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Welcome to the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

For fifty years the Oxford Centre has been at the forefront of research into the nature and role of law in society. Our researchers study law as a historical and culturally specific mode of social organisation that takes a variety of forms within and across societies.  Our expert staff bring together a wide variety of disciplinary expertise including law, sociology, anthropology, politics, international relations, human rights, economics, geography and art history to examine the interface of law and society.

 

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Blog: Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

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Unfreedom of Information in Private Entities: What Can We Do When Vital Research Participants Won't Talk to Us?

In this week’s Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, Anushka Mittal discusses interviews with former employees as one method to access data when a corporate environment restricts research access. Read

Unfreedom of Information in Private Entities: What Can We Do When Vital Research Participants Won't Talk to Us?
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Ask the Author: David Sugarman

Professor Linda Mulcahy interviews Professor David Sugarman for Ask the Author

Ask the Author: David Sugarman
How many more women?...
International Women's Day Special: ‘How Many More Women?’ and Feminist Socio-Legal Research

Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Dr Keina Yoshida about her recently published book (co-authored with Jennifer Robinson), How Many More Women, and feminist socio-legal methodologies. 

International Women's Day Special: ‘How Many More Women?’ and Feminist Socio-Legal Research

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Doing fieldwork on (nearly) your home turf has its advantages, however. Sometimes the things we're most familiar with are those we most take for granted, and the way law and policy are made in the UK is a good example. I had an opportunity to get behind the legislation and the headlines and find out what has driven changing ideas about human trafficking in the UK over the past fifteen years - Owain Johnstone

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16 February 2023

‘Law in Context’ Early Career Workshop 19-20 June

The International Journal of Law in Context, the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and the Law in Societies Cluster at Wolfson College Oxford, jointly invite early career scholars to participate in a workshop to be held in Oxford, 19-20 June 2023.

26 January 2023

CSLS Postdoctoral Fellow receives a host of national and international awards

This week the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is celebrating the achievements of Nafay Choudhury, a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Centre.

16 January 2023

Digitalisation of Legal Process

Professor Linda Mulcahy has recently been funded by the Borrin Foundation to give a series of talks in New Zealand about her work on courthouse design and the digitalisation of justice systems. 

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2023 Annual Lecture - Possession Island: Queering Art, Queering Law

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17:00 - 18:30

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Buttery Wolfson College

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Professor Des Manderson, ANU College of Law and College of Arts and Social Sciences

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2023

2023 Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute

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09:00 - 17:00

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Jesus College

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Kira Allmann

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