I am looking for colleague-lecturers in socio-legal (sociology and antropology of law) or critical legal studies to co-develop a syllabus or other learning material for students.
Tags: Decolonisation, Diversity
The project intends to work towards the development of study material for a Law and Society introduction course.
Law and society studies is an umbrella term for approaches that focus on a social science, 'external' approach to law (as opposed to an 'internal', doctrinal approach to law, in which law is studied 'in itself', as a system), which examines how law and society interact and influence each other. A substantial part of the course deals with the specific 'external' approach of critical legal studies, which focuses on the social power structures that help shape the law. It is a new mandatory course for third year bachelor law students, and we do not have a set syllabus. This is a challenge for the students, and therefore also for the lecturers. Among the students who are also writing an undergraduate thesis in socio-legal or critical legal studies, applying the right research method is also a source of uncertainty.
We are looking for partners that also teach socio-legal studies, and more precisely critical legal studies on broader issues of diversity (such as gender and feminism, colonialism and decolonization, superdiversity, language, social class), and want to work together towards developing study material.