The company`s online membership form does not currently work. While we resolve this issue, please download a copy of the application form here, complete it and return to treasurer@legalscholars.ac.uk. The Society annually awards the Peter Birks Award for Outstanding Jurisprudence. The prize is awarded to outstanding published books by researchers who are in the first 15 years of their academic career. [4] The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) is the learned society for those who teach law at a university or similar institution or who are otherwise engaged in law. At the beginning of 2016, the firm had more than 3,000 members, including academic lawyers and practicing lawyers in various fields. [1] It has charitable status. The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) is the learned society for those who teach law at a university or similar institution or who are otherwise involved in law. At the beginning of 2017, SLS had nearly 3000 members, mainly academic lawyers from the UK and Ireland. The SLS (formerly The Society of Public Teachers of Law) was founded in 1908 and has non-profit status. It is the oldest and largest learned society in the field of law. The Society is the most important representation for lawyers in the UK, as well as one of the largest learned societies in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Members of the Supreme Judiciary and the legal professions also regularly participate in the work of the SLS. Some members have a legal qualification themselves and are related to the practice of law or are active in the practice of law. Members of the Society come from all jurisdictions in the United Kingdom and Ireland and also include some affiliate members who generally work in other common law systems. The Society was founded in 1908 by Edward Jenks as the Society of Public Law Teachers and renamed SLS in 2002. [3] SLS publishes one of the UK`s leading peer-reviewed general journals. [2] The President of the Society for 2022-2023 is Professor Lucy Vickers of Oxford Brookes University, the former Immediate President is Professor Catharine MacMillan of King`s College London and the Vice-President is Professor Paula Giliker of the University of Bristol.