RALEIGH, N.C. – Campbell Law School Associate Professor Kevin Lee and Assistant Professor Amos Jones will present on separate topics at the Law & Society Association’s annual meeting on Friday, May 29 in Seattle, Washington. Lee will offer “Cognitive Substance and Political Discourse: Embodied Cognition and the Habermasian View of Political Discourse,” while Jones will present “Foundationalist Epistemologies: From ‘Religion and Law’ to ‘Theology and Legal Systems.’”
A multidimensional legal scholar and teacher with advanced degrees in Christian ethics, religious studies, and philosophy, Lee couples his long-standing interest in the phenomenon of human religiousness with an interest in the emerging networked, globalized society. This will mark Lee’s second consecutive appearance at the Law & Society Association’s annual meeting following a presentation on phenomenology and political liberalism a year ago.
Jones graduated with honors in political science from Emory University, where he was a Harry S. Truman Scholar and a National Merit Scholar, earned his Master of Science from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as an executive editor of both the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal and the Harvard Human Rights Journal and was President of Direct Action. While at Harvard, he was awarded a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarship, on which he spent his first year out of law school as a visiting scholar in the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Australia’s University of Melbourne.
The Law & Society Association is an interdisciplinary scholarly organization committed to social scientific, interpretive, and historical analyses of law across multiple social contexts. For sociolegal scholars, law is not only the words of official documents. Law also can be found in the diverse understandings and practices of people interacting within domains that law governs, in the claims that people make for legal redress of injustices, and in the coercive power exercised to enforce lawful order. Sociolegal scholars also address evasions of law, resistance and defiance toward law, and alternatives to law in structuring social relations.
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