This post reflects on what makes academic collaborations with heritage partners work in practice, arguing that the most valuable partnerships are built through trust, mutual understanding and long-ter...

Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.

A small country needs the emotional boost of greater status

Figure 1: Searching for Legal Futures at The Horniman Museum. Image: Amanda Perry-Kessaris adapting images © The Horniman Museum and Gardens. How might we use The Horniman Museum and Gardens&n…

Figure 1: Searching for Legal Futures at The Horniman Museum. Image: Amanda Perry-Kessaris adapting images © The Horniman Museum and Gardens. How might we use The Horniman Museum and Gardens&n…

Hear Palestinian intellectual Edward Said in his own voice, as we play excerpts from the original recordings of his lectures delivered at the University in 1985.

This post summarises a presentation delivered as part of the Law and Political Economy Stream convened by Jack Meakin and Manoj Dias-Abey at the 2026 Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Con…

When people encounter legal problems, they describe them as life problemsabout landlords, debt, family conflict, lost jobs-not as legal issues with formal names

How can art, performance and creativity deepen understanding of the realities of disability, and create powerful ways to express lived experiences? Join us for an exhibition and discussion that explor...

It is becoming ever clearer both how devastating the second wave of winter 2020/21 was, and how much of that devastation could have been avoided.

Felipe Jiménez (USC Gould School of Law) has posted Truly General Jurisprudence (Forthcoming in Legal Theory) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: There has been a recent turn towards a new form of nonpositivism in Anglo-American jurisprudence. This paper focuses on the theories articulated by Mark Greenberg and Scott Hershovitz (I label their views as the "New Legal Anti-Positivism" or NLAP).

What Indian Music Experience's 'Drag at the Museum' Reveals About India’s Gender Paradox As India debates transgender rights, a Bengaluru museum uses drag to explore gender, history, and identity.

AI is everywhere right now. It writes summaries, explains theories, fixes grammar, and recommends playlists.But here’s the thing nobody says out loud: you’re allowed not to use it. Whether you feel…

Making the ‘constitutive idea’ available in designerly ways

Figure 1: Searching for Legal Futures at The Horniman Museum. Image: Amanda Perry-Kessaris adapting images © The Horniman Museum and Gardens. How might we use The Horniman Museum and Gardens to dev…

How one man's career explains our public life.

From the formation of the plantation slave economy to the modern-day climate crisis, we map how empire and extractive capitalism shaped Barbados, Britain and the wider world.

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The Postal Museum repository is alive. Image © Amanda Perry-Kessaris, 2025. We (Amanda Perry-Kessaris and Emily Allbon, and archivist Susannah Coster) are partnering with  The Postal Museum and a t…

The podcast explores the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, and the Ayotzinapa Protests which have unfolded over the last decade.

Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Professor of Law, Director of Research and Innovation, and REF Coordinator, Kent Law School This blog will be cross-posted on the Kent Law School Blog, Countercurrents, and Aman...

Join us in UCL Grant Museum of Zoology for our monthly talk series spotlighting current research into the collections and displays.

This blog will be cross-posted on the SLSA Blog and the Kent Law School Blog, Countercurrents. Image 1: Modes of research contribution. Amanda Perry-Kessaris 2025.  We have all heard of ‘impac…

This blog will be cross-posted on the SLSA Blog and the Kent Law School Blog, Countercurrents. Image 1: Modes of research contribution. Amanda Perry-Kessaris 2025.  We have all heard of ‘impac…