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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
Research Areas
Gender, Law
Dr Sarah Beresford LLB (Hons), PhD (Lancaster), FRSA
Lecturer
Bowland North
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YN
Email: Email Hidden
Tel: +44 1524 593166
Affiliations
Centre for Gender and Women's Studies
Centre for Law and Society
Human Rights Forum
Sarah Beresford's research interests focus upon Gender, Sexuality and Law; Family Law and Society; Religion and Law.
PhD Supervision Interests
Sarah Beresford would be happy to receive applications from potential doctoral students in the areas of Family, Gender, Sexuality and Religion.
Current Teaching
Sarah Beresford's current teaching centres around Family, Gender, Sexuality and Religion.
Additional Information
Further Information & Websites
I am a member of;
- Society of Legal Scholars
- Socio-Legal Studies Association
- Ecclesiastical Law Society
- Lesbian & Gay Lawyers 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
2012-2016 ? External Examiner, LLB modules, Middlesex University.
2006-2011 -External Examiner, LLB Employment Law,Law School, University of Central Lancashire
I have peer reviewed articles for The Griffith Law Review and the Alternative law Journal
My Role
I am cuurently the Director of Research for the Law School.
2012
It's Not Me it's You: Law's Performance Anxiety Over Gender Identity in Cohabitation Cases
Beresford, S. 2012 In: Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly. 63, 2, p. 187-200. 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2011
Seeking secularism: resisting religiosity in marriage and divorce. A comparative study of England and America
Beresford, S. 2011 In: Web Journal of Current Legal Issues. n/a, 3, p. n/a.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2009
Review of John Witte, Eliza Ellison and William B. Eerdmans' 'Covenant marriage in comparative perspective'
Beresford, S. 2009 In: Ecclesiastical Law Journal. 11, 1, p. 111-113. 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Abolishing marriage: can civil partnership cover it?
Beresford, S. & Falkus, C. 04/2009 In: Liverpool Law Review. 30, 1, p. 1-12. 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Judging a book by its cover: the deployment (and) unsettling of familial images on family law textbook covers.
Beresford, S. 2009 In: Griffith Law Review. 18, 1, p. 41-55. 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2008
Book review: Alison Diduck and Katherine O'Donovan, eds, Feminist Perspectives on Family Law.
Beresford, S. 04/2008 In: Feminist Theory. 9, 1, p. 122-123. 2 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Guardianship in relation to persons with mental incapacity.
Beresford, S. 2008 In: The New Oxford companion to law. Cane, P. & Conaghan, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 513-514. 2 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Guardianship in relation to children.
Beresford, S. 2008 In: The new Oxford companion to law. Cane, P. & Conaghan, J. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 512-513. 2 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Get Over Your (Legal) 'Self': A Brief History of Lesbians, Motherhood and the Law.
Beresford, S. 06/2008 In: Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 30, 2, p. 95-106. 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2007
Couples deserve better than this.
Beresford, S. & Falkus, C. 13/07/2007 In: Times Higher Education.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
1998
The lesbian mother: questions of gender and sexual identity
Beresford, S. 1998 In: Legal queeries: lesbian, gay and transgender legal studies. Beresford, S., Moran, L. J. & Monk, D. (eds.). London: Cassell, p. 57-67. 11 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Legal queeries: lesbian, gay and transgender legal studies
Beresford, S. (ed.), Moran, L. (ed.) & Monk, D. (ed.) 1998 London: Cassell. 203 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
1996
Femininity, sexuality and identity in law.
Beresford, S. 1996 In: Women, Power and Resistance. Cosslett, T., Easton, A. & Summerfield, P. (eds.). Buckingham: Open University Press, p. 187-196. 10 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
1994
Lesbians in residence and parental responsibility cases
Beresford, S. 1994 In: Family Law. 24, p. 643-645. 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Monograph - 'International Child Relocation Law: Competing Interests; Competing Human Rights'
30/07/2012 → 31/12/2013
Sarah Beresford
International Child Relocation Law will provide a clear, interdisciplinary and socio-legal analysis of the law in an international context with a focus on selected jurisdictions. Whilst there is some ... Read more»Book - Gender, Law, Violence (work in progress)
01/10/2010 → 01/11/2011
Sarah Beresford
A sole authored monograph examining some of the ways in which legal discourse creates gendered identitites. The proposal is currently under consideration by Routledge. It has been peer reviewed. Rou ... Read more»
Law, Religion & Culture Symposium
17/09/2007
The first Law, Religion & Culture Interdisciplinary Symposium was held at Lancaster University Law School on Friday 14th September, and was a great success.Around 30people heard an extremely diver ... Read more»Law, Religion and Society - A One Day Symposium
14/09/2007
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