Urban Salon presents: Law and the City

Law and the City: what is the role for socio-legal perspectives in urban studies?

In this event, chaired by Katherine Brickell (KCL), we will consider the role of socio-legal perspectives in urban studies. Three researchers from different institutions will explain how legal perspectives have benefitted their research on urban process, while stressing the tensions and difficulties of applying legal methods. Noting that there is no agreed legal method, and a peculiar absence of discussion of legal geography in mainstream textbooks, the session will raise wider questiosn as to the relationship between law, academia and the city, and speak to vexed questions of how urban scholars might challenge urban injustice through their work.

This session is sponsored by KCL Urban Futures, and presented as part of Urban Salon's programme of events especially aimed at postgraduate students in urban studies across London. All welcome but booking is essential (note the building requires sign-in so pre-registration required)

16:00 - 16:30 Frida Timan, LSE

16:30 - 17:00 Chris Morris, King's College London

17:00 - 17:30 Elsa Noterman, Queen Mary University of London

17:30 - 18:00 Discussion led by Katherine Brickell and Phil Hubbard

Note: The Geography Department, and this event, is in Bush House NE. This is the old BBC World Service building which should be accessed directly from the Aldwych side (not the Strand). Do not go to the main entrance but to the NE block entrance where you will be asked to check in to access the building.