Blog: Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies
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In this special Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies piece for Pride 2024, Professor Chris Ashford introduces the concept of ‘queer legal praxis’, drawing on performance studies and the ways that queerness ‘is done’ to explore how law understands queerness. Read the full post here, which is published as part of the blog’s Borderlands section. If you would like to receive a summary of all of Frontiers’ latest posts, including our special newsletter for Pride 2024, please sign up to receive our bi-monthly newsletter here.
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In this week’s Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies, Professor Linda Mulcahy speaks to Professor Michael Lobban (All Souls College, Oxford) about working with archives as a legal historian. They talk about finding a good research question in the field of legal history and accessing and understanding different archives. Listen to the full podcast here, which is part of the blog’s Talking About Methods podcast. If you would like to receive a summary of all Frontiers’ latest posts, please sign up to receive our bi-monthly newsletter here.
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Professor Linda Mulcahy interrogates how ethnicity is constructed in census data. Read the full post here, which is published as part of the blog’s Methodological Musings section. If you would like to receive a summary of all of Frontiers’ latest posts, please sign up to receive our bi-monthly newsletter here.
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