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Prof Adam Gearey

Positions held:
  • Professor of Law, 糖心logo入口 Law School
  • Overview

    Overview

    Highlights

    • Adam Gearey has been a visiting professor in the Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Uganda, and the University of Pretoria. He has also been a visiting scholar at The Center for Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley and a visiting professor at the University of Peace, Costa Rica.

      Professor Gearey is also active in teaching on the external law degree offered by the University of London's International Programme. He teaches jurisprudence for the School of Professional and Continuing Education at the University of Hong Kong.

    Web profiles

    Administrative responsibilities

    • Assistant Dean for Recruitment
  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    Professor Gearey聽 has completed two British Academy-funded projects.

    A collection of essays, co-edited with Marinos Diamantides on Islam and Identity, focusing on recent debates about the nature of secular and sacred law and on breaking down the crude opposition of a monolithic, pre-modern Islam and post-modern politics. See聽Islam, Law and Identity聽with Marinos Diamantides (London: Glasshouse, 2010).

    An engagement with critical legal studies and forms of radical legal thought in the United States. See 鈥淲.E.B. Du Bois鈥 Ambiguous Politics of Liberation鈥 (2012)聽Columbia Journal of Race and Law聽(1) and 'Change is Gonna Come鈥: Critical Legal Studies and the Legacies of the New Left' (2013)聽Law and Critique聽24(3). Other engagements with critical legal studies and its legacies include 'The parable of Bill Ayers: comic, allegory and critical legal thinking. In: Giddens, T. (ed.) Critical Directions in Comics Studies. University Press of Mississippi, 2020.

    His most recent book is Poverty Law and Legal Activism (London: Routledge, 2018)- and publications are forthcoming on anti-archives, William Stringfellow, ditches and critical theory as an art of notice.聽

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Trusts Law
    • Legal Argument
    • Jurisprudence and Legal Theory
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Gearey, Adam (2025) . Law and Literature ISSN 1535-685X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2024) . Law, Culture and the Humanities ISSN 1743-8721.
    • Gearey, Adam (2023) . Legalities 3 (1), pp. 22-43. ISSN 2634-3770.
    • Gearey, Adam (2021) . Law and Critique 32 (2), pp. 147-152. ISSN 0957-8536.
    • Gearey, Adam (2017) . Slavonica 22 (1-2), pp. 68-70. ISSN 1361-7427.
    • Gearey, Adam (2017) . Law & Literature 29 (3), pp. 405-423. ISSN 1535-685X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2017) . Polemos 11 (1), pp. 55-72. ISSN 2035-5262.
    • Gearey, Adam (2016) . Journal of Law and Society 43 (1), pp. 1-165. ISSN 0263-323X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2015) . Journal of Law and Society 42 (4), pp. 660-663. ISSN 0263-323X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2015) . Australian Feminist Law Journal 41 (1), pp. 161-176. ISSN 1320-0968.
    • Gearey, Adam (2013) . Law, Culture and the Humanities 11 (3), pp. 340-348. ISSN 1743-8721.
    • Gearey, Adam (2013) . Law and Critique 24 (3), pp. 211-227. ISSN 0957-8536.
    • Gearey, Adam (2012) . Columbia Journal of Race and Law 1 (3), pp. 265-272. ISSN 2155-2401.
    • Gearey, Adam (2007) . Law and Literature 19 (3), pp. 377-400. ISSN 1535-685X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . Cardozo Law Review 27 (2), pp. 767-789. ISSN 0270-5192.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . Cardozo Law Review 27 (2), pp. 101-122. ISSN 0270-5192.
    • Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) . Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 1-2. ISSN 0263-323X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2004) . Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 38-59. ISSN 0263-323X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2004) . The Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 38-59. ISSN 1467-6478.
    • Gearey, Adam (2004) . Studies in Law, Politics and Society 33, pp. 3-23. ISSN 1059-4337.
    • Gearey, Adam (2003) . Cardozo Law Review ISSN 0270-5192.
    • Gearey, Adam (2001) . Liverpool Law Review: A Journal of Contemporary Legal and Social Policy 23, pp. 199-209. ISSN 0144-932X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2001) . Liverpool Law Review: A Journal of Contemporary Legal and Social Policy 23 (2), pp. 123-130. ISSN 0144-932X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2001) . Griffith Law Review 10 (2), pp. 53-75. ISSN 1038-3441.
    • Gearey, Adam (2000) . Law and Critique 1, pp. 167-184. ISSN 0957-8536.
    • Gearey, Adam (2000) . Law Text Culture 5 (1), pp. 1-19. ISSN 1322-9060.
    • Gearey, Adam (1999) . Cardozo Law Review 20, pp. 1401-1422. ISSN 0270-5192.
    • Gearey, Adam Freeman, M.D.A. and Lewis, A., eds. (1998) . Feminist Legal Studies 6 (1), pp. 121-133. ISSN 0966-3622.
    • Gearey, Adam (1998) . Australian Feminist Law Journal 10 (1), pp. 61-83. ISSN 1320-0968.
    • Gearey, Adam (1997) . Law and Critique 8 (2), pp. 245-267. ISSN 0957-8536.

    Book

    • Gearey, Adam (2018) . Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138556058.
    • Gearey, Adam and Jago, R. and Morrison, W. (2013) . Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415662369.
    • Gearey, Adam (2012) . London, UK: Continuum. ISBN 9781441184412.
    • Diamantides, Marinos and Gearey, Adam Diamantides, Marinos and Gearey, Adam, eds. (2011) . Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415566810.
    • Douzinas, Costas and Gearey, Adam (2005) . London, UK: Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781841134529.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9780742538030.
    • Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph, eds. (2004) . Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
    • Gearey, Adam (2001) . Legal Theory Today. Oxford, UK: Hart Publications. ISBN 9781841132433.

    Book review

    • Gearey, Adam (1997) .

    Book section

    • Gearey, Adam (2024) . In: Piska, N. and Gibson, H. (eds.) Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell. Counterpress. ISBN 9781910761243.
    • Gearey, Adam (2022) . In: Goodrich, P. and Gandorfer, D. and Gebruers, C. (eds.) Research Handbook on Law and Literature. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 438-452. ISBN 9781839102257.
    • Gearey, Adam (2022) . In: Hanna, A. and McNulty, E. (eds.) Law and Literature: The Irish Case. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press. pp. 45-58. ISBN 9781802077018.
    • Gearey, Adam (2020) . In: Giddens, T. (ed.) Critical Directions in Comics Studies. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496828996.
    • Gearey, Adam (2017) . In: Turner, B.S. and Kyung-Sup, C. and Epstein, C.F. and Kivisto, P. and Ryan, J.M. and Outhwaite, W. (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118430873.
    • Gearey, Adam (2013) . In: Desutter, L. (ed.) Althusser and Law. Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415517188.
    • Gearey, Adam (2013) . In: de Sutter, L. (ed.) Althusser and Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415816045.
    • Gearey, Adam (2011) . In: Diamantides, Marinos and Gearey, Adam (eds.) Islam, Law and Identity. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415566810.
    • Gearey, Adam (2011) . In: Ben-Dor, O. (ed.) Law and Art: Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415560214.
    • Diamantides, Marinos (2011) . In: Diamantides, Marinos and Gearey, Adam (eds.) Islam, Law and Identity. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 49-67. ISBN 9780415566810.
    • Gearey, Adam (2008) . In: Gearey, Adam and Jago, R. and Morrison, W. (eds.) The Politics of the Common Law: Perspectives, Rights, Processes, Institutions. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge-Cavendish. pp. 229-247. ISBN 9780415481533.
    • Gearey, Adam (2008) . In: Goodrich, P. and Hoffmann, F. and Rosenfeld, M. and Vismann, C. (eds.) Derrida and Legal Philosophy. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230573611.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . In: Douzinas, Costas and Gearey, Adam (eds.) Critical Jurisprudence: The Political Philosophy of Justice. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing. pp. 229-258. ISBN 184113452X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . In: Douzinas, Costas and Gearey, Adam (eds.) Critical Jurisprudence: The Political Philosophy of Justice. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing. pp. 283-302. ISBN 184113452X.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . In: Mulcahy, Linda and Wheeler, Sally (eds.) Feminist Perspectives on Contract Law. London, UK: Routledge-Cavendish. pp. 91-107. ISBN 978-1-85941-742-3.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . In: Freeman, M. (ed.) Law and Popular Culture. Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 273-290. ISBN 978-0-19-927223-5.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . In: Goodrich, P. and Valverde, M. (eds.) Nietzsche and Legal Theory: Half-Written Laws. Discourses of Law. Oxon: Routledge. pp. 165-184. ISBN 9780415950800.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . In: Mulcahy, L. and Wheeler, S. (eds.) Feminist Perspectives On Contract Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 91-106. ISBN 9781859417423.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . In: Carpi, D. (ed.) Renaissance Property Law. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang Publisher. ISBN 9783631541333.
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . In: Mulcahy, L. and Wheeler, S. (eds.) Feminist Perspectives On Contract Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781859417423.
    • Gearey, Adam (2004) . In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell. pp. 38-60. ISBN 9781405119306.
    • Hanafin, Patrick (2004) . In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
    • Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) . In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
    • Gearey, Adam (1999) . In: Millns, S. and Whitty, N. (eds.) Feminist Perspectives in Public Law. Cavendish Press. pp. 129-149. ISBN 9781859414804.
    • Gearey, Adam (1999) . In: Manderson, D. (ed.) Courting Death: The Law of Mortality. Law and Social Theory. London, UK: Pluto Press. pp. 194-216. ISBN 9780745313610.
    • Gearey, Adam (1999) . In: Tadros, V. and Douglas-Scott, S. and Oliver, P. (eds.) Faith in Law. London, UK: Hart Press. pp. 53-69. ISBN 9781901362954.

    Conference item

    • Gearey, Adam (2014) . Critical Legal Conference, 2014, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
    • Gearey, Adam (2014) . Critical Legal Conference, 2014, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
    • Gearey, Adam (2008) . Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2008, University of Berkeley, California, USA
    • Gearey, Adam (2007) . Social and Political Thought Seminar, 2007, Warwick Social Theory Centre, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
    • Gearey, Adam (2007) . Law and literature, 2007, Swansea University
    • Gearey, Adam (2007) . Hegel, property and equity, 2007, University of Verona, Italy
    • Gearey, Adam (2007) . The law and the Logos, 2007, University of Trieste, Italy
    • Gearey, Adam (2007) . Pleasure tripper: B.S. Johnson and the economy of writing, 2007, University of Glasgow
    • Gearey, Adam (2007) . Religion, rights and the common law, 2007, American University in Cairo, Egypt
    • Gearey, Adam (2006) . Levinas and the ethics of the common, 2006, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Gearey, Adam (2006) . Critical legal theory and education, 2006, Harvard University
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . Derrida/America: The Present State of America's Europe, 2005, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, New York, USA
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . Faculty Seminar, 2005, Swansea University
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . Poetry and sovereignty, 2005, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
    • Gearey, Adam (2005) . Ubuntu and African philosophy, 2005, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Gearey, Adam (2004) . The law in Finnegans Wake, 2004, Regents College, Oxford University
    • Gearey, Adam (2004) . Jean Coffin Memorial Lecture, 2004, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
    • Gearey, Adam (2004) . Critical race theory in the United Kingdom, 2004, University of Pretoria, South Africa
    • Gearey, Adam (2004) . Christopher Okigbo and sovereignty, 2004, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town
    • Gearey, Adam (2004) . The poetics of truth and reconciliation, 2004, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa
    • Gearey, Adam (2003) . Law and Popular Culture, 2003, University College, London
    • Gearey, Adam (2003) . Staff Seminar, 2003, University of Westminster, London
    • Gearey, Adam (2003) . Il Dritto Patrimoniale Nella Letteratura Del Rinascimento, 2003, University of Verona, Italy
    • Gearey, Adam (2003) . The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998, 2003, Singapore Institute of Commerce, Singapore
    • Gearey, Adam (2003) . Lurcy Public Lecture, 2003, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
    • Gearey, Adam (2002) . Nietzsche and legal theory, 2002, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, New York, USA
    • Gearey, Adam (2002) . International Alert Guest Lecture, 2002, Sochi, Russia

    Editorial

    • Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) . Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 1-2. Wiley. ISSN 0263-323X.

    Monograph

    • Gearey, Adam (2009) . London, UK: 糖心logo入口 College, University of London.