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: research through design
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
Designerly ways with the future of legal gender?
https://vimeo.com/685965436 In a presentation for the final symposium of the Future of Legal Gender (FLaG) project, held on 09.03.22, I drew on my work at the intersections of law and design to ask: How might designerly ways be used to enhance the long-term objectives and impacts of prefigurative/anticipatory law reform projects such as FLaG? FLaG… Continue reading Designerly ways with the future of legal gender?
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
How and why might we draw on designerly ways to support conceptual prefiguration in law?
This post summarises my contribution to an online Roundtable on 'Conceptual prefiguration / prefiguring concepts' organised by Davina Cooper as part of the Utopian Legalities, Prefigurative Politics and Radical Governance Collaborative Research Network on October 15, 2021. I have spent the last few years exploring the idea of ‘doing sociolegal research in design mode’. My… Continue reading How and why might we draw on designerly ways to support conceptual prefiguration in law?
How might designerly ways enhance our abilities to understand + meet sociolegal research challenges?
https://vimeo.com/561344247 The above presentation was prepared for the Sociolegal Research Cluster at Essex at the invitation of Jaime Lindsey. It is based on a short monograph entitled Doing sociolegal research in design mode, published by Routledge, which was supported by funding from the Sociolegal Studies Association and the Leverhulme Trust. In the presentation I begin… Continue reading How might designerly ways enhance our abilities to understand + meet sociolegal research challenges?
Could alternative econo-legal futures be made more possible and probable through prefigurative design?
https://vimeo.com/552411713 The above presentation was delivered at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2021 as part of a panel hosted by the Collaborative Research Network on Utopian Legalities, Prefigurative Politics, and Radical Governance (CRN 50). It is part of a wider project on the intersections between law and design, the main outcome of which… Continue reading Could alternative econo-legal futures be made more possible and probable through prefigurative design?
What might a book about ‘doing socio-legal research in design mode’ contribute to legal design thinking + practice?
As part of the Legal Design Roundtable 2021 Rossana Ducato invited me to reflect upon how my short book, Doing sociolegal research in design mode (forthcoming 2021, Routledge), might contribute to the field of legal design. The book is designed to act as a bridge from sociolegal research to legal design, but I hope that… Continue reading What might a book about ‘doing socio-legal research in design mode’ contribute to legal design thinking + practice?
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