SHORT CV
Didi Herman
Emerita Professor
HIGHER EDUCATION
1985 University of Toronto, B.A. (Sociology)
1989 Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, LL.B.
1993 University of Warwick, U.K., Ph.D. (Sociology)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS HELD
2021 - Emerita Professor, University of Kent, UK
2004 - 2021 Professor of Law & Social Change, University of Kent, UK
1998-2004 Professor of Law & Social Change, Keele University, UK
1992-1998 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Keele University, UK
Major Roles at Kent Law School:
REF Coordinator (2018-2021)
Director of Education (2016-2018)
Head of School (2012 - 2015)
Director of Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences (2011 - 2012)
Director, PhD Programme (2007 - 2009)
Co-Director of Research (2004-2006)
Major Roles at Keele University Law School:
Head of School, Keele University (1999-2002)
Research Director (1998-2000)
PhD Supervision (10 successful completions, all ‘no’ or ‘minor’ revisions)
PUBLICATIONS
(a) Monographs
Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Legal Equality, University of Toronto Press, 192 pp., 1994 [re-printed 1996] (co-winner of SLSA book prize 1995)
The Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right, University of Chicago Press, 242 pp., 1997
Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right's International Activism (with Doris Buss), University of Minnesota Press, 2003, pp.197
An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews and Jewishness in English Law Oxford University Press, 2011, 193 pp., (co-winner of SLSA book prize 2012)
(b) Edited Collections
Legal Inversions: Lesbians, Gay Men and the Politics of Law (co-edited with Carl Stychin), Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 280 pp., 1995
Reflections, New Directions: Gender, Sexuality, and Law - a special issue of Social and Legal Studies (co-edited with Noel Whitty and Michael Thomson), 8(3), 1999
Sexuality in the Legal Arena/Law and Sexuality (co-edited with Carl Stychin) (Athlone Press/University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
Intersectionality and Beyond (co-edited with Emily Grabham, Davina Cooper, Jane Krishnadas) (Routledge/Cavendish, 2009)
Interdisciplinarities: Research Process, Method and the Body of Law (co-edited with Connal Parsley) (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2022)
(c) Articles in Refereed Journals
'Legal Education, Feminism, and the "Well-Intentioned Man"', Journal of Legal Education, 40, 257-260, 1990.
'Are We Family? Lesbian Rights and Women's Liberation', Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 28, 789-815, 1990. Re-printed in T. B. Dawson, ed. Women, Law and Social Change: Core Readings and Current Issues (Toronto: Captus Press, 1991, 1993), pp.410-418.
'Getting the Family 'Right': Legislating Heterosexuality in Britain, 1986-1990' [with Davina Cooper], Canadian Journal of Family Law, 10, 41-78, 1991. Revised and re-printed in D. Herman and C. Stychin, eds. Legal Inversions: Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Politics of Law (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), pp. 162-179.
'Beyond the Rights Debate', Social and Legal Studies, 2, 25-43, 1993.
'A Jurisprudence of One's Own?', Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 7, 509-522, 1994. Re-printed in A. Wilson, ed. A Simple Matter of Justice? (London: Cassells, 1995), pp.176-192.
'The Good, the Bad, and the Smugly: Perspectives on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 14, 589-604, 1994. Re-printed in D. Schneiderman and K. Sutherland, eds. Charting the Consequences (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997).
'Law and Morality Re-visited: The Politics of Regulating Sado-Masochistic Pornography and Practice', Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 15, 147-166, 1996.
'(Il)legitimate Minorities: The American Christian Right's Antigay Rights Discourse', Journal of Law and Society, 23, 346-363, 1996.
'Anarchic Armadas, Brussels Bureaucrats, and the Valiant Maple Leaf: Constructing British Nationhood Through the Canada-Spain Fish War' (with Davina Cooper), Legal Studies, 17, 415-33, 1997.
'Jews and Other Uncertainties: Race, Faith, and English Law' (with Davina Cooper), Legal Studies, 19, 339-366, 1999.
'The New Roman Empire: European Visions and American Premillennialists', Journal of American Studies, 34, 23-40, 2000.
'Globalism's Siren Song: The United Nations and International Law in Christian Right Thought and Prophecy', Sociological Review, 49, 56-77, 2001.
‘”Bad Girls Changed My Life”: Homonormativity in a Women’s Prison Drama’, Critical Studies in Media Communication, 20, 141-159, 2003.
‘”I’m Gay”: Declarations and Desire on Prime-Time TV’, Sexualities, 8, 7-29, 2005.
‘”An Unfortunate Coincidence”: Jews and Jewishness in English Judicial Discourse’, Journal of Law & Society, 33, 277-301, 2006.
‘“I do not attach great significance to it”: Taking note of the Holocaust in English Case Law, Social & Legal Studies, 17(4), 427-452, 2008.
“It is Difficult for a White Judge to Understand”: Orientalism, Racialisation, and Christianity in English Child Welfare Cases’ (with Suhraiya Jivraj), Child and Family Law Quarterly, 21, 283-308, 2009.
‘The Wandering Jew Has No Nation’: Jewishness and Race Relations Law’, Jewish Culture and History, 12, 131-157, 2010.
‘Hopeless cases: race, racism and the “vexatious litigant”’, Intl. J. of L. in Context, 8, 27-46, 2012.
‘Up against the property logic of equality law: Conservative Christian accommodation claims and gay rights’ (with Davina Cooper), Feminist Legal Studies, 21, 61-80, 2013.
‘Doing activism like a state: Progressive municipal government, Israel/ Palestine and BDS’ (with Davina Cooper), Environment and Planning C, 38, 40-59, 2020.
(d) Invited Papers/Chapters in Books/Review Essays
'"Sociologically Speaking": Truth, Meaning, and the Legal Process', Journal of Human Justice, 2, 57-76, 1991. Re-printed in D. Currie and B. Maclean, eds. Re-thinking the Administration of Justice (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1992), pp.150-168.
'The Politics of Law Reform: Rights Struggles into the 90s' in J. Bristow and A. Wilson, eds. Activating Theory (London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1993), 245-262.
'The Christian Right and the Politics of Morality in Canada', Parliamentary Affairs, 47, 268-279, 1994.
'Review Essay: Charter Politics and The Hollow Hope', Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 9, 181-190, 1994.
'"And Then I Saw a New Heaven and a New Earth": Thoughts on the Christian Right and the Problem of 'Backlash', in L. Roman and L. Eyre, eds. Dangerous Territories: The Backlash Against Education (New York: Routledge, 1997), 63-74.
"The Gay Agenda is the Devil's Agenda: The Christian Right's Vision and the Role of the State", in C. Rimmerman, K. Wald, and C. Wilcox eds. The Politics of Gay Rights (University of Chicago, 2000), 139-160.
‘”Juliet and Juliet Would Be More My Cup of Tea”: Law, Sexuality, and Popular Culture’, in M. Freeman, ed. Law and Popular Culture (Oxford University Press, 2005)
‘The Wandering Jew Has No Nation’: Jewishness and Race Relations Law’, in H. Ewance and T. Kushner, eds. Whatever Happened to British Jewish Studies? (London: Valentine Mitchell, 2010).
‘Christian Israel’, in D. Cooper, D. Nikita and J. Newman, eds. Re-Imagining the State: theoretical challenges and transformative possibilities. (Routledge, 2019), 114-132.
MANUSCRIPT/JOURNAL/FUNDING APPLICATION REFEREEING
Oxford University Press; University of Michigan Press; Cambridge University Press; University of Chicago Press; Sexualities; Journal of Law and Society; Legal Studies; Feminist Theory; Feminist Legal Studies; Social & Legal Studies; Canadian J of Law and Society; Osgoode Hall Law Journal; The Nuffield Foundation; City University of New York; Hong Kong University; ESRC; AHRC