Nominations for 2024 committees
Interested in helping foster law and society scholarship?
LSAANZ is keen to receive your nomination for important and rewarding roles with the association.
LSAANZ exists to foster scholarship focused on the interactions and intersections of law and society. To do this it currently hosts conferences that support collegiality, collaboration and the dissemination of scholarship, awards publications prizes that recognise and promote outstanding socio-legal scholarship, publishes Legalities: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Law and Society (in association with Southern Cross University and Edinburgh University Press), and brings together networks of scholars – academics, independent researchers, higher degree students, practitioners – to work together to investigate, progress and critique the function of law in society.
There are number of ways you could be involved in these activities.
Leadership and Governance:
We are seeking nominations for members to lead and govern LSAANZ in 2024. Appointments are for a term of one year (December 2023 to December 2024):
Executive committee – president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary*, postgraduate representative, ordinary member. The Executive Committee is a six person team who ensure the operation of the organisation through planning, budgeting, and undertaking activities. It meets once a month by video conference including with the larger Management Committee at least three times annually i.e. 11 meetings per year.
*Please note that the secretary must be an individual residing in Queensland, or in another State but not more than 65 km from the Queensland border.
Management committee - ordinary members. Meets four times annually by video conference. The Management Committee offers oversight and support to the Association. Members are informed about the Association purposes, powers and people and help to promote law and society scholarship by supporting the ongoing work of the Association.
Specialist roles:
Each year, activities such as the conference and publications prizes are made possible through the contribution of interested and willing scholars of law and society. These are rewarding, time-limited roles working alongside members of the Association Committees and are a wonderful way to contribute to your field of scholarship and research.
Conference planning committee - this committee will begin the planning of the December 2025 conference.
Publication prizes committee - three members make up this committee and members usually also serve on the management committee. This committee operates June to November 2024.
Communications officer - serve on the management committee and have oversight of the website. Basic web skills to use Squarespace (confidence pushing buttons) and sending messages via Google Chat and gmail is all that is required.
All roles are voluntary. We are a financially viable and well-established organisation. Please join us by nominating for a role in the form below.
Join us
To nominate for one or more of the roles described, please fill in the form. You must be a current financial member of the organisation to be nominated, become a member here. To nominate for a role you must also confirm you have read the rules of the association. Please read these before filling out this form.