University of London, Birkbeck College

Faculty Member, Law

Lecturer in Law

Bikbeck College

Thesis Title: Justice Beyond Jurisdiction

About

Victoria Ridler has recently joined the faculty at the School of Law at Birkbeck College, where she is also completing her PhD studies. She holds an M.A. in Legal Studies from Carleton University, and a B.A. in International Development Studies and Political Science from Dalhousie University.

Victoria’s current project considers the relevance of ontological plurality in relation to conceptions of reason and authority in the traditions of constitutional and democratic theory. While engaging with a range of theoretical approaches, she identifies the work of Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jacques Derrida as particularly influential.

Victoria has previously worked at Birkbeck College, Westminster University, the University of East London, The University of Reading, and Carleton University as a sessional lecturer specializing in Public Law, Legal Methods, and Law and Society. She has also worked for the United Nations in the field of international development and for the Federal Government of Canada in policy analysis.

Publications:

'Word and World: The Imperium of Reason and the Possibility of Critique.' Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies 2 (2010).

‘The Politics of the Border/The Borders of the Political.’ Law and Critique 20(2) (2009); special edition of journal edited with introduction collaboratively with Ben Golder and Illan Wall.