of its persuasive force. Papers and
performances are welcomed on any aspect of what is loosely
defined as law and literature.
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This stream focuses on any issues relating to the theory, policy
and practice of refugee and asylum law at an international or
national level. In view of the current global refugee crises and
the apparent failure of the ‘international community’ to address
the problems confronting millions of asylum seekers and
refugees, the theme is particularly concerned with the following
issues: conceptualising asylum and refugee protection; the role
of law and policy in achieving or diminishing (access to)
protection; the role of the UNHCR and NGOs in refugee
protection; regional protection regimes and access to asylum;
the search for durable solutions; and future challenges for
asylum and refugee protection.
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This year the methodology and methods stream is inviting
papers from all spheres of socio-legal and empirical legal
research which explicitly address methodology and methods
through detailed description of the methodology/methods used
in particular socio-legal research projects, explanation of why
the methodology/methods were chosen, and reflections on
lessons learned. Potential presenters are welcome to contact us
to discuss their ideas and we very much look forward to some
inspiring methods discussion at the conference in Lancaster.
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In this theme, we are interested in one form of state bureaucracy
– registration – and the governance work that it does for law. We
are interested in the possibilities and problems arising from
registration itself and an engagement with registration. We seek
to explore: how registration can fix, evidence and objectify; the
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imperative’ to reconsider existing surrogacy laws
internationally. This year has seen an increase in surrogacy cases
at both domestic and European Court of Human Rights level,
the rise (and fall) of multiple international surrogacy
destinations and the reconsideration of legislation in several
jurisdictions. This theme will consider the legal and ethical
issues arising from international and/or domestic surrogacy
arrangements. The convenors will present their research
resulting from a University of Canterbury-based and funded
interdisciplinary project entitled ‘Rethinking surrogacy laws’
and encourage papers addressing any aspect of the regulation of
surrogacy and its implications for the child, intended parents,
surrogate and the overall conception of ‘family’. It is hoped that
this theme will generate discussion and ideas about how to most
appropriately regulate this increasingly prevalent form of
family formation.
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Discourses and policy initiatives on vulnerable persons in the
criminal justice system have focused on vulnerable victims and
witnesses. This stream will consider the identification of
vulnerable suspects and defendants and the mechanisms and
processes that are present (or absent) for supporting and
assisting them throughout the criminal justice process. Papers
might address the following topics: identification and labelling
of ‘vulnerable’ suspects and/or defendants; age of criminal
responsibility; young suspects and the police; young defendants
before the courts; mentally disordered or otherwise mentally
vulnerable suspects in the police station; mental condition
defences; and abused defendants who kill their abusers.
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ways registration might inaugurate law; and the implications of
that inauguration. We hope to explore how registration can call
jurisdictions into being, invoke law’s authority and ritual, and
provide a starting point for resistance, engagement or
submission to law’s power. We invite papers and musings from
all areas of law to explore how different legal registrations speak
to each other. As well as papers on how we can see registration
and understand what it is doing in various legal contexts, we
also want to examine registration’s appearances, whether
through paper certificate, electronic record, office holders or
elsewhere.
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Criminal justice practices have long been experiencing an
atmosphere of crisis and this climate of normative insecurity has
entered another phase of prominence. In this context, there is an
urgent need for the renewal of a critical, interdisciplinary
criminal justice research programme that has recently fallen by
the wayside in legal academia. This ongoing theme is part of an
established research group on criminal law and criminal justice
theory and aims to continue fostering dialogues with scholars
from diverse perspectives to explore possibilities and pathways
towards a renewed research programme that goes beyond the
traditional impasses dividing different theoretical methods and
orientations. The main purpose is to discuss and put forward
ways in which a renewed research programme can be initiated,
pursuing new theoretical and empirical methodologies that can
provide a serious intellectual engagement with the current crisis
of legitimacy in criminal justice.
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report on surrogacy concluded that ‘there is a children’s rights
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The call for papers for SLSA 2016 is now open. Abstracts of 300
words are invited for the streams and themes listed below.
Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair system
whttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsa2016.
The full call text for the streams and themes is available via
wwww.lancaster.ac.uk/law/slsa2016. The deadline for
submissions is 6pm Monday 18 January 2016. If you have any
questions about the suitability of your paper, please contact the
relevant convenor.
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Administrative justice
Richard Kirkham er.m.kirkham@sheffield.ac.uk
Naomi Creutzfeldt enaomi.creutzfeldt@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Art, culture and heritage
Janet Ulph (corresponding convenor) ejanet.ulph@le.ac.uk
Charlotte Woodhead
Banking, finance and the business of organised financial crime
Clare Jones eclare15.Jones@uwe.ac.uk
Mary Young emary.young@uwe.ac.uk
Challenging ownership: meanings, space and identity
Penny English epenny.english@anglia.ac.uk
Francis King ef.king@westminster.ac.uk
Sarah Blandy es.blandy@sheffield.ac.uk
Children’s rights
Helen Stalford estalford@liverpool.ac.uk
Nuno Ferreira enuno.ferreira@liverpool.ac.uk
Civil procedure and alternatives to litigation, ADR
Masood Ahmed emasood.ahmed@le.ac.uk
Criminal law and criminal justice
Vanessa Bettinson evbettinson@dmu.ac.uk
Samantha Pegg esamantha.pegg@ntu.ac.uk
Environmental justice
Sophia Kopela es.kopela@lancaster.ac.uk
Ben Mayfield eb.mayfield@lancaster.ac.uk
Saskia Vermeylan es.vermeylen@lancaster.ac.uk
EU law
Ian Kilbey eikilbey@dmu.ac.uk
Family law and policy
Anne Barlow ea.e.barlow@exeter.ac.uk
Annika Newnham ea.newnham@reading.ac.uk
Gender, sexuality and law
Chris Ashford echris.ashford@northumbria.ac.uk
Alex Dymock eAlex.Dymock@rhul.ac.uk
Indigenous rights and minority rights
Sarah Sargent esarah.sargent@buckingham.ac.uk
Information
Richard Hyde erichard.hyde@nottingham.ac.uk
Ashley Savage eashley.savage@northumbria.ac.uk
Information technology law and cyberspace
Mark O’Brien emark.obrien@brookes.ac.uk
Brian Simpson ebrian.simpson@une.edu.au
Intellectual property
Jasem Tarawneh ejasem.tarawneh@manchester.ac.uk
International criminal justice: theory, policy and practice
Anna Marie Brennan eAnna.Marie.Brennan@liverpool.ac.uk
Intersectionality
Charlotte Skeet ec.h.skeet@sussex.ac.uk
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Labour law
Margaret Downie em.downie@rgu.ac.uk
Law and literature
Julia Shaw ejshaw@dmu.ac.uk
Lawyers and legal professions
Andy Boon eandy.boon.1@city.ac.uk
Legal education
Tony Bradney ea.bradney@keele.ac.uk
Fiona Cownie ef.cownie@keele.ac.uk
Medical law and ethics
Glenys Williams egnw@aber.ac.uk
Mental health and mental capacity law
Peter Bartlett epeter.bartlett@nottingham.ac.uk
Refugee and asylum law: theory, policy and practice
Dallal Stevens ed.e.stevens@warwick.ac.uk
Research methodologies and methods
Petra Mahy epetra.mahy@soas.ac.uk
Eleanor Pritchard eeleanor.pritchard@csls.ox.ac.uk
Sentencing and punishment
Gavin Dingwall egdingwall@dmu.ac.uk
Sexual offences and offending
Phil Rumney ephil.rumney@uwe.ac.uk
Sports law
Simon Boyes esimon.boyes@ntu.ac.uk
John O’Leary ejohn.oleary@anglia.ac.uk
Systems theory thinking
Adrienne Barnett eadrienne.barnett@brunel.ac.uk
Sarah Sargent esarah.sargent@buckingham.ac.uk
Thomas Webb et.webb@lancaster.ac.uk
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Culture clash, peace and world order
Nwudego Nkemakonam Chinwuba euchinwuba@unilag.edu.ng
Economic, social and cultural rights
Amanda Cahill-Ripley ea.cahill@lancaster.ac.uk
European solidarity and its limits
Esin Kucuk ee.kucuk@lancaster.ac.uk
Clemens Rieder ec.rieder@lancaster.ac.uk
Graphic justice
Thomas Giddens ethomas.giddens@stmarys.ac.uk
Human rights, religion and discrimination
Ilias Trispiotis ei.trispiotis@leeds.ac.uk
International economic law in context
Mervyn Martin em.martin@tees.ac.uk
International environmental law and the north–south perspective
Jona Razzaque ejona.razzaque@uwe.ac.uk
Judicial biographies and justice for human rights
Agata Fijalkowski ea.fijalkowski@lancaster.ac.uk
Raluca Grosescu eralucagrosescu@googlemail.com
Law and neoliberalism
Annette Morris emorrisa7@cardiff.ac.uk
Law, politics and ideology
Andrew Gilbert eandrew.gilbert@anglia.ac.uk
Dermot Feenan edermot.feenan@port.ac.uk
Law, trust and emerging technologies (a sub-theme of
‘Information technology law and cyberspace’)
Catherine Easton ec.easton@lancaster.ac.uk
Law’s empire? Justice, law and colonialism
Raza Saeed eraza.saeed@warwick.ac.uk
Carol Jones ec.jones2@wlv.ac.uk
Lawyering for the poor: legal aid provision in low to middle
income states and prospects for access to justice under
proposed reform
Jessica Carlisle ejessica.carlisle@manchester.ac.uk
Pluralist citizenship in the times of European double
standards
Johana Etxezarraga Aldamiz-Etxebarria ejohana@liverpool.ac.uk
Joxerramon Bengoetxea Caballero ejoxerramon.bengoetxea@ehu.eus
Private International Law
Emma Roberts eemma.roberts@chester.ac.uk
Registering registration
Julie McCandless ej.c.mccandless@lse.ac.uk
Ed Kirton-Darling eek263@kent.ac.uk
Renewing critique in criminal justice
Henrique Carvalho eh.carvalho@warwick.ac.uk
Rethinking surrogacy laws
Debra Wilson edebra.wilson@canterbury.ac.nz
Rhonda Powell erhonda.powell@canterbury.ac.nz
Social security: ideology, law and society in the
twenty-first century
Ciara Fitzpatrick efitzpatrick-c@email.ulster.ac.uk
Mark Simpson esimpson-m7@email.ulster.ac.uk
Spatiality and inclusivity
Jill Dickinson ejill.dickinson@shu.ac.uk
Vicky Heap ev.heap@shu.ac.uk
The law and unintended consequences
Phil Thomas ethomaspa@cardiff.ac.uk
Richard Craven erpc11@leicester.ac.uk
Trans*/law
Bela Chatterjee eb.chatterjee@lancaster.ac.uk
Transitions from conflict: the role and agency of lawyers
Anna Bryson ea.bryson@qub.ac.uk
Transnational organised crime (a sub-theme of ‘Banking,
finance and the business of organised financial crime’ )
Clare Jones eclare15.jones@uwe.ac.uk
Mary Young emary.young@uwe.ac.uk
Vulnerable suspects and defendants
Nicola Wake enicola.wake@northumbria.ac.uk
Natalie Wortley en.wortley@northumbria.ac.uk
Workplace dispute resolution in the twenty-first century
Eleanor Kirk eeleanor.kirk@strath.ac.uk
Nicole Busby enicole.busby@strath.ac.uk
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Social and Legal Studies 25(1)
In 2016 Social and Legal Studies will expand to five issues
The (il)legal Indian: the Tupinambá and the juridification of
indigenous rights and lives in north-eastern Brazil –
Peter Anton Zoettl
A criminological reading of the concept of vulnerability: a
case study of Brazilian trafficking victims – Julie Lima
de Pérez
Cause lawyering and resistance in Israel: the legal strategies
of Adalah – Elian Weizman
Weighing words: on the governmentality of free speech –
Muhammad Ali Nasir
Understanding politically motivated sexual assault in
protest spaces: evidence from Egypt (March 2011 to June
2013) – Mariz Tadros
SLSA Annual Conference 2016
School of Law, Lancaster University
5th—7th April 2016
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to welcome delegates to the SLSA Annual Conference
2016 in our beauful 360-acre parkland campus just
outside of the historic city of Lancaster.
For more informaon, please visit www.lancaster.ac.uk/slsa2016 or
contact the organisers at slsa@lancaster.ac.uk
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Rights, Religious Pluralism and the
Recognition of Difference
Off the Scales of Justice
Dorota Anna Gozdecka
Human rights and their principles of interpretation are the
leading legal paradigms of our time. Freedom of religion
occupies a pivotal position in rights discourses, and the
principles supporting its interpretation receive increasing
attention from courts and legislative bodies. This book
critically evaluates religious pluralism as an emerging legal
principle arising from attempts to define the boundaries of
freedom of religion.
September 2015 • Hb: 978-1-13-879892-2
WAS: £80.00 • SLSA PRICE: £64.00
Undocumented Immigrants in
an Era of Arbitrary Law
The Flight and the Plight of People Deemed ‘Illegal’
Robert F. Barsky
This book describes the experiences of undocumented
migrants, all around the world, bringing to life the challenges
they face from the moment they consider leaving their country
of origin, until the time they are deported back to it. Drawing on
a broad array of academic studies, including law, interpretation
and translation studies, border studies, human rights,
communication, critical discourse analysis and sociology,
Robert Barsky argues that the arrays of actions that are taken
against undocumented migrants are often arbitrary, and
exercised by an array of officials who can and do exercise
considerable discretion, both positive and negative.
August 2015 • Hb: 978-1-13-884948-8
WAS: £80.00 • SLSA PRICE: £64.00
Power, Politics and the Emotions
Impossible Governance?
Shona Hunter
Part of the Social Justice series
How can we rethink ideas of policy failure to consider its
paradoxes and contradictions as a starting point for more
hopeful democratic encounters? Offering a provocative and
innovative theorisation of governance as relational politics,
the central argument of Power, Politics and the Emotions is
that there are sets of affective dynamics which complicate
the already materially and symbolically contested terrain of
policy-making.
June 2015 • Hb: 978-0-415-55510-4
WAS: £85.00 • SLSA PRICE: £68.00
Secrecy, Law and Society
Edited by Greg Martin, Rebecca Scott Bray
and Miiko Kumar
This book shows how a ‘culture of security’ ushered in
after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 has
involved exceptional legal measures and increased recourse
to secrecy on the basis of protecting public safety and
safeguarding national security.
June 2015 • Hb: 978-1-13-882685-4
WAS: £90.00 • SLSA PRICE: £72.00
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Cultural Legal Studies
Law’s Popular Cultures and the
Metamorphosis of Law
Edited by Cassandra Sharp and Marett Leiboff
What can law’s popular cultures do for law, as a
constitutive and interrogative critical practice? This
collection explores such a question through the lens of the
‘cultural legal studies’ movement, which proffers a new
encounter with the ‘cultural turn’ in law and legal theory.
August 2015 • Hb: 978-1-13-880106-6
WAS: £85.00 • SLSA PRICE: £68.00
The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority
The ‘Trials’ of Same-Sex Desire
Aleardo Zanghellini
Part of the Social Justice series
While there is no shortage of studies addressing the state’s
regulation of the sexual, research into the ways in which the
sexual governs the state and its attributes is still in its infancy.
The Sexual Constitution of Political Authority argues that there
are good reasons to suppose that our understandings of state
power quiver with erotic undercurrents. The book maintains,
more specifically, that the relationship between ideas of political
authority and male same-sex desire is especially fraught.
April 2015 • Hb: 978-0-415-82740-9
WAS: £90.00 • SLSA PRICE: £72.00
Violence Against Women in
Legally Plural Settings
Experiences and Lessons from the Andes
Anna Barrera
Part of the Law, Development and Globalization series
This book addresses a growing area of concern for scholars and development
practitioners: discriminatory gender norms in legally plural settings. Focusing
specifically on indigenous women, this book analyses how they, often in alliance
with supporters and allies, have sought to improve their access to justice.
December 2015 • Hb: 978-1-13-893669-0 • WAS: £85.00 • SLSA PRICE: £68.00
Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
Lessons from the Balkans
Edited by Martina Fischer and Olivera Simic
Part of the Transitional Justice series
Scholars and practitioners alike agree that somehow the past
needs to be addressed in order to enable individuals and
collectives to rebuild trust and relationships. However, they also
continue to struggle with critical questions. When is the right
moment to address the legacies of the past after violent conflict?
How can societies address the past without deepening the pain
that arises from memories related to the violence and crimes
committed in war? How can cultures of remembrance be established that would
include and acknowledges the victims of all sides involved in violent conflict? How can
various actors deal constructively with different interpretations of facts and history?
November 2015 • Hb: 978-1-13-885169-6 • WAS: £90.00 • SLSA PRICE: £72.00
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