The Board of Social and Legal Studies would like to remind readers of the journal that it is able to offer 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 at our board meetings in February, June and September of each year. Colleagues wishing to apply for funds should contact Linda Mulcahy (l.mulcahy@bbk.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.
Social & Legal Studies is a leading international journal, publishing progressive, interdisciplinary and critical approaches to socio-legal study. The journal is committed to feminist, post-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, and aims to promote greater understanding of work being carried out in less academically dominant countries.
Recently, in additon to its review section the journal has developed an innovative Debates & Dialogue section which allows more direct and immediate engagement between authors.
"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
Forthcoming Articles Will Include:
· Intersectional Race and Gender Analyses: Why Legal Processes Just Don’t Get it
· Border Control and the Limits of the Sovereign State
· Taking Note of ‘The Holocaust’ in English Case Law
· Enclosure, Common-right and the Property of the Poor
· Democracy Captured by its Imaginary: The Transition as Memory and Discourses of Constitutionalism in Spain
· The Judicial Use of Remorse to Construct Character and Community
· Towards a Fiscal Sociology of Tax Credits and the Fathers’ Rights Movement
· Demystifying Deaths in Police Custody: Challenging State Talk
JCR Impact Factor
2008 Ranking:
40/61 in Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
22/31 in Criminology & Penology
75/104 in Law
2008 Impact Factor: 0.491
Electronic access:
Social & Legal Studies is available electronically on SAGE Journals Online at http://sls.sagepub.com
