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Dr David M. Seymour
Director of Research
Department: Law
Degree: Ph.D (Sociology, Warwick University) LL.M, (University of London), LL.B, (Polytechnic of the South Bank),
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Law and Society, Dynamics of Memories, Human Rights Forum
Current Teaching
Intellectual Property Law
Introduction to Property Law
Land Law
Jurisprudence;
Research Interests
Research Interest
My current research project is titled,'A Critique of the Rejection of Right in Contemporary Political Thought'
I research also on questions relating to Holocaust memory and contemporary antisemitism.
Publications
Books
Law, Antisemitism and the Holocaust, Routledge-Glasshouse, London, November, 2007
Articles
'"New Europe", Holocaust Memory and Antisemitism' in Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity; Boston: Brill (April 2012)
"Good nations" and "bad nations": Critical Theory, Judgement and The Naturalisation of Memory"; International Journal for the Semiotics of Law [Online First3 May 2011], pp,1-16
"From Auschwitz to Gaza: Ethics for the Want of Law" [2010] 6 (2) Journal of Global Ethics 205
"The Naturalization of Antisemitism" in 5 Moreshet: The Journal of the Holocaust and Antisemitism [2008]/ 84 Yalkut Moreshet [2008] (Hebrew translation)
"The Autonomy of the State and the Dissolution of the Jews", in [2007] 3(4) International Journal of Law and Context 323
"The Absence of Contradiction and the Contradiction of Absence: Law, Ethics and the Holocaust", in Law and Popular Culture, ed Michael Freeman, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005
"The Slave, the Noble and the Jews: Reflections on Section 7 of "On the Genealogy of Morals" in Philosemitism, Antisemitism and the Jews, ed. Tony Kushner, Nadia Valman, Dartmouth, London, 2005
"Film and Law: In Search of a Critical Method" in Law's Moving Image, eds. Leslie Moran, Ian Christie, Elena Louzidou; Glasshouse, London 2004
"Representation and the Framing of Modernity" in special edition "Law's Cultural Mediations". [2002] Vol 10 Griffith Law Review 2001
Adorno and Horkheimer "Enlightenment and Antisemitism". (2001) LI Journal of Jewish Studies 297
Lyotard: Emancipation, Antisemitism and the Jews" in Social Theory after the Holocaust, Eds. R. Fine and C. Taylor, Manchester University Press. Manchester, 2000
Letter From Shylock" VIII Law and Critique 215 - 222 http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/968/2/60BE2610.pdf
Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
Book Review: Jiri Priban (ed), Liquid Society and Its Law, Aldershot, Ashgate 2008 in [2010] 73(1)Modern Law Review,166-171
"Emancipation" in New Oxford Companion in Law; OUP, Oxford,2008
Book Review of Film and the Law, Steve Greenfield, Guy Osborn, Peter Robinson, Cavendish, London, 2001 (in Socio-Legal Studies) Spring 2003
Academic Conference Presentations
(Antisemitism and the Law.Round-table discussion with Professor Didi Herman and Professor Maleiha Malik; Disciplining Antisemitism Series, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism; 11th May 2011.Podcast available athttp://www.pearsinstitute.bbk.ac.uk/events/events-calendar/antisemitism-and-the-law/view/2011-05-11
Using the Discourse Historical Approach to Analyse German Nationalist and anti-Semitic Discourse (1871-1924). Roundtable discussant, Lancaster University, Dynamics of Memory Group; Lancaster University, 23rd June 2011
The Impossibility of a Future: Agamben's Jurisprudence of Domination and the Domination of Jurisprudence; presented at "Agamben and the Future of Law, Politics and Philosophy", Newcastle Law School Symposium, 9th March 2011
The State of Exception: Against an Ontology of Human Rights; presented at "Human Rights, Natural Rights and Social Theory, University of Warwick, 18th June 2010
Images, Memories and the concept of "the Holocaust" presented at "The Rise of Right-Wing Extremism: The Politics of Memory in Europe and Beyond" workshop under the auspices ofthe Dynamics of Memory, Lancaster University, 11th March 2010
The Holocaust and the Concealment of Antisemitism presented at the Weinar Library (ESA/EISCA] February 2010
Adorno contra Schmitt in Weimar: Law, Ontology and Antisemitism presented at Essex University Law School, December 2009
From Gaza to Jerusalem; Law, Ethics and the Holocaust, presented at the War Crimes Conference at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies March 2009
Dissolution or Usurpation: Legacies of the Holocaust in the Thought of Agamben and Badiou presented at Birkbeck College, London November 2008
Jews, Antisemitism and the Holocaust: The Myth of Sovereignty and the Sovereignty of Myth presented at SLSA annual conference March 2008
The Naturalisation of Antisemitism; presented at Cardozo Law School, February 2008
The Myth of sovereingty and the Sovereignty of Myth; presented at Kent Law School February 2008
Hubirs and the Holocaust: The Reappearance of the Lawgiver in Agamben's Reflections on the Musselman; presented a the Thematics series, Birkbeck College, March, 2007
"The Jurisprudence of Nazi Monumental Architecture" in The Philosophy of Architecture: The Architecture of Philosophy Conference, CATH, University of Leeds, Bradford; July 2004 And at Albany Law School, New York; November 2004
"The Absence of Contradiction and the Contradiction of Absence: Law, Ethics and the Holocaust" in Law and Popular Culture; Law and Popular Culture Conference, University College London, 2003
Respondent, Law, Culture and Humanities Conference, Cardozo Law School, 2003
"The Relationship of Emancipation, Rights and Antisemitism in the Thought of Marx, Nietzsche and Lyotard". Invited Participant at Nietzsche and Legal Theory; Cardozo Law School, October 2001
"Truth, Reconciliation and the Sixth Sense"; presented at Birkbeck College Law School Seminar Series, November 2000
"Dissembling the Frame of law: Loss, Recuperation and Interdisciplinarity"
Presented Critical Legal Studies Conference, Kent (September 2001)
Auschwitz and the Critique of Radical New Beginnings
Invited participant at Symposium on the Life and Work of Gillian Rose, Warwick University. (December 2000)
Law and Authority: The Jurisprudence of the Holocaust
Critical Legal Studies Conference, Helsinki (September 2000)
"Lyotard: Emancipation, Antisemitism and the Jews". Invited participant at the ESRC funded conference Social Theory After the Holocaust Conference (1999)
"History and Memory in Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew" delivered at the Critical Legal Studies Conference, London, (1999)
"The Dialectic of Rights and Ressentiment" delivered at the American Law and Society Conference, Chicago (1999)
Respondent and invited participant at ESRC funded conference Social Theory and Major Social Transformations at Warwick University (1997)
"The Representation of the Jews in the Sociology of Anti-Semitism", paper presented at The American Law and Society Association Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 1995.
"Searching for the Golem: The Depoliticisation of Antisemitism in Modern Social Thought', paper presented at The Critical Legal Studies Conference, The University of Warwick, September 1994; and at The 13th World Conference of Sociology, University of Bielefeld, Germany, July 1994.
"Postmodernity and the Holocaust", paper presented at The Critical Legal Studies Conference, Oxford University, September, 1993
"Tort, Nervous Shock and the Discourse of Psychiatry", paper presented at The Critical Legal Studies Conference, Queen's University, Belfast, September 1989, and at Legal Research Seminar, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, June 1989.
Non-Academic Presentations
Antisemitism and the Law. Round-table discussion with Professor Didi Herman and Professor Maleiha Malik; Disciplining Antisemitism Series, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism; 11th May 2011(Podcast available at http://www.pearsinstitute.bbk.ac.uk/events/events-calendar/antisemitism-and-the-law/view/2011-05-11)
The Vanishing Point of Antisemitism; presented at Sheffield Hallam Inter-Faith Society, Holocaust Memorial Week, January 2010
Twenty Years of Critical Reflections on the Holocaust; presented at Oxford University Students Union and Oxford Chabad, Holocaust Memorial Week, January 2009
Potential Doctoral Proposals
I look forward to receiving proposals in the areas of Jurisprudence, Social-Legal Studies and Critical Theory.
Within these areas, I welcome particularly proposals concerning law's engagement with antisemitism and Holocaust, and/or law's engagement with contemporary political theory.
Editorships and Memberships
I am a member of the Advisory Board of the Danube Memorial (http://thedanubememorial.org/)
Along with Professor Peter Goodrich (Cardoza Law School), I am co-editor for the Routledge Glasshouse Series Nomokoi: Critical Legal Thinkers, published by Glasshouse-Routledge.
Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers presents analyses of key critical theorists who have written on law and contributed significantly to the development of the new interdisciplinary legal studies. Addressing those who have most influenced legal thought and thought about law, the aim of the series is to bring legal scholarship, the social sciences and the humanities into a closer dialogue.
Current titles include,
Giorgio Agamben, Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism, Thanos Zartaloudis (2010)
Niklas Luhman: Law,Justice and Society; Andreas Philippopoulos (2009)
Evgeny Pashukanis: A Critical Reappraisal; Michael Head (2007)
Judith Butler: Ethics, Law, Politics; Elena Loizidou (2007)
For further details on the series or for the submission of proposals please contact me at d.seymour@lancaster.ac.uk
I am on the Board of Management for theCentre of Law and Societyhttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/centres/lawandsociety/
I am a member of Lancaster UniversitiesDymamics of Memory Grouphttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/groups/dynamicsofmemories/
and theHuman Rights Forumhttp://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/organisations/humanrights/index.php
Honorary Research Fellow at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck College, University of London (2011)
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
David M. Seymour has 11 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
Seymour, David M. (2008) The Naturalisation of Antisemitism. Moreshet, 5. pp. 145-153. ISSN 1565-477X
Seymour, David M. (2007) Law, Antisemitism and the Holocaust. Routledge-Cavendish, London. ISBN 13:978-0-415-42040-2
Seymour, David M. (2007) The Autonomy of the Political and the Dissolution of The Jews. International Journal of Law in Context, 3 (4). pp. 373-387. ISSN ISSN: 1744-5523 EISSN: 1744-5531
Seymour, David M. (2005) The Absence of Contradiction and the Contradiction of Absence: Law, Ethics and the Holocaust. In: Law and Popular Culture. Current Legal Issues, 7 . Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 71-87. ISBN 0-19-927223-9
Seymour, David M. (2004) Film and Law: In Search of a Critical Method. In: Law's Moving Image. Glasshouse Press, London, pp. 107-121. ISBN 1-90438-501-X or 978-1904385011
Seymour, David M. (2004) The Slave, the Noble and the Jews: Reflections on Section 7 of "On the Genealogy of Morals.". In: Philosemitism, Antisemitism and the Jews. Studies in European Cultural Transition, 24 . Ashgate, Hampshire, pp. 215-228. ISBN 0 7546 3678 X
Seymour, David M. (2004) The slave, the noble and the Jews: reflections on section 7 of 'On the genealogy of morals'. In: Philosemitism, antisemitism and 'the Jews'. Studies in European cultural transition (24). Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 215-218. ISBN 9780754636786
Seymour, David M. (2001) Representation and the Framing of Modernity. Griffith Law Review, 10 (2). pp. 259-279. ISSN 1038-3441
Seymour, David M. (2000) Adorno and Horkheimer "Enlightenment and Antisemitism. Journal of Jewish Studies, 51 (2). pp. 297-312. ISSN 0022-2097
Seymour, David M. (2000) Lyotard: Emancipation, Antisemitism and the Jews. In: Social Theory After The Holocaust. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 125-141. ISBN 978-0853239659
Associated Keywords: Antisemitism, Critical legal studies, Critical theory, Film, Holocaust, Human rights, Jurisprudence, Law, Political philosophy, Political theory, Social-legal studies, Sociology
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Room: Bowland North, C62
Office Hour: Thursday 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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