Clare Williams is a Lecturer in law at Kent Law School. Her research interests are at the interface of law, economy, and society. In particular, her work on Economic Sociology of Law suggests that if we want to respond more innovatively to the financial crashes, social crises, and environmental catastrophes facing us all, we need alternative ways of doing, talking, and thinking about legal and economic phenomena. Her book An Economic Sociology of Law: Beyond Embeddedness (Routledge, 2022) takes a deep dive into the impact of one metaphor on our legal and economic lives: embeddedness.
She studied at LSE, UCL, and SOAS (PhD, 2019) and was awarded an ESRC-SeNSS Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in 2020 before joining Kent Law School as a Lecturer in 2023.
Her current research applies Law and Political Economy perspectives to disability to develop a theory of Ability Capitalism. This work builds on a project with Dr Flora Renz (KLS) exploring the experiences of disabled workers during the pandemic, asking if we glimpsed disability inclusion best practice through remote working. Her research also queries how Legal Design can help us think and communicate more effectively.
Clare convenes the Public Law 2 module at Stage 2 and the Dissertation modules at Stage 3, and welcomes enquiries from students interested in pursuing their own research projects in areas aligning with her research.
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