Canadian Law and Society Association Inc.

Name

Canadian Law and Society Association Inc.

Legal name

The Canadian Law and Society Association / Association canadienne droit et société

Website

https://acds-clsa.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Scholarly Association

NAICS

Professional Organizations (813920)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Scholarly Society & Association Publishing (EDAGAFAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK), Legal & Regulatory Publishing (Case Law, Statutes, Treatises) (MPAJACAA)

Keywords

• Socio-legal scholarship
• Academic law journal
• Scholarly conferences
• Membership association
• Peer-reviewed publications

Headquarters

HQ city

Ottawa

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

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Revenue model

1. Membership Fees: Annual membership fees from individual scholars, students, emeritus members, and international associates. Memberships run January 1 to December 31 and include access to the Canadian Journal of Law and Society.
2. Conference Registration: Revenue from annual conference and mid-year meeting registrations.

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Core offering

The Canadian Law and Society Association Inc. is a pan-Canadian bilingual non-profit scholarly association that supports socio-legal research and teaching. It does so primarily by publishing The Canadian Journal of Law and Society (a peer-reviewed bilingual academic journal distributed via Cambridge University Press), convening an Annual Conference and a Mid-Year Meeting, maintaining tiered individual membership categories, and administering scholarly prizes and graduate student bursaries. Its constituents are academic researchers, faculty, graduate students, postdocs, sessional lecturers, emeritus scholars, and international associates in law and society studies.

Product overview

The Canadian Law and Society Association (CLSA) operates as a scholarly organization that supports socio-legal scholarship through three core offerings: the Canadian Journal of Law and Society (a bilingual, peer-reviewed journal published three times yearly via Gold Open Access), annual and mid-year conferences/meetings for members, and membership programs at various tiers (Individual, Student, Postdoc/Sessional, Emeritus, and International Associate). The organization also awards three major prizes recognizing excellence in law and society scholarship: the W. Wesley Pue Book Prize, the CLSA Article Prize (English and French), and the Roderick A. Macdonald Graduate Student Essay Prize. Members receive access to the journal archives, voting rights, and opportunities to participate in conferences. The association distributes bi-annual Bulletins to communicate news and announcements.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Canadian Journal of Law and Society (CJLS): Bilingual peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative research in law and society scholarship, published three times a year by Cambridge University Press for the CLSA.

Products and services

• The Canadian Journal of Law and Society (CJLS / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société) A bilingual (English/French) peer-reviewed academic journal publishing socio-legal scholarship for researchers, faculty, graduate students, and practitioners in law and society studies.
• Annual Conference The CLSA's flagship annual scholarly conference bringing together socio-legal researchers, faculty, and graduate students from across Canada and internationally for paper presentations, panels, and the awarding of prizes.
• Mid-Year Meeting

Quantifiable outcome

• The Canadian Journal of Law and Society is a high-ranking bilingual international interdisciplinary peer-reviewed publication

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Acadia UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 June 2026Host of the CLSA 2026 Annual Meeting held June 10-12, 2026 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The conference venue included accommodations at university student residences available for booking by attendees.
• Dalhousie UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 June 2026Provided support for the CLSA 2026 Annual Meeting at Acadia University. Sara Ross from Dalhousie University serves as English Book Review Editor for the Canadian Journal of Law and Society.
• Ontario Tech UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 February 2025Hosted the CLSA 2025 Mid-Year Meeting on February 21-22, 2025. The Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, Oshawa, Ontario organized the conference themed 'Law & Society in an Age of Connection and Distraction'.
• Carleton UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCarleton University houses the editorial office of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society and provides departmental support. The journal's editorial team operates from Carleton's Department of Law and Legal Studies.
• Cambridge University PresscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCambridge University Press publishes the Canadian Journal of Law and Society for the CLSA. In January 2023, the journal moved to a Gold Open Access publishing model, making all issues openly accessible through a CC-BY license.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• American Bar Foundation: A leading US independent research organization dedicated to the study of law and legal institutions, publishing empirical socio-legal research. Comparable in its research mission on law and society, though operating at significantly larger scale.
• Research Committee on Sociology of Law (ISA): The International Sociological Association's research committee on sociology of law, organizing global socio-legal scholarship within a broader international sociology framework. Comparable as an umbrella for the same scholarly community.

Regional players

• Canadian Association of Law Teachers: The Canadian national association for legal academics, with overlapping membership of Canadian law faculty engaged in scholarship. Comparable as a Canadian scholarly community serving legal academics, though focused on pedagogy and law teaching rather than socio-legal research.
• Australian and New Zealand Association for the Study of Law and Society: A regional scholarly association advancing socio-legal research across Australia and New Zealand, hosting conferences in a similar model to the CLSA. Comparable as a geographically-bounded law-and-society scholarly society.
• Socio-Legal Studies Association: The UK's principal socio-legal scholarly association, hosting an annual conference and supporting the Journal of Law and Society. Comparable in mission and member model, but serving a UK/European membership base rather than Canadian.

Direct peers

• Law and Society Association: The flagship US-based scholarly association for socio-legal research, publishing Law and Society Review and hosting an annual meeting. It is the closest international counterpart to the CLSA in mission, member base, and programming model.
• Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History: A Canadian scholarly organization publishing books and supporting research on Canadian legal history, with overlapping membership and prior co-funding of CLSA events. Comparable as a Canadian legal-history scholarly organization with similar member-driven publishing model.

Others

• Canadian Sociological Association: The Canadian national association for sociologists, with adjacent scholarly membership intersecting socio-legal research. Comparable as a Canadian disciplinary scholarly society hosting conferences and publishing journals.

Market position

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Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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