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Journal of Empirical Research on Law in Action
Journal of Empirical Research on Law in Action (Recht der Werkelijkheid) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal related to the VSR, published by Boom. Established in 1980, the journal serves as an interdisciplinary platform for reflecting on law from the perspectives of socio-legal studies, legal anthropology, public administration, law and economics, and legal psychology. It focuses…
20 December 2018
Invitation: SLSA PhD writing group
The SLSA invites PhD candidates to the PGR–SLSA online writing group. The PGR reps Diksha Sanyal and Camilo Cornejo Martinez run tri-annual writing sessions (one each term) to encourage early career socio-legal scholars to write together, advance their thesis and publications, and strengthen the community across institutions. The first online writing group session will run…
21 October 2025Call for abstracts: Understanding and Re-Imagining the Digital Welfare State
This is an invitation to the two-day workshop “Understanding and Re-Imagining the Digital Welfare State” in Oslo, 12–13 February 2026 (OsloMet, Pillestredet campus). The workshop brings together early career researchers, postdoctoral researchers, and colleagues working on the digitalisation of welfare, from automation and predictive analytics to surveillance, data justice, and design. The aim is twofold:…
13 October 2025Invitation for PhD candidates: SLSA Postgraduate Conference 2026
On behalf of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA), applications are invited for the upcoming SLSA Postgraduate Conference 2026, hosted by the Centre of Law and Society, Cardiff University, on 8–9 January 2026. The VSR and SLSA have a long-standing collaboration, under which the SLSA sends five candidates to the VSR PhD Days conference and welcomes five VSR postgraduate…
13 October 2025