Events

Conferences, seminars & workshops

This page is devoted to advertising events anywhere in the world that are of interest to empirical legal researchers. If you would like your event to be incuded in the list below, please contact Marie Selwood.

Forthcoming events

• Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 7-9 April 2009, De Montfort University, Leicester
• Building Theory Through Empirical Legal Studies, 24 April 2009, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkely
• BHPS Research Conference, 10-11 July 2009, University of Essex
• Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, 13 July-21 August 2009, University of Essex
• Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Legal Research Symposium, 10-11 September 2009, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, 20-21 November 2009, Gould School of Law, Los Angeles
• Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, 30 March-1 April 2010, University of the West of England, Bristol

Past events

• Managing Research Postgraduates in Law: 15 September 2008, Queen Mary, University of London. An informal session by Fional Cownie and Kate Malleson for directors of postgraduate research.
• Conference on Empirical Legal Studies 2008: 12 & 13 September 2008, Cornell Law School, New York. NB this conference will be held at University College London in 2010.
• RICS Cobra Research Conference, Dublin, 4 & 5 September 2008, Legal Research Symposium
• ESRC Research Methods Festival: 30 June–3 July 2008, Oxford
• Seventh LSRC International Research Conference: 18–20 June 2008, Greenwich
• Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Inaugural Symposium: 19 June 2008
• Towards a European Legal Methodology: 10 June 2008, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• How to Take Law Seriously: A symposium on methodological issues in socio-legal studies: 9 June 2008, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford
• Innovations in Justice Research: 21 April 2008, Cardiff University
• SLSA Annual Conference: 18-20 March 2008, University of Manchester
• Ministry of Justice and LERSnet half-day conference, ‘Changing the research landscape’: 18 December 2007, Royal Statistical Society.
  The preliminary announcement is available for download in Word format; Martin Partington’s report for the Socio-Legal Newsletter, ‘Changing the research landscape‘ (2008, SLN 54:4) is available as a pdf; and a follow-up report by Marc Mason is available as a Word document.
• LERSnet Working Party meeting: 17 December 2007, Law Commission