Amanda Perry‐Kessaris
Biographic Data
| ID | 6307850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda Perry‐Kessaris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Perry‐Kessaris |
| SIGNATURE | KESSARIS A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1341-2392 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Making the ‘constitutive idea’ available in designerly ways
The constitutive idea centres on the proposition that, as a matter of social fact, law and wider social life each make up and, over time, dynamically shape, the other. This paper argues that we can draw upon designerly ways to make that the constitutive idea more available to scholars, as well as to the wider world. It first highlights the empirical, conceptual and normative dimensions of the constitutive idea. Next it introduces designerly ways,…
What if a citizens’ assembly were to design a future Cyprus peace process
Could a deliberative process, such as a citizens’ assembly, be used to design a future peace process for Cyprus? Could creative practices, such as a pre-assembly interspecies council, help to activate the imagination of members of such an assembly? These questions were at heart of a workshop held in November 2024 at the Home for Cooperation, a community centre located within the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia. This intervention reports on t…
Making socio-legal Research More Social by Design
This Article looks for signs of Anglo-German life in the literature and practice under-pinning the current move to use “designerly ways” in socio-legal research; and asks whether design has a role to play in nurturing a sense of Anglo-German socio-legal community. It argues that a “sociological imagination” is essential if we are to fully understand possible synergies between design and socio-legal research, and the risks and rewards of activatin…
Enhancing Participatory Strategies With Designerly Ways for Sociolegal Impact
This paper draws the attention of impact-curious sociolegal researchers to the potential of participatory research strategies; and proposes that the effectiveness of those strategies can be enhanced by the introduction of ‘designerly ways’. It explores and evidences this proposition through the multi-country Facing All the Facts project which aimed to support and accelerate the process of making hate crime conceptually and empirically visible in …
Legal Design for Practice, Activism, Policy, and Research
This article offers an original integrated introduction to how to think about what design can do for law; where to find examples of legal design; and how to assess it. It identifies clear points of contact between lawyerly concerns and designerly skills, knowledge, and attitudes. It proposes that designerly ways can directly improve lawyerly communication; and that they can also generate new structured‐yet‐free spaces in which lawyers can be at o…
The re-co-construction of legitimacy of/through the Doing Business indicators
The present paper argues that the Doing Business indicators, their legitimacy (their ability to be defended through some logic or justification arising from standards) and the wider notions of legitimacy (the standards) that they promulgate are all best understood as social or, better still, ‘econosociolegal’ constructions. It tracks their, primarily post-financial crisis, re-co-construction within and beyond the World Bank from servant of the pr…
Approaching the Econo-Socio-Legal
This article offers a systematic introduction to a body of historical and contemporary research that is distinctive in its commitment to the observations that the economy and the law are mutually constitutive, and that both are in turn mutually constitutive of wider social life, including that part of social life relating to how we think and communicate about the econo-socio-legal. The aim is to offer a framework for approaching econo-socio-legal…
The Case for a Visualized Economic Sociology of Legal Development
Journal Article The Case for a Visualized Economic Sociology of Legal Development Get access Amanda Perry-Kessaris Amanda Perry-Kessaris * * University of Kent. Email: [email protected] . Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Current Legal Problems, Volume 67, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuu016 Published: 05 September 2014
Anemos ‐ity, Apatheia , Enthousiasmos
This piece sketches ‘an’ economic sociology of law: one possible approach, in relation to one case study of wind farm development in Cyprus. Carbon emissions are a global threat to which wind farms may offer something of a solution. But wind farms can also pose local threats. So they tend to produce conflicts on different levels of social life: action, interaction, regime, and rationality. As such they are ill‐suited to exploration through law or…
Introduction
Prepare your indicators
This article explores the influence of economics on the demand for, and deployment of, indicators in the context of the World Bank's investment climate campaign. This campaign is characterised by an emphasis on marketisation, mathematisation and quantification, which are respectively the normative, analytical and empirical approaches of choice in mainstream economics. The article concludes that economics generally, and indicators in particular, h…
Recycle, Reduce, and Reflect
Much of my recent research has focused on two questions. First, I have asked whether the nature of host state legal systems is important to foreign investors: is it a determinant of their decisions as to where to locate? Although the dominant theory, led by the World Bank, vigorously asserts that the legal system is very important, my research has shown that this not always the case. Second, I have asked what kind of legal system a foreign invest…
Prepare your indicators
This article explores the influence of economics on the demand for, and deployment of, indicators in the context of the World Bank's investment climate campaign. This campaign is characterised by an emphasis on marketisation, mathematisation and quantification, which are respectively the normative, analytical and empirical approaches of choice in mainstream economics. The article concludes that economics generally, and indicators in particular, h…
The Case for a Visualized Economic Sociology of Legal Development
Journal Article The Case for a Visualized Economic Sociology of Legal Development Get access Amanda Perry-Kessaris Amanda Perry-Kessaris * * University of Kent. Email: [email protected] . Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Current Legal Problems, Volume 67, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuu016 Published: 05 September 2014
The re-co-construction of legitimacy of/through the Doing Business indicators
The present paper argues that the Doing Business indicators, their legitimacy (their ability to be defended through some logic or justification arising from standards) and the wider notions of legitimacy (the standards) that they promulgate are all best understood as social or, better still, ‘econosociolegal’ constructions. It tracks their, primarily post-financial crisis, re-co-construction within and beyond the World Bank from servant of the pr…
Approaching the Econo-Socio-Legal
This article offers a systematic introduction to a body of historical and contemporary research that is distinctive in its commitment to the observations that the economy and the law are mutually constitutive, and that both are in turn mutually constitutive of wider social life, including that part of social life relating to how we think and communicate about the econo-socio-legal. The aim is to offer a framework for approaching econo-socio-legal…
Legal Design for Practice, Activism, Policy, and Research
This article offers an original integrated introduction to how to think about what design can do for law; where to find examples of legal design; and how to assess it. It identifies clear points of contact between lawyerly concerns and designerly skills, knowledge, and attitudes. It proposes that designerly ways can directly improve lawyerly communication; and that they can also generate new structured‐yet‐free spaces in which lawyers can be at o…
Introduction
Recycle, Reduce, and Reflect
Much of my recent research has focused on two questions. First, I have asked whether the nature of host state legal systems is important to foreign investors: is it a determinant of their decisions as to where to locate? Although the dominant theory, led by the World Bank, vigorously asserts that the legal system is very important, my research has shown that this not always the case. Second, I have asked what kind of legal system a foreign invest…
Prepare your indicators
This article explores the influence of economics on the demand for, and deployment of, indicators in the context of the World Bank's investment climate campaign. This campaign is characterised by an emphasis on marketisation, mathematisation and quantification, which are respectively the normative, analytical and empirical approaches of choice in mainstream economics. The article concludes that economics generally, and indicators in particular, h…
Anemos ‐ity, Apatheia , Enthousiasmos
This piece sketches ‘an’ economic sociology of law: one possible approach, in relation to one case study of wind farm development in Cyprus. Carbon emissions are a global threat to which wind farms may offer something of a solution. But wind farms can also pose local threats. So they tend to produce conflicts on different levels of social life: action, interaction, regime, and rationality. As such they are ill‐suited to exploration through law or…
Introduction
The Case for a Visualized Economic Sociology of Legal Development
Journal Article The Case for a Visualized Economic Sociology of Legal Development Get access Amanda Perry-Kessaris Amanda Perry-Kessaris * * University of Kent. Email: [email protected] . Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Current Legal Problems, Volume 67, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 169–198, https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuu016 Published: 05 September 2014
Approaching the Econo-Socio-Legal
This article offers a systematic introduction to a body of historical and contemporary research that is distinctive in its commitment to the observations that the economy and the law are mutually constitutive, and that both are in turn mutually constitutive of wider social life, including that part of social life relating to how we think and communicate about the econo-socio-legal. The aim is to offer a framework for approaching econo-socio-legal…
The re-co-construction of legitimacy of/through the Doing Business indicators
The present paper argues that the Doing Business indicators, their legitimacy (their ability to be defended through some logic or justification arising from standards) and the wider notions of legitimacy (the standards) that they promulgate are all best understood as social or, better still, ‘econosociolegal’ constructions. It tracks their, primarily post-financial crisis, re-co-construction within and beyond the World Bank from servant of the pr…
Legal Design for Practice, Activism, Policy, and Research
This article offers an original integrated introduction to how to think about what design can do for law; where to find examples of legal design; and how to assess it. It identifies clear points of contact between lawyerly concerns and designerly skills, knowledge, and attitudes. It proposes that designerly ways can directly improve lawyerly communication; and that they can also generate new structured‐yet‐free spaces in which lawyers can be at o…
Making socio-legal Research More Social by Design
This Article looks for signs of Anglo-German life in the literature and practice under-pinning the current move to use “designerly ways” in socio-legal research; and asks whether design has a role to play in nurturing a sense of Anglo-German socio-legal community. It argues that a “sociological imagination” is essential if we are to fully understand possible synergies between design and socio-legal research, and the risks and rewards of activatin…
Enhancing Participatory Strategies With Designerly Ways for Sociolegal Impact
This paper draws the attention of impact-curious sociolegal researchers to the potential of participatory research strategies; and proposes that the effectiveness of those strategies can be enhanced by the introduction of ‘designerly ways’. It explores and evidences this proposition through the multi-country Facing All the Facts project which aimed to support and accelerate the process of making hate crime conceptually and empirically visible in …
What if a citizens’ assembly were to design a future Cyprus peace process
Could a deliberative process, such as a citizens’ assembly, be used to design a future peace process for Cyprus? Could creative practices, such as a pre-assembly interspecies council, help to activate the imagination of members of such an assembly? These questions were at heart of a workshop held in November 2024 at the Home for Cooperation, a community centre located within the UN-controlled buffer zone in Nicosia. This intervention reports on t…
Making the ‘constitutive idea’ available in designerly ways
The constitutive idea centres on the proposition that, as a matter of social fact, law and wider social life each make up and, over time, dynamically shape, the other. This paper argues that we can draw upon designerly ways to make that the constitutive idea more available to scholars, as well as to the wider world. It first highlights the empirical, conceptual and normative dimensions of the constitutive idea. Next it introduces designerly ways,…
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