Kent Law School’s Co-Director of Research Dr Emilie Cloatre has been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA).
Dr Cloatre was appointed earlier this month, joining Law School colleague Professor Helen Carr and a group of fourteen other academics, drawn from universities across the UK and Nigeria.
Members of the Executive Committee are volunteers who attend regular meetings, help run SLSA activities, and act as officers for the organisation.
The SLSA aims to advance education and learning and in particular to advance research, teaching and the dissemination of knowledge in the field of socio-legal studies. It achieves these aims in a variety of ways including by: arranging meetings, conferences and seminars; awarding research grants and prizes; producing publications; and liaising with policy makers and research funders.
Dr Cloatre is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School with research interests in law, science and technology; environmental law; governance and regulation; law, political economy and development; legal methods and epistemology; and legal theories and philosophy.
She is principal investigator for the AHRC Network Technoscience, Law and Society
Her most recent book, Knowledge, Technology and Law: At the Intersection of Socio-Legal and Science & Technology Studies was co-edited with Martin Pickersgill and published by Routledge in 2014.
More information about Dr Cloatre’s research interests and publications is available on her staff profile page.