{"id":4701,"date":"2019-12-17T11:22:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T11:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=4701"},"modified":"2019-12-17T11:22:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T11:22:42","slug":"concluding-conference-for-kents-legal-materiality-research-network-in-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/concluding-conference-for-kents-legal-materiality-research-network-in-january-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Concluding conference for Kent’s Legal Materiality Research Network in January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

The concluding conference of Kent\u2019s\u00a0Legal Materiality Research Network<\/a>, co-convened by Kent Law School\u00a0Senior Lecturers\u00a0Dr Hyo Yoon Kang<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Dr Sara Kendall<\/a> and sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will be held\u00a0in London in January 2020.<\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary scholars from around the world will gather for the final two-day conference on Thursday 9 and Friday 10 January to reflect on their unique perspectives of legal materiality.<\/p>\n

The Network views law as being more than a collection of texts defining rules, decisions and judgments. It frames law as a form of power that operates over bodies and across spaces. Since its launch in January 2018, the Network\u2019s aim has been to develop a deeper understanding of the materiality of law and to examine how law shapes and regulates people and the world around us. The Network has collaborated across disciplines to explore how artistic and political interventions can contribute to scholarship on law\u2019s matters, media and materiality. Network members have explored how law is made and how law is changing in relation to new technologies.<\/p>\n

The conference will enable network members to reflect on work they have undertaken collectively and individually towards developing, refining and critiquing notions of legal materiality. One such endeavour was an experimental application and discussion of legal materiality in the format of a special edited issue of the journal,\u00a0Law Text Culture<\/a><\/em> (Vol. 23, 2019) which will be presented and launched at the conference.<\/p>\n

The Network comprises more than 40 scholars, including a further nine from Kent Law School:<\/p>\n