Figure 1: Searching for Legal Futures at The Horniman Museum. Image: Amanda Perry-Kessaris adapting images © The Horniman Museum and Gardens. The Horniman Museum and Gardens consists of a World Gallery, Music Gallery, Aquarium, Library, Animal Walk, Butterfly House, formal and informal Gardens. It is a unique site where living, non-living, and no-longer-living plants, animals, humans,… Continue reading Legal Futures at The Horniman Museum
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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 Access 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. Our ambition is to help to make the… Continue reading Enlivening legal education through The Postal Museum
What if a citizens’ assembly were to design a future Cyprus peace process?
This blog post reports on a 2024 workshop, funded by a Socio-Legal Studies Association Impact Grant. The workshop was first envisaged in a paper prepared for ‘The Socio-Politics of Legal Design and their Epistemic Consequences’ Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of law (IISL) July 4-5 2024 co-ordinated by Siddharth Peter de Souza and Joaquín… 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 introduces the Fantasy Legal Exhibitions Project led by Amanda Perry-Kessaris and Victoria Barnes. The aim of the project is to explore exhibition as an actual-potential legal research practice. We use the word ‘fantasy’ for two reasons. First, we want to signal that we hoped to push participants to think beyond what might initially… Continue reading Fantasy Legal Exhibitions
Evidencing + combatting hate crime in India: concepts, mindsets, processes
Figure 1: Collaborative prototyping (c) Amanda Perry-Kessaris 2019. How might designerly practices such as collaborative prototyping help academics and activists in India work together to evidence and combat hate crime? This is the question at the heart of a collaboration between Mohsin Alam Bhat, Joanna Perry and Amanda Perry-Kessaris which is generously supported by the… Continue reading Evidencing + combatting hate crime in India: concepts, mindsets, processes
Making unity from and for diversity: The IEL Pop-Up Collection
The IEL Pop Up Collection was designed to ‘make unity from and for diversity’, visibly and tangibly, and with prefigurative spirit.
Workshop: making sociolegal research visible and tangible
We invite you to attend a workshop devoted to reframing your current sociolegal research project using design-based strategies, and in so doing to improve your abilities to explain (ask: how?), to generate (ask: why?) and to speculate (ask: what if?) in relation to it. In this one day hands-on workshop you will make three types… Continue reading Workshop: making sociolegal research visible and tangible
Sociolegal model making 8: Pop-Up Museum of Legal Objects
This is the last in a series of eight experiments investigating how model making can be used in sociolegal research processes. As these experiments have progressed I have come to realise that my intention is to understand how we can, and why we might, make sociolegal research ‘visible and tangible’. This experiment is similar to,… Continue reading Sociolegal model making 8: Pop-Up Museum of Legal Objects
