The Socio-Legal Dynamics of Financial Markets
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About the event
This workshop is being run as a companion event to the Wolfson College inaugural Adams lecture which is being given by Dr Gillian Tett on the same day (details below). The workshop is designed to provide us with an opportunity to take an in-depth look at the ways in which political economy frames the research questions we pose and the experiences of those we research in the field of socio-legal studies. Drawing on the work of law and political economy scholars, each of the papers presented focus on empirical studies of the role that law and market capitalism play in the construction and persistence of private power and injustice.
Places at this event are limited. In order to book a place, please complete this form.
The programme for the workshop is as follows.
| 9.30-9.45 | Coffee and pastries |
| Session One chaired by Linda Mulcahy | |
| 9.45-10.15 | Francesca Barp, Bern University I Can't Retire Because I Owe": A Socio-Legal Analysis of Informality and Debtfare for Domestic Workers in Argentina. |
| 10.15-10.45 | Discussion |
| Session Two chaired by Professor Fernanda Pirie | |
| 10.45-11.15 | Dr Garima Jaju, Kings College London Money flows and mis-flows: gender, kinship and intimate speculations in India |
| 11.15-11.30 | Session Three chaired by Kebene Wodajo |
| 11.30-12 | Professor Linda Mulcahy and Matt Nesvet, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Oxford Between Precarity and Volatility: How the free legal advice sector became a thing of the market |
| 12-12.30 | Discussion and close |
Dr Gillian Tett will deliver the inaugural Adams Lecture, Social Silence: What We Are Not Talking About in Today’s Political Economy, from 6–7pm on 11 June 2026 in the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College. No booking is required.