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The Dance/Law stream seeks to generate new accounts of law and jurisprudence through the field of dance. It opens a space to consider how law is danced and choreographed in a range of different genres as a form and practice of jurisprudence. This mode of practice-led jurisprudence marks this topic as a new turn in socio-legal scholarship and charts new paths for future moves in research and practice on dance/law.

We invite you to consider what is meant by dance/law as jurisprudence; how it translates into creative practice-led methods of legal research and teaching; and how it plays out through digital forms.

Areas of engagement include, but are not limited to:

• Law as dance and dance as law
• Dance-based adaptations of law
• The dancing and moving body in law, and legal choreography
• The impacts of the digital and virtual on law’s movement and dance
• Dance-based legal research and dance as legal dispute resolution
• Dance and legal activism
• Dancing protest
• Dance and/as the staging of law as critique
• Queer studies and dance/law
• Dance in art and law
• Dance and sound
• Dance, law and the non-human
• Speculative movements in dance and law

We particularly welcome creative responses from scholars and practitioners, including but not limited to visual art, creative writing, film, sound, choreographic and musical scores, and reflective writing – as standalone pieces or embedded in a paper.

We look forward to legally dance with you…six, seven, eight everyone can dance!

Convenors

Maria Federica Moscati (University of Sussex) m.f.moscati@sussex.ac.uk

Sean Mulcahy (La Trobe University) s.mulcahy@latrobe.edu.au

Lucy Finchett-Maddock (Bangor University) l.finchett-maddock@bangor.ac.u

For more information see website.