Conference Host

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is a multi-disciplinary research institute dedicated to the study of law in society. Founded in 1972 at Oxford University, the CSLS has a full-time research staff of twelve, representing a range of disciplines, currently law, anthropology, sociology, political science, and psychology. The interaction of different disciplines and research staff and students from different countries and backgrounds produces a stimulating environment for cutting-edge research.  Further information is available at http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/ 

Conference Sponsors

 

The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Limited, founded in 1904 by the Liberal, Quaker philanthropist, Joseph Rowntree, was set up as a company which pays tax on its income and is therefore free to give grants for political and campaigning purposes, to promote democratic reform and constitutional change.The Trust provided significant financial backing for Charter 88, making grants of more than £1.25 million between 1988 and 2001.  Further information available at http://www.jrrt.org.uk.

The Oxford University Law Faculty Research Support Fund

Law has been taught in Oxford for some 850 years and Oxford has since been home to many of the key figures of the legal scholarship including Dicey, Pollock, Cheshire, Cross, Morris, and Hart.  Today's Oxford's Law Faculty keeps faith with all this history, and the study of the common law, including its interaction with modern legislation and regulation, remains central to our pursuits. But our work has also been enriched over the years by strengths in comparative law, the philosophy of law,  international law,  and most recently European Law. Specialist centres in criminology and socio-legal studies also mean that Oxford is now unsurpassed as a place for interdisciplinary work connected with the law and its development.  See http://www.law.ox.ac.uk.