Jessica Mant
Biographic Data
| ID | 4443222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Mant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Mant |
| SIGNATURE | MANT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1070-9326 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Health justice interventions in England and Australia
Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System
This book is about those who represent themselves as Litigants in Person in the family justice system. It calls for a refocusing of the debate about the historical challenges associated with Litigants in Person as well as the role they should play within the family justice system in England and Wales. Drawing together interviews with Litigants in Person and decades of research into self-representation from across multiple jurisdictions, this book…
Teaching family law in neoliberal times
Across scholarship and legal practice, family law is widely recognised as a subject that is inextricable from the social and cultural forces that shape our understanding of how families work and how they are positioned within society. This paper argues that it is now time to build upon this by integrating an explicit awareness of political context into how we teach family law. This is because teachers of family law are now faced with an urgent ch…
Vulnerability, legal need and technology in England and Wales
This paper explores legal need and legal advice in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses the lens of vulnerability theory to examine the ways in which this crisis exposed pre-existing fragilities between the state and its relationship with the advice sector, and the individuals who experience social welfare problems. The paper commences by exploring Fineman’s vulnerability thesis and its application to those experiencing social …
Re B
a s e t o t h e fa mily c o u r t ?Jou r n al of S o ci al Welfa r e a n d F a mily La w 4 3 (2) , p p. 2 0 5-2 0 7. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 0 9 6 4 9 0 6 9. 2 0 2 1
Working Politically
This Article provides a novel insight into how earlycareer scholars in the UK may combine different theoretical tools in their research, and the implications that this may have for the socio-legal discipline. This Article draws upon the author’s experience of combining theoretical tools from different schools of thought: Feminist legal theory, Bourdieusian theory, and Actor Network Theory, within the context of recent research into experiences of…
The post-Laspo landscape
Around four years ago the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law published a special issue on ‘Delivering Family Justice in Late Modern Society in the wake of Legal Aid Reform’ (2013, 35(1)), whi
Neoliberalism, family law and the cost of access to justice
This paper uses ideas drawn from Wendy Brown’s critique of neoliberal approaches to governance, to argue that the ‘economisation’ of social policy such as welfare and legal aid and the family justice system, has resulted in an economic re-making of the ideas of justice, fairness and equality, which have traditionally underpinned these policies and the context of the family court. The paper will map the political context to the implementation of t…
The Mysterious Case of Disappearing Family Law and the Shrinking Vulnerable Subject
This article seeks to critically examine the implications that the new eligibility requirements for legal aid as implemented by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 are having on the ways in which private family law governs families. It makes use of a theoretical lens drawn from the work of Valverde (2009, 2014a, 2014b) on ‘jurisdiction’ to map the shift that has taken place within family law as a result of the political…
Neoliberalism, family law and the cost of access to justice
This paper uses ideas drawn from Wendy Brown’s critique of neoliberal approaches to governance, to argue that the ‘economisation’ of social policy such as welfare and legal aid and the family justice system, has resulted in an economic re-making of the ideas of justice, fairness and equality, which have traditionally underpinned these policies and the context of the family court. The paper will map the political context to the implementation of t…
The Mysterious Case of Disappearing Family Law and the Shrinking Vulnerable Subject
This article seeks to critically examine the implications that the new eligibility requirements for legal aid as implemented by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 are having on the ways in which private family law governs families. It makes use of a theoretical lens drawn from the work of Valverde (2009, 2014a, 2014b) on ‘jurisdiction’ to map the shift that has taken place within family law as a result of the political…
Teaching family law in neoliberal times
Across scholarship and legal practice, family law is widely recognised as a subject that is inextricable from the social and cultural forces that shape our understanding of how families work and how they are positioned within society. This paper argues that it is now time to build upon this by integrating an explicit awareness of political context into how we teach family law. This is because teachers of family law are now faced with an urgent ch…
Vulnerability, legal need and technology in England and Wales
This paper explores legal need and legal advice in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses the lens of vulnerability theory to examine the ways in which this crisis exposed pre-existing fragilities between the state and its relationship with the advice sector, and the individuals who experience social welfare problems. The paper commences by exploring Fineman’s vulnerability thesis and its application to those experiencing social …
The post-Laspo landscape
Around four years ago the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law published a special issue on ‘Delivering Family Justice in Late Modern Society in the wake of Legal Aid Reform’ (2013, 35(1)), whi
Neoliberalism, family law and the cost of access to justice
This paper uses ideas drawn from Wendy Brown’s critique of neoliberal approaches to governance, to argue that the ‘economisation’ of social policy such as welfare and legal aid and the family justice system, has resulted in an economic re-making of the ideas of justice, fairness and equality, which have traditionally underpinned these policies and the context of the family court. The paper will map the political context to the implementation of t…
The Mysterious Case of Disappearing Family Law and the Shrinking Vulnerable Subject
This article seeks to critically examine the implications that the new eligibility requirements for legal aid as implemented by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 are having on the ways in which private family law governs families. It makes use of a theoretical lens drawn from the work of Valverde (2009, 2014a, 2014b) on ‘jurisdiction’ to map the shift that has taken place within family law as a result of the political…
Working Politically
This Article provides a novel insight into how earlycareer scholars in the UK may combine different theoretical tools in their research, and the implications that this may have for the socio-legal discipline. This Article draws upon the author’s experience of combining theoretical tools from different schools of thought: Feminist legal theory, Bourdieusian theory, and Actor Network Theory, within the context of recent research into experiences of…
Vulnerability, legal need and technology in England and Wales
This paper explores legal need and legal advice in England and Wales during the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses the lens of vulnerability theory to examine the ways in which this crisis exposed pre-existing fragilities between the state and its relationship with the advice sector, and the individuals who experience social welfare problems. The paper commences by exploring Fineman’s vulnerability thesis and its application to those experiencing social …
Re B
a s e t o t h e fa mily c o u r t ?Jou r n al of S o ci al Welfa r e a n d F a mily La w 4 3 (2) , p p. 2 0 5-2 0 7. 1 0 . 1 0 8 0/ 0 9 6 4 9 0 6 9. 2 0 2 1
Litigants in Person and the Family Justice System
This book is about those who represent themselves as Litigants in Person in the family justice system. It calls for a refocusing of the debate about the historical challenges associated with Litigants in Person as well as the role they should play within the family justice system in England and Wales. Drawing together interviews with Litigants in Person and decades of research into self-representation from across multiple jurisdictions, this book…
Teaching family law in neoliberal times
Across scholarship and legal practice, family law is widely recognised as a subject that is inextricable from the social and cultural forces that shape our understanding of how families work and how they are positioned within society. This paper argues that it is now time to build upon this by integrating an explicit awareness of political context into how we teach family law. This is because teachers of family law are now faced with an urgent ch…
Health justice interventions in England and Australia
Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (6 works) · Family law (5 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction (3 works) · Context (archaeology (3 works) · Criminology (3 works)