Feb
Research Seminar in Sociology of Law with Sara Dezalay
The Sociology of Law Department arranges a series of research seminars inviting local and international social scientists to present state-of-the-art research within various areas of law and society.
The spring 2024, the Sociology of Law Department is undertaking a research seminar series in Spring 2024 focusing on decolonial sociology of law perspectives.
Decolonizing Global Value Chains: Lawyers, Symbolic Value and the New Rush for Africa's ‘Green’ Minerals
Information about the seminar will be posted as soon as it has been made available.
Sara Dezalay is a Professor at The Catholic University of Lille (ESPOL). She is also an Associate researcher at the Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF); a member of the editorial committee of Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales; Associate editor of Law & Social Inquiry; and member of the International Affairs Committee, Law and Society Association. In 2020-2022, she was an adjunct judge, appointed by the UNHCR, at the French national court for asylum seekers.
Her current research focuses on the roles played by law and lawyers in negotiating and justifying the uneven and unequal relationship between the African South and the world economy. Deploying a research strategy combining political sociology of law and global history, she adopts a multi-scalar approach, examining dynamics of legal, social and political change at the domestic level (in Burundi, the DRC, Côte d’Ivoire) and on the international scene (politics and practices of intervention; international dispute settlement mechanisms; transnational advocacy; transnational litigation strategies).
About the event
Location:
Room M331, 3rd floor, Allhelgona Kyrkogata 18 (Hus M), Lund and online
Contact:
ole [dot] hammerslev [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se