Kent Law School Professor Amanda Perry-Kessaris has been elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the representative body of the social sciences in the United Kingdom.
The Academy is devoted to highlighting and championing the contribution of social sciences to all aspects of life, especially in government, business and education.
The Academy’s Fellowship is made up of distinguished individuals from academic, public and private sectors, who have made a substantial contribution to wider social science, to policy or to practice.
Professor Perry-Kessaris has contributed to the development and promotion of sociologically-informed approaches to conceptualising and investigating the economic lives of law (Economic Sociology of Law), which represents an important alternative to economic approaches to law. She has also pioneered the application of design-based methods to enhance sociolegal research, including to prompt and facilitate interdisciplinarity and social impact; and contributed to the development and promotion of Legal Design more broadly as an emergent field of thinking and practice, including in relation to legal pedagogy and legal activism.
Her publications include the monographs Doing Sociolegal Research in Design Mode (2021) and Global Business, Local Law: The Indian legal system as a communal resource in foreign investment relations (2008); and a collection, edited with Emily Allbon, on Design in Legal Education (2022). She has twice received the Socio-Legal Studies Association Article Prize.
Professor Perry-Kessaris is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. At Kent, she teaches Legal Design, Law and Economy, and International Economic Law; and supervises PhD students on topics ranging from the legal dimensions of visual and material culture, to market access for smallholder farmers, and the deployment of mercenaries.
Other Law School colleagues who are Fellows in the Academy include Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Professor Rosemary Hunter and Professor Erika Rackley.