The 2019 British Legal History Conference
Comparative Legal History
University of St Andrews, 10-13 July 2019
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Abstracts are invited for the 2019 British
Legal History Conference taking place at the University of St Andrews, on the
theme of comparative legal history.
The theme builds upon F.W.
Maitland’s famous observation that “history involves comparison”, and that
those who ignore every system but their own “hardly came in sight of the idea
of legal history”.[1]
The aim is to examine differences and similarities across a broad time-period
to produce better approaches to the subject of legal history, combining depth
of analysis with historical contextualization. Rather than comparing individual
rules or searching for universal systems, the theme will take an intermediate
approach the topic of comparative law, investigating patterns in legal norms,
processes, and practice.
The papers accepted for this
conference may themselves take a comparative approach. However, there is no
requirement that each paper is explicitly comparative, as the sessions will be
designed to allow comparative perspectives to emerge between individual
papers.
We welcome proposals from
historians in all fields of legal history, whether doctrinal or contextual,
domestic or transnational. Proposals which inform our understanding of the
Common Law through comparison with other legal systems (e.g. civil or canon) as
well as geographical comparisons are particularly welcome.
Proposals from postgraduate and early career researchers
are encouraged.
Please email abstracts
(strict maximum 250 words) to blhc2019@st-andrews.ac.uk
by 15 September 2018.
Further information on
the conference, travel, and accommodation can be found on the following
website: www.blhc2019.uk
[1] F.W. Maitland, “Why the
History of English Law is not Written”, In H.A.L. Fisher, ed., Collected Papers (Cambridge, 1911), i, 488.
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