NOTICE: IMPERIAL ENCOUNTERS: COLONIALISM AND THE LAW FROM THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and the London Legal History Seminar, warmly invites you and your colleagues to attend an afternoon on:

Imperial Encounters: colonialism and the law from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century

Date: Friday 18 May 2012, 2.15pm to 5pm

Venue: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR

Speakers:

- DR. STACEY HYND (Exeter) on "The Extreme Penalty for the Extreme Crime"? Capital Punishment and Colonial Law in British Africa, c.1900-50;

- DR. CAROL TAN (SOAS) on Colonial Public Health Laws and the Making of a European Summer Resort in North China;

- DR. NANDINI CHATTERJEE (Plymouth) on Indian Christians and British subjects: religion, race and jurisdictional conflict in early colonial India.

Website: www.sas.ac.uk/events/view/11887

This event is free but those wishing to attend are asked to register in advance by emailing: IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk

ADMISSION FREE, ALL WELCOME