Cambridge Socio-Legal Group

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The Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is an interdisciplinary discussion forum promoting debate on topical socio-legal issues and empirical research methodology. It is affiliated with several departments across the University, including the Faculty of Law, the Institute of Criminology, the Centre for Family Research and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

The Group serves to bring together people from within Cambridge and farther afield from different disciplines, including Law, Criminology, POLIS, Sociology, Psychology, Psychiatry, PDN, Biology, Economics, History and Social Anthropology. The Socio-Legal Group provides a focus for those in the University and beyond who are engaged in socio-legal research and supports collaborative, inter-disciplinary work through its various activities, in particular its workshop and book projects.

The Group is best known outside Cambridge for its successful series of book projects, which have covered a wide range of issues. These projects are enhanced by contributors and other discussants coming together in a residential seminar across several days to discuss work in progress, providing participants with the benefit of insights from each others’ research.

The Group also holds occasional seminars and lectures by visiting speakers on various substantive and methodological topics. Recent events have covered a wide range of issues from family breakdown and co-parenting, criminalisation of HIV transmission, use of forensic science in criminal proceedings, asylum-seekers, health and reproduction, and employment issues. Seminars are open to anyone - from any discipline - interested in socio-legal research. Some of these events are recorded, and available online.

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