The Legal Humanities Association (LHA) is a new learned society. It aims to foster a community dedicated to cultural understandings of law. It nurtures humanities-inflected legal scholarship, seeking innovative forms of legal knowledge and analysis. The LHA will be a home for scholars, research students, and practitioners working across law, humanities, and cultural studies, and will welcome those who do not feel they have a place for their work within orthodox disciplinary scholarship or traditional law schools. While the LHA is UK-based, it is not UK-exclusive: membership is open to all who are interested, irrespective of geographic location.
The LHA will share news and community matters and facilitate a range of research activities, including major thematic and general conferences, smaller specialist workshops, collaborative research encounters, reading and discussion groups, and work-in-progress sessions, amongst other activities. This list is indicative, with the specific activities to be determined and administered by the Governance Committee once it is installed.
Membership
There will be a small annual membership fee (£50), with concessions available (£25). The benefits of membership will include:
- the opportunity to help shape the emergence and future development of the LHA
- connection and networking with others in law, humanities, and cultural legal areas
- support for the legal humanities scholarly community
- access to funding, event support, and mentorship
- inclusion in the Association mailing list
Membership is not yet open, as we are still working behind the scenes to get everything ready to receive payments and process memberships. In the meantime, you can sign up to the mailing list on the website to receive notification on when membership goes live.
