Law Catalysts - Applying Concepts and Methods from Applied Ethics into Legal Scholarship and Mixed Methods in Legal Research
Published: 12 May 2023
These two Law Catalyst events will run back to back with the first session exploring the relationship between legal scholarship and ethical analysis. The second session will allow doctoral students who are working with interdisciplinary methods to consider how those methods interact with disciplinary expectations and how such boundaries can be negotiated.
Thursday 20th of June
Law Catalysts
Session 1 (Applying Concepts and Methods from Applied Ethics into Legal Scholarship) 14:00 - 15:00
RM224 - Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow
Dr Emily Postan, Edinburgh Law School - with collaboration from other SGSAH Law Catalyst Members
About this Session
This session will explore the relationship between legal scholarship and ethical analysis and provide opportunities for doctoral students to explore the ways in which they could incorporate concepts and methods from applied ethics into their own work. It will provide students who have no yet engaged with ethics literature and methods with an introduction to key themes and approaches. It will draw upon examples from research that brings together law and bioethical inquiry. In doing this session will explore wider themes relevant to pursuing interdisciplinary research, including navigating different uses of language, and prioritisation of research questions located in different kinds of inquiry.
Who might be interested?
All legal PhD candidates - of particular interest to candidates with a strong normative element in their research questions and those working in medical/health/technology law.
Session 2 (Mixed Methods in Legal Research) 15:00 - 16:00
RM224 - Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow
Dr Linda Mensah, University of Stirling
About this Session
This session is designed to allow doctoral students who are working with interdisciplinary methods to consider how those methods interact with disciplinary expectations and how such boundaries can be negotiated. It will address the context of legal research with a specific focus on the integration of oral histories as a mechanism gaining insight into the design and implementation of legal frameworks with a particular focus on feminist legal methods.
Who might be interested?
This session will be of interest to students in their 1st and 2nd years. Particularly those who are working in an interdisciplinary context involving aspects of legal regulation and those who are in the process of refining their research design.
If you register for this workshop, you are welcome to attend either both or just one of the sessions.
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First published: 12 May 2023
