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Conference  Snippets

- 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.

SLS Conference Programme

This programme will be included in the printed programme which will be included in Delegate's Conference Bags. A tabular version can be read by clicking here.

Monday 13 September

9.15           UKNCCL

10.45        CHULS

11.15         Registration opens

11.45         First session for research students

12.45         OPTIONAL LUNCH, including for CHULS

14.00        Group A subject section meetings

                    Second session for research students

15.30        Tea

16.00        Group A subject section meetings

19.00        Reception and Buffet, Millennium Gallery and Winter Gardens (Lexis-Nexis)

Tuesday 14 September

9.15           Group A subject section meetings

10.45        Coffee

11.30        SLS Lecture – Professor Sir Ian Kershaw - “The collapse of legality in Nazi Germany”

12.45        Lunch

14.00       Group A subject section meetings

15.30       Tea

16.00      SLS Lecture – Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin – “Demystifying Judging: How Judges Think”

17.30      The Nuffield Project on Socio-Legal Research


Wednesday 15 September

9.15        SLS AGM and Council

10.45     Coffee

11.15      Group B subject section meetings

12.45     Lunch

14.00    SLS Lecture – Baroness Hale of Richmond – “The House of Lords and Women's Rights”

15.30    Tea

16.00    Group B subject section meetings

19.00    Reception and Annual Dinner, The Cutlers’ Hall, sponsored by Sweet & Maxwell
Post dinner drinks sponsored by Cavendish Publishing

Thursday 16 September

9.15       Group B subject section meetings

10.45    Coffee

11.15     Group B subject section meetings

12.45     Conference ends