CFP: WG Hart Workshop 2024, 'Historicising Jurisprudence: Person, Community, Form' - Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London - 26-27 June 2024 [DEADLINE 4 December 2023]

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WG Hart Workshop 2024

Historicising Jurisprudence: Person, Community, Form 

Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London, 26-27 June 2024

We invite abstracts (of 300-500 words) for the 2024 Hart Conference on Historicising Jurisprudence: Person, Community, Form. Abstracts should be emailed to m.delmar@qmul.ac.uk by Monday 4 December 2023. Further details on the theme are included below. Please note that bursaries are available for PhD and Early Career Scholars as well as scholars from the Global South. There will also be a prize for the best paper from a PhD / Early Career Scholar.

Academic Directors.  Maksymilian Del Mar (Queen Mary University of London); and Michael Lobban (All Souls College, Oxford)

Conference Keynotes.  Professor David Armitage, Harvard University; Professor Paul Halliday, University of Virginia; Professor Lorna Hutson, University of Oxford; Professor Lena Salaymeh, Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, Paris, and University of Oxford    

PhD and Early Career Paper Prize.  A prize will be offered to the best paper submitted by a PhD or Early Career Scholar. To be eligible for the prize, please first submit your abstract in the usual way. When you submit the abstract, please indicate clearly that you are a PhD or Early Career Scholar (within 5 years of your PhD). Once your abstract has been accepted, a further date will be set for the submission of a paper (approx. 6,000-8,000 words, all inclusive). Please note that the requirement to submit a written draft of the paper is only a requirement for those entering the prize (not for presenting at the conference). The prize will be judged by the Academic Directors.

Travel and Accommodation Bursaries.  A limited number of bursaries, contributing to travel and accommodation costs for the conference, is available for two categories of scholars: 1) those who are PhD students and Early Career Scholars (within 5 years of their PhD); and 2) those who live and work in the Global South. To be eligible for these, please indicate clearly you are applying for a bursary when you submit your abstract, and please confirm (e.g., by a statement on letterhead from your Head of School) that you either do not have access to other sources of funding or any funding you have is likely to be insufficient.

General Summary of the Theme.  Jurisprudence, or the philosophy of law, often appears as an abstract and impersonal domain of intellectual practice, and one divorced from the politics and culture of its time. Jurisprudential questions are often treated as timeless, with each jurisprudential text approached as articulating its own autonomous vision of a universal theory of law. The substance of jurisprudential ideas is also typically seen to be independent of the means via which these ideas are expressed, and thus separate from the history of aesthetics and the humanities, including literature and the arts. While recognizing the universal and impersonal aspirations of jurisprudence, this conference seeks to explore its historicization in particular times and places. The conference thus invites participants to take an alternative view of jurisprudence: as a human, all too human, practice, which is deeply personal while also being deeply social, and one that is shot through with historically-situated politics and culture. By digging deeply into its situated ethics, politics, and aesthetics, this conference will explore different ways of historicising jurisprudence. The conference will foreground and pursue the following kinds of questions:

• How is the production of jurisprudential thought related to the personal, felt, experience of individuals who produce it, as well as to the role those individuals play in the power struggles of their time and place?
• In what ways is jurisprudential thought a communal enterprise, and thus the result of many hands working together in irreducibly social contexts?
• What are the forms and genres of jurisprudence, and how are those forms and genres related to the very substance of jurisprudential views?

 

A detailed CFP is available here: https://ials.sas.ac.uk/news/wg-hart-workshop-2024-announced-historicising-jurisprudence-person-community-form