As befits a Law School situated within one of the world’s leading social science institutions, interdisciplinary socio-legal scholarship has a long and distinguished history at LSE. Epitomised by the founding aspiration of the Modern Law Review over 80 years ago to publish scholarship that ‘deals with the law as it functions in society’, the Law School has always hosted a broad array of socio-legal work. Today, this work encompasses the traditions of law in context, empirical legal studies, law and political economy, ethnographic studies, socio-legal analysis, scholarship on law, power and inequality including feminist, critical race, post-colonial and ecological analysis, law and economics, discourse analysis and much else besides. Indeed, socio-legal work lies at the heart of many of our research hubs, as is reflected in the fact that most members of this hub are also members of parallel hubs. The distinctive methodologies and concerns of the field merit nonetheless a dedicated research hub.