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- Online booking now available.

- En suite rooms at Tapton will be reserved for those attending the full conference.

- The Rt. Hon Beverley McLachlin the Chief Justice of Canada, will be at the Conference throughout. Chief Justice McLachlin will also give an SLS Lecture.

- Professor Sir Ian Kershaw, the world's leading expert on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, will give an SLS Lecture.

- The Rt. Hon. Baroness Hale of Richmond, the first woman Law Lord, will give an SLS Lecture.

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Annual Conference
13-16 September 2004

Presidential Invitation

Professor John Birds

This year’s conference runs from 13 to 16 September and will be based at Tapton Hall of Residence and the Crookesmoor Building, which houses the Sheffield Law School. The building is a short, albeit hilly, walk from Tapton. There is a mixture of en-suite and other accommodation at Tapton; the en-suite rooms will be allocated on a first come first served basis when booking opens. If necessary, alternative accommodation will be available nearby.

There is no overall theme, the meat of the programme being the meetings of the subject sections – group A sections meeting on the Monday afternoon and Tuesday and Group B sections on the Wednesday and Thursday morning. A range of booking possibilities will be available. Interspersed with the subject section meetings will be three SLS lectures to be delivered by distinguished speakers – the two foremost female judges in the common law world, Baroness Hale of Richmond and Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Canadian Supreme Court (both former academics and honorary members of the Society), and the distinguished historian from the University of Sheffield, Professor Sir Ian Kershaw. In another important plenary event, Professor Martin Partington will lead a session on the Review of Socio-Legal Studies. The UKNCCL will also meet on the Monday morning before the conference proper starts.

There will be two principal social events. On the Monday evening there will be a reception in the city’s impressive Millennium Gallery and Winter Gardens. The Annual Dinner will take place on the Wednesday evening at the magnificent Cutler’s Hall, also in the heart of the city.

We look forward to welcoming you to Sheffield.

Professor John Birds.
President of the SLS 2003-2004.