Guide to postgraduate opportunities in the field of socio-legal studies.

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About the courseThe Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree entails the carrying out of a research project in the field of socio-legal studies and writing a thesis of betw andwords under the guidance of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, an international leader for the study of laws in societies.

Kent Law School (KLS) is the UK's leading critical law school with internationally recognized expertise in socio-legal studies. A cosmopolitan centre of world-class critical legal research, it offers a supportive and intellectually stimulating place to.

This programme offers an advanced introduction to the study of Law with a specific emphasis on socio-legal methodology.

It provides you with an excellent preparation for doctoral study in the area of socio-legal research, serving as a qualification in its own right and a. Postgraduate and masters courses in Legal Studies.

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Students at the Centre benefit from having a study place and PC allocated in the Centre, the opportunity to get involved in a range of seminars and workshops, including the Socio-Legal Discussion Group and editorial opportunities for the new Journal of.

The MSc in Socio-Legal Studies offers useful preparation for a number of careers, for example in academia, often after the completion of a doctoral degree. The emphasis on practical research training, on the ability to plan, research and write a sophisticated dissertation, and on the ability to think in broad theoretical terms about law in.

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The CSLS welcomes students who wish to pursue research in any aspect of socio-legal studies, broadly defined. The centre's staff has a range of expertise in socio-legal research and methodologies and draws on a range of cognate fields, including anthropology, jurisprudence, political science, regulation studies, economics and sociology.

The one-year MA program offers students courses in socio-legal theory and methods as well as a required Major Research Paper. York's PhD in Socio-Legal Studies is at the vanguard of a growing number of postgraduate programs in Europe and North America in interdisciplinary legal studies.

Our PhD is the first such doctoral program in Canada that. Postgraduate / Social Studies and Media / Sociology / Socio-Legal Studies; 9 institutions offering Masters Degrees Socio-Legal Studies courses abroad.

Filter. Sort Most info English courses available Pre-masters available Scholarships available THE Rankings Popularity Reviews. Welcome to the Socio-Legal Studies Association. Please take a few moments to explore the site to find out about our numerous activities and the benefits of joining the SLSA.

The SLSA Annual Conference will be hosted by the University of Portsmouth from 1–3 April Early bird registration will close on 4 February A PhD (or doctorate), is awarded for a substantial piece of supervised research that is worthy of publication and makes an original contribution to knowledge in a particular field.

Research students benefit from having a supervisory committee, including a main supervisor, to guide and support their research. MSc Socio-Legal Studies Applicants should also refer to the relevant prospectus entry for further programme details. This admissions statement should be read in association with the University Admissions Principles and Procedures for Postgraduate Taught Programmes.

Faculty Faculty of Social Sciences and Law Admissions team and contact details. Socio-Legal Studies Our growing number of Socio-Legal Studies books are written by the best international scholars and rising stars, and are regularly nominated for prizes.

Our cutting-edge books touch on a wide range of subjects including: human rights, criminal justice, gender, family, religion, globalisation, administrative justice, and law.

The Journal of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (JOxCSLS), formerly known as the Oxford Socio-Legal Review (OSLR), is an independent journal published in e-format by the graduate students of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford. The first OSLR was published in and continued in its current form in The Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Socio-Legal Research is a one-year research programme which requires students to write a 30,word dissertation on a topic falling within the field of Socio-Legal Studies.

Students can either take this as a free-standing qualification or progress from the MPhil to the DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies. The Socio-Legal Studies series consists of scholars, principally from the UK, Europe and North America, who contribute critical, analytical texts concerning the operation of Law in Society.

Grounded in theory the books will examine practical issues of contemporary importance from a perspective which firmly locates law as a social science. The book is fully in line with the new A-level specifications being taught from September Each chapter includes case studies, keystudies, evaluations and a range of discussion questions.

Apart from providing in depth and up-to-date knowledge on criminal psychology, the book is equally up-to-date on trends and issues in criminal justice today. The Law School has an active and supportive student community, with excellent dedicated postgraduate facilities.

Students are usually allocated two supervisors, who give guidance about the nature of the research, the standard of work required, and about the relevant literature and sources that should be consulted.

It provides sound research training for students planning for a PhD or a career in socio-legal research through the study of different research methodologies across the social sciences and law.

You will pursue independent, in-depth study of socio-legal topics, and engage in lively debates in a thriving research culture across social sciences.

For postgraduate research programmes applicants should have a good 5-year Specialist Diploma (completed after ), with a minimum grade point average of 4/5 or 80%, from a recognised higher education institution or a Masters or “Magistr Diplomu” or “Kandidat Nauk” from a recognised higher education institution in Azerbaijan.

The Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree entails the carrying out of a research project in the field of socio-legal studies and writing a thesis of betw andwords under the guidance of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, an international leader.

The one-year MA program offers students courses in socio-legal theory and methods as well as a required Major Research Paper. York's PhD in Socio-Legal Studies is at the vanguard of a growing number of postgraduate programs in Europe Location: Keele Street, North York, ON.

Socio-Legal Studies has a long distinguished history in the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, which was placed in the top 10 UK Law Schools (REF ). The School of Law provides excellent quality research training, supervision and mentoring to students and junior faculty engaged in sociolegal research, with expertise in a number.

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The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies is a nonprofit organization in Nigeria, established to promote reform in the justice sector, advance rule of law, protect human rights, and deepen democracy. With this award, CSLS is deepening criminal justice reform, and fast-tracking the prosecution of high profile corruption cases in Nigeria.

For research programmes, an outstanding record in earlier higher education and the skills and commitment to pursue research to the highest level are required by applicants for postgraduate research programmes.

It is very rare for a candidate to be admitted without having completed a degree in Law, except in socio-legal studies and te (): 2. The MRes Socio-Legal Research offers you the benefit of combining sought after legal and social science research skills, which are extremely useful to a wide range of employers.

Current and former students have, for example, undertaken research on projects of interest to academics and professionals working in the fields of family law, the legal. Socio-legal research encompasses many different methodological and disciplinary fields.

The Socio-Legal Studies Association provided this useful description of the work of its members for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in Our members undertake library based theoretical work, empirical work which leads to the development of grounded theory, as well as more.

3 writer‟s metaphor, a continually replayed game of football (cf. Honoré ). Social theory suggested the possibility of breaking out of that philosophical circularity3 and linking big issues about law to observation of the varied, changing social and political contexts in Author: Roger Cotterrell.

Many socio-legal studies graduates pursue legal careers or post-graduate studies. However, the issues addressed in the major are relevant to many fields that focus on applying the law, including social work, education, business and international relations. Socio-legal research has been described as embracing library-focused, empirical study involving grounded theory.

It also acknowledges the policy making process and correlates a multi-faceted approach to legal phenomena involving an array of humanity based disciplines, with major contributors being the development of social policy, with. Sydney Law School Postgraduate Guide. (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at oxford university.

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To learn more about using Bookshare with your device, visit the Help Center. Here is an overview of the specialized formats that Bookshare offers its members with links that go to the Help Center for more information. In this insightful collection, a broad range of scholars analyzes a core issue for socio-legal studies, what is understood by the 'socio' of the 'socio-legal'.

Drawing from legal theory, cultural studies, and social policy, the collection's wide scope of themes and topics provides an important stock-take and analysis of the socio-legal field.4/5(1).

Socio-legal studies in the UK, which provides the context of the discussions here, in chapter 1 and in the final section of the book, has grown mainly out of law schools’ interest in promoting. Sapna’s research interests are in the areas of comparative sociology of law, socio-legal studies, and law and development.

She is particularly interested in studying how legal realities/legal spaces in different contexts are transformed into comparable units especially through indicators (like the Rule of Law Index, Corruption Perception.

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) (within the Faculty of Law) has been for over 40 years and is an internationally leading centre for the analysis of law in Centre's academic staff bring together a range of disciplinary perspectives from across the social sciences: law, sociology, anthropology, politics, economics, human geography and media studies.

The research expertise in the school spans a wide range of topics, from jurisprudence to justice, healthcare to human rights. Research proposals are welcomed from the full range of perspectives, including comparative, doctrinal, historical, international, theoretical, ethical, socio-legal and criminological approaches to law.

In this insightful collection, a broad range of scholars analyzes a core issue for socio-legal studies, what is understood by the 'socio' of the 'socio-legal'.

Drawing from legal theory, cultural studies, and social policy, the collection's wide scope of themes and topics provides an important stock-take and analysis of the socio-legal field. Socio-Legal Studies About the major. Socio-legal Studies is the study of legal ideas, practices and institutions in their social and historical contexts.

You will examine the institutions that make and enforce laws – for example, parliament, the courts, the police – and you will learn about a broad range of legal practices and their impact. houses the research and teaching collections of the former library of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and is the primary library for teaching support in this subject.

The SSL also holds a core journal collection and material reflecting the research interests of the Centre since it was founded in Author: Elizabeth Wells.The Annual Conference of the Socio-Legal Studies Association in was attended by UK academics, 87% of whom were based in law departments.

7 This shows that lawyers, and not social scientists, are the main actors in the field of socio-legal research in the UK. To further clarify the status and approach of socio-legal studies, we could,Author: Reza Banakar.