Legal Empowerment in Practice: What People Know About the Law?

Type: 
Lecture
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 15
Room: 
106
Thursday, February 2, 2017 - 3:30pm
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Date: 
Thursday, February 2, 2017 - 3:30pm

The Department of Legal Studies cordially invites you to the

Legal Empowerment in Practice: What People Know About the Law?

lecture by

Sahar Maranlou (PhD, Warwick)

Description of the presentation:  At a time when extensive social and political shifts are unfolding across the World especially the Middle East, access to justice and legal empowerment of individuals are of significant importance.   While there is no singular meaning of legal ‘empowerment’ across the globe, including the Muslim world, this concept has nonetheless been associated with various terms such as knowledge about the law and legal system, agency, self-confidence, participation and trust in the Justice system.  This presentation provides a brief definition of legal empowerment and focuses on public knowledge and perceptions of law. It presents finding of several survey studies in Iran and the UK. This is to understand public legal knowledge, sources of legal information and their trust in judicial mechanisms of dispute resolution. It also summarises some of the most practiced polices of legal empowerment across the world. 

Bio: Sahar Maranlou (CEU Alumna, 2004/2005, HR MA) is the author of Access to Justice in Iran: Women, Perceptions and Reality published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. She is a Postdoctoral Research Officer in the Modern Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. She has written extensively on topics such justice, law and society, empowerment and has taught  at the University Warwick and the University of Brunel in the UK.