An article by Kent Law School Reader in Law Professor Emily Grabham has been shortlisted for a prize by the Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA).<\/p>\n
\u2018Time and technique: the legal lives of the 26-week qualifying period<\/a>\u2019, published in Volume 45 of the journal Economy and Society<\/em>, follows the \u2018legal lives\u2019 of qualifying periods on family-friendly employment rights.<\/p>\n Drawing on documentary research and interviews with policy experts, union activists and legislative drafters, the article focuses on the formal qualities of qualifying periods, arguing that these legal technicalities conjure time and legal form as inextricable.<\/p>\n Professor Grabham\u2019s article is one of three that has been shortlisted for the 2018 SLSA Article Prize.<\/p>\n Last year, Professor Grabham was awarded the Socio-Legal History and Theory Prize for her book\u00a0\u2018Brewing Legal Times: Things, Form and the Enactment of Law\u2019<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of Toronto Press, 2016). She was one of three academics<\/a> from Kent Law School to be shortlisted for a prize in 2017 and one of two who were subsequently awarded a prize (Professor Helen Carr was the recipient of last year\u2019s SLSA Article Prize).<\/p>\n This year\u2019s SLSA prize winners will be announced at the organisation\u2019s annual conference<\/a> in Bristol in March.<\/p>\n Professor Grabham<\/a>\u2018s research interests include labour law, law and time, labour and value, and feminist legal theory. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to legal analysis, drawing on methods and perspectives from feminist legal theory, social anthropology, sociology, and science and technology studies.<\/p>\n Together with Dr Sian Beynon Jones from the University of York, Professor Grabham co-ordinates the scholarly network\u00a0Regulating Time: New Perspectives on Regulation, Law and Temporalities<\/a>. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the network investigates how law and regulation are shaped by dominant concepts of time.<\/p>\n