Past Other Events
Exploring Key Concepts in
Feminist Legal Theory: the State, governance, and
citizenship relations
Thursday 12th and Friday 13th May 2005,
Keele University
A workshop supported by the British Academy,
the Feminism and Legal Theory Project and AHRC CentreLGS
Programme,
Abstracts and Booking Form
The third in a series of five
workshops funded by the British Academy and the
Feminism and Legal Theory Project. The School
of Law, Keele University, UK and the Feminism
and Legal Theory Project, Emory University, Atlanta
have partnered to present this series of cross-legal
cultural sessions on issues of interest to feminist
scholars from both jurisdictions. The five workshops
share the common theme of interrogating points
of conflict, consistency and contradiction in
feminist legal theory and methodology in the two
national contexts, but each takes a particular
problem or concept as its focal point. One important
objective of the project is to uncover and understand
the ways in which key concepts can be differently
understood in the two legal systems.
The next subject for consideration
is changing conceptions of the state, governance,
and citizenship relations and the implications
for law revision and reform. Key issues include:
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how is the relationship between state and citizen
understood in the two jurisdictions?
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To what extent and in what ways can this relationship
be understood as gendered?
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What implications are there for feminist strategising
and legal reform?
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The ESRC
Gender, Sexuality and Law: Theory and Practice Workshops
A joint venture of Keele, Kent and Westminster Law Schools:
Sex in Criminal Justice
Friday 18 March and Saturday 19 March 2005
This, the fourth workshop in the series, will take place
at the University of Westminster
The recent reform of sexual offences legislation engaged
the Home Office in a broad process of consultation with
criminal justice professionals, advocacy groups and
academics, the extent of which was reflected in the
publications “Setting the Boundaries” and
“Protecting the Public”. The various Acts
that arose out of this, culminating in the Sexual Offences
Act 2003, were explicit attempts to balance the delivery
of greater autonomy and equality in consensual sexual
relations, with a simultaneous increase in the law’s
ability to protect people’s physical integrity
and diminish their vulnerability to exploitation or
abuse.
This workshop aims to bring together a similar (if
smaller) constituency of academics, activists, and professionals
to examine some of these new provisions as well as other
relevant legal developments, and to consider this balancing
of autonomy and protection in more critical detail.
Questions around consent constantly reappear throughout
a number of the presentations, though each different
inflection produces a different response.
The workshop aims to develop the intersectionality
of the issues through the broad and active engagement
of a variety of participants with papers that are not
solely focused on legalistic issues of a doctrinal nature.
Panel topics
Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation
on the Internet
Regulating the Sexual Lives of Young People
Rape and the Sexual Offences Act 2003
Consent and Drug-assisted Rape
Criminal Responsibility, Sexual Agency and Engaged Activism
Sex, Race and Capital Punishment
Confirmed Speakers
Nicola Browne (Centre for Capital Punishment Studies,
Westminster)
John Carr (NCH Children and Technology Unit)
Sharon Cowan (Edinburgh)
Julia Davidson (Westminster)
Roger Giner-Sorolla (Surrey)
Miranda Horvath (Surrey)
Seema Kandelia (Centre for Capital Punishment Studies,
Westminster)
Liz Kelly (London Metropolitan)
Elena Martellozzo (Westminster)
Daniel Monk (Birkbeck)
Vanessa Munro (Kings)
Rupa Reddy (Centre for Capital Punishment Studies, Westminster)
DCI Matthew Sarti (Metropolitan Police)
Nadine Sime (Rights of Women)
Matthew Waites (Sheffield Hallam)
Matthew Weait (Keele)
The programme
for the two day workshop and a booking
form can be downloaded here.
