Critical Analysis of Law Workshop
Presents:
Senthorun Raj
Manchester Law School
Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Thursday October 28, 2021
4:10pm – 6:00pm
Location: Solarium
**Zoom Meeting details for guests attending on-line
https://zoom.us/j/94779226929?pwd=SFYzbXhiWmc5czFyUDVxSzFFSE1pdz09
Meeting ID: 947 7922 6929
Passcode: 979214
Abstract: Feeling Queer Jurisprudence intervenes in debates about the limits of legal progress by drawing together widely celebrated and critically reviewed cases that seek to recognise the injury, intimacy, and identity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. The queer registering of jurisprudential emotions can create space in law to affirm, rather than disavow, intimacies and identities that queer the socio-legal articulation of LGBT progress without having to abandon legal projects to protect LGBT people. Feminist and queer scholarship has foregrounded the analytic and political usefulness of engaging with emotion. Emotion is a means of historical analysis and archival research, a form of politics and activism, a subject of moral philosophy. Reading emotion in pro-LGBT cases allows us, as scholars, to analytically navigate arrangements of injury, intimacy, and identity that emerge in jurisprudence that purports to progress the rights of LGBT people. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
Dr Senthorun Raj is a Reader in Human Rights Law at Manchester Law School. He is passionate about glitter, pop culture, and social justice. Sen’s academic and activist work takes an intersectional approach to examining the disparate ways law deals with the lives of queer minorities. His new book, Feeling Queer Jurisprudence (Routledge 2020), explores the role of emotion in shaping legal struggles for LGBT rights across jurisdictions. He is currently the chair of Amnesty International UK. Sen was previously a Lecturer in Law at Keele University, a Scholar in Residence at New York University’s Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and a Churchill Fellow. He has also worked as the Senior Policy Advisor for the Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby in Sydney, Australia.
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