Staff profile

staff list  BackDr Sonya Fernandez

  • Job title: Senior Lecturer
  • Dept: Law and Criminal Justice Studies
  • Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3870
  • Campus: Canterbury
 

QUALIFICATIONS:

PhD (' Dissentions and Dilemmas in Liberal Multiculturalism – Law, Gender, and the Excluded Other'), University of Kent, (2006).

LLB (Hons), University of Kent, (2001).

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (Associate Accreditation).

TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES:

Critical Approaches to Law, Race and the Law, Family Law

DEPARTMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

LLB Programme Director

PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES:

'The Crusade over the Bodies of Women' ( 2009) 43 (4/5) Patterns of Prejudice

JAF Conaghan and P Cane, New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP 2008), Entries on the Other, honour killings, forced marriages, integration, multiculturalism, multicultural citizenship and polygamy.

'Review: Anne Phillips, Multiculturalism without Culture' (2008) 16(2) Feminist Legal Studies 261

Social Legal Studies Annual Conference  18 March - 20 March 2008 Paper presented – 'The Crusade over the Bodies of Women'.

Chair: Race, Religion and Human Rights Panel.

Home Office Consultation Response    November 2005 Written response to Home Office consultation paper on Forced Marriages.

Critical Legal Conference    2 - 4 September 2005 Presented 'Forever Other: The Unseen Resistance of the Other Woman'.

Social Legal Studies Annual Conference    30 March - 1 April 2005 Paper presented - 'The Mythical Nature of Law's Imperialism: Imperialism in Disguise?'

British Association of Canadian Studies, Legal Studies Group 10 March 2004 'The Ban: Oppression or Liberation?' presented at the International One Day Conference: Gender, Sexuality and the Law: Anglo-Canadian Perspectives.

Amnesty Society's Women's Rights Campaign  9 March 2004 Paper presented - 'Women's Rights and Cultural Relativity'.

University of Kent and Christchurch Radio  27 February 2004 Radio debate with Dr Sophie Vigneron: 'The Ban: Oppression or Liberation?'

Critical Lawyer's Group  7 - 8 February 2004 'English Law's Conception of Cultural Identity' given at The National Critical Lawyers Group Conference.

University of Kent   20 January 2004 'Honour Killings: Crimes of Passion or Murder in the Guise of Culture?' Paper presented at Research Seminar.

Keele University      15 - 16 November 2003 Invited participant in workshop on Gender, Sexuality and Law. Fundamentals and First Principles: Revisiting the Theory/ Practice Divide.

London School of Economics    17 October 2003 Gender and Cultural Diversity: European Perspectives.

University of Kent   9 December 2002 'Female Circumcision: Yet Another Example of Law's Culture Imperialism?' presented at Research Seminar.