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Dr Piyel Haldar

Positions held:
  • Reader in Law, 糖心logo入口 Law School
  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    Dr Piyel Haldar, LLB (Mddx), PhD (Lond) joined the full-time staff of the Department as a Lecturer in Law from Lancaster University in 1994 and is now a Senior Lecturer.

    He聽was a managing editor of until 2013 and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of聽Law and Humanities.

  • Research

    Research

    Research overview

    Dr Haldar specialises in colonial history and post-colonial theory.

    He recently published a monograph entitled聽Law, Orientalism and Postcolonialism: The Jurisdiction of the Lotus-Eaters. In general synoptic terms, the book assesses the effect of orientalism on the construction of colonial legality, and vice-versa. Attention is paid to the way in which orientalist writings from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries were obsessed with the image of despotism as a symptom of excess enjoyment. Travel writing from this period laid out a sort of template according to which later philosophers and jurists were able to differentiate between despotic and non-despotic forms of decision making. Subsequent chapters in the book examine the manner in which British lawyers in eighteenth century India attempted to make use of oriental and despotic ideas of justice in calculating a legal system specifically tailored to suit the needs of the East India Company. A concluding chapter argues that these obsessions with oriental leadership skills did not dissolve when the utilitarians attempted to reform the Indian legal system during the later part of the nineteenth century.

    His PhD thesis was on the law of Evidence and Aesthetics, entitled聽Testimony and the Law of Evidence and the Aesthetics of Courtroom Architecture. Previous research topics have also included the history of rhetoric and court room architecture.

    Piyel is one of the managing editors of .

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Teaching

    Teaching modules

    • Law of the Trial
    • Evidence (Level 6)
    • Reading the Law
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Haldar, Piyel (2016) . Polemos 10 (2), pp. 311-327. ISSN 2035-5262.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2016) . Law and Humanities 10 (2), pp. 281-299. ISSN 1752-1483.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2013) . Law and Humanities 7 (2), pp. 129-150. ISSN 1752-1483.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2012) . Divus Thomas 115 (2), pp. 382-401. ISSN 0012-4257.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2011) . International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 24 (3), pp. 291-306. ISSN 0952-8059.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2010) . Canadian Journal of Law and Society 25 (10), pp. 227-236. ISSN 0829-3201.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2009) . Law and Humanities 3 (1), pp. 71-85. ISSN 1752-1483.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2008) . Parallax 14 (4), pp. 101-113. ISSN 1353-4645.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2008) . German Law Journal 9 (3), pp. 285-308. ISSN 2071-8322.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2008) . Law, Culture and the Humanities 4 (2), pp. 139-155. ISSN 1743-8721.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2007) . Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 58 (2), pp. 229-243. ISSN 0029-3105.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2007) . Social and Legal Studies 16 (4), pp. 573-590. ISSN 0964-6639.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2007) . Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly ISSN 0029-3105.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2004) . Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 87-112. ISSN 0263-323X.
    • Haldar, Piyel (1999) . Journal of Social Change and Critical Inquiry ISSN 1443-2161.
    • Haldar, Piyel (1999) . Studies in Law, Politics and Societies 19, ISSN 1059-4337.
    • Haldar, Piyel (1999) . Griffith Law Review 8 (1), ISSN 1038-3441.
    • Haldar, Piyel (1996) . Law and Critique 7 (1), pp. 85-97. ISSN 0957-8536.

    Book

    • Haldar, Piyel (2007) . Discourses of Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415962247.

    Book review

    • Haldar, Piyel (2000) .
    • Haldar, Piyel (1997) .
    • Haldar, Piyel (1996) .

    Book section

    • Haldar, Piyel (2027) . In: Kamiloglu, O. and Sharma, K. (eds.) The Courtroom on Camera; Visions of Justice. Discourses of Law. London, UK: Routeledge. ISBN 9781041016953. (In Press)
    • Haldar, Piyel (2026) . In: Goodrich, P. and Kimmel, A.J. and Meyler, B. (eds.) Performing Law: Actors, Affects, Spaces. Cambridge University Press. pp. 77-96. ISBN 9781009674201.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2019) . In: Watt, G. (ed.) A Cultural History of Law. The Cultural Histories Series. London, UK: Bloomsbury. pp. 99-120. ISSN 9781474212854. ISBN 9781474212854.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2016) . In: Behrmann, C. (ed.) Images of Shame: Infamy, Defamation and the Ethics of Oeconomia. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter. pp. 239-264. ISBN 9783110312270.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2013) . In: Otomo, Y. and Mussawir, E. (eds.) Law and the Question of the Animal: A Critical Jurisprudence. Law, Justice and Ecology. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 35-54. ISBN 9780415683500.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2011) . In: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (ed.) Law and Ecology: New Environmental Foundations. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415587136.
    • Haldar, Piyel (2006) . In: Mcveigh, S. (ed.) Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 238-255. ISBN 9781138992863.
    • Haldar, Piyel (1999) . In: Douzinas, Costas and Nead, Lynda (eds.) Law and the Image: The Authority of Art and the Aesthetics of Law. Chicago, USA: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226569543.
    • Haldar, Piyel (1998) . In: Ernst, W. and Vismann, C. (eds.) Gesschichtskorper: Zur Aktualitat von Ernst H. Kantorwicz. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Fink Verlag. pp. 145-159. ISBN 9783770531769.
    • Haldar, Piyel (1998) . In: Rush, P. and McVeigh, S. and Young, A. (eds.) Criminal Legal Doctrine. Dartmouth Publishing. pp. 104-126. ISBN 9781855219694.
    • Haldar, Piyel (1996) . In: Bentley, L. and Flynn, L. (eds.) Law and the Senses: Sensational Jurisprudence. London, UK: Pluto Press. pp. 123-136. ISBN 9780745310695.

    Conference item

    • Haldar, Piyel (2002) . Jurisdictions, 2002, Griffith University
    • Haldar, Piyel (2002) . Staff Seminar, 2002, Faculty of Law, Griffith University
    • Haldar, Piyel (2002) . Studies in nineteenth century law and literature, 2002, University of London
    • Haldar, Piyel (1999) . Gender and Testimonial culture, 1999, Lancaster University
    • Haldar, Piyel (1999) . Critical Legal Conference, 1999, 糖心logo入口 College, University of London, London, UK
    • Haldar, Piyel (1999) . Law and Culture Seminar Series, 1999, 糖心logo入口 College, University of London, London, UK