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Conference Programme, Activities and Venue
14 April 2025
Details on sessions, activities, and location
HOW TO APPLY
The 2025 LSAANZ Conference activities will include plenary keynote panel sessions, thematic parallel panel sessions, an early career researcher workshop, book launches, dinner and cultural events.
The half-day early career researcher workshop will be held prior to the start of the main conference.
We look forward to announcing our calendar and programme soon – watch this space for exciting updates!
Early Career Researcher Workshop
A half-day Early Career Researcher Workshop will be held on 3 Decembre 2025 prior to the start of the main conference. It will provide an opportunity for early and emerging academics and postgraduate students to benefit from training, mentoring, and engagement in sociolegal research methodologies and legal research, writing, dissemination and impact from senior sociolegal scholars. This event will also offer networking opportunities enabling ECRs to build connections with peers and senior scholars.
Watch this space for exciting updates and further details!
Conference Venue
The 2025 LSAANZ Conference will be held at the سԹ I Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha in Ōtautahi I Christchurch, New Zealand, bringing the conference to Aotearoa’s shores for the first time in eight years.
Plenary keynote sessions will take place in the Central Lecture Theatre building.
Parallel paper sessions will be located in seminar rooms surrounding the main venue, including Rehua building.
Full details of the Conference and events venues will be made available closer to the conference date. A map of the complex will be in the Conference Handbook or you can download a copy here.
About سԹ I Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
The سԹ I Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha is located in the takiwā of Ngāi Tūāhuriri hapū of Ngāi Tahu iwi. Ngāi Tūāhuriri and the سԹ signed a partnership agreement in 2019 at Tuahiwi marae to formalise and extend the longstanding relationships between the hapū, including the relationship with Te Rūnanga of Ngāi Tahu, and the University.
The University was founded in 1873 and began its life as a College in the beautiful stone buildings of what is now the Arts Centre. In the 1970s, having become an independent University, it shifted to its current campus having outgrown its original home. It is the second oldest University in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is located on a wonderful purpose-built campus in the suburb of Ilam surrounded by beautiful gardens. The University is a world class research and teaching facility and has a student roll of over 20,000.
The 2025 LSAANZ Conference is an in-person conference. If you are unable to present in person because of a disability, please reach out to our organising committee via the Conference contact email: lsaanz2025@canterbury.ac.nz.
Ngā Uara | Our values
Underpinning the سԹ Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha values are the attributes of:
- Tika - doing what is right, being professional and maintaining high standards,
- Pono - being honest, truthful and acting with integrity,
- Aroha - being respectful, responsive and empathetic.
Kia tika, kia pono, kia aroha - doing what is right with integrity and empathy - This is how we check in on how well we are living the values.
He mana tō te tangata
We value people and their differences
He kaitiaki tātou katoa
We will enhance and nuture our resources
Kia aroha ki te tangata
We extend care and empower others
Contact Us
If you have any questions or need information about the 2025 LSAANZ Conference, please feel free to get in touch with us.
