Staff Profile:Dr Martha-Marie Kleinhans

Name:

Dr Martha-Marie Kleinhans

Job Title:

Vice-Provost (Academic), Rm 203 HumSS

Responsibilities:

Dr Martha-Marie Kleinhans has been at the School of Law since September 2002

Her pioneering work in teaching and learning has been recognized by her having been shortlisted for the prestigious UK Law Teacher of the Year Award 2009. University-wide recognition of the work she does is evident in the awards and opportunities she has received, most recently by the award of a University Teaching Fellowship  and her promotion to Faculty Director of Teaching & Learning of Social Sciences.
Postgraduate Research Students Supervised:-

• Amy Jackson (2008-  ), Ph.D., Pluralistic Interpretations of International Law
  
• Tim Moorhead (2006-  ), co-supervised with C. Hilson, Ph.D., EU Citizenship and the non-discrimination principle
  
• Cathy Hughes (2006-  ), part-time, Ph.D., Relational Contracting in Commercial Property Leasing
  Peter Orji (2005-  ), Ph.D., The Evolution of Regulatory Framework for E-Commerce: Metamorphosis of Traditional Principles

She has been involved in teaching on the following courses:

• LL.B: Jurisprudence, Company Law, Contract Law
• LL.M: Research Methods
• Non-LL.B: General Introduction to Law, Introduction to Business Law

Areas of Interest:

Researches in the following areas:

• Political and Social Theory
• Narrativity Studies and Literary Theory
• Subjectivity and Identity Constructs
• Comparative Law

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

• "Hybridizing French (C)ivil Law Through Trans-Atlantic Migration" (Jan 2008) 5:1 Atlantic Studies, pp. 119-133.
• "Rewriting "Outsider" Narratives: A Renaissance of Revolutionary Subjectivities" (Oct 2007) 2:1 Charleston Law Review, pp. 101-130.
• "Pluralistic Considerations of National Belonging" (Dec 2006) 57:4 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, pp. 634-653.
• (ed.) Pluralizing Theoretical Discourses of Law, special issue of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly (Dec 2006, 57:4.
• "Tales of Belonging through Citizenship: Une histoire québecoise" (2005) in C. Morgan and C. Rolfe (eds.) Focus on Quebec 3: Essays on Quebecois Society & Culture (Edinburgh: BACS), pp. 30-38.
• "Comparative Law and Legal Method" (2003) in C. Stychin and L. Mulcahy, Legal Method [:] Text and Materials, 2nd ed. (London: Sweet & Maxwell).
• "Criminal Justice Approaches to Paedophilic Sex Offenders" (2002) 29:2 Social & Legal Studies.
• "A Particular Reconception of Normativity" (1999) 15:1 Philosophical Fragments.
• "What is a Critical Legal Pluralism?" with Roderick A. Macdonald (1997) 12:2 Canadian Journal of Law & Society.
• "Review of Legal Polycentricity: Consequences of Pluralism in Law, H. Petersen & H. Zahle(eds.)" (1997) 24:4 Social & Legal Studies.
• "The Moral Responsibility of the Intoxicated Agent" (1995) 11:1 Philosophical Fragments.

Recent Conference Papers:

• "Women, Property and Markets: the case of Salomon v. Salomon," American Law & Society Association Annual Conference (Denver, USA) May 2009
• "Developing School Portals on Blackboard: Opportunities and Challenges," Blackboard Europe Conference (Manchester, England) April 2008
• "Aspiring to Alternatives: Negotiating Normative Plurality," American Law & Society Association Annual Conference (Montreal, Quebec) May 2008
• "Corporate Politics & Identity: Berlin's Holocaust Memorial & Degussa AG," American Law & Society Association Annual Conference (Berlin, Germany) July 2007
• "The Angelic Time of the Legal Person," Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality, Westminster Univ. (London, England) February 2007 (invited/funded paper for conference entitled Liquid Lives, Wholesome Selves)
• "Sexualising State Politics: The Metaphors and Affective Dimension of the Nation-State and Beyond," Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality, Univ. of Kent(Canterbury, England) June 2006 (invited/funded paper for conference entitled Revisiting Governing from Feminist and Queer Perspectives)
• "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Theory: Legal Pluralism & Storytelling," Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality, Westminster Univ. (London, England) April 2006 (invited/funded paper for workshop)

Qualifications:

LL.B (McGill)
B.C.L. (McGill)
PhD (University of London)

Biographical Details:-

Dr. Kleinhans joined the School of Law as a lecturer at the University of Reading in 2002, becoming a senior lecturer in 2007. Educated in Quebec and the United States, she brings a diverse personal and juridical background to her research. She came from a previous career in film and community radio. Her primary area of research explores issues of legal identity and subjectivity. Her Ph.D., from the University of London, reconceptualised the nature of the legal subject in contemporary law by developing the insights of legal pluralism and narrative theory.