Kent Senior Law Lecturers Dr Hyo Yoon Kang and Dr Sara Kendall have been awarded a grant of more than £35,000 to establish a new interdisciplinary and international research network exploring legal materiality.

The Research Network Grant, from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), will help bring together a community of scholars with a shared focus on studying and thinking about law’s matters and their materialities.

The network is holding a symposium on ‘Articulating Law’s Matters’ to launch the network at The Warburg Institute on Friday 12 January 2018. This event will offer an overview and map some of the positions, approaches and tensions which the notion of ‘legal materiality’ has raised in contemporary legal scholarship.

Attendance is free, but attendees are required to register online.

The Legal Materiality Research Network includes a broad range of members: from emerging junior scholars and research students to world-leading scholars who have studied the specificity of legal techniques and objects and have engaged deeply with questions of materiality and interpretation. Their disciplinary homes are in fields as diverse as anthropology, English literature, legal studies, media studies, politics, political theory, rhetoric, science and technology studies and sociology. The network also includes artists who are concerned with the force of law and its physical and virtual manifestations.

For questions and enquiry, please contact Dr Kang or Dr Kendall. Follow the network on Twitter @LawsMatters.