{"id":3726,"date":"2018-12-03T12:14:38","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2018-12-03T12:14:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T12:14:38","slug":"dr-donal-casey-is-a-guest-editor-for-special-issue-of-journal-of-law-and-social-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/dr-donal-casey-is-a-guest-editor-for-special-issue-of-journal-of-law-and-social-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Donal Casey is a guest editor for special issue of Journal of Law and Social Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Law School Lecturer Dr Donal Casey is a guest editor for a special issue of the Journal of Law and Social Policy<\/em>\u00a0that offers an interdisciplinary exploration of gambling regulation.<\/p>\n

The special volume – Volume 30<\/a> \u2013 comprises 13 articles and has been co-edited by Dr Casey together with Professor Kate Bedford (University of Birmingham) and Dr Alexandra Flynn (University of Toronto).\u00a0It draws together contributions that straddle the intersections between law and sociology, cultural studies, geography, political science, indigenous studies, history, science and technology studies, gender studies, and political economy.<\/p>\n

Dr Casey said: \u2018The special issue explores the diverse and grounded reality of gambling regulation, law, and policy in large and small sites across the world, bringing diverse everyday forms and places of play to the fore and tracing the overlapping and sometimes competing work of Indigenous, municipal, provincial, national, supra-national, and transnational regulatory bodies.\u2019<\/p>\n

The volume\u2019s introductory article, \u2018Keeping Chance in Its Place: The Socio-Legal Regulation of Gambling<\/a>\u2019 is co-authored by Dr Casey, Professor Bedford and Dr Flynn.\u00a0Dr Casey is also the sole author of a further article on \u2018Risk, Charity, and Boundary Disputes: The Liberalisation and Commercialisation of Online Bingo in the European Union<\/a>\u2019. In it, he explores the diverse political-economic meaning attached to bingo and how this shapes the regulation of online bingo in EU Member States.<\/p>\n

One of the other articles is authored by Kent Law School Professor Toni Williams. In \u2018All About That Place: The Curious Case of Bingo Liberalisation in Brazil<\/a>\u2019, Professor Williams illustrates the way in which the perceived risks attached to bingo in Brazil arose not from the game itself, but rather from the places in which the game was played. She also demonstrates the multiple ways in which place matters to socio-legal accounts of gambling regulation.<\/p>\n

Dr Casey<\/a> is Deputy Director of Education at Kent Law School. He has written extensively about regulatory governance and was a co-investigator for A Full House: Developing A New Socio-Legal Theory of Global Gambling Regulation<\/a> (The Bingo Project), \u00a0a three-year research project funded by a \u00a30.5m grant from the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council.<\/p>\n

Professor Kate Bedford<\/a> is Professor of Law at Birmingham Law School. She was principal investigator for The Bingo Project. Dr Alexandra Flynn<\/a> is an Assistant Professor in the City Studies program at the University of Toronto (Scarborough).<\/p>\n