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Dr Smita Kheria
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IP Law academic, University of Edinburgh Law School Chair, Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social Director (IP), SCRIPT Centre Empirical research, Artists' rights, Copyright Sporadic chirper🐦 Views own https://shorturl.at/JinLe
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Dr Smita Kheria @smitakheria.bsky.social · Apr 18
Delighted to have been elected as the Chair of the @slsauk.bsky.social and many thanks to everyone who attended the AGM at #SLSA2025. It is a real privilege for me to follow Professor John Harrington in this role and I'm very excited to continue working with the board for the socio-legal community.
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · Apr 16
At the SLSA AGM today 16 April at the University of Liverpool, Smita Kheria @smitakheria.bsky.social
University of Edinburgh, was elected as the Chair of the SLSA.
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · Jul 29
SLSA Prizes are now open for nominations. The six prizes are:

Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community

Hart–SLSA Book Prize, Hart-SLSA Book Prize for Early Career Academics, Socio-legal Theory and History Prize

Socio-Legal Article Prize

Impact Prize.

More info here: www.slsa.ac.uk/prizes
Prizes | Socio-Legal Studies Association
Explore SLSA prize schemes celebrating excellence in socio-legal scholarship, including awards for books, articles, and research impact.
www.slsa.ac.uk
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · Jul 29
A total of £66,000 has been earmarked towards these five schemes for the 2025-26 round. The maximum individual award limits across all schemes have also been revised upwards. These enhancements are intended to foster greater opportunities to encourage, nurture, and showcase the work by our members.
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · Jul 29
All the SLSA funding schemes are now open for applications: Research Grants, PhD Fieldwork Grants, Impact Grants, Seminar Competition, International Collaboration Funding. Closing date: 31 October 2025.

For more information follow the link to the new website: www.slsa.ac.uk/grants
Funding Schemes | Socio-Legal Studies Association
Explore SLSA funding schemes supporting socio-legal research, events and initiatives. Find details of available grants, eligibility criteria and how to apply.
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Dr Smita Kheria @smitakheria.bsky.social · Aug 1
The full program is on The Stand Comedy Club website: www.thestand.co.uk/whats-on/sho...

I’ll be hitting the stage with a condensed version of my previous Fringe show ‘No copyright, no problem’ on Wednesday 6th and Sunday 17th.

Come for the ideas, stay for the laughs.
Show Tag Listings Page
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Dr Smita Kheria @smitakheria.bsky.social · Aug 1
🎭Fringe is in the air! 🎭

The Provocateurs, a public engagement series blending academic research, audience interaction, and a dash of comedy, kicks off today at the world’s largest arts festival. 1-24 August, 2 shows every day, each featuring a lively trio of 2 academics and a comedian.
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · May 22
Gikii 2025 in lovely Amsterdam has extended its CfP till May 31. Sept 11-12 th at IViR. Get your geek on and set your geek clogs tapping! No i don’t know what i mean either 😂 www.gikii.org/gikii-2025-a...
Gikii 2025: Amsterdam CfP
GiKii 2025 – Call for Papers Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) 11-12 September 2025 Technology in its villain era Has technology’s slouch towards everm…
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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · Apr 23
Congratulations to Dr. Lynette Chua for winning the Socio-Legal Article Prize at #SLSA2025 for her article '“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan' in @lsijournal.bsky.social!

Free-to-access through June: cup.org/4isopJG
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan | Law & Social Inquiry | Cambridge Core
“He Is Still Your Father”: Tetherings, Social Welfare, and Troubled Parental Maintenance Litigation in Taiwan - Volume 49 Issue 4
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · May 1
'Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial' has been awarded the Hart–SLSA Book & Socio-Legal Theory and History 2025 Prize!🌟

This book mounts an important interrogation into the use of a victim’s sexual history as evidence in rape trials.
Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial
Sexual History Evidence And The Rape Trial; Adopting a critical multidisciplinary perspective underpinned by feminist theory, this accessible book mounts an important interrogation into the use of a victim’s...
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · May 8
Just under a month until Hart publish the latest output from our Socio-Legal Trajectories project @mpilhlt.bsky.social, this Oñati series edited collection: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega... Publishing June 12, ask your libraries to pre-order! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social
Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe
What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together…
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Dr Arwen Joyce @arwenjoyce.bsky.social · May 6
My contribution to this SLSA blog series exploring people's experiences of law through the lens of migration, argues that the term 'low-skilled' should be banished from the labour migration discourse. @leicesterlawschool.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-po...
BlOG SERIES: Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law‘ - Low-wage’ not ‘low-skill’: moving away from the skills binary in labour migration discourse
This blog is part of SLSA blog series ‘Exploring people’s experiences of ‘law’ through the lens of migration’ (Edited by Dr Simran Kalra and Dr Fanni Gyurko), which takes a socio-legal approach to mig...
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Dr Smita Kheria @smitakheria.bsky.social · May 6
Congratulations Kate!
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Eoin O’Dell @cearta.bsky.social · May 1
UK Ministers to amend data bill amid artists’ concerns over #AI and #copyright | @guardian
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Ministers to amend data bill amid artists’ concerns over AI and copyright
Exclusive: Government will promise to carry out an economic impact assessment of its proposals
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Eoin O’Dell @cearta.bsky.social · Apr 23
1/10 In Case C‑575/23 FT, AL & ON v Belgium (re Orchestre National de Belgique) [the ONB case], the CJEU held that InfoSoc, CDSM, other Directives, preclude legislation which automatically assigns performers' related rights to their employers without their consent
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CURIA - List of results
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Edinburgh Law School @uoelawschool.bsky.social · Apr 29
Join us on 6 May, 3.30 - 5pm, for "The Respective Roles of Public and Private Competition Law Enforcement to attain the Goals of Antitrust: Beyond Optimal Enforcement Theory?"

Speakers include Olivier Guersent, Director General, DG Competition and Professor Arianna Andreangeli.

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Design Informatics @designinf.bsky.social · Apr 29
Join next @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar where @dynarch.bsky.social will provide key insights from her scoping BRAID project ‘Creating a dynamic #archive of Responsible AI Ecosystems in the context of #CreativeAI’

📅 Thu 8 May
⏰ 4 – 5pm
📍@inspacegallery.bsky.social/ Zoom
🎟 edin.ac/3CoJbuZ
Infographic of BRAID x IDI seminar with Lydia Farina on 8th May, 4-5pm and her picture at the bottom right.
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Edinburgh Law School @uoelawschool.bsky.social · Apr 28
Congratulations to @smitakheria.bsky.social who has been elected as the Chair of the SLSA! (@slsauk.bsky.social)

Dr Kheria was elected during the SLSA’s annual conference and is the first woman of colour to hold the position since the association was established.

Read more: edin.ac/4iH7JhP
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Jane Cornwell @jcornwell123.bsky.social · Apr 21
👇 For UK design folks - a fascinating (and troubling) investigation into apparent misuse of the UK registered design system, looking firms that appear to be selling 'authorship' slots on UKRDs to overseas academics, to help those academics game their academic reputations (eg for promotion purposes).
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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · Apr 21
It's publication day! The final version of our article is now available here: edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Jane Cornwell @jcornwell123.bsky.social · Apr 23
👇Please share widely - a two-year Teaching and Research Fellow opportunity in the field of AI law and regulation. Details below!
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · Apr 17
@uoelawschool.bsky.social is hiring a Teaching & Research Fellow in AI, Data & the Rule of Law.

The post will include:
✨teaching responsibilities @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
↔️collaboration across @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
🤝working closely with our CTMF team!

Apply by 2 May ▶️ edin.ac/4ih5dP9
Teaching and Research Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Data and the Rule of Law
The Teaching and Research Fellow in in Artificial Intelligence, Data and the Rule of Law will pursue a research and teaching agenda addressing the interdisciplinary area linking together artificial intelligence, data and the rule of law, incorporating the legal, sociological, philosophical, ethical, cognitive and technical questions surrounding the use of computational data in areas implicating the rule of law and justice.
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Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property @ishtip.bsky.social · Apr 7
We are pleased to announce the programme for the 2025 ISHTIP 16th Annual Workshop, 25-26 June, in Madrid 🇪🇸:
ISHTIP.org – International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property
www.ishtip.org
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · Apr 17
At the Gala dinner in the splendid St George’s Hall Liverpool Professor Joanne Conaghan @joanneconaghan.bsky.social - a true pioneer of feminist legal studies - received the SLSA Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community 2024: ‘Joanne is a fearless, generous and effective colleague’
A woman standing speaking at a lectern in a red dress receiving a prize - there are people sitting in the foreground at a table with glasses and bottles. The surroundings are ornate with gold and marble - the setting is St George’s Hall in Liverpool. A woman standing smiling at a lectern in a red dress receiving a prize - there are people standing in the foreground taking her photo. The surroundings are ornate with gold and marble - the setting is St George’s Hall in Liverpool. The woman is Professor Joanne Conaghan
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Maynooth University School of Law and Criminology @maynoothlaw.bsky.social · Apr 17
WE'RE HIRING!
We're hiring a postdoc with excellent empirical/participant research skills for the ERC funded project led by Prof Aisling McMahon

Closing date is 24 April
universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · Apr 16
The following SLSA members were elected to the Board at the AGM on 16 April at Liverpool University:
Rachel Cahill-O'Callaghan
Dave Cowan
Joy Debski
Jennifer Hough
Arwen Joyce
Caer Smyth
Clare Williams
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Dr Smita Kheria @smitakheria.bsky.social · Apr 18
Warmest congratulations to all the prizewinners! It was a great evening #SLSA2025 of celebrating exceptional socio-legal scholars through the SLSA books, article, and impact prizes. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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School of Law & Social Justice at University of Liverpool @livunislsj.bsky.social · Apr 17
Last night, the #SLSA2025 Gala Dinner and prize ceremony took place at the stunning St George’s Hall. Congratulations to all the 2025 prizewinners! 🏆

- Joanne Conaghan
- Yvette Russell
- Francesca Meloni
- Lynette J Chua
- Nicola Barker
- Mark Walters
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · Apr 17
For 2027 we will be in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
hosted by @nulawandsociety.bsky.social
@northumbriauni.bsky.social
Northumbria Law School
Looking forward to it already - but then I am biased!
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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · Apr 17
Just like that another year is over. Thanks for a great conference @livunislsj.bsky.social
Great collaborations, loads of fantastic research, amazing gala dinner in St George's Hall, friendships new and old.
As always, Liverpool you have been brilliant.

Roll on 2026 @sussex.ac.uk here we come!
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