Dr Piyel Haldar
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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 was a managing editor of Law and Critique (Springerlink) until 2013 and is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Law and Humanities.
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Research
Research
Research overview
Dr Haldar specialises in colonial history and post-colonial theory.
He recently published a monograph entitled 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 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 Law and Critique (Springerlink).
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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ADIMAYA KENI
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SARAH CORBETT-BATSON
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HARLEY RONAN
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HENRIQUE CARVALHO
Teaching
Teaching modules
- Reading the Law (LALW041S3)
- Law of the Trial (LALW042S3)
- Evidence (Level 6) (LALW076H6)
- Trusts Law (Senior Status) (LALW100H7)
- Legal Methods and Skills (GDL) (LALW111H6)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Haldar, Piyel (2016) Equity as a question of decorum and manners: conscience as vision. Polemos 10 (2), pp. 311-327. ISSN 2035-5262.
- Haldar, Piyel (2016) The articles of law: renaissance theories of evidence and the poetic life of facts. Law and Humanities 10 (2), pp. 281-299. ISSN 1752-1483.
- Haldar, Piyel (2013) Forensic representations of identity: the Imago, the X Ray and the evidential image. Law and Humanities 7 (2), pp. 129-150. ISSN 1752-1483.
- Haldar, Piyel (2012) Sovereignty and divinity in the Vedic tradition: Mitra-Varuna, Praja-pati and Rta. Divus Thomas 115 (2), pp. 382-401. ISSN 0012-4257.
- Haldar, Piyel (2011) Zoologian jurisprudence. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 24 (3), pp. 291-306. ISSN 0952-8059.
- Haldar, Piyel (2010) Review essay: the nature of mystery. Canadian Journal of Law and Society 25 (10), pp. 227-236. ISSN 0829-3201.
- Haldar, Piyel (2009) Law and animalities. Law and Humanities 3 (1), pp. 71-85. ISSN 1752-1483.
- Haldar, Piyel (2008) Law and the evidential image. Law, Culture and the Humanities 4 (2), pp. 139-155. ISSN 1743-8721.
- Haldar, Piyel (2008) Watermarks. Parallax 14 (4), pp. 101-113. ISSN 1353-4645.
- Haldar, Piyel (2008) The sublime codes of Manu: law and eighteenth century Orientalism. German Law Journal 9 (3), pp. 285-308. ISSN 2071-8322.
- Haldar, Piyel (2007) Utilitarianism and the painful Orient. Social and Legal Studies 16 (4), pp. 573-590. ISSN 0964-6639.
- Haldar, Piyel (2007) The character of the oriental despot in classical jurisprudence. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 58 (2), pp. 229-243. ISSN 0029-3105.
- Haldar, Piyel (2007) The jurisprudence of Classical Orientalism. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly ISSN 0029-3105.
- Haldar, Piyel (2004) The jurisprudence of travel literature: despotism, excess and the common law. Journal of Law and Society 31 (1), pp. 87-112. ISSN 0263-323X.
- Haldar, Piyel (1999) Edifice lex: the logic and function of ornament in court buildings. Journal of Social Change and Critical Inquiry ISSN 1443-2161.
- Haldar, Piyel (1999) Legal science, scientific rationality, and aesthetics. Studies in Law, Politics and Societies 19, ISSN 1059-4337.
- Haldar, Piyel (1999) The return of the evidencer's eye: rhetoric and visual technology in the laws of evidence. Griffith Law Review 8 (1), ISSN 1038-3441.
- Haldar, Piyel (1996) On the question of dissemblance in medieval political theology. Law and Critique 7 (1), pp. 85-97. ISSN 0957-8536.
Book
- Haldar, Piyel (2007) Law, orientalism and postcolonialism: the jurisdiction of the lotus-eaters. Discourses of Law. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415962247.
Book Review
- Haldar, Piyel (2000) Folk understanding: in the shadow of the common law.
- Haldar, Piyel (1997) Literature within the law.
- Haldar, Piyel (1996) The spectacular and legal forms of legal justice.
Book Section
- Haldar, Piyel (2019) Arguments; the visual mediation of arguments in the Renaissance. 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) From dignity to shame; x-rays and legal persona. 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) Witness demeanour as real evidence: mechanistic philosophy of bodies without minds. 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) Animals and the future salvation of the world. In: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. (ed.) Law and Ecology: New Environmental Foundations. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415587136.
- Haldar, Piyel (2006) Jurisdiction and the colonization of sublime enjoyment. In: Mcveigh, S. (ed.) Jurisprudence of Jurisdiction. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 238-255. ISBN 9781138992863.
- Haldar, Piyel (1999) The function of the ornament in Quintilian, Alberti and court architecture. 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) Konigs-christologie und synthronos dike: inkorporation, assoziation, unahnlichkeit. 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) Words with the shaman: on the sacrifice in criminal evidence. In: Rush, P. and McVeigh, S. and Young, A. (eds.) Criminal Legal Doctrine. Dartmouth Publishing. pp. 104-126. ISBN 9781855219694.
- Haldar, Piyel (1996) Acoustic justice. 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) Anglicist pleasures in the Orient. Studies in nineteenth century law and literature, 2002, University of London
- Haldar, Piyel (2002) The doctrine of utilitarian pleasures. Staff Seminar, 2002, Faculty of Law, Griffith University
- Haldar, Piyel (2002) The jusrisdiction of the lotus-eaters. Jurisdictions, 2002, Griffith University
- Haldar, Piyel (1999) Acoustic justice. Gender and Testimonial culture, 1999, Lancaster University
- Haldar, Piyel (1999) Colonial legality and postcolonial legality. Law and Culture Seminar Series, 1999, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK
- Haldar, Piyel (1999) Hybrid fantasies, or how to rule without excessive enjoyment. Critical Legal Conference, 1999, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK