RCSL celebrates the Human Rights Day 2024

RCSL Webinars

As part of its Webinar Series, RCSL organizes on 11 December 2024, 4.00-4.45 PM (CET), the day after the Human Rights Day, a webinar held by Ravi Malhotra (University of Ottawa),

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Crip Time: How Can Law Instantiate the Lived Experiences of Disabled Workers?

It will debate how to better enforce and protect the rights of disabled workers under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Discussant: João Velloso (University of Ottawa), Chair of the RCSL Working Group on ‘Judicialization of Social Problems’.

Registration is free and now open here

Podgórecki Prize 2024 awarded

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As announced at the occasion of the RCSL 2024 Bangor Annual Meeting, the Podgórecki Prize 2024 was awarded ex aequo to Julia Dahlvik (Viena) and Edvaldo Moita (Brasília). Our warm congratulations to both laureates! Details will be published soon in the RCSL Newsletter and on the present website.

And don’t forget: the Call for Abstracts for the V ISA Forum, Rabat, 6-11 July 2025, Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene. is now open, and will close on 15 October 2024.

2024 Bangor Updated Programme – 2025 Rabat Call for Abstracts Now Open

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While RCSL is busy preparing its 2024 Meeting, which soon will take place in Bangor, 3-6 September, Representing Law – Draft Programme updated 29 August, available on this site -, we also started to work on the 2025 Meeting, which will be the participation of RCSL to the V ISA Forum, Rabat, 6-11 July 2025, Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene. The Call for Abstracts for that meeting is now open, and will close on 15 October 2024.

2025 RCSL Meeting in Rabat, part of the V ISA Forum: Call for sessions

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While we are busy preparing the 2024 RCSL Bangor Meeting, Representing Law, we already have to start the setting up of the 2025 Rabat Meeting, Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene. Interested RC-Members are invited to propose Paper presentation sessions, Roundtable sessions, or Poster sessions, as a first step in this preparatory work. Deadine 1st of July 2024.

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Representing Law Exhibition – Call for Delegate Submissions

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As part of the ‘Representing Law’ Research Committee on the Sociology of Law (RCSL) Conference at Bangor University 3-6 September, we are hosting an exhibition on the theme of Representing Law, for conference delegates as well as local artists.  This will be a photography exhibition of submissions from delegates – deadline 30 June 2024 – as well as mixture of works of different media from the local community.

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Webinar with Avrom Sherr and Hilary Sommerlad next 7 June!

RCSL Webinars

On the initiative of Stefanie Lemke, the RCSL will kick-off its new webinar series on 7 June 2024, 3-3.30 PM (CEST), to introduce to its many exciting working groups around human rights, politics, judicial systems, legal pluralism, migration, gender, as well as other themes.  

We will start with our long-standing Working Group on ‘Comparative Studies of the Legal Profession’.

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