Social & Legal Studies
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Social & Legal Studies is a leading international journal, publishing progressive, interdisciplinary and critical approaches to socio-legal study. The journal was born out of a commitment to feminist, anti-colonial and socialist economic perspectives to the study of law. It offers an intellectual space where diverse traditions and critical approaches within legal study meet. We particularly welcome work in new fields of socio-legal study, as well as non-western scholarship
In addition to its review section the journal has developed an innovative occasional Debate & Dialogue section. This feature allows more direct and immediate engagement between authors.
The Board of Social & Legal Studies would like to remind readers of the journal that it is able to offer limited financial support to people organising a workshop or conference on a theme which would be of interest to readers of Social and Legal Studies. Proposals are considered in a competitive process at board meetings in February, June and October of each year. Colleagues wishing to apply for funds should contact Carl Stychin (Carl.Stychin@sas.ac.uk) with an outline of the conference theme and goals, the papers being given and details of the financial support requested. The Board is able to make contributions in the region of £500-1000.
"...it is clear that the editors have worked hard to achieve their aims... However, the value of this journal goes beyond achieving these goals. Its real value lies in the quality, level, and kind of material being published within it." Times Higher Education Supplement
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SOCIAL & LEGAL STUDIES is a leading international journal, publishing progressive, interdisciplinary and critical approaches to socio-legal study. The journal was born out of a commitment to feminist, anti-colonial and socialist economic perspectives to the study of law. It offers an intellectual space for theoretically informed and empirically grounded work, where diverse traditions and critical approaches within legal study meet. We particularly welcome work in new fields of socio-legal study, as well as non-western scholarship.
| Alison Diduck | University College London, UK |
| Marie B Fox | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Vanessa Munro | Warwick University, UK |
| Carl F Stychin | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, UK |
| Henrique Carvalho | University of Warwick, UK |
| Simon Halliday | University of York, UK |
| Carl Stychin | Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, UK |
| Tom Webb | Lancaster University, UK |
| Sol Picciotto | University of Lancaster, UK |
| Carol Smart | University of Manchester, UK |
| Anette Ballinger | Keele University, UK |
| Emilios Christodoulidis | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Richard Collier | University of Newcastle, UK |
| Sharon Cowan | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Máiréad Enright | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Michelle Everson | Birkbeck University of London, UK |
| Lindsay Farmer | University of Glasgow, UK |
| Prabha Kotiswaran | King's College, London, United Kingdom |
| Ambreena S Manji | Cardiff University, UK |
| Kirsten McConnachie | University of East Anglia, UK |
| Kieran McEvoy | Queen's University Belfast, UK |
| Sol Picciotto | University of Lancaster, UK |
| Devyani Prabhat | University of Bristol, UK |
| Sinéad Ring | Maynooth University, Ireland |
| Sally Sheldon | University of Bristol, UK |
| Celine Tan | University of Warwick, UK |
| John Charney | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile |
| Eve Darian-Smith | University of California at Irvine, USA |
| Margaret Davies | Flinders Law School, Australia |
| Dennis Davis | Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland, USA |
| Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller | University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa, USA |
| Huri Islamoglu-Inan | Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary |
| Ratna Kapur | Jindal Global Law School, India |
| Dario Melossi | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Bronwyn Morgan | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Tamar Pitch | University of Perugia, Italy |
| Monika Platek | University of Warsaw, Poland |
| Austin Sarat | Amherst College, USA |
| Maximo Sozzo | Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina |
| Julie Stewart | Southern and Eastern African Centre for Women’s Law (SEARCWL), University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe |
| Alison Young | University of Melbourne, Australia |
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