(Source: ANZLHS)
The Australia and New Zealand Law and History
Society is hosting its annual conference next December in Melbourne. All
updates (e.g. programme) can be found here.
The 38th annual conference of the Australian
and New Zealand Law and History Society (ANZLHS) invites those who bring an
historical perspective on law to consider together the many ways our work has
in the past, and continues in the future, to matter.
This historical perspective on law is broadly
defined – and includes those who position law in a temporal frame, who write
legal history or histories of law, lawmaking, legal ideas, jurisprudence,
jurisdiction or legal institutions and their personnel.
Does Law's History Matter? The Politics of our
Disciplinary Practices
Writing law's history has long been understood
as a purposeful practice, both necessary and never complete, as the eminent
British historian FW Maitland noted more than a century ago. Today, with the
flourishing of imperial and postcolonial scholarship, Maitland's advocacy of
researching law's past prompts renewed attention to the progenitors, methods
and politics of our disciplinary practices.
The imperative of capturing and presenting that
knowledge seems greater than ever before. Yet for those of us engaged in
historical study it can often appear that what we do, and why we do it, is not
always well recognised or as valued as it should be. Simultaneously, questions
abound about the implications of our practice and its political impact or
purpose.
This conference will examine the value of
studying law's history in its many forms.
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