Murphy, Tim


Professor Tim Murphy  

Department

Position held

Department of Law

Professor of Law

Experience keywords:

state law and society in modern China

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My principal current research focuses on the modernisation of state, law and society in the PRC (China).

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Law

Countries and regions to which research relates:

China

Languages:

French [Spoken: Intermediate]

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7028

Publications

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2008

Murphy, Tim and Xu, Ting (2008) The city as laboratory and the urban-rural divide: the revival of private property and its limits in urban China. China perspectives, 4 pp. 26-34. ISSN 1996-4617

2006

Murphy, Tim (2006) Durkheim in China. In: Freeman, Michael, (ed.) Law and sociology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 107-118. ISBN 9780199282548

Murphy, Tim (2006) From subject to system: some unsystematic systems-theoretic thoughts on race equality and human rights. In: King, Michael and Thornhill, Chris, (eds.) Luhmann on law and politics: critical appraisals and applications. Hart Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 55-74. ISBN 9781841136240

Murphy, Tim (2006) Theory in practice in a global age: what legal theory can and cannot do. Socio-legal review, 2 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0973-5216

2004

Murphy, Tim and Roberts, Simon and Flessas, Tatiana (2004) Understanding property law. Sweet & Maxwell Ltd, Andover, UK. ISBN 9780421829305

Murphy, Tim (2004) Legal fabrications and the case of 'cultural property'. In: Pottage, Alain and Mundy, Martha, (eds.) Law, anthropology and the constitution of the social: making persons and things. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 115-141. ISBN 9780521831789

2002

Murphy, Tim (2002) Include me out. Journal of law and society, 29 (2). pp. 342-354. ISSN 0263-323X

2001

Murphy, Tim (2001) Law: history of its relation to the social sciences. In: Smelser, N. J. and Baltes, P. B., (eds.) International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences. Elsevier Science, Oxford, UK, pp. 8521-8526. ISBN 9780080430768

Murphy, Tim (2001) Modernising justice inside 'UK PLC': mimesis, de-differentiation and colonisation. In: Pribán, Jirí and Nelken, David, (eds.) Law's new boundaries: the consequences of legal autopoiesis. Ashgate Dartmouth, Aldershot, UK, pp. 218-248. ISBN 9780754622024

2000

Murphy, Tim (2000) Postmodernism: legal theory, legal education and the future. International journal of the legal profession, 7 (3). pp. 357-379. ISSN 0969-5958

1997

Murphy, Tim (1997) The oldest social science?: configurations of law and modernity. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198265597

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Tim Murphy was born in Nottingham and educated at Nottingham High School and Downing College, Cambridge. He taught at Northwestern University School of Law and the University of Kent at Canterbury before joining LSE in 1978, where he has been Professor of Law since 1999. He has also taught numerous courses for the WEA and the TUC. From 1992-1995 he served as Dean of the Graduate School at LSE. He was General Editor of the Modern Law Review from 1995 to 2002 and is a founder member of the Editorial Board of Law and Critique. In recent years he has served at LSE as Chairman of the Graduate School Committee and Vice-Chairman of the School’s Appointments Committee and took up the post of Deputy Director in September 2005.

 

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