SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

School of Law

Lecturer in Law

Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

Member

Name:

Dr Sarah Keenan

Email address:

sk128@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

0207 898 4652

Address:

SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Office No:

254

Office Hours:

Wednesday 11:30- 13:30

Biography

Sarah Keenan completed a BA(International Relations)/LLB with first class honours at the Australian National University in 2003. She has clerked for Justice Margaret Wilson of the Supreme Court of Queensland, practiced as a solicitor and been part of the Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development program in Beijing, China. Before coming to SOAS Sarah held posts at Oxford Brookes University and at the University of Kent, where she was a member of the AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality.

Sarah's research interests centre around the areas of property, legal geography, post-colonial legal theory and feminist legal theory. She explored each of these areas in her PhD thesis 'Subversive Property: Law and the Production of Spaces of Belonging', and she continues to explore these areas in her post-doctoral work.  Coming from a background as a community lawyer and activist, Sarah is interested in using critical theories to explore law in its many and varied forms and to question how law relates to other forms of governance.

Sarah sits on the editorial boards of Feminist Legal Studies and feministsatlaw.