{"id":4705,"date":"2019-12-17T13:48:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T13:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=4705"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:48:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T13:48:17","slug":"new-speaker-series-on-approaches-to-law-and-legal-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/new-speaker-series-on-approaches-to-law-and-legal-method\/","title":{"rendered":"New speaker series on approaches to law and legal method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new speaker series on approaches to law and legal method will be held at Kent Law School in Spring 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of the four talks, organised by Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, is interdisciplinarity and method in legal scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ashiagbor said: \u2018Kent Law School has a rich tradition of researchers working on overlapping questions of law, political economy, social history, governance, development and what may be described as \u2018social studies of labour regulation\u2019. This speaker series contributes to that ongoing research, bringing together four highly experienced interdisciplinary scholars of law, to reflect on how legal methods evolve, and what it means to be a scholar undertaking humanities-inflected and social science-influenced legal research.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Wednesday 22 January <\/strong>&#8211; Tarik Kochi, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex: &#8216;Global Justice and Social Conflict: Questioning the Foundations of Liberal Order and International Law&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/dr-tarik-kochi-global-justice-and-social-conflict-tickets-85923919757\">Register online<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday 13 February <\/strong>&#8211; Ruth Dukes, Professor of Labour Law, University of Glasgow: \u2018Socio-Legal Methods in Labour Law: Then and Now\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday 5 March &#8211; <\/strong>Simon Deakin, Professor of Law, University of Cambridge: \u2018The Use of Quantitative Method in Labour Law\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday 24 March &#8211; <\/strong>Ambreena Manji, Professor of Land Law and Development, Cardiff University: \u2018Searching for Social Reproduction in African Social History\u2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All talks take place in the Brian Simpson Room (on the lower floor of Eliot College Extension) from 17:30 \u2013 19:30, including a drinks reception. 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