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Socio-Legal Studies Association

Prizes

Deadline: last Monday in November each year

These are aimed at postgraduate students and research and teaching staff in unpromoted posts, SLSA offers three prizes, the Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize and the Socio-Legal Article Prize and the Hart Socio-Legal Prize for Early Career Academics.

Small research grants 

Deadline: 31 Oct each year

The Socio-Legal Studies Association invites applications for its small research grants. These are for members of the SLSA in furtherance of their research in all areas of socio-legal studies. The amount available for awards is £8,000 with individual grants of up to £1,500

NB: Only for members of the Association

 

Society of Legal Scholars

Research Activities Fund

Deadline: Annual

A modest fund is set aside each year to provide grants to individual Ordinary members for research or other scholarly activity, including attending or organising conferences.

 

 

Selden Society 

David Yale Prize

Deadline: none

The Selden Society has established the David Yale Prize for a distinguished contribution to the history of the laws and legal institutions of England and Wales.

Applicants must be under 35 years of age.

 

 

Foundation for Improvement of Justice, Inc.

Awards Programme

Amount: $10,000

Deadline: June 01 every year. Nominations are accepted throughout the year

The Foundation encourages improvement by recognizing and rewarding accomplishment in the following categories: Simplification of the law

  • Simplification of the law  
  • Crime prevention
  • Child protection
  • Speeding the process
  • Effecting restitution
  • Crime victims' rights
  • Alternative sentencing
  • Reducing recidivism
  • Lowering the cost
  • Other significant efforts

The Foundation annually recognizes and awards up to ten nominees with a check for $10,000 at an awards banquet in Atlanta.

Please note that these are awards for accomplishments (not grants for future projects; nor scholarships).

Recipients are not required to render any further services as a condition of receiving an award. These awards are for innovative programs which have proven effective and can serve as models for others. This awards program is open to all except members of the Foundation, those related to them, and previous winners. Self-nominations are not accepted.

 

EU: Justice, Freedom and Security 2007-2013

Funding Opportunities

  • Security and safeguarding Liberties
  • Fundamental rights and Justice
  • Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows

 

 

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS)

Visiting Fellowships

Deadline: Annual - usually January

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) has for 50 years welcomed large numbers of established scholars, mostly from overseas, to work in its well-stocked library. IALS aims to offer, without charge and without formality, the basic essentials of library research, including access to an extensive comparative legal research collection and a private desk at which to read and study together with IALS support services.

These Fellowships are designed for persons already established in their own areas of activity who are undertaking work within fields covered by or adjacent to the Institute's own research programmes which are currently in the following areas:

  • legal practice and the legal profession;
  • legal education (including legal skills);
  • comparative law;
  • legislative studies and legislative drafting;
  • European law;
  • company and commercial law;
  • access to legal information (law reporting, legislative drafting, legal databases, legal bibliography, management of legal information services);

While these topics are preferred because work is already going on, the Institute is ready to receive other proposals from persons wishing to be considered as Fellows

The fellows will be expected to play a part in the intellectual life of the institute and make specific or general contributions in a particular area of research. At present no stipend attaches to the fellowships but there are other benefits

 

 

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Funding

JRF issues calls for proposals.  They will only accept applications to specific calls

Their aim is to:

"seek to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice"

 

 

DEFRA

Research Competitions

Occasional relevant funding opportunities

 

EU: International Treaties and Agreements Database

A database containing all the bilateral and multilateral treaties or agreements concluded by the European Community, the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC) and the former European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), and those concluded under the Treaty on European Union is now available online.

The database has a summary and the full text of each international treaty/agreement as well as analytical search facilities. For more details on how to search in this database, please download the on-line User Manual.

Please note that if you type in 'science and technology' as a key word, you only get a few documents. However, searching with the key word 'scientific' you get a lot more scientific agreements, such as those concluded with Egypt, Ukraine, Morocco, as well as those agreements concluded with the FP7 associated countries.

The database contains all the bilateral and multilateral treaties or agreements concluded by the European Community, the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC) and the former European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), and those concluded under the Treaty on European Union. Agreements signed but not yet in force are identified by an asterisk (*).

The database does not include the “founding treaties” of the European Community and European Union or other agreements concluded between the Member States of the European Union.

Online database: http://ec.europa.eu/world/agreements
User Guide: http://ec.europa.eu/world/agreements/pdf/TREATIES_UMD_INTERNET.pdf