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Dr Bal Sokhi-Bulley

Lecturer

Contact details
E-mail : b.sokhi-bulley@qub.ac.uk
Direct Line :  (028) 9097 3466                     
Room 30.302, 30 University Square

Degrees
PhD, University of Nottingham
LLM (International Human Rights Law), University of Nottingham
LLB (European Law), University of Warwick 

Biography 
Bal joined Queen’s as a Lecturer in Law in September 2008. In 2009 she obtained her PhD from the University of Nottingham, where she has previously taught. Bal also has an LLM in International Human Rights Law (Nottingham, 2005), and an LLB in European Law (Warwick, 2003) having studied French Law at Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV.

Bal’s research interests are human rights law, governance, rights and governance in the European Union, critical theory, and socio-legal theory and method. She is especially interested in using the Foucauldian concept of ‘governmentality’ to understand new forms of ‘governance’ – for instance, governance through human rights agencies in the European Union. Bal has also published on socio-legal research methodologies and law (see below). She teaches and runs modules in EU Law, human rights and critical (legal) theory at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is currently supervising PhDs in the areas of human rights monitoring and governance, and welcomes applications for PhD study that are interested in critically exploring human rights, forms of governance and aspects of European Union Law – specifically critical perspectives that draw on the work of Michel Foucault and poststructralism.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

European Constitutional Law (Module co-ordinator, Level 2)
European Internal Market Law
Legal Theory

Postgraduate:

Human Rights: Concepts and Institutions (Module co-ordinator)
Human Rights as Power, Politics and Paradox (Module co-ordinator)

Research
Human rights, governance, European Union, critical theory (Foucault and Law, governmentality studies), socio-legal theory and method.

Publications

'Big Society as Big Government: Cameron's Governmentality Agenda', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, forthcoming (with Dan Bulley) (available for Early View at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2012.00547.x/abstract

'Human Rights as Technologies of the Self’ in B. Golder (ed.), Re-Reading Foucault: On Law, Power and Rights (Routledge: Abingdon 2012)

'The Fundamental Rights Agency of the EU: A New Panopticism' Human Rights Law Review (2011) 11 (4) 683-706

'Government(ality) By Experts: Human Rights as Governance’ (2011) 22(3) Law and Critique  251-271

‘Governing (Through) Rights: Statistics as Technologies of Governmentality’ (2011) 20(2) Social and Legal Studies 139-156

Research Methodologies in EU and International Law (Hart: Oxford, 2011) (with R Cryer, T Hervey and A Bohm)

‘Legal Research Methodologies in European Union and International Law: Research Notes (Part 2)’ (2008) 4(1) Journal of Contemporary European Research 48-51 (with R Cryer and T Hervey)

‘Legal Research Methods in EU and International Law: Research Notes (Part 1)’ (2007) 3(2) Journal of Contemporary European Research 161-165 (with R Cryer and T Hervey)

‘The Optional Protocol to CEDAW: First Steps’ (2006) 6 Human Rights Law Review 143-159

‘Non-Discrimination and Difference: The (Non-) Essence of Human Rights Law’ (2005) Human Rights Law Commentary, online journal

Administration

PDP Coordinator (Personal Development Planning)
Module co-ordinator, Human Rights: Concepts and Institutions (PG)
Module co-ordinator, Human Rights as Power, Politics and Paradox (PG)
Module co-ordinator, European Constitutional Law (UG)