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SLSA E‐Newsletter No. 68

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Published date01 September 2013
DOIhttp://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2013.00637.x
Date01 September 2013
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The call for papers for SLSA 2013 is now available at:
wwww.york.ac.uk/law/news/conferences/#tab-2. See details of
streams and themes inside on page 4. This year we are running an
online submission for abstracts. This should be nice and easy but
detailed instructions are available on the website.
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In addition to our usual themes and streams we have a number of
exciting events and activities. Lady Hale, our plenary lecturer,
will be speaking to the question: ‘Should judges be socio-legal
scholars?’ A book-reading group will take place and the chosen
book is the ManBooker prize-nominated The Garden of Evening
Mists by Tan Twan Eng. We will also be running a postgraduate
poster competition. The conference dinner will take place at the
National Railway Museum amongst the engines.
For bookings, go to wwww.york.ac.uk/law/news/
conferences/#tab-3 and follow the links. The early–bird offer is
available until 28 January 2013 so do make sure that you book
soon to get the best price. Please email queries to
eslsa2013@york.ac.uk. Caroline Hunter
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The SLSA has announced that Professor Philip (Phil) Aneurin
Thomas has been awarded the 2012 Prize for Contributions to the
Socio-legal Community. There can be few people who deserve
this honour more than Phil, who occupies a pivotal place in the
history of UK socio-legal studies. Starting from a position in the
1960s in which he believed that UK legal education was not fit for
purpose, much of what socio-legal academics now regard as
obvious and apparent owes itself in part to Phil. That is not to say
that there is not a considerable amount more to do, but what we
can be sure of is that Phil, with his academic entrepreneurial
antenna intact, will be at the forefront.
Most current members will know him as the editor of the
Journal of Law and Society (JLS), a journal which he, together with
some of his colleagues at Cardiff, founded in 1974. Phil was also a
founding member of the SLSA itself and, for many years, a
member of its Executive Committee. The relationship between the
JLS and SLSA remains strong as a result. In the 1990s, Phil
persuaded Dartmouth to publish a series of monographs and
edited collections as a socio-legal series, and himself edited, in
1999, Socio-Legal Studies. His introduction to that collection is what
I think about as ‘pure Phil’; jovial as always but with a cutting-
edge mission to nail the significance and problematics inherent in
the socio-legal label. It should be compulsory reading for all.
I could run through Phil’s many publications or his career
posts and his many achievements but they are not why I
nominated him for the prize because Phil’s contribution
transcends all that; many of us (including me) owe our entire
careers to him. When it was not fashionable, he acted as our
mentor; at a time when early career scholars and doctoral
students were largely left to sink or swim, he was there to help (a
role which he continues to play through the JLS, funding
bursaries at the SLSA conference, setting up and presenting at the
postgraduate conference, and through general encouragement).
For me personally, when nobody would publish my work or
look at my book proposal in the early 1990s, he took me on and
offered valuable advice right down to how to write.
There are many other ‘pure Phil’ nuggets which I and others
will, no doubt, share with you when the prize is awarded at the
2013 York conference. Dave Cowan
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I would like to introduce myself as your new international
liaison officer. This is a new position on the SLSA Executive
Committee. We have established the position to allow the
association to improve its service to our international members
and to encourage further growth in membership from outside
the UK. Over the coming weeks and months I will be consulting
with our existing international members to help establish what
my priorities should be. I will also be co-ordinating with the
organisers of our 2013 conference at York to help ensure an
excellent experience for our international attendees. In the
meantime if you have ideas or contacts you would like to share
do please get in touch. You can contact me at
ekevin.j.brown@ncl.ac.uk or +44 191 222 7611. Kevin Brown
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At its September meeting, the SLSA Executive Committee
decided to offer an additional category of membership to those
who have formally retired from their academic posts. Retired
members can make a one-off payment of £65 to continue their
membership of the SLSA including entitlement to reduced rates
for SLSA events. We hope that this will be a welcome addition
to our membership categories and allow retired members to stay
involved with the socio-legal community; something that would
clearly be of benefit to the SLSA. Appropriate forms will be
placed on the website in due course. In the meantime, please feel
free to contact the membership secretary, Julie McCandless
emembershipslsa@gmail.com if you would like to arrange for
retired membership.
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The SLSA is delighted to announce the relaunch of its seminar
competition. The fund is £2500, all of which can be awarded to
a single proposal or divided between two or more applicants.
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 six 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, contact Mark O’Brien,
emark.o’brien@uwe.ac.uk. Closing date: 14 December 2012.
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