Professor Kimberley Brayson Inaugural Lecture

Professor Kimberley Brayson Inaugural Lecture

Taking the title of a film assessment designed for first year law students ‘what law means to me’ as a jumping-off point, this talk enacts critical, feminist, decolonial, theoretical perspectives in law to traverse the everyday effects of law and to introduce Critical Jurisprudence as a way of living law.

Professor Kimberley Brayson

Kimberley Brayson is Professor of Critical Jurisprudence and Director of Education at Leicester Law School.

I completed my PhD on a full scholarship at Queen Mary University of London (2014). I have a bilingual Masters in Legal Theory from the European Academy of Legal Theory, Brussels, with a semester spent at the European University Institute Florence Italy (2006). I completed my LLB in English Law and German Law at the University of Kent with a year spent at the Phillips Universität Marburg Germany on the ERASMUS exchange programme (2005). I was a Lawyer-Linguist and Legal Consultant for the EU working at the College of Europe, Bruges (2007-2008). I was an EU Research Fellow on the international comparative project JURISTRAS (2008-2009). Prior to joining the University of Leicester, I was Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex and Co-Director of the Sussex Centre for Gender Studies.

I am interested in critical, feminist, decolonial, theoretical approaches in law that interrogate the material effects of law and what law is doing in the everyday lives of people. I bring together knowledge of law and experiences of law to change the way that we think in and about law. My approach questions the assumed virtue of law. My work is Interdisciplinary, multilingual and comparative in nature. Current projects include everyday fascism through human rights law, the criminalisation of Islamic dress, miscarriage in law and women’s bodies, embodied epistemologies.

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