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Title: SLSA E‐Newsletter Authors: Venue: Journal of Law and Society Year: 2012 Canonical: doi:10.1111/j.1467-6478.2012.00577.x URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2012.00577.x Collector: openalex OA: true ABSTRACT The SLSA is delighted to announce that this year's winner of the SLSA Prize for Contributions to the Socio-Legal Community is Mavis Maclean.Mavis has nurtured the careers of generations of socio-legal scholars, particularly in the family law area.She has been an amazing mentor, has introduced young scholars to her extensive networks and created valuable opportunities for them to present and publish their work.She has also acted as an important link between the academic and policy communities, not only providing academics with access to policymakers, but ensuring that policymakers received the best advice from the right experts.In doing so, she has promoted significant reforms and, just as importantly, has helped to avert some foreseeably adverse outcomes.In addition, her contributions extend to her own research, which has broken new ground both substantively and methodologically.Indeed, the fact that family law is such a thriving field of socio-legal research and teaching is due in no small part to Mavis's example and her encouragement and training of others to engage in this form of scholarship, as well as her fostering of scholarship through book and journal editing.Even after her 'retirement', Mavis continues to be active in research, editing, mentoring, networking, policy engagement and strategising.It is hard to imagine the socio-legal community without her.The prize, which is sponsored by a private benefactor, will be presented to Mavis at the 2012 SLSA annual conference at Leicester De Montfort University.