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
Category: objects
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
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
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
Legal Object Workshop 2017
This one day workshop is funded by Kent Law School, is part of the Legal Treasure Project and takes place at the British Museum in London on 10.03.17. The workshop is coordinated by Amanda Perry-Kessaris with Lisa Dickson, Luis Eslava, Sydney Parfitt and Sophie Vigneron. Each participant will present an object from the collection, locating it within their own research agenda as well as addressing wider questions posed by its… Continue reading Legal Object Workshop 2017
Sociolegal model-making 4: Discussion
Sociolegal model making 4: Discussion from Amanda Perry-Kessaris on Vimeo. This is the fourth in a series of eight experiments investigating how modelling can be used in econosociolegal research processes. 'Law and governance are intimately entangled with time.' So began the call for papers for an international conference on 'New' legal temporalities: discipline and resistance across… Continue reading Sociolegal model-making 4: Discussion
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