Prof Adam Gearey

Positions held:

Professor of Law, Birkbeck 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
- Twitter
Administrative responsibilities
- Assistant Dean for Recruitment
Research

Research

Research overview

Professor Gearey 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 Islam, Law and Identity with Marinos Diamantides (London: Glasshouse, 2010).
An engagement with critical legal studies and forms of radical legal thought in the United States. See “W.E.B. Du Bois’ Ambiguous Politics of Liberation” (2012) Columbia Journal of Race and Law (1) and 'Change is Gonna Come’: Critical Legal Studies and the Legacies of the New Left' (2013) Law and Critique 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.
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

2

Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
- ANNA GONOURIE WALDENSTROM
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2020
  
  Title of thesis:
  Approximative Justice – Dealing with Differends and Cross-Border Evidence in the EU
  
  Awarded:
  2022
- PHILIPP KENDER
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Jul 2018
  
  Title of thesis:
  Authoritarian Government in Early Twenty-First Century Europe: Elements of a Genealogy
  
  Awarded:
  2022
Teaching

Teaching modules
- Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (LADD039H6)
- Perspectives on Political Economy (LALW064S7)
- Law, Solidarity and Alternative Economies (LALW087S7)
- Trusts Law (LALW097H6)
- Trusts Law (Senior Status) (LALW100H7)
- Commercial Law and Market Regulation (LALW102S7)
- Equity and Trusts (GDL) (LALW117H6)
Publications
Publications
Article
- Gearey, Adam (2024) Loca Infecta: a Jurisprudence of hauntings. Law, Culture and the Humanities ISSN 1743-8721.
- Gearey, Adam (2024) On What Mutters: The Unnamable Subject of Practical Reason - Finnis..Raz...Beckett..Cha. Law and Literature ISSN 1535-685X. (In Press)
- Gearey, Adam (2023) Worms: primordial jurisprudence and viral being. Legalities 3 (1), pp. 22-43. ISSN 2634-3770.
- Gearey, Adam (2021) ‘The World Pulse Beats Beyond My Door’. Law, dreaming and consumption in viral times. Law and Critique 32 (2), pp. 147-152. ISSN 0957-8536.
- Gearey, Adam (2017) Equity and the social reproduction of capital. Polemos 11 (1), pp. 55-72. ISSN 2035-5262.
- Gearey, Adam (2017) Dostoevsky and the law. Slavonica 22 (1-2), pp. 68-70. ISSN 1361-7427.
- Gearey, Adam (2017) “You May Find Yourselves Changed in Unexpected Ways:” literature and poverty law. Law & Literature 29 (3), pp. 405-423. ISSN 1535-685X.
- Gearey, Adam (2016) ‘We Want to Live’: metaphor and ethical life in F.W. Maitland’s Jurisprudence of the Trust. Journal of Law and Society 43 (1), pp. 1-165. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Gearey, Adam (2015) Book review - If God Were A Human Rights Activist, by Boaventura De Sousa Santos - Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2015. Journal of Law and Society 42 (4), pp. 660-663. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Gearey, Adam (2015) Equity in a severe style: the phenomenology of spirit, conscience and critical legal thinking. Australian Feminist Law Journal 41 (1), pp. 161-176. ISSN 1320-0968.
- Gearey, Adam (2013) "Change is gonna come": critical legal studies and the legacies of the New Left. Law and Critique 24 (3), pp. 211-227. ISSN 0957-8536.
- Gearey, Adam (2013) Welfare, community and solidarity. Law, Culture and the Humanities 11 (3), pp. 340-348. ISSN 1743-8721.
- Gearey, Adam (2012) W. E. B. Du Bois’ ambiguous politics of liberation: race, Marxism and pan Africanism. Columbia Journal of Race and Law 1 (3), pp. 265-272. ISSN 2155-2401.
- Gearey, Adam (2007) The poetics of practical reason: Joseph Raz and Philip Larkin. Law and Literature 19 (3), pp. 377-400. ISSN 1535-685X.
- Gearey, Adam (2005) "Where the law touches us, we may affirm it": deconstruction as a poetic thinking of law. Cardozo Law Review 27 (2), pp. 767-789. ISSN 0270-5192.
- Gearey, Adam (2005) 'Where the law touches us, we may affirm it': deconstruction as a poetic thinking of law. Cardozo Law Review 27 (2), pp. 101-122. ISSN 0270-5192.
- Gearey, Adam (2004) 'Tell all the truth, but tell it slant': a poetics of truth and reconciliation. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 38-59. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) Introduction - On writing: law and literature. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 1-2. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Gearey, Adam (2004) Love and death in American jurisprudence: myth, aesthetics, law. Studies in Law, Politics and Society 33, pp. 3-23. ISSN 1059-4337.
- Gearey, Adam (2004) Tell all the truth, but tell it slant: a poetics of truth and reconciliation. The Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 38-59. ISSN 1467-6478.
- Gearey, Adam (2003) African Nietzsche. Cardozo Law Review ISSN 0270-5192.
- Gearey, Adam (2001) Law and the refusals of poetry. Liverpool Law Review: A Journal of Contemporary Legal and Social Policy 23 (2), pp. 123-130. ISSN 0144-932X.
- Gearey, Adam (2001) Prometheus unbound: Shelly, Legendre and the psychoanalysis of law. Griffith Law Review 10 (2), pp. 53-75. ISSN 1038-3441.
- Gearey, Adam (2001) With the one coin for fee: A.E. Housman's law. Liverpool Law Review: A Journal of Contemporary Legal and Social Policy 23, pp. 199-209. ISSN 0144-932X.
- Gearey, Adam (2000) Introduction to the study of law and the sacred. Law Text Culture 5 (1), pp. 1-19. ISSN 1322-9060.
- Gearey, Adam (2000) We fearless ones: Friedrich Nietzsche and critical legal studies. Law and Critique 1, pp. 167-184. ISSN 0957-8536.
- Gearey, Adam (1999) Outlaw blues: law in the songs of Bob Dylan. Cardozo Law Review 20, pp. 1401-1422. ISSN 0270-5192.
- Gearey, Adam (1998) Law in the gospel of the female messiah: myth, gnosticism and Finnegans Wake. Australian Feminist Law Journal 10 (1), pp. 61-83. ISSN 1320-0968.
- Gearey, Adam Freeman, M.D.A. and Lewis, A., eds. (1998) Mad and delirious words: feminist theory and critical legal studies in the work of Peter Goodrich. Feminist Legal Studies 6 (1), pp. 121-133. ISSN 0966-3622.
- Gearey, Adam (1997) Finnegans Wake and the law of love. Law and Critique 8 (2), pp. 245-267. ISSN 0957-8536.
Book
- Gearey, Adam (2018) Poverty law and legal activism: lives that slide out of view. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138556058.
- Gearey, Adam and Jago, R. and Morrison, W. (2013) The politics of the common law: perspectives, rights, processes, institutions (2nd Edition). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415662369.
- Gearey, Adam (2012) Justice as welfare: equity and solidarity. London, UK: Continuum. ISBN 9781441184412.
- Diamantides, Marinos and Gearey, Adam Diamantides, Marinos and Gearey, Adam, eds. (2011) Islam, law and identity. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415566810.
- Douzinas, Costas and Gearey, Adam (2005) Critical jurisprudence: the political philosophy of justice. London, UK: Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781841134529.
- Gearey, Adam (2005) Globalization and law: trade, rights, war. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 9780742538030.
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph, eds. (2004) Law and literature. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Gearey, Adam (2001) Law and aesthetics. Legal Theory Today. Oxford, UK: Hart Publications. ISBN 9781841132433.
Book Review
- Gearey, Adam (1997) Disunited kingdom.
Book Section
- Gearey, Adam (2022) Saying unsaid: law transformed in Annemarie Ní Churreáin ’s Bloodroot (2017). 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 (2022) Ditches. 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 (2020) The parable of Bill Ayers: comic, allegory and critical legal thinking. In: Giddens, T. (ed.) Critical Directions in Comics Studies. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781496828996. (In Press)
- Gearey, Adam (2020) Knots of equity: doctrine and hegemony in the Law of Trusts. In: Piska, N. and Gibson, H. (eds.) Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell. Counterpress. (In Press)
- Gearey, Adam (2017) Critical Legal Studies. 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) Re-reading Capital: notes towards an investigation of law, politics and pensions. In: Desutter, L. (ed.) Althusser and Law. Nomikoi Critical Legal Thinkers. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415517188.
- Gearey, Adam (2013) Rereading capital: notes towards an investigation of law, politics and pensions. In: de Sutter, L. (ed.) Althusser and Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415816045.
- Diamantides, Marinos (2011) Shari’a, faith and critical legal theory. In: Diamantides, Marinos and Gearey, Adam (eds.) Islam, Law and Identity. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 49-67. ISBN 9780415566810.
- Gearey, Adam (2011) One law against another? Human rights, divine authority and the common law. In: Diamantides, Marinos and Gearey, Adam (eds.) Islam, Law and Identity. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415566810.
- Gearey, Adam (2011) I wish you well: notes towards an aesthetics of welfare. In: Ben-Dor, O. (ed.) Law and Art: Justice, Ethics and Aesthetics. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415560214.
- Gearey, Adam (2008) Literature, poetics, law. 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 (2008) Human rights and the integrity of the law. 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 (2005) The fourth book of the legislator: Nietzsche and John Neville Figgis. 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) 'At the stroke of midnight...': postcolonial jurisprudence. 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) News from nowhere: anxiety, critical legal studies and the critical ‘tradition(s)'. 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) Women lie back everywhere: the symbolic economy of restitution. 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) The materiality of symbols: J G Ballard and jurisprudence: law, image, reproduction. 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) My loss shall be your gain: feminist economies of restitution. In: Mulcahy, L. and Wheeler, S. (eds.) Feminist Perspectives On Contract Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781859417423.
- Gearey, Adam (2005) Women lean back everywhere: the symbolic economy of restitution. In: Mulcahy, L. and Wheeler, S. (eds.) Feminist Perspectives On Contract Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 91-106. ISBN 9781859417423.
- Gearey, Adam (2005) The voice of dominium: property, possession and renaissance figures in the cantos of Ezra Pound. In: Carpi, D. (ed.) Renaissance Property Law. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang Publisher. ISBN 9783631541333.
- Gearey, Adam (2004) The poetics of truth and reconciliation. 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) Living on in law and literature. 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) Revitalising law and literature. In: Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (eds.) Law and Literature: Current Legal Issues. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. ISBN 9781405119306.
- Gearey, Adam (1999) Law and death between James Joyce and Pierre Legendre. 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) Re-reading St. Augustine. In: Tadros, V. and Douglas-Scott, S. and Oliver, P. (eds.) Faith in Law. London, UK: Hart Press. pp. 53-69. ISBN 9781901362954.
- Gearey, Adam (1999) Towards a feminist critique of sovereignty. In: Millns, S. and Whitty, N. (eds.) Feminist Perspectives in Public Law. Cavendish Press. pp. 129-149. ISBN 9781859414804.
Conference Item
- Gearey, Adam (2014) Chaotic equity? market rationality, ethics and commodification. Critical Legal Conference, 2014, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Gearey, Adam (2014) A slow procession of spiritual shapes: hombie eegelianism, the market and the psychic chaos of property. Critical Legal Conference, 2014, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
- Gearey, Adam (2008) One law against another? human rights, divine authority and the common law. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2008, University of Berkeley, California, USA
- Gearey, Adam (2007) Hegel, property and equity. Hegel, property and equity, 2007, University of Verona, Italy
- Gearey, Adam (2007) Law and literature. Law and literature, 2007, Swansea University
- Gearey, Adam (2007) Pleasure tripper: B.S. Johnson and the economy of writing. Pleasure tripper: B.S. Johnson and the economy of writing, 2007, University of Glasgow
- Gearey, Adam (2007) Postcolonial jurisprudence. Social and Political Thought Seminar, 2007, Warwick Social Theory Centre, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
- Gearey, Adam (2007) Religion, rights and the common law. Religion, rights and the common law, 2007, American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Gearey, Adam (2007) The law and the Logos. The law and the Logos, 2007, University of Trieste, Italy
- Gearey, Adam (2006) Critical legal theory and education. Critical legal theory and education, 2006, Harvard University
- Gearey, Adam (2006) Levinas and the ethics of the common. Levinas and the ethics of the common, 2006, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Gearey, Adam (2005) Deconstruction as a poetic thinking of the law. Derrida/America: The Present State of America's Europe, 2005, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, New York, USA
- Gearey, Adam (2005) Poetry and sovereignty. Poetry and sovereignty, 2005, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Gearey, Adam (2005) Ubuntu and African philosophy. Ubuntu and African philosophy, 2005, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Gearey, Adam (2005) The jurisprudence of Dylan Thomas. Faculty Seminar, 2005, Swansea University
- Gearey, Adam (2004) Christopher Okigbo and sovereignty. Christopher Okigbo and sovereignty, 2004, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town
- Gearey, Adam (2004) Critical race theory in the United Kingdom. Critical race theory in the United Kingdom, 2004, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Gearey, Adam (2004) Nietzsche in Africa. Jean Coffin Memorial Lecture, 2004, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
- Gearey, Adam (2004) The law in Finnegans Wake. The law in Finnegans Wake, 2004, Regents College, Oxford University
- Gearey, Adam (2004) The poetics of truth and reconciliation. The poetics of truth and reconciliation, 2004, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Gearey, Adam (2003) Law and literature. Staff Seminar, 2003, University of Westminster, London
- Gearey, Adam (2003) Renaissance figures in the cantos of Ezra Pound. Il Dritto Patrimoniale Nella Letteratura Del Rinascimento, 2003, University of Verona, Italy
- Gearey, Adam (2003) The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998. The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998, 2003, Singapore Institute of Commerce, Singapore
- Gearey, Adam (2003) The jurisprudence of J.G. Ballard. Law and Popular Culture, 2003, University College, London
- Gearey, Adam (2003) The law in Huckleberry Finn. Lurcy Public Lecture, 2003, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
- Gearey, Adam (2002) Freedom of speech as a human right. International Alert Guest Lecture, 2002, Sochi, Russia
- Gearey, Adam (2002) Nietzsche and legal theory. Nietzsche and legal theory, 2002, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, New York, USA
Editorial
- Hanafin, Patrick and Gearey, Adam and Brooker, Joseph (2004) Introduction: on writing: law and literature. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 1-2. Wiley. ISSN 0263-323X.
Monograph
- Gearey, Adam (2009) Like a dog: constitutionalism in J.M. Coetzee’s "Disgrace". London, UK: Birkbeck College, University of London.

Prof Adam Gearey

Overview

Highlights

Web profiles

Administrative responsibilities

Research

Research overview

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

ANNA GONOURIE WALDENSTROM

PHILIPP KENDER

Teaching

Teaching modules

Publications

Article

Book

Book Review

Book Section

Conference Item

Editorial

Monograph