The summer has been busy for the Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture. Papers have been published, academics have been interviewed for international newspapers and new members of staff have arrived at the University.
Professor Guy Osborn, alongside co-author Mark James, published their monograph Olympic Laws - Culture, Values, Tensions. The book looks through a socio-legal lens to analyse the Olympic legal framework and explore how it is applied to the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Games. Published by Routledge, it can be found across multiple bookstores including The Hive and, hopefully, libraries everywhere.
In August, he also presented a paper entitled The Material, Spatial and Textual Properties of Event Tickets at the Research Committee on Sociology of Law conference in Lund, Sweden.
Professor Pippa Catterall was interviewed about post-Soviet national identities in Russia and Ukraine for the Kyiv Independent in an article published on Ukrainian Independence Day on 24 August. She spoke about the Soviet statues that have been taken down or repurposed in Ukraine, explaining that this is not an unusual process for nations looking to reassert their national identity.
In the article she said: "(Monuments today are) a marker of territory in much the same way that Roman emperors' statues were used as markers of territory.
"You replace one marker with another marker, and all you're doing is reflecting new realities of power."
She also published chapters on religion and the UK Constitution in The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom on 21 August and gave a presentation on her paper entitled Cruising and Coping: Queer Movements in the Heteronormative City at the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers annual conference on 30 August.
In July, Dr Anna Chronopoulou presented her paper titled The Presence of the Absence: Portrayals of Women Legal Academics in Films at the International Law Conference in Athens. The conference brought together researchers and academics looking at a variety of aspects of law and other similar disciplines.
During the summer there has also been a new addition to the team. The Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture have welcomed Uche Ani, whose work looks at the role of copyright law in ensuring fair wages and gender equality in the film industry. She has experience teaching IP Law across a number of exciting areas, as well as other fields connected to law, entertainment, film music and fashion. She has also taught various aspects of Property Law and is admitted to the Nigerian bar.
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