Epistemic Injustice in the Law
We want to explore how the concept of epistemic injustice can be used to analyze law-making and legal practice, but also socio-legal research itself.
January 10th 2025
13:15 Welcome
13:15 – 14:45
Block 1: Hermeneutical Injustice and Systems of Knowledge
Raghavi Viswanath (SOAS, London) Navigating epistemic injustice as a nomad
Alex Alexis (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Faculté de droit de l'Université de Montréal) Epistemic Injustice and Beyond: Unveiling the Ontological Foundations of Indigenous Legal Claims
Tobias Eule (Universität Bern / Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung) A Topography of Epistemic Struggles in Law. The legal reclaiming of Uluru by the Pitjantjatjara community
Chair: Laura Affolter
15:00 – 16:30
Block 2: Epistemic Injustice in Social and Labour Rights
Francesca Barp (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung) The constraints of the legal form: Of testimonial and hermeneutical injustice in labour struggles of domestic workers calling the law
Shruti Iyer (Center for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford and SOAS, London): Of Surveys, Audits, and Inspections: Between State Knowledge Practices and Workers’ Inquiry in India
Sarah Schulz (Universität Kassel) Dimensions of epistemic injustice in Germany’s Social Law or class in court?
Chair: Tobias Eule
16:45 – 17:45
Block 3: How to do epistemic justice to/through the law in the digital age
Linda Mulcahy & Joseph McAulay (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford) Webs within the web: The role of websites in promoting and hindering access to epistemic justice in the healthcare sector
Mónica Arango Olaya (Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, University of Oxford): Digital feminism and the credibility economy of sexual harassment in India: Between legal and digital accountability?
Chair: Leonie Thies
17:45 – 18:15
Collection and discussion of overarching questions
Chair: Francesca Barp
January 10th 2025
9:15 – 10:45
Block 4: Challenging the hermeneutical and ontological limits of law in gendered societies
Christiane Carri (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland - Valais) Epistemic Injustice and Gendered Incapacitation: Court cases against women in the Weimar Republic
Leonie Thies (Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford) Can there ever be epistemic justice through the criminal legal system? Learning from sexual violence trials in Berlin
Silvana Tapia Tapia (Birmingham Law School) The coloniality of reality: beyond epistemic injustice in critical legal research / Anti-Carceral Activism and imagining justice beyond the law
Chair: Laura Affolter
11:00 – 12:30
Block 5: Court’s production of Knowledge in Times of Wars
Valentin Feneberg (Universität Lüneburg) Knowing countries of origin. The epistemic authority of asylum courts
Dina Bolokan (University of Bath) Conscientious Objection and Deserting in Asylum policies
Nahed Samour (Radboud University Nijmegen): Epistemic Injustice through the Technique of Omission in Times of Genocide
Chair: Tobias Eule
13:30 – 14:30
Block 6: Theorizing the Relationship between Epistemic Injustice and Legal Reason
Kaie Lemken (Bucerius Law School Hamburg) How does legal reasoning produce epistemic injustice?
Hilkje Hänel (Universität Göttingen) From Epistemic Injustice to Epistemic Oppression in the legal make-up of societies
Chair: Francesca Barp
14:30 - 15:00
Small Group Discussions, Closing Remarks and Further Arrangements with Coffee
Chair: Leonie Thies