Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference 2010

Bristol Law School is delighted to be hosting the 2010 Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference which will be taking place from March 30th to April 1st 2010. The conference will be held in the New Redland Building, which is a modern, well-equipped location next to the Law School.

Bristol Law School combines excellence in teaching provision with a friendly supportive environment of pastoral care and individual supervision. It provides high quality academic provision at undergraduate, postgraduate masters and doctoral level. The Law School is also home to a number of leading researchers who, in addition to their scholarly outputs, engage in a range of external activities, both national and international, involving government, the police, judiciary and the voluntary sector. The School also comprises the Bristol Institute of Legal Practice which provides outstanding training for students wishing to be solicitors, barristers and paralegals.

For more information about the University of the West of England and its roots in local vocational training colleges dating back to the 16th century, see: About UWE

If you have any queries or require further details please contact the conference organisers - Phil Rumney (Phil.Rumney@uwe.ac.uk) or Mark O'Brien (Mark.O'Brien@uwe.ac.uk)

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Student bursaries

One of the ways in which the SLSA supports its student members is by providing bursaries for attendance at our annual conference and occasionally other selected events. Student members are warmly invited to apply for the bursary scheme.

For further information, please follow this link:

http://www.kent.ac.uk/nslsa/content/view/104/143/

We are delighted to announce that Clive Stafford Smith will be the conference plenary speaker on Tuesday March 30th. Clive is the founder and director of the UK charity Reprieve and has represented hundreds of death row inmates in the United States of America. He is also working on behalf of a number of detainees at Guantánamo Bay. To learn more about the work of Reprieve, see here: http://www.reprieve.org.uk/

Clive's talk will be entitled: 'Secrecy and British Complicity in Rendition and Torture’.

The conference organisers would like to thank Willan Publishing for being the latest publisher to agree to sponsor the conference.