Kent Law School Professor Sally Sheldon has been appointed a series editor of Law In Context by Cambridge University Press.
The Law in Context series, launched in 1970, encourages publications that treat law and legal phenomena critically in their cultural, social, political, technological, environmental and economic contexts and is at the forefront of a movement to broaden the study of law.
The series includes original research monographs, coursebooks and textbooks that foreground contextual approaches and methods. A contextual approach involves treating legal subjects broadly, using materials from other humanities and social sciences, and from any other discipline that helps to explain the operation in practice of the particular legal field or legal phenomena under investigation.
Professor Sheldon was particularly delighted to be appointed as she says she ‘grew up’ as a law student with this series. She joins fellow series editors Maksymilian Del Mar (Queen Mary University of London) and Kenneth Armstrong (University of Cambridge) together with Editorial Advisory Board members William Twining (University College London) and Bronwen Morgan (University of New South Wales).
Professor Sheldon has research interests primarily in health care law and ethics, and the legal regulation of gender. She has published widely in the area of medical ethics and law, including a book on abortion law Beyond Control: Medical Power and Abortion law (1997) and a co-edited collection of essays on Feminist Perspectives on Health Care Law (1998). In 2017, Sally was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, in recognition of her pioneering socio-legal research, particularly in the area of abortion law.