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Law, Gender and Sexuality: sources and methods in socio-legal research

By Kieron L Jones, on 28 March 2014

19 May 2014

Organised by:
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Event Type:
Research Training
Venue:
IALS
Venue Details:
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Charles Clore House
17 Russell Square
London
WC1B 5DR

Description

This event, organised collaboratively by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), the Socio-Legal Studies Association and the British Library, aims is to draw attention to archives and their content that newcomers to the field may not be aware of and to consider the methodological and practical issues involved in analysing sources.

For a copy of the programme, please click here

Presentations:

Feminism and the Law:

  • Feminist Judgments  –   Professor Rosemary Hunter (University of Kent Law School)
  • Feminist approaches to sexuality and law scholarship  –  Professor Rosemary Auchmuty (University of Reading School of Law) 

Multi Collection Repositories:

  • Sisterhood and after: an archive of social and legislative change?  –  Dr Polly Russell (British Library) 
  • British Library collection highlights for research on  law, gender and sexuality  –  Jon Sims (British Library)
  • Highlights from LSE  library including Hall Carpenter Archives and specialist collections of the Women’s Library@lse  –  Heather Dawson  (London School of Economics Library)

Law and Same Sex Partnerships

  • Queering Genealogy through Wills  –  Daniel Monk (Reader in Law, Birkbeck, University of London )
  • Popular culture as sources for research on law in lesbian and gay lives  –  Dr Rosie Harding (Birmingham Law School) 

Legal Professions and Education

  • The IALS Archives of Legal Education –  Elizabeth Dawson (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)
  • Researching the UK’s first female law professor: thinking about gender, method and sources  –  Professor Fiona Cownie (Keele University School of Law) 
  • On Researching Men, Masculinities and Law: The Examples of Fatherhood and the Legal profession  –  Professor Richard Collier (Professor of Law and Social Theory, Newcastle University)

Visual Sources & Methods in Law, Gender and Sexuality scholarship

  • Images and archives: law , gender and sexuality  –  Professor Leslie Moran (Birkbeck, University of London)
  • The scene of the crime: police photographs, visual culture and sexuality  –  Dr Dominic Janes (Birkbeck, University of London)
  • Legal treasures: on the shelf and online   –  Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris (University of Kent Law School

REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS:   For on-line booking and payments, please click here

  • Registration fees:
  • Full Rate: £70.00. 
  • Members of the SLSA: £60.00.  
  • Reduced rate for IALS students only: £30.00

 For further information and queries, please email IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk

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