The Society of Legal Scholars explained

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, Legal Studies.^[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 presidents

President of The Society of Public Teachers of Law

1997–1999: Margaret Brazier
2000–2001: Joe Thomson

President of The Society of Legal Scholars

2008–2009: Sarah Worthington
2010-2011: David Feldman
2011–2012: Keith Stanton
2015–2016: Andrew Burrows
2015–2017: Imelda Maher

Prizes and awards

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]

Notes and References

http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk SLS website
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1748-121X Legal Studies
http://www.ials.sas.ac.uk/library/archives/sptl.htm History of the Society
Web site: Peter Birks Prizes for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. 2020-07-27. Society of Legal Scholars. en.