2025 Annual Conference of the Dutch-Flemish Law & Society Association (VSR)

We are excited to announce the 2025 VSR Annual Conference, hosted by the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society!

Dates: Thursday 30 and Friday 31 January 2025
Location: Leiden, The Netherlands

This year’s theme is “The Socio-Legal Imagination,” inviting participants to engage with one or more of the following considerations:

• What are the narratives enclosed in law? How is law reflective of conscious and unconscious beliefs held by society? What is the power of the language of law?
• How does law impact social patterns, individual biographies, and the relation between the two? What happens in the transition from law-on-the-books to law-in-action? What role does law play in the current myriad of perspectives on important social issues?
• How can conventional understandings of present problems be reimagined? How can (a legal, sociological, socio-legal, or other mode of) imagination help shape responses to the key challenges of our time?

Call for Abstracts and Proposals

Submit your individual papers or full panel proposals by 24 November 2024. Abstracts should be around 200 words.

Submit individual papers here: https://www.formdesk.com/universiteitleiden/VSR2025

Submit full panels via email: 2025VSR@law.leidenuniv.nl

Additionally, this year several panels have been pre-formed and invite submissions on their specific topics. Panel descriptions can be found in the following annex: 2025_VSR Announcement Conference

Prior to the conference, on 28 and 29 January 2025, VSR and ELS Academy will organize the fourth edition of the PhD School at Leiden University, specifically organized by and for PhD students.

The link for registration will open in a few weeks. Stay tuned for more information!