Dr Smita Kheria

SLSA Prizes are now open for nominations. The six prizes are:

Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community

Hart–SLSA Book Prize, Hart-SLSA Book Prize for Early Career Academics, Socio-legal Theory and History Prize

Socio-Legal Article Prize

Impact Prize.

More info here: www.slsa.ac.uk/prizes

A total of £66,000 has been earmarked towards these five schemes for the 2025-26 round. The maximum individual award limits across all schemes have also been revised upwards. These enhancements are intended to foster greater opportunities to encourage, nurture, and showcase the work by our members.

All the SLSA funding schemes are now open for applications: Research Grants, PhD Fieldwork Grants, Impact Grants, Seminar Competition, International Collaboration Funding. Closing date: 31 October 2025.

For more information follow the link to the new website: www.slsa.ac.uk/grants

The full program is on The Stand Comedy Club website: www.thestand.co.uk/whats-on/sho...

I’ll be hitting the stage with a condensed version of my previous Fringe show ‘No copyright, no problem’ on Wednesday 6th and Sunday 17th.

Come for the ideas, stay for the laughs.

🎭Fringe is in the air! 🎭

The Provocateurs, a public engagement series blending academic research, audience interaction, and a dash of comedy, kicks off today at the world’s largest arts festival. 1-24 August, 2 shows every day, each featuring a lively trio of 2 academics and a comedian.
#edfringe

Gikii 2025: Amsterdam CfP GiKii 2025 – Call for Papers Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 11-12 September 2025 Technology in its villain era Has technology’s slouch towards everm…

Gikii 2025 in lovely Amsterdam has extended its CfP till May 31. Sept 11-12 th at IViR. Get your geek on and set your geek clogs tapping! No i don’t know what i mean either 😂 www.gikii.org/gikii-2025-a...

Congratulations to Dr. Lynette Chua for winning the Socio-Legal Article Prize at #SLSA2025 for her article '“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan' in @lsijournal.bsky.social!

Free-to-access through June: cup.org/4isopJG

Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial; Adopting a critical multidisciplinary perspective underpinned by feminist theory, this accessible book mounts an important interrogation into the use of a victim’s...

'Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial' has been awarded the Hart–SLSA Book & Socio-Legal Theory and History 2025 Prize!🌟

This book mounts an important interrogation into the use of a victim’s sexual history as evidence in rape trials.

Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together…

Just under a month until Hart publish the latest output from our Socio-Legal Trajectories project @mpilhlt.bsky.social, this Oñati series edited collection: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega... Publishing June 12, ask your libraries to pre-order! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social

BlOG SERIES: Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law‘ - Low-wage’ not ‘low-skill’: moving away from the skills binary in labour migration discourse This blog is part of SLSA blog series ‘Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law’ through the lens of migration’ (Edited by Dr Simran Kalra and Dr Fanni Gyurko), which takes a socio-legal approach to mig...

My contribution to this SLSA blog series exploring people's experiences of law through the lens of migration, argues that the term 'low-skilled' should be banished from the labour migration discourse. @leicesterlawschool.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-po...

Congratulations Kate!

Ministers to amend data bill amid artists’ concerns over AI and copyright Exclusive: Government will promise to carry out an economic impact assessment of its proposals

UK Ministers to amend data bill amid artists’ concerns over #AI and #copyright | @guardian
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

1/10 In Case C‑575/23 FT, AL & ON v Belgium (re Orchestre National de Belgique) [the ONB case], the CJEU held that InfoSoc, CDSM, other Directives, preclude legislation which automatically assigns performers' related rights to their employers without their consent
curia.europa.eu/juris/liste....

Join us on 6 May, 3.30 - 5pm, for "The Respective Roles of Public and Private Competition Law Enforcement to attain the Goals of Antitrust: Beyond Optimal Enforcement Theory?"

Speakers include Olivier Guersent, Director General, DG Competition and Professor Arianna Andreangeli.

edin.ac/4jTuIqL

Infographic of BRAID x IDI seminar with Lydia Farina on 8th May, 4-5pm and her picture at the bottom right.

Join next @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar where @dynarch.bsky.social will provide key insights from her scoping BRAID project ‘Creating a dynamic #archive of Responsible AI Ecosystems in the context of #CreativeAI’

📅 Thu 8 May
⏰ 4 – 5pm
📍@inspacegallery.bsky.social/ Zoom
🎟 edin.ac/3CoJbuZ

Congratulations to @smitakheria.bsky.social who has been elected as the Chair of the SLSA! (@slsauk.bsky.social)

Dr Kheria was elected during the SLSA’s annual conference and is the first woman of colour to hold the position since the association was established.

Read more: edin.ac/4iH7JhP

👇 For UK design folks - a fascinating (and troubling) investigation into apparent misuse of the UK registered design system, looking firms that appear to be selling 'authorship' slots on UKRDs to overseas academics, to help those academics game their academic reputations (eg for promotion purposes).

👇Please share widely - a two-year Teaching and Research Fellow opportunity in the field of AI law and regulation. Details below!

We are pleased to announce the programme for the 2025 ISHTIP 16th Annual Workshop, 25-26 June, in Madrid 🇪🇸:

A woman standing speaking at a lectern in a red dress receiving a prize - there are people sitting in the foreground at a table with glasses and bottles. The surroundings are ornate with gold and marble - the setting is St George’s Hall in Liverpool.

A woman standing smiling at a lectern in a red dress receiving a prize - there are people standing in the foreground taking her photo. The surroundings are ornate with gold and marble - the setting is St George’s Hall in Liverpool. The woman is Professor Joanne Conaghan

At the Gala dinner in the splendid St George’s Hall Liverpool Professor Joanne Conaghan @joanneconaghan.bsky.social - a true pioneer of feminist legal studies - received the SLSA Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community 2024: ‘Joanne is a fearless, generous and effective colleague’

WE'RE HIRING!
We're hiring a postdoc with excellent empirical/participant research skills for the ERC funded project led by Prof Aisling McMahon

Closing date is 24 April
universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...

The following SLSA members were elected to the Board at the AGM on 16 April at Liverpool University:
Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan
Dave Cowan
Joy Debski
Jennifer Hough
Arwen Joyce
Caer Smyth
Clare Williams

Warmest congratulations to all the prizewinners! It was a great evening #SLSA2025 of celebrating exceptional socio-legal scholars through the SLSA books, article, and impact prizes. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

For 2027 we will be in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
hosted by @nulawandsociety.bsky.social
@northumbriauni.bsky.social
Northumbria Law School
Looking forward to it already - but then I am biased!

Just like that another year is over. Thanks for a great conference @livunislsj.bsky.social
Great collaborations, loads of fantastic research, amazing gala dinner in St George's Hall, friendships new and old.
As always, Liverpool you have been brilliant.

Roll on 2026 @sussex.ac.uk here we come!

It’s been an excellent @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference at Liverpool. Incredibly grateful to Profs Marie Fox and Helen Stalford, and the organising team, @livunislsj.bsky.social for all their work, diligence, and commitment. 🙏🏽 Congratulations for hosting such a successful conference! #SLSA2025.

Delighted to have been elected as the Chair of the @slsauk.bsky.social and many thanks to everyone who attended the AGM at #SLSA2025. It is a real privilege for me to follow Professor John Harrington in this role and I'm very excited to continue working with the board for the socio-legal community.

Large lecture theatre waiting for a plenary to start. Lots of people. There are two tables at the front with people sitting waiting to speak. The slide showing says Liverpool and the legacies of Hillsborough A multi-sectoral, socio-legal campaign. Marking 36th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

Plenary - really looking forward to this - legacies of Hillsborough
Past and culture
Truth and justice
Place

On Friday evening, we were delighted to have a lecture from Prof Lisa Ramsey on #trademarks and free speech. All we have to do now is await her new book later this year! @lpramsey.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social

⏰ Safe travels everyone 🚅✈️🚗🚢🚍🚁
See you tomorrow!