Staff Profile:Prof. Carl F. Stychin

Name:

Professor Carl Stychin

Job Title:

Professor of Law and Social Theory

Responsibilities:

Postgraduate Research Students Supervised

• Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg 2011- , "Rethinking Discrimination Law: A Feminist and Queer Approach to Discrimination based on Gender, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity"

• Gary Downing, MPhil/PhD 2010- , "Negotiating Youth Transitions and Sexual Identities among Disabled Young People" [joint supervisor with Department of Geography]

• Stuart Davis, MPhil/PhD, 2010- , "Same-Sex Relationship Recognition and European Law"

• Alexandra Dymock, MPhil/PhD, 2010- , "Disgusting Intimacies; Interrogating Abjection, Sexuality and UK Law"

• Anneke Smit (PhD awarded, 2008): "The Limits of Housing and Property Restitution and IDP/Refugee Return" [primary supervisor]

Areas of Interest:

Gender, Sexuality and Law; Political and Social Theory

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

• The Vulnerable Subject of Negligence Law (2012) International Journal of Law in Context (forthcoming 10,000 words).
• "Queer/Euro-Visions", in Sudeep Dasgupta and Mireille Rosello, eds., What's Queer About Europe?, 8000 word commissioned chapter, in production, Fordham University Press, 2012
•  "Unity in Diversity: European Citizenship through the Lens of Popular Culture" (2011) 29 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 1-25.
• Legal Methods and Systems, 4th Edition (with Linda Mulcahy) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2010) "Faith in the Future: Sexuality, Religion and the Public Sphere", (2009), 29 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 729-755
• "Closet Cases: 'Conscientious Objection' to Lesbian and Gay Legal Equality", (2009), 18 Griffith Law Review 17-40, Symposium Issue "Queering the Voice of Law"
• "Faith in Rights: The Struggle Over Same-Sex Adoption in the United Kingdom", (2008), 17 Constitutional Forum Constitutionelle 117-125 
• Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements (co-edited with Vanessa Munro), (2007), Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 317 pp.
• "De-Meaning of Contract", in Vanessa Munro and Carl Stychin, eds., Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements, (2007), Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, pp 73-89
• Legal Method, 3rd edition (with Linda Mulcahy) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2007)
•  "Not (Quite) a Horse and Carriage: The Civil Partnership Act 2004", (2006) 14 Feminist Legal Studies 79-86
• "'Las Vegas is not where we are': Queer Readings of the Civil Partnership Act", (2006) 25 Political Geography 899-920, Special Issue " Geographies of Sexual Citizenship", edited by David Bell and Jon Binnie.
• "Couplings: Civil Partnerships in the United Kingdom", (2005) 8 New York City Law Review 543-572, Special Issue in Honour of Professor Ruthann Robson.
• "Family Friendly?  Rights, Responsibilities and Relationship Recognition", in Alison Diduck and Katherine O'Donovan, eds., Feminist Perspectives on Family Law, Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2006, pp 21-37.
• "Being Gay", (2005) 40 Government and Opposition 90-109, Special Series "The Politics of Identity", edited by Professor Richard Bellamy. 
• "Same-Sex Sexualities and the Globalization of Human Rights Discourse" (2004) 49 McGill Law Journal 951-968
• "Giving Homosexuals their Due Process" (2003) 14 King's College Law Journal 254-266
• Governing Sexuality: The Changing Politics of Citizenship and Law Reform (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2003)



Recent Conference Papers

• Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice Distinguished Lecture entitled "Unity in Diversity: European Citizenship Through the Lens of Popular Culture", Faculty of Laws, University of Windsor, Canada.  September 2010
• Invited Paper entitled "Faith in Rights: Sexual Orientation Anti-Discrimination Law and Religious Objectors", Conscientious Objection Seminar Event, Centre for Law, Ethics and Society, Keele University.  October 2009
• Conference Paper entitled "Faith in Rights: Sexual Orientation and Religious Freedom in the UK", Annual Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand International Conference, University of Sydney. December 2008
• Invited Paper entitled "'Flying the Flag (for you)': The Politics of Citizenship in the Eurovision Song Contest", Legal Intersections Research Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong, Australia. December 2008
• Invited Paper entitled "Faith in Rights: Sexual Orientation and Freedom of Religion in the UK", Faculty of Law Seminar Series, University of Sydney. November 2008
• Invited Paper entitled "Faith in Rights: Sexual Orientation and Religious Freedom in the UK", Justice Michael Kirby Award Ceremony and Colloquium, School of Law, Griffith University, Australia. November 2008
• Invited Paper entitled "'Flying the Flag (for you)': The Politics of Citizenship in the Eurovision Song Contest", Law, Power and Identity Research Group, School of Law, Griffith University, Australia. November 2008
• Invited Paper entitled "'Flying the Flag (for you)': Moments of Citizenship in the Eurovision Song Contest", AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality Seminar, University of Kent at Canterbury. November 2008
• Invited paper entitled "Faith in Rights: The Struggle over Same-Sex Adoption in the United Kingdom", and also invited to act as discussant on a conference panel entitled "Families/values: Politics and the Regulation of Intimate Life: The National Mix: Race, Sex, and the Nation", Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 2008
• Invited paper entiled "De-meaning of Contract", University of Durham, Department of Law Seminar Series, Durham, UK.  October 2006
• Invited to deliver seminar entitled "Sexualities, Globalization and the Nation State", workshop series on "Globalization, Law and Justice", University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, Canada.  October 2005
• Invited paper entitled "De-meaning of Contract", Kent Law School Seminar Series, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.  May 2005
• Invited paper entitled "'Las Vegas is not where we are': Queer Readings of the Civil Partnership Act", University of Toronto Faculty of Law Diversity Workshop Series, Toronto, Canada.  March 2005

Qualifications:

B.A. (Alberta), J.D. (Toronto), LL.M. (Columbia), LL.D. (Reading)

Biographical Details

Professor Stychin joined the School of Law as a professor in 1998, having taught at Keele University as a lecturer (1992-96) and senior lecturer (1996-1998). He was educated in Canada and the United States: University of Alberta (B.A., 1985), University of Toronto (J.D., 1988), and Columbia University in the City of New York (LL.M., 1992).  In 2009, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Reading.  He is a former Head of the School of Law, Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, all at the University of Reading. His primary area of research is the field of gender, sexuality and law. He is currently editor of Social & Legal Studies: An International Journal.

Other Activities

• Lay Member, Qualifications Committee of the Bar Standards Board
• Member, Joint Academic Stage Board of the Bar Standards Board and Solicitors Regulation Authority
• Visiting Professor of Law, Université de Paris X - Nanterre
• Authorisation and Validation Panel Chair, Solicitors Regulation Authority
• Member of the Peer Review College, Arts and Humanities Research Council 
• Advisory Board Member, Centre for Responsibilities, Rights and the Law, University of Sussex
• Visiting Professor of Law, University of Wollongong, Australia, December 2008
• Visiting Parsons Fellow, University of Sydney, November 2008
• Adjunct Professor of Law, Griffith University, Australia, 2009 to date
• Member of the Virtual Research College, Economic and Social Research Council
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Book Series
• Visiting Professor of Law, University of Windsor, Canada, September 2010