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Socio-legal Organizations
Baldy Center
The Christopher Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, is an internationally recognized institute that supports the interdisciplinary study of law and legal institutions. The Center maintains cooperative ties to other interdisciplinary research centers at UB and co-sponsors a regional network of sociolegal scholars in New York and Canada. The Baldy Center hosts distinguished scholars from around the world as visitors, consultants, and conference participants.
Canadian Law and Society Association The CLSA is a group of scholars from many disciplines who are interested in the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life. CLSA members bring training in law, history, sociology, political science, criminology, psychology, anthropology, and economics as well as in other related areas of socio-legal inquiry. Among its activities, the CLSA publishes the Canadian Journal of Law & Society, sponsors an annual conference and graduate student workshop, awards prizes for socio-legal scholarship, and generally works to encourage socio-legal inquiry in Canada and internationally.
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies - University of Oxford
The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is an internationally recognized research institution devoted to the understanding of law in its social, political, and economic context. Since its founding in 1972 by the Economic and Social Research Council in order to develop the field of socio-legal studies in the UK, the Centre has grown to become an official department of the University of Oxford and a global leader in its field.
Georgetown Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
at Georgetown Law is devoted to
* promoting interdisciplinary scholarship on the profession informed by awareness of the dynamics of modern practice;
* providing students with a sophisticated understanding of the opportunities and challenges of a modern legal career;and
* furnishing members of the bar, particularly those in organizational decision-making positions, broad perspectives on trends and developments in practice.
Griffith Socio-Legal Research Centre
The Socio-Legal Research Centre investigates the origins, operations and effects of legal regimes, policies and practices.
The Law and Society Association
The Law and Society Association, based at the University of Massachusetts and founded in 1964, is a group of scholars from many fields and countries, interested in the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life. Members bring training in law, sociology, political science, psychology, anthropology, economics, and history as well as in other related areas to the study of sociolegal phenomena.
Research Funding Opportunities
The Litigation Research Fund
The ABA Section of Litigation established The Litigation Research Fund in Fall 2007 to support original and practical scholarly work that significantly advances the understanding of civil litigation in the United States. This research fund supports research and writing projects in two broad areas: First, scholarship relevant to litigation policy (e.g., on issues important to rule makers, legislators, or courts, or helpful to the organized bar in developing guidelines and formulating positions); and second, scholarship bearing on litigation practice (such as writings addressing trial skills or other aspects of how litigators conduct their work). Funded scholarship may relate to judicial administration; judicial independence; rules and standards relating to litigation (e.g., ethics rules, rules of evidence, and rules of civil procedure); the assistance of counsel; trial and discovery practice; or the jury process, among others. Individual awards of between $5,000 and $20,000 are awarded. Legal academics as well as social scientists and scholars from other disciplines are invited to apply.