Law on Trial: The Social and Political Lives of Trials, with Allison Tait, Mayur Suresh, Basak Ertür, Bernard Keenan
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Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
Law on Trial 2023 will explore a variety of themes celebrating the 200th Anniversary of Birkbeck & 30 years of the Law School.
Event Title: The Social and Political Lives of Trials, with Allison Tait, Mayur Suresh, Basak Ertür, Elena Loizidou
Allison Tait (University of Richmond) and Bernard Keenan (Birkbeck) joins Mayur Suresh (SOAS), author of Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts (2023) and Basak Ertür (Birkbeck), author of Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political Trials (2022) in conversation: What makes trials a significant site of study? What are the social and political meanings of trials? What is the relationship between sovereignty and the trial? How does sovereignty come to be done and undone? What does it mean to begin an inquiry into law through its failures?
The speakers:
Bernard Keenan is from Belfast and lives in London. He joined Birkbeck in 2017, after completing his PhD in law at the London School of Economics. His research sits at the intersection of law and communications technology, and draws on social theory, particularly systems theory and STS. He also tracks the development of national security law and its interaction with constitutional principles and quasi-secret legal practices.
Mayur Suresh is a Senior Lecturer at SOAS. He completed his PhD from the School of Law, Birkbeck in 2017. He is the author of Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts (Fordham University Press and OrientBlackswan 2023) and has recently been awarded the Leverhulme Research Leadership Award.
Basak Ertür is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Birkbeck where she co-directs the Centre for Law and the Humanities. Her first book is Spectacles and Specters: A Performative Theory of Political Trials (Fordham University Press, 2022). Ertür is also a Research Fellow at Forensic Architecture, Goldmiths, and has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2023-24.
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