Global Meeting on Law & Society, Lisbon, Portugal
From the 13th to the 16th of July, our team member Helle Dyrendahl Staven participated in the Global Meeting on Law & Society in Lisbon, Portugal. The aim of participating in this conference was to get an overview of relevant research groups and networks and their current research.
The conference was organised by the Law & Society Association, which is an interdisciplinary scholarly organisation committed to social scientific, interpretative, and historical analyses of law across multiple social contexts. In addition to social science researchers, many of the participants at the conference were legal scholars.
Relevant meetings for TAXLAW were sessions concerning theoretical and comparative perspectives on lawyers’ practices and careers, sessions on legal education, on tax law as well as sessions concerning methodological issues related to the study of legal actors, documents, and practices.
Helle presented a draft of a paper she is currently writing with project leader Marte Mangset at the session called The legal professions and legal practice inside and out. This paper explores the relationship between academic and practical knowledge and skills in tax law expertise. It seeks to understand the types of knowledge that are valued by tax professionals, and what types of knowledge that give authority in the construction and interpretation of our tax systems.
The Global Meeting on Law & Society was a valuable arena to test our preliminary results on social scientists and legal scholars from other countries and contexts. In addition, it was fruitful to meet scholars working on related topics and to hear about their current research.