This blog has been cross-posted on the SLSA Blog and the Kent Law School Blog, Countercurrents. Image 1: Modes of research contribution. Amanda Perry-Kessaris 2025. We have all heard of ‘impact’. Many of us know something about how it has been assessed since its introduction in the 2014 iteration of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). But many… Continue reading Making the Engagement and Impact dimension of REF2029 meaningful for law schools
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‘Diversity’ of outputs in law REF2029 submissions
This post will also appear on the Kent Law School blog, Countercurrents, and the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) blog. Image 1: Screenshot of extract from REF2029 Guidance on eligible Outputs. The Hidden REF project is on a mission to get ‘diverse’ outputs to form five percent of all outputs submitted to REF. They note that REF rules… Continue reading ‘Diversity’ of outputs in law REF2029 submissions
Law and Design: a monograph
A work in progress by Amanda Perry-Kessaris, contracted for publication by Routledge. A diverse array of scholars and practitioners are working at the intersections of law and design. However, this work is generally fragmented and under-theorised. This book addresses that gap. It surfaces classical pragmatism as a shared ancestor of law and of design. It… Continue reading Law and Design: a monograph
Enlivening legal education through The Postal Museum
The Postal Museum repository is alive. Image © Amanda Perry-Kessaris, 2025. We (Amanda Perry-Kessaris and Emily Allbon, and archivist Susannah Coster) are partnering with The Postal Museum and a team of academic Collaborators to explore how we can use archives and museum collections to enliven legal education. We are beginning with an experiment: co-designing a set… Continue reading Enlivening legal education through The Postal Museum
String theory-a conceptual experiment
Figure 1: Toolkit for String theory-a conceptual experiment (c) Amanda Perry-Kessaris 2025. This post introduces an experiment that I designed for as part of a Summer Research Residence on Conceptual Innovation, Methods & Law organised by Davina Cooper at Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London in 2025. For theoretical physicists, 'string theory' is… Continue reading String theory-a conceptual experiment
Podcast: Opening up Cyprob imaginations with an interspecies council
In episode 17 of the podcast series Figure It, I spoke with host Fiona Mullen about a workshop we co-organised last November with the Cyprus Peace and Dialogue Centre (CPDC), in which we explored whether (a) a deliberative process, such as a citizens’ assembly, could be used to design a future peace process for Cyprus;… Continue reading Podcast: Opening up Cyprob imaginations with an interspecies council
What if a citizens’ assembly were to design a future Cyprus peace process?
This project is discussed in 'Opening up Cyprob imaginations with an interspecies council', Episode 17 of the podcast ‘Figure it’, which is published by Island Talks, an independent Cyprus-based citizen media initiative. Cyprus has passed its longest ever period without any negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem. Civil society actors in Cyprus (including Cyprus Peace… Continue reading What if a citizens’ assembly were to design a future Cyprus peace process?
Bristol Legal Futures
This post was co-authored with Elen Stokes and is cross-posted on the University of Bristol Law School Blog. How might we legal scholars develop our capability to work with legal futures? Why ought we to try? These questions lay at the heart of a one-day capacity-building Workshop held at the University of Bristol in July… Continue reading Bristol Legal Futures
Edinburgh Legal Theory Bazaar
A version of this post is appeared on the Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies Blog How might model-making help us to respond to Margaret Davies’ call for ‘a more open, dynamic and responsive understanding of law’—one which understands theorisation less as a formalistic process aimed at conceptual unity, more as an experimental process aimed at conceptual co-existence? … Continue reading Edinburgh Legal Theory Bazaar
Fantasy Legal Exhibitions
This post also appears on the Socio-Legal Studies Association Blog. A workshop on the theme of Fantasy Legal Exhibitions was held on 18 and 19 July of 2023, organised Victoria Barnes and Amanda Perry-Kessaris and funded by the Socio-Legal Studies Association and Kent Law School. The aim of the event was to explore exhibition as… Continue reading Fantasy Legal Exhibitions
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