[Here's a call for papers for what appears
to be a particularly well-crafted annual meeting of Antipodean legal historians,
to be held at the University of Technology,
Sydney (UTS). The organizers tell me that they are keen to have "many of
our North American colleagues" attend. Here
is the link to the conference website; here
a link to another conference at UTS, on the "historical connections" between the
legal profession and defense forces; here
a link to yet another, on feminism and the law that will include "revisiting the
past."]
The 31st Annual Conference of the Australia New Zealand Law and
History Society will be held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS),
10-12 December 2012. UTS is the most centrally located law school in Sydney,
situated next to Central Station, on the edge of China Town, three minutes by
monorail from Sydney’s central shopping district and a short trip to the harbour
by direct train or bus.
The conference theme is “Receiving Laws/Giving
Laws”. It is orientated towards the movement, transmission and transformation of
laws and their histories – across Empire, through time, in and between genres
and disciplines. The receiving and giving of laws could be addressed in a broad
range of ways. How do laws and histories translocate? By what means (doctrinal,
processual, cultural) are laws transmitted and received in new places? What
transformations happen as a result of this movement? Whose histories, cultures
and laws appear and disappear through these transformations? What kinds of
interventions can bring about ways of transforming, perceiving and transmitting
the law and its histories/cultures?
The keynote speaker is Professor
Philip Girard, University Research Professor and Professor of Law, History &
Canadian Studies, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. There will also
be a plenary panel in which three scholars will address the theme of the
conference, each through a different genre of legal history: Professor Anne
Orford, Melbourne Law School; Dr Katherine Biber, School of Law, UTS; Dr Damen
Ward, Crown Law Office, Wellington.
The organising committee would
welcome interest from historians from any jurisdiction. The call for papers will
be open until late June. Inquiries or paper proposals - including a title, brief
abstract and brief biography - should be sent to shaunnagh.dorsett@uts.edu.au
[Here's a call for papers for what appears
to be a particularly well-crafted annual meeting of Antipodean legal historians,
to be held at the University of Technology,
Sydney (UTS). The organizers tell me that they are keen to have "many of
our North American colleagues" attend. Here
is the link to the conference website; here
a link to another conference at UTS, on the "historical connections" between the
legal profession and defense forces; here
a link to yet another, on feminism and the law that will include "revisiting the
past."]
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