Interdisciplinary Legal Studies Research Cluster Launch Event
Law is a subject and a practice that is at all points
open to its surroundings. Law regulates the world in numerous ways and in a
wide variety of contexts. The constitutive effects of law are widespread
throughout society and culture, mediating the structures and possibilities of
social life and communal relations—locally, nationally, internationally.
The study of law in recent decades has accordingly and
prominently focused on the law’s relations with other areas of understanding
and knowledge, with leading examples including socio-legal studies, law and
humanities, and critical legal studies. Significant arms of the global legal
academy are now concerned not only with doctrine and principle, but with the
interrelationships between law in terms of doctrinal or institutional phenomena
and its wider constitutions and appearances throughout society, culture, and
the material world.
Building upon this expansive energy, the
Interdisciplinary Legal Studies research cluster adopts a similarly open-ended
view of legality, bringing together scholars and other stakeholders working at
the multiple intersections between or across legal and other disciplinary
settings. Through this connectivity—both interpersonal and
interdisciplinary—the cluster seeks to examine and gain rich and varied
insights into complex contemporary questions of law, authority, and justice.
This event marks the launch of this cluster,
showcasing a range of current research work related to law that is taking place
at the intersection of a range of disciplines, including cultural studies,
English, philosophy, geography, and art.
Speakers confirmed so far:
Anne Wagner, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale
Chloë Kennedy, University of Edinburgh
Kimberley Bryson, University of Sussex
Dominic Smith, University of Dundee
Megan O’Neil, University of Dundee
Golnar Nabizadeh, University of Dundee
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