Workshop on Exploring Creative Research Methods in Socio-Legal Studies
Call for papers - workshop on Exploring Creative Research Methods in Socio-Legal Studies (December 2024)
ACJI (Monash Law) and the Law in Context Research Cluster (La Trobe Law School) are pleased to invite submissions for a workshop exploring creative research methods in Socio-Legal Research to be held at the Latrobe City Campus on 5 and 6 December 2024.
The late Kerry Petersen once wrote that socio-legality “is a ‘broad church’ of ideas with a critical element which challenges the assumption that law is a neutral, reasoned discipline” (2013, p 1). It harnesses, appropriates and borrows from a wide range of discourses, theories and methodologies from the social sciences to examine law in its myriad contexts. From law-in-action to legal ethnography, and qualitative research to participatory observations, socio-legality continues to provide an innovative intellectual home for studying the intersections of law and society.
This workshop, with a keynote address by Professor Sharyn Roach Anleu (Flinders University), invites socio-legal scholars to explore how we can do empirical research creatively and how we can continue to innovate the discipline by encompassing insights from the social sciences. We call for scholars to propose 20-minute presentations on creativity with methods in socio-legal studies.
The call is open to a range of topics in law, but we ask scholars to think about how they do socio-legal research and focus their presentation on methodology, whether that may be law-in-action, legal ethnography, qualitative research or participatory observations. We are also keen to hear from scholars who have knowledge of conducting research with participants with lived experience of legal problems, the trials and tribulations of ethics committees and trauma-informed qualitative research.
The in-person workshop will have a limited number of participants and a small number of travel bursaries to assist with the cost of attending the workshop will be available for early career academics based at a university in Australia or New Zealand.