Moral Struggle

Workshop on Thursday 13 November, 12-04 p.m.
Porthania, P669 (Yliopistonkatu 3, Helsinki)

Maria Drakopoulou, Kent: Of Political Ontologies, Law and Sexual Difference
Sanna Mustasaari, Helsinki: Reframing recognition – Transnational families, belonging and law
Samuli Hurri: Law as a Field for Moral Struggles: Objectives and Methods

Maria Drakopoulou is Reader in Law at Kent Law School, the University of Kent, UK. She became an academic after practicing for eleven years as a criminal law barrister in Athens, Greece. Her main areas of research interest are Feminist Theory and Jurisprudence, Roman Law, and the History of Philosophy and Law. She has held research fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence and Griffith Law School, Brisbane. Her latest publications include Feminist Encounters with Legal Philosophy (2013) and a special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal on the themes of Law, Space, Time and History (June 2013 with Julia Chrysostalis). She is currently completing a book on the genealogy of feminist legal thought.

Welcome!

Ps. Next workshop is with Emilios Christodoulidis on Strategy (Confounding Structures) on Wed 10 December, 12-04 p.m., Porthania P545.

Contact: samuli.hurri@helsinki.fi