Conference

The Society holds an Annual Conference in September, at which there are always also meetings of the subject sections. The Annual Conference is something of an institution, and provides an unrivalled forum for networking. Papers are read and discussed at each of the section meetings, and many of these are later published either in the Society’s journal or elsewhere. The Presidency of the Society is an annual office, and the conference is usually held at the home university of the President. Members may reasonably expect their law school to help with the cost of attending.

The Annual Conference not only allows formal consideration to be given to matters of current importance but also provides a unique opportunity for academic lawyers to get to know each other and share information about each other’s law schools, for example, about research and research facilities or about responses to government policy. In difficult times, this exchange of information and these personal contacts are indispensable. Without them, law schools would be weaker and less well co-ordinated in the defence of the vital interests of legal education.

2024 Annual Conference, University of Bristol

The 2024 Society of Legal Scholars’ Annual Conference will be held at the University of Bristol, from Tuesday 3rd – Thursday 5 September 2024, under the Presidency of Professor Paula Giliker.  The theme of the conference will be ‘Learning from Others: Lessons for Legal Scholars?’.

To find out more visit the conference website here: https://www.slsconference.com/

Past Conferences

• Oxford Brookes, June 2023, Past President – Professor Lucy Vickers
• King’s College London, September 2022, Past President – Professor Catharine MacMillan
  (photos of the 2022 Annual Conference available here: https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/kcl-2022-photos/)
• Durham University, September 2021, Past President – Professor Thom Brookes
• University of Exeter, September 2020, Past President – Professor Rebecca Probert
• UCLan, September 2019, Past President – Professor Richard Taylor (Photos of the 2019 Annual Conference available here:https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/uclan-2019-photos/)
• QMUL, September 2018, Past President – Professor Peter Alldridge
• UCD, September 2017, Past President – Professor Imelda Maher MRIA (Photos of the 2017 Annual Conference available here: https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/dublin-2017-photos/
• University of Oxford, 2016, Past President – Professor Andrew Burrows KC (Photos of the 2016 Annual Conference available here: https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/oxford-2016-photos/ and the plenary videos here: https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/oxford-2016-plenary-videos/
• University of York, 2015, Past President – Professor Jenny Steele
• Nottingham University, 2014, Past President – Professor Stephen Bailey

To view past conference programmes please visit here: https://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/conference/previous-conference-programmes/

If you have any questions regarding the SLS Annual Conference please contact the SLS Administrative Secretary, Rosa Bladon (admin@legalscholars.ac.uk)