doing, talking, thinking…

…about legal and economic phenomena

Welcome, and thanks for visiting.

My website is about my research. This looks at how we do, talk about, and think about legal and economic aspects of interactions, as well as how the economic life of the law can exclude and minoritise.

By reframing legal and economic phenomena, could we respond more innovatively to the financial crisis, and current social problems? Can we envision more inclusive and equitable societies?

I am Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Birmingham, UK. I have previously held the position of lecturer at Kent Law School, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, which followed my ESRC-SeNSS funded postdoctoral research fellowship at Kent Law School.

Recent blog posts…

Prefiguring inclusive societies: an ability capitalism perspective

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a two-day series of workshops at the EUI in Florence (I was there remotely) on ‘Law & Revolution: Prefiguration v Abolition?’. Apart from being a fantastically generative couple of days, the workshops were a prompt for thinking more about what an ability capitalism lens can suggest in…

Ability Capitalism

Ability Capitalism, or law’s constitutive role in market constructions of disability, is a new theory that explores how disability is produced under capitalism. I’ve added a separate site page setting out some of the core concepts of the theory, and while I’ll include a brief recap here, I want to explore some of the applications…

The Mountains of Metaphor

Having the right working metaphors can make a difference to any long research project. Here, I set out why working metaphors are so crucial to our research processes, and how the Mountains of Metaphor can help us communicate better about our research journeys.

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econosociolegal fabric
if we more closely integrate the economic, legal, and social, how might it look?
Can certain lenses let us appreciate the variability and unpredictability of social interaction?
Patterns of social interaction
Individual social interactions repeated many times can appear as patterns when we zoom out

The drawings, diagrams, graphics, and videos are ways of visualizing my work, and are explained in this page here. They’re subject to copyright (so please ask before you borrow), but you can see how they appear and what they mean in my videos here.

Repeated interactions, with the legal (red), economic (yellow) and social (green)
What happens when we repeat legal (red) aspects of interactions?
What happens when interactions repeat over time? Do patterns occur?
How can we visualise the legal and economic aspects of social interactions? If each dot is a person, and each line is an interaction, what happens when we repeat certain interactions over time?

Finally, comments make my day, so please get in touch!

Dr Clare Williams