Socio-Legal Ne wsletter No 75 The newSleTTer of The Socio-legal STudieS aSSociaTion S pring 2015 Birmingham International Airport is 10 minutes from Coventry SLSA 2015 hoSTed by station by rail, with trains every 10 minutes. Bookings are now open so don’t forget to secure your place. WArWick LAW SchooL Note that standard rate booking closes on 13 March 2015 . We look forward to seeing you in March. 31 March–2 April 2015 For online booking and general information, please visit the Preparations are well underway at Warwick Law School conference website w www.warwick.ac.uk/slsa. For further for the upcoming 2015 Annual Conference; ‘Socio-legal in queries, please contact Maebh Harding or Jonathan Garton by culture: the culture of socio-legal’. email at e [email protected]. Use #slsa2015 for tweets about the conference. The call for papers has now closed and we have had an Maebh Harding incredible response of over 400 papers submitted through the EasyChair system. If you would like to present your research at the conference but missed the call for papers, the call for posters remains open until Friday 6 March 2014 . SLSA ANNUAL PriZeS We are offering a very full programme this year with over 40 Each year the SLSA awards four annual prizes: its different streams and themes. In plenary sessions we will longstanding Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize, the Prize for discuss the nature of socio-legal research and the relationship Early Career Academics and the Socio-Legal Article between drama and socio-legal approaches. The conference will Prize; and, new this year, the Socio-Legal Theory and also feature a number of author-meets-reader sessions with History Prize. winners of the SLSA prizes. Moreover, the conference coincides The SLSA Executive Committee is delighted to announce the with the 50th anniversary of the University of Warwick and we 2015 winners: hope that it will be a celebration of the Warwick Law School l Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize tradition of examining law in its political, social, economic and cultural context. Alan Paterson (2013) Final Judgment: The last Law Lords and the Supreme Court , Hart The conference will take place on our leafy landscaped campus in the heart of the Warwickshire countryside. l Prize for Early Career Academics (awarded jointly this year) Accommodation is provided on site so delegates will have the Debbie Becher (2014) Private Property and Public Power: opportunity to explore the outdoor Warwick sculpture trail, part Eminent domain in Philadelphia , OUP of the university’s significant collection of contemporary art, as Kirsten McConnachie (2014) Governing Refugees: Justice, order well as the wide range of museums, galleries and unique market and legal pluralism , Routledge towns in the surrounding area. As part of the conference l Socio-Legal Article Prize activities you will be able to take part in a trip to Coventry Amanda Perry-Kessaris (2014) ‘The case for a visualised Transport Museum or visit the majestic ruins of Kenilworth economic sociology of legal development’ 67 Current Legal Castle with its beautiful Elizabethan garden. All delegates will Problems 169 have full use of campus sports facilities including a fully l Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize equipped gymnasium, swimming pool and state-of-the-art Henry Yeomans (2014) Alcohol and Moral Regulation: Public climbing wall. attitudes, spirited measures and Victorian hangovers , Policy Press An on-site family room is available for parents with young Many congratulations to the winners, all of whom will be children. This provides a space for parents and children to play, attending the SLSA annual conference where they will be taking as well as providing breast-feeding and baby-changing facilities. part in author-meets-reader sessions. Check the conference Children over five years old can take part in activities provided programme for details. by the university’s holiday scheme. Places on the holiday scheme can be reserved online when booking the conference. A range of accommodation is available to suit all needs. Please The newsletter needs you contact e [email protected] if you have particular News and feature articles are always needed for the accommodation preferences and we will refer you to suitable newsletter, plus information about books, journals and off-campus accommodation. events. The next deadline is 18 May 2015 . The campus is just four miles from Coventry train station. Contact Marie Selwood e [email protected] Frequent train services run from London Euston which is only or t 01227 770189. one hour away. For those travelling from further afield, Also in this issue . l SLSA Executive Committee – page 2 l Funding – page 7 l Socio-Legal Newsletter sponsors – page 2 l Law and design – page 9 l SLSA news – pages 3–5 l Socio-legal publications – pages 10–13 l Socio-legal news – pages 5–6 l Events – pages 13–14 Socio-legal newSleTTer • n o 75 • Spring 2015 1 slsa noticeboard SLSA EXECUTIVE CoMMITTEE SociAL MediA helen carr Jen hendry University of kent 2014—2015 University of Leeds e [email protected] chAir e [email protected] dave cowan rosemary hunter GrANTS coMMiTTee chAir bristol University QMUL Jess Guth e [email protected] [email protected] e bradford University Naomi creutzfeldt Vice-chAir e [email protected] Wolfson college oxford Anne barlow SeMiNAr coMMiTTee chAir e [email protected] University of exeter rosie harding [email protected] Lydia hayes ( JLS representative) e University of birmingham cardiff University SecreTAry e [email protected] e [email protected] chris Ashford WArWick 2015 coNFereNce orGANiSerS Gethin rees Northumbria University Newcastle Jonathan Garton [email protected] University of Southampton e e [email protected] e [email protected] TreASUrer Maebh harding Michael Thomson Mark o’brien e [email protected] oxford brookes University University of Leeds [email protected] LANcASTer 2016 coNFereNce orGANiSerS e [email protected] e benjamin Mayfield MeMberShiP SecreTAry e [email protected] Sarah blandy Sheffield University Tom Webb e [email protected] e [email protected] recrUiTMeNT SecreTAry PoSTGrAdUATe rePreSeNTATiVe Marian duggan charlotte bendall Newsletter contact details kent University University of birmingham e [email protected] Marie Selwood, editor, Socio-Legal Newsletter e [email protected] ) 33 baddlesmere road, Whitstable, kent iNTerNATioNAL LiAiSoN WebMASTer cT5 2Lb t 01227 770189 ben Livings Jed Meers e [email protected] University of New england, Australia University of york [email protected] Next copy deadline: 18 May 2015 e [email protected] e Next publication date: 22 June 2015 PUbLiSher LiAiSoN SLSA EXECUTIVE MEMBERS Francis king diamond Ashiagbor essex University SoAS University of London e [email protected] e [email protected] Disclaimer ediTor: NeWSLeTTer, Web, ebULLeTiN kevin brown The opinions expressed in articles in the Marie Selwood Queen’s University belfast Socio-Legal Newsletter are those of the authors e [email protected] e [email protected] and not necessarily those of the SLSA. newsletter sponsors . newsletter sponsors . Newsletter sponsorship The Socio-Legal Newsletter is sponsored by a consortium of law schools interested in promoting socio-legal studies in the Uk. if your institution would like to become involved in this initiative, please contact SLSA chair rosemary hunter e [email protected]. Newsletter academic sponsors 2013–2016 are: birkbeck; cardiff Law School; centre for Socio-Legal Studies, oxford; University of exeter; University of kent; University of Liverpool; the LSe; Newcastle University; Northumbria University Newcastle; University of Nottingham; QMUL; Queen’s University belfast; University of Sheffield; University of Strathclyde; University college London; University of Warwick; University of Westminster; and University of york. The newsletter is also sponsored by the Journal of Law and Society . 2 Socio-legal newSleTTer • n o 75 • Spring 2015 © Socio-legal Studies association 2015 iSSn: 0957-7817 slsa news Annual general meeting New funding schemes The SLSA’s annual general meeting (AGM) will take place on The SLSA will shortly be introducing two new funding schemes. 1 April 2015 at the University of Warwick during the Annual l SLSA Research Methods Training Bursaries Conference. If you would like to suggest an agenda item for the The aim of this scheme is to support training in social science AGM please send details to SLSA secretary Chris Ashford research methods and the use of data analysis software (eg e [email protected] by 13 March 2015 . NB SPSS and NVivo) for SLSA members who do not possess but copies of the minutes of last year’s AGM will be included in this wish to acquire these skills and do not have access to sources year’s conference packs (and they are also downloadable from of institutional support to do so. The SLSA will provide the Exec page of the SLSA website). bursaries to cover the cost of attendance at a relevant Up to four vacancies on the Exec will arise at the AGM. If training course offered by an established provider. Eligible you are interested in being nominated or nominating a applicants will be members of the SLSA who are early colleague then it is important that you attend the AGM where or mid-career researchers and not currently undertaking nominations will be taken and a secret ballot held if nominations a PhD. exceed the number of seats available. The SLSA Constitution l The SLSA Mentorship Scheme provides for the position of ‘Scottish representative’ on the Exec The aim of this scheme is to support travel and so we particularly encourage Scottish members to consider accommodation for SLSA members who wish to visit and nominating as we currently have no members from Scottish spend up to a week working with a chosen mentor.