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Dr Sarah Beresford

Director of Part I (first years)

Degree: LLB (Hons); PhD

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Centre for Law and Society, Gender, Sexuality, the Family and the Law, Human Rights Forum

Personal website

Current Teaching

Sarah Beresford's current teaching centres around Law; Family; Gender; Sexuality and Religion.

Research Interests

Research Interests

Sarah Beresford's research interests focus upon Gender, Sexuality and Law; Family Law and Society; Religion and Law.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Sarah Beresford would be happy to receive applications from potential doctoral students in the areas of Law, Family, Gender, Sexuality and Religion.

Publications

Beresford, S., (2012) (under review) 'New Zealand and England: A Compararive Study of International Child Relocation law'.

Beresford, S., (2012) (under review) 'No Gain Without payne: International Child relocation Law'

Beresford, S., (2012) (forthcoming) 'It's Not Me it's You : Law's Performance Anxiety Over Gender Identity in Cohabitation Cases', Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly.

Beresford, S., (2011) 'Seeking Secularism: Resisting Religiosity in Marriage and Divorce. A Comparative Study of England and America', Web Journal of Current Legal Issues, Vol. 3. http://webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/2011/contents3.html

Beresford, S., (2009)'Judging a Book by its Cover - the deployment (and) unsettling of familial images on family law textbook covers' Griffith Law Review, 18(1). http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/26252

Beresford, S., and Falkus, C., (2009) 'Abolishing Marriage - Can Civil Partnership Cover it?' Liverpool Law Review. Volume 30, Issue 1 (2009), Page 1 http://www.springerlink.com/content/y002132r3u21q878/Impact - this paper was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for LSN: Family Law (Sexuality) (Topic).

Beresford, S., (2008) 'Get Over Your (Legal) 'Self': A Brief History of Lesbians, Motherhood and Law'. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. Volume 30, issue 2, June, pages 95-106. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/20848/

Beresford, S., (2008). "Guardianship in relation to Children". New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford University Press.

Beresford, S., (2008). "Guardianship in relation to Persons with Mental Incapacity". New Oxford Companion to Law. Oxford University Press.

Beresford, S., and Faulkus., C (2007) 'Couples deserve better than this'. Times Higher Education Supplement,13th July2007. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=209633§ioncode=26

Beresford, S., (1998) The lesbian mother: questions of gender and sexual identity: in Beresford, S., Moran, L., and Monk, D., (eds.), Legal queeries¸ Cassell, 1998, 57-67.

Beresford, S., (1996). Reprinted 2001. 'Femininity, sexuality and Identity in law', in Cosslett, T et al (eds.) Women, Power and Resistance: An Introduction to Women's Studies, Buckingham, Open University Press.

Beresford, S., (1994)."Lesbians in Residence and Parental Responsibility Cases". [1994] Fam Law, Vol 24. Pages 643-645.

Book Reviews in Refereed Journals

Feminist Perspectives on Family Law, Routledge Cavendish: London, Alison Diduck and Katherine O'Donovan (eds), 2006, for Feminist Theory, issue 9(1) 2008. http://fty.sagepub.com/content/vol9/issue1/

Covenant Marriage in Comparative Perspective, Eerdmans, John Witter and Eliza Ellison (eds), 2005, for the Ecclesiastical Law Journal, Vol 11 No.1 2009. http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=2871840

Further Information & Websites

I am a member of;

• The Society of Legal Scholars
• The Socio-Legal Studies Association.

You can also access my research papers and other information by looking on Academia.edu at http://lancs.academia.edu/SarahBeresford

External Appointments

2010 AHRC peer reviewer

2006-date -External Examiner, LLB Employment Law,Law School, University of Central Lancashire

I am a peer reviewer for The Alternative Law Journal andThe Griffith Law Review.

Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database

Sarah Beresford has 8 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk

Associated Keywords: Critical legal studies, Family law, Family law and society, Feminism, Feminist theory, Foucault, Gender, Gender and religion, Gender and the law, Gender constitution and performance, Gender identities, Gender, sexuality and the law, Law, Law and literature, Law and society, Legal, LGBT, Post-structuralism, Queer theory, Religion and the law, Sexualities, Social-legal studies, Transsexuality

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