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 Current MPhil/PhD students and their research topics

If you are registered at Birkbeck School of Law and are not included on the list of graduate research students but would like to be, please contact Valerie Kelley

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Funding for Conference Travel:

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (ASLCH)

  • The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (ASLCH) will award up to eight $200 travel stipends to graduate students who plan to present work at the 2011 ASLCH Conference, March 11-12, in Las Vegas, Nevada.  In awarding these stipends, the Committee will take into consideration both the merit of the proposed paper and the applicant's proximity to the conference site. Graduate students wishing to apply for a travel stipend should submit the following:
    • contact information (including both home and institution addresses)
    • a Curriculum Vitae (CV)
    • a proposed paper title and abstract
    • information about the session to which the proposal is attached, if any
    • information about other funds the applicant will likely receive to assist in conference attendance, if any.

    Please send applications for the stipend electronically to Professor Paul A. Passavant, Department of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Passavant@hws.edu by November 15, 2010. Stipends will be awarded no later than January 14, 2011 in order to allow recipients to make their travel arrangements.

Events open to new and continuing research students:

School of Law Postgraduate Conference 2012

  • May 2012. Dates and information will be posted nearer the time.
  • Conference Programme for Postgraduate conference 2011

MPhil/PhD Research Programme and Work in Progress 2011-12

  • Format: Our Post-Graduate Reading and Work in Progress Seminars will focus on the theme of f critical legal scholarship. Last year's seminars focused on the concept of Critique and Critical legal thinking.  We studied seminal pieces by Kant, Foucault, Judith Butler, Talal Asad, Costas Douzinas, Peter Goodrich and Peter Fitzpatrick. This academic year our reading will address issues of critical scholarship by a different set of critical legal scholars. This programme is open for all new and old MPhil/PhD students.
    Time: Fridays (see dates below) 1800 - 2000 pm
    Venue: To be confirmed
  • First Term (2011):
    October 7th 2011: Induction and What does it mean to be a research student? Followed by a Drinks Reception.
    October 21st 2011: Professor Rebecca Johnson, University of Alberta, Faculty of Law is a visiting fellow at Birkbeck and will be presenting her work and we will be  reading  Professor Johson’s “Television’s Pleasures and the Empire of Force in HBO’s Deadwood”.
    November 4th 2011: Work by Les Moran; ‘Judicial Diversity and the Challenge of Sexuality: Some Preliminary Findings’ 28 Sydney L. R. 565 (2006); ‘Judicial Bodies as Sexual Bodies: A Tale of Two Portraits’  29 The Australian Feminist Law Journal 91 (2008) ; ‘Forming Sexualities as Judicial virtues’, 14 Sexualities , 273 (2011).
    November 18th 2011: Work by Thanos Zartaloudis; ‘On Justice’ 22 Law and Critique 135 (2011); ‘The making of Legal Cases and the Idea of Precedent in the Common Law’.
    December 2nd 2011: Work by Marinos Diamantides: tbc.
    December 9th 2011: Work by Maria Aristodemou: ‘Where God Was, Law Will Be? Kant avec Houellebcq 34 The Australian Feminist Law Journal 3 (2011).

School of Law Research Seminar Series

  • A series of staff and student seminars on Wednesday lunchtimes: all welcome
  • 1230 - 1400, in room G02, 12 Gower Street.
  • Autumn Term: Details to be posted shortly.

The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Graduate Seminar 2011-2012

  • For PhD Students who would like: an opportunity to meet other social science PhD students; to discuss your research, and present work in progress; to explore issues of methodology, research  design and epistemology; to choose interesting visiting speakers to invite to Birkbeck; to explore key theoretical debates within contemporary social research?...in a supportive and intellectually challenging environment
  • The BISR Graduate Seminar is a fortnightly seminar open to PhD students from across Birkbeck who are working on empirical social research theses which fall within the remit of the BISR. This includes sociology, psychosocial studies, socio-legal studies, gender studies, race, ethnicity and community studies, global, development and transnational studies, religious studies, politics, social research on art and artistic practice, and qualitative empirical cultural studies.
  • The Graduate Seminar aims to support and enhance the supervision and training students already receive in their own Schools. It comprises four main activities, in rotation over the course of the year:
    - Seminars on issues of methodology and research strategy, with particular reference to new methodologies (e.g. internet-based research; visual methodologies)
    - Presentations by students of their research to each other, for critical engagement and feedback
    -Seminars on key debates in contemporary social research based around close reading of key texts (e.g. exemplary texts of ethnographic/ interview-based research; epistemology and theory in social research etc)
    - Workshops on transferable skills (such as writing for publication; presenting conference papers)
  • Seminars are led by Dr Rosie Cox and will take place on Wednesday evenings  6pm - 8pm and venues/dates are as follows (all in Malet St unless stated otherwise):
    - 26th October Room 538
    - 9th November Room 538
    - 7th December Room 415
    - 11th January Room 152
    - 25th January Room 538
    - 22nd February Room 630
  • The seminars are open to all Birkbeck postgraduates. If you are interested in attending please send a brief description of your research interests to Julia Eisner.
  • Further information.

Birkbeck Law School Reading Groups

  • Reading groups come and go with the interests of students and staff. If you are interested in starting a reading group and would like it listed on the website, please contact Valerie Kelley.
  • Current and past reading groups.

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Research Spring Term Events 2010-2011

Events at SOAS School of Law 2011-2012

Conference Abstracts

Critical Legal Conference 2010 Utrecht

 

 
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