Conferences
Previous conferences
Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand 6-8 December, University of Technology Sydney, Gadigal Country, NSW, Australia
In substitution for our usual annual conference (which was cancelled as a result of the pandemic) we held an exciting program of online sessions over a week (30 November – 4 December 2020).
These sessions reflected a diverse range of topical and timely areas of socio-legal research and activities.
We hosted another online event in 2021. With a session everyday over two weeks, we brought our community together in uncertain times to share ideas around the theme of "what is the good of law?" (29 November - 10 December).
2019 Survive, Thrive, Die. Law in End Times
Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 5-7 December 2019, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus.
2018 Inclusion, Exclusion & Democracy
Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 12-15 December 2018, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Hosted by the Legal Intersections Research Centre.
Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 6-9 December 2017, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Hosted by the The University of Otago Legal Issues Centre – Te Pokapū Take Ture and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre for Research Excellence.
2016 Disruption, Temporality, Law: The Futures of Law & Society Scholarship
Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand
30 November – 3 December 2016.
Hosted by the Law Futures Centre and the Griffith Law School in conjunction with the Southern Cross University School of Law and Justice.
2015 Inside Out
Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 30 November – 3 December 2015.
Hosted by the Flinders Law School, Flinders University.
Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 3-5 December 2014.
Hosted by the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.
Joint Conference of the Canadian Law and Society Association and the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 1-4 July 2013.
Hosted by the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
2011 Ceremonies of Law: Doctrine, Ritual, Ceremonial
Joint Conference of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia and Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 7-9 December 2011.
Hosted by the Legal Intersections Research Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong.
2010 Critic and Conscience
27th Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 8-10 December 2010.
Co-hosted by the Victoria University of Wellington and Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, Waikato University.
2009 Trans(l)egalite
Joint Conference of the Law and Literature Association of Australia and Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 2-5 December 2009.
Hosted by the Griffith Law School and the Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith University.
25th Annual Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 10-12 December 2008.
Hosted by the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, in collaboration with the School of Law, University of Western Sydney.
2007 Markings—sites of analysis, discipline, interrogation
2007 International Conference of the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, 29-30 November 2007.
Hosted by the University of Melbourne Law School, its Centre for Media and Communications Law and Institute for International Law and the Humanities.
2006 Right or Racket? The Protection of Law
23rd Annual Law and Society Conference, 13-15 December 2006.
Hosted by the Legal Intersections Research Centre and the Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong.
2004 Mapping Law at the Margins through the Lenses of Postcolonial Theory
Law and Society Symposium, 12 December 2004.
Hosted by the Socio-Legal Research Centre and Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Brisbane and the Centre for New Zealand Jurisprudence, Te Piringa – Faculty of Law, Waikato University.
2004 Re-Collections: Official Knowledge and the Memory of Unofficial Practices
22nd Annual Law and Society Conference, 13-15 December 2004.
Hosted by the Socio-Legal Research Centre and Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Brisbane.
Societies and Laws: (Re)act? (Re)create? (Re)form?
21st Annual Law and Society Conference.
Hosted by the Justice Policy Research Centre, University of Newcastle.
Opening Law: Making Links – Crossing Borders
20th Annual Law and Society Conference.
Hosted by the Legal Intersections Research Centre, University of Wollongong.