Queering Private Law

Private law presents itself as neutral and technical, a body of rules that simply reflects how the world is. But its foundational concepts carry assumptions about whose relationships, identities, and lives count as normal. This conference brings queer theory into conversation with private law, asking what is revealed when we take those assumptions seriously and refuse to treat them as inevitable. It gathers scholars committed to exposing the heteronormative and cisnormative underpinnings of private law doctrine, and to asking how queer theory can transform private law and our assumptions about it.

Keynote Speakers include:

• Professor Darren Rosenblum (McGill Law University),
• Professor Sonia Katyal (UC Berkeley Law),
• Nicholas Allen KC (Deputy High Court Judge, 29 Bedford Row Chambers).

About the Organisers:

This conference is co-led by Haim Abraham (UCL), Niamh Connolly (UCL) Philip Gavin (UCL), Andrew Gilden (Southwestern Law School), Michael Goodyear (New York Law School), and Eden Sarid (King's College London) with funding from BA/Leverhulme Trust and UCL Faculty of Laws.

For more information on the Queering Private Law Project, please visit: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/queering-private-law