The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) is the learned society for those who teach law in a university or similar institution or who are otherwise engaged in legal scholarship. As of the beginning of 2016 the Society had over 3,000 members consisting of academic and practising lawyers in a wide variety of subject areas.[1] It has charitable status.
The SLS publishes one of the UK's leading generalist peer-reviewed law journals.[2]
The Society was founded in 1908 by Edward Jenks as The Society of Public Teachers of Law and changed its name to the SLS in 2002.[3]
List of presidentsEdit
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (May 2017)
President of The Society of Public Teachers of Law
The society awards the Peter Birks prize for outstanding legal scholarship, annually. The award is given to outstanding published books by scholars that are within the first 15 years of their academic careers.[4]
^"Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship". Society of Legal Scholars. Retrieved 2020-07-27.
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