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Legal, Political and Social Theory Group (LPSTG)
Members
| Staff: | |
| Convenor: Professor Claire Grant | Dr. Véronique Voruz |
| Dr. Philip Cook | Professor Panu Minkkinen |
| Professor Hilary Sommerlad | Deputy: Dr. Stefano Bertea |
| Dr. Jason Beckett | Dr. Steven Cammiss |
| Dr. Andromachi Georgosouli | Dr. Loveday Hodson |
| Deputy: Toni Johnson | Dr. Liz Wicks |
| Dr. Sean Thomas | |
Students: |
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| Leicester attracts a burgeoning number of theory doctoral students, including Yavuz Alkan, Henry Jones, Melis Menent, Dave Merritt, and Joe Wills. | |
Who we are
The Legal, Political & Social Theory Group is a research cluster based in the Leicester Law School. It builds on the successes of the former Legal Theory Discussion Group to support and encourage enthusiasm for the diverse variety of legal, political and social theory research conducted in the School. This currently includes, for example, colleagues working in analytic legal and political philosophy, critical legal theory, socio-legal theory, theories of gender, sexuality and law, and theories of specific bodies of law for example constitutional theory, theories of rights, theories of property and theories of criminal law and punishment.
What we do
The Legal, Political & Social Theory Group runs various group activities, in addition to encouraging a diversity of specialist activities organized by subsets of the group. Our current activities are:
Legal and Political Theory Workshop
These are staff work-in-progress meetings, coordinated by Toni Johnson.
Legal Theory Discussions
This seminar series has run since 2004 and hosts papers by external speakers. Discussions for 2010-11 will include:
- 1 December 2010 Oran Doyle, (Dublin), ‘The Autonomy of Law’s Empire’, Jan Grodecki Room 5.00-6.00pm.
- 23 March 2011 Eric Heinze (Queen Mary, London), title t.b.a., Jan Grodecki Room 5.00-6.00pm.
Author’s Days
These are ‘author-meets-critics’ type events, in which we discuss a book with its author, and are coordinated by Stefano Bertea (stefano.bertea@le.ac.uk) . Discussions for 2010-11 will include:
- May 20th 2011 Aileen Kavanagh’s Constitutional Review under the HRA 1998.
Speakers: Aileen Kavanagh (Oxford), Kai Moller (LSE), Jan Van Zyl Smit (Oxford Brookes), Panu Minkkinen (Leicester), Adam Tucker (Manchester), Jan Grodecki Room 2.00—6.00pm. Programme
Leicester Legal & Political Theory Lectures
These are public lectures by external speakers, coordinated by Claire Grant and Philip Cook (Politics). Lectures for 2010-11 will include:
- 9 March 2011, Matthew Kramer (Cambridge), ‘Austin on Punishment’
- Leslie Green (Oxford), 18 May 2011 at 5pm, 'Sex-Neutral Marriage'
Conferences
In 2009 colleagues hosted the Critical Legal Conference. In 2011 the Analytic Legal & Political Philosophy Conference will be hosted by Leicester, coordinated by Claire Grant and Philip Cook (Politics).
For further information about the Legal, Political & Social Theory Group, please email Claire Grant (claire.grant@le.ac.uk)
