Personal profile
Research interests
see list at ORCiD : https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8225-2681
BOOKS
Williams, M.L., (2005) Monograph: Secrets and Laws Collected Essays, London: UCL Press 2005) – Essays present recent research scholarship as a commentary upon prior legal developments in several fields; includes some ‘reworked’ articles previously published
Williams, M.L.,(2002) Monograph Empty Justice- One Hundred Years of Law, Literature and Philosophy (2002) Cavendish Publishing (Part funded by AHRB Research Leave Award):
Profile
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8225-2681
Professor Williams read Law at the University of Cambridge and a Masters in English Literature at the University of Sussex. She has been Consultant to the Open University and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and former editorial board member of the International Journal of Law in Context (Cambridge University Press) Law, Culture and Humanities (Sage) and Jurisprudence (Hart).
‘I became a Lecturer in the Department of Law in Aberystwyth in 1995; after nearly ten years I worked as Reader then Professor, first at Swansea University Law School and then at Exeter University School of Law, returning to Wales in 2015. I have taught many subjects in Law and in Criminology and have also enjoyed teaching in other settings, for example as a Visiting Lecturer in English and Media Studies and also in Philosophy, teaching legal perspectives, I have also taught Medical Ethics and Law to medical students as well as law students. Over the years I have published two books - Empty Justice (2001) and Secrets and Laws (2005) and a number of book chapters and articles. These mostly focus upon links between law, literature and philosophy but also consider aspects of psychological or medical significance. I recently qualified as a psychotherapist’.
(portrait image by Sorcha Williams)
Teaching
I teach on a number of modules both in the 'Law' side of the Department and in the 'Criminology' side.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Body of Rebellion: Patriarchal Law, Gender Violence and The Vegetarian
Williams, M. L., 01 Apr 2026, In: Liverpool Law Review. 47, 1, p. 27-46 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Justice Signified: Naming Injustice in the Therapeutic Space
Williams, M. L., 04 Aug 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal of Psychotherapy. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Lawlessness of Loss: Poetry and Autoethnographic Writing as Therapy in Grief and Loss
Williams, M. L., 13 Jun 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Coercive and controlling behaviour: Literary, psychological and legal interpretation and The Man Who Loved Children
Williams, M. L., 14 Dec 2023, In: Australian Journal of Family Law. 36, 2, p. 173-194 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Law and Literature/Literary Jurisprudence
Williams, M. L., 2018, Great Debates in Gender and Law, London England : Macmillan International Higher Education. Auchmuty, R. (ed.). Bloomsbury, p. 185-197 13 p. (Great Debates in Law).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Diaspora of the Imaginary in Poetics and Politics
Williams, M. L., 2016, Stierstorfer K, Carpi D (Eds.) Diaspora, Law and Literature, Berlin: de Gruyter, 171-186.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Liminal Tensions in Public to Private Conceptions of Justice: Nussbaum, Woolf and the Struggle for Identity
Williams, M. L., 2013, Liminal Discourses: Subliminal Tensions in Law and Literature. Carpi, D. & Gaakeer, J. (eds.). De Gruyter, p. 53-72Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Coercion and the labour contract: Revisiting Glasbrook Brothers and the political fiction of Lewis Jones
Williams, M. L., 14 Feb 2012, In: International Journal of Law in Context. 8, 1, 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Law's Agent: Cultivated Citizen or Popular Savage? The Crash of the Moral Mirror
Williams, M., 22 Mar 2012, Law and Popular Culture. Oxford University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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'The Reader' as Thought Experiment: Character, Moral Luck and the Contingent
Williams, M. L., 2012, Intersections of Law and Culture. Gisler, P., Borella, S. S. & Wiedmer, C. (eds.). Springer Nature, (Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Conceptions of Moral Luck, Culpability, and The Reader
Williams, M. L., 2011, In: Law and Humanities. 5, 2, p. 303-321Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review