Birkbeck Law School Centre for Law and the Humanities

The Centre for Law and the Humanities builds on the Law School’s research strengths in the area of law and the humanities including law and aesthetics; law and literature; law and psychoanalysis; critical legal theory; legal history; law and film; and law, space and architecture.

The Centre facilitates and promotes research in law and the humanities within the School and College through the organisation of seminars, workshops, conferences and visits by distinguished scholars.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

The Law, Development and the Arts Network (LDAN) is a new forum being set up for those who seek to challenge the boundaries of expertise and expert language, using the arts as an accessible vernacular to explore and communicate ideas, processes and projects in Law and Development. Members are drawn from academic, policy, non-governmental and artistic institutions.

The activities of the Centre for Law and the Humanities are overseen by its directors Professor Patrick Hanafin and Professor Peter Fitzpatrick and a small steering committee. The Advisory Board includes members of faculty from other disciplines at Birkbeck as well as internationally renowned scholars in the field of law and the humanities.

Steering Committee

Maria Aristodemou, Bill Bowring, Adam Gearey, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Piyel Haldar, Elena Loizidou, Nathan Moore.

International Advisory Board

Joseph Brooker (English, Birkbeck)
Marianne Constable (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
Jodi Dean (Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
William MacNeil (Griffith Law School, Griffith University)
Linda Meyer (Quinnipiac Law School)
Paul Passavant (Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Ravit Reichman (English, Brown University)
Peter Rush (Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne)
Susan Sage Heinzelman (English, University of Texas at Austin)
Austin Sarat (Political Science and Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College)
Alison Young (Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne)
Ari Hirvonen (Law, University of Helsinki)

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