Law Lecturer Nick Piska has successfully secured funding to run a two-day workshop for critical scholars interested in the field of equity and trusts.
‘Equity and the Resources of Critique’ will explore critical methodologies and frameworks and will provide a platform for developing a critical equity network.
Nick Piska said: ‘Although critical legal scholarship is at present thriving in most areas of private law, there remains a poverty of critical scholarship in the field of equity and trusts. This is surprising and problematic given the role of the law emanating from equity in modern society, for example its contributions to financial capitalism and contemporary models of governance, as well as the importance of the historical tradition of equity in relation to questions of justice and political power. Instead, equity is either romanticised as the remedy to injustices that modern law is unwilling or incapable to remedy, or considered a technical area of doctrine impervious to critical scholarship. The workshop will bring scholars together working in the the fields of critical thought and equity and trusts to develop critical approaches to equity.’
The workshop, to be held at Kent Law School later this year, is being supported by the University of Kent’s Social Science Faculty Research Fund.
Nick has published in the field of trusts law, property law, legal history, and legal theory. His current research project focuses on the fate of equity in modern law and society. He is also currently researching the works of Michel Foucault, with a view to developing an historical ontology of law that offers a critical understanding of the relation between law, truth and political life. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Critical Thought.
For more information about Nick’s research interests and publications, please visit his staff profile page.