Professor Emily Grabham
Senior Associate Research Fellow
BA (Cantab); LLM (Queen’s, Canada); MSc Gender, Society & Culture (Birkbeck); MFA Creative Writing (University of British Columbia); PhD (University of Kent)
Research Interests
Law, time and temporalities; socio-legal studies; gender, sexuality and law; creative writing and law; law and the humanities.
Additional Professional Information
Emily Grabham is Professor of Law at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on how time shapes people’s experiences of law. With colleagues from cultural studies, environmental humanities, sociology, and organisation studies, she co-founded the A Day At A Time project, which explores people’s everyday experiences of time during the early Covid-19 pandemic. Her feminist legal research has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Economic & Social Research Council, and the Leverhulme Trust. She is a previous recipient of the SLSA Articles Prize, the SLSA Legal Theory and History Book Prize, and the Canadian Law and Society English Language Article Prize. Supported by a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law, her current research focuses on developing arts-led collaborations on time, law and social justice.
Other Information
University of Kent profile link: https://www.kent.ac.uk/law/people/1285/grabham-emily
Publications
Selected Publications
Monographs
2021. Women, Precarious Work and Care: The Failure of Family-Friendly Rights. Bristol University Press (Law, Society, Policy series).
2016. Brewing Legal Times: Things, Form and the Enactment of Law. University of Toronto Press. *Awarded SLSA Legal Theory & History Prize, 2017.
Edited Collections
2019. Law and Time. Routledge. Co-editor with Siân Beynon-Jones.
2009. Intersectionality and Beyond: Law, Power and the Politics of Location. Routledge. With Davina Cooper, Didi Herman, and Jane Krishnadas.
Refereed Journal Articles
2024. ‘Affect, action, and incommensurability: Finding law and time in UK Mass Observation diarists’ accounts of the Covid-19 pandemic’ Juridikum (Austria’s critical law review; invited contribution to special issue on Time and Law) Vol 3 388-394 with Siân Beynon-Jones.
2023. ‘ ‘The rules are all over the place’: Mass Observation, time and law in the Covid-19 pandemic’. 50(3) Journal of Law & Society 369-391 with Siân Beynon-Jones and Nadine Hendrie.
2023. ‘Decertifying Gender: The Challenge of Equal Pay’. Feminist Legal Studies 31 67-93.
2022. ‘The Crafty Power of Text: Methods for a Sociology of Legislative Drafting.’ Journal of Law & Society 49 S1-S15.
2020. ‘Exploring the Textual Alchemy of Legal Gender: Experimental Statutes and the Message in the Medium’. 10(2) feminists@law (open access peer reviewed journal).
2016. ‘Time and Technique: The Legal Lives of the 26 Week Qualifying Period’ Economy & Society 45 (3-4): 379-406. *Awarded SLSA Article Prize, 2018.
2014. ‘Legal Form and Temporal Rationalities in UK Work-life Balance Law’ 29(79) Australian Feminist Studies 67-84.
2014. ‘The Strange Temporalities of Work-Life Balance Law’ 4(1) feminists@law.
2012. ‘Bodily Integrity and the Surgical Management of Intersex’ 18(2) Body & Society 1-26.
2011. ‘Doing Things with Time: Flexibility, Adaptability, and Elasticity in UK Equality Cases’ 26(3) Canadian Journal of Law & Society 485-508. *Awarded 2011 Canadian Law & Society English Language Article Prize.
2010. ‘Governing Permanence: Trans Subjects, Time, and the Gender Recognition Act’ 19(1) Social & Legal Studies 107-126.