Exploring Legal Borderlands

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This panel invites papers that explore the uncertainties and interactivity of legal borderlands. Legal borderlands are defined as including, but not limited to: the division between the formal and informal, law and non-law, and jurisdictional boundaries. Recognising that legal borders are often not clearly defined or static, we invite papers that examine social practices falling within grey areas, as well as papers that trace the development of norms and concepts within or across legal borderlands, or which trace the movement of the borders themselves through social agency. In this panel we wish to showcase empirical and interdisciplinary methods of socio-legal research. We welcome applications from scholars at all stages of their academic careers - including graduate students - and from diverse backgrounds - including scholars whose research focuses on foreign socio-legal issues.

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Convener

Pedro Fortes (pedro.rubimborgesfortes@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk)