By Emma Jones, and  John Stannard, Queen’s University, Belfast Very few people would dispute that law and affect (encompassing emotions and feelings) are intertwined to some extent.  There may be disagreements as to when and how affect can and should impact on the law, for example, in the drafting of legislation, in court room encounters [...]

Celine Tan[1] Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick We are in the midst of the largest industrial action in the history of UK higher education, with massive walkouts from academic and professional services staff across 61 universities across the country since the end of February. If there is no resolution, another 14 days [...]

As strike action by members of the UCU prepares to enter a 4th week, the SLSA Exec would like to express its grave concern regarding the ways in which the proposed changes to the USS pension scheme will adversely affect many of our members, particularly those in pre-1992 Universities. We call on UUK to rethink its current position. Further information [...]

Dermot Feenan, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, offers some observations and tips on producing a conference abstract. Many conferences, such as the SLSA’s Annual Conference, require presenters to submit an abstract. Yet, there’s little information available on how to write one. Some conference organisers, such as the LSA, provide guidance on [...]

Dermot Feenan, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, and co-convenor of the Stream on Law, Politics and Ideology, discusses the rationale for a session on class and law at the SLSA Annual Conference 2018. Class has long been a category of social classification with relevance to law and legal scholarship. Many significant [...]

By Emma Jones, The Open University Law School A traditional song during December involves twelve lords a-leaping, five gold rings and a partridge in a pear tree.  In contrast, in April 2017, the focus was on was fourteen people speaking, thirteen papers being presented and a new stream in a lecture room in Newcastle.  In [...]

By Roger Cotterrell, Queen Mary University of London Popular legal consciousness seems a straightforward idea: it refers to popular perceptions of law, usually grounded in people’s personal experiences or observations in a particular environment. But populist? Populist legal consciousness can be coined as a term to mean the projection of these popular perceptions into direct demands [...]

By Steve Crawford, PhD Candidate, Kent Law School, University of Kent Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris (Kent Law School) has recently launched an online open access project calling for a tangible and visible aspect to socio-legal research: Sociolegal Model Making https://amandaperrykessaris.org/ As a colleague at the Kent Law School I have benefitted greatly in my own development as [...]

Members of the REF2021 expert panels will be appointed through a nominations process. As an association with a clear interest in the conduct, quality, funding and wider benefits of publicly-funded research, the SLSA has been invited to nominate individuals for panel membership. The funding bodies are seeking nominations of candidates from a diverse range of [...]

  By Nuno Ferreira, Professor of Law, Sussex Law School, University of Sussex Amongst news of refugee deaths in the Mediterranean, stalled Brexit talks and North Korean missiles, the summer of 2017 has also brought us a piece of news entitled ‘Coffee shop owner defends no children policy’, courtesy of the BBC. The story behind it [...]