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
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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
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?
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
Experimenting with the concept of ‘hate crime’ in India
Note: formal findings from this project are now published in Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Mohsin Alam Bhat and Joanna Perry (2023) ‘Conceptual experimentation through design in pedagogical contexts: lessons from an anti-hate crime project in India’ The Law Teacher, DOI: 10.1080/03069400.2023.2275496 This post introduces preliminary findings from the ‘Evidencing and combatting hate crime in India: concepts, mindsets and… Continue reading Experimenting with the concept of ‘hate crime’ in India
Work in progress: Doing socio-legal research in design mode
How might design enhance our understanding of, and our ability to communicate about, law as a social phenomenon? At what cost? Mindsets, tools and processes from design such as visualisation, sprints and prototyping are increasingly identified as distinctive and useful; and adopted across legal fields from practice to activism to policy-making (Perry-Kessaris 2019). With the… Continue reading Work in progress: Doing socio-legal research in design mode
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.
Sociolegal model making 7: object-based commentary in a curated space
Sociolegal model making 7: Object-based commentary in a curated setting from Amanda Perry-Kessaris on Vimeo. This is the seventh 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… Continue reading Sociolegal model making 7: object-based commentary in a curated space
In pursuit of the copper ox-hide ingot
My first encounter with ox-hide ingots was on the cover of a specialist economic history text. Cyprus is home to the largest deposits of copper ore in the Mediterranean region, concentrated around the Trodoos mountains. I came face-to-face with, and became attached to, my ox-hide ingot during an experiment in object-based brainstorming that I conducted in… Continue reading In pursuit of the copper ox-hide ingot
Sociolegal model making 6: place-holding
https://vimeo.com/199899293 This is the sixth in a series of eight experiments investigating how modelling can be used in sociolegal research processes. I am a sociolegal researcher seeking to generate insights that are both theoretically informed and empirically grounded. Almost all my research includes qualitative, semi-structured interviews that are always time consuming and expensive to complete and sometimes awkward. But they are also usually… Continue reading Sociolegal model making 6: place-holding
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