Dr Jen Hendry

Lecturer in Jurisprudence

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I am a Lecturer in Jurisprudence and the Deputy Director of the Centre for European Law and Legal Studies (CELLS).

I wrote my PhD at the European University Institute on the topic ‘Unitas in Diversitate? On Legal Cultures and the Europeanisation of Law’, then spent 2008/09 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Tilburg Institute for Comparative & Transnational Law (TICOM) at Tilburg University. Prior to my doctorate I studied Law with German at the University of Glasgow, and completed an LLM at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Law & Society.

In summer 2011 I was a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney’s Department of Philosophy.

Scholarly and Research Interests

My principal research interests are in the areas of legal, social and political theory, and in comparative law and legal studies, specifically on the concepts of legal culture and legal pluralism.

I am currently writing on issues of legal translation and transfer, and am involved in an interdisciplinary research network focusing on ‘spaces of indigenous justice’.

I am a member of the editorial board of the German Law Journal.

Teaching

I am the module coordinator for the third year core module Jurisprudence and also for the English Law: System, Context & Methods option. I teach on the English Legal System (ELS) first year module.

PhD Supervision

I am currently supervising a doctoral candidate in the area of European harmonisation, and I am happy to supervise in any of the research areas listed above.

Key Publications

Book Chapters

Hendry, J. (2012) ‘The Double Fragmentation of Law: Legal System-Internal Differentiation and the Europeanization of Law’ In D. Augenstein (ed.) ‘‘Integration Through Law’ Revisited: The Making of the European Polity’, Ashgate

Hendry, J. (with Goodall K., Stirling) ‘Facebook and the Commercialisation of Personal Information: Some Questions of Provider--to--User Privacy’ in M.E.

Goodwin & B-J. Koops (eds.) (2010) Perspectives on Regulating Technologies (Wolf Legal Publishers: Nijmegen)

Journal Articles

Hendry, J. (2008) ‘Governance, Proceduralisation & Justice: Some Challenges to the Legal Paradigm’ in Law & Critique: Special Issue on Governance, Civil Society & Social Movements 19 (3) 345-361

Hendry, J. (2008) ‘“Unity in Diversity”: Questions of (Legal) Culture in the European Union’ Journal of Comparative Law 3 (1) 289-294

Review Essays

Hendry, J. (2008) ‘Review Essay - “Contemporary Comparative Law: Between Theory And Practice” - Review of Esin Örücü & David Nelken’s Comparative Law: A Handbook in German Law Journal 9 (12) 1313-1323