Davina Cooper

Davina Copper is a legal scholar and research professor in Law and Political Theory at King's College London.

Biography Cooper was Research Dean for Social Sciences at Keele University from 2000 to 2003. From 2004 to 2009 she was a director of the AHRC Research Centre in Law, Gender, and Sexuality. She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2021 and is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Select publications Cooper, D. 1995. Power in struggle: feminism, sexuality and the State. New York University Press. Grabham, E., Cooper, D., Krishnadas, J., and Herman, D. (eds) 2009. Intersectionality and beyond: law, power and the politics of location. Routledge. Cooper, D. 2013. Everyday Utopias: the conceptual life of promising spaces. Duke University Press. Cooper, D. 2019. Feeling like a State: Desire, Denial and the Recasting of Authority. Duke University Press.