The
Twenty-First
British Legal History Conference
Wednesday
10 July – Saturday 13 July 2013
The
Twenty-First British Legal History Conference will be held in Glasgow from Wednesday 10 July 2013 to
Saturday 13 July 2013.
The conference theme will be:
Law and Authority
How
have sources of law and frameworks for their application related to underlying
conceptions of authority, or to the authority of other institutions, processes
or actors within the legal order? The conference addresses the ways law has been
shaped historically by different forms and ideas of authority, and by assumptions,
arguments and debates about the relationship between law and authority. The
theme embraces the authority of lawyers, judges and jurists; law courts,
legislatures and other institutions of governance; judicial decisions,
legislation and codes; texts such as legal opinions, law reports and juristic
treatises; records such as charters, court decrees and verdicts; rules,
principles and precedents; forms of argument, interpretation and doctrinal
categories; custom, social practice and myth; ideology, equity and wider
traditions in intellectual history, legal and political thought.
Papers
concerning all jurisdictions, branches of the law and historical periods are
welcome. Ideally, papers should reflect the conference theme. Papers embodying
innovative legal history research and proposals from doctoral students are encouraged.
Proposals
for papers (up to 500 words) are invited, to reach the organisers – preferably
by email attachment (in Word or pdf format) sent to the address below – by 31
August 2012. If potential contributors are unsure whether their proposals
suitably reflect the theme, enquiries may be made informally by email (again to
the address below). A draft programme and details of registration and
accommodation will be circulated early in 2013.
Conference email: BLHC2013@gla.ac.uk
Conference Organising Committee: Dr
Mark Godfrey (Convenor),
Professor
Ernest Metzger, Professor Ronan Deazley, Professor Lindsay Farmer
Dr
John Finlay, Dr Andreas Rahmatian, Ms Dot Reid
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