Thursday, January 29, 2015

English Legal History at Cambridge


[From the website of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law.]

This term the Centre for English Legal History will be hosting four seminars:

27 January - David Waddilove (St Catherine’s College, Cambridge) on ‘The legal basics of early-modern lending’

10 February - David Ibbetson (University of Cambridge) on ‘Words and deeds: the action of covenant, again’

24 February - Nicola Murphy (National University of Ireland, Galway) on ‘Derry v Peek in the House of Lords and beyond’

10 March - David Foster (Queen Mary University of London) on ‘"Aequitas sequitur legem”? The proliferation of equitable constructions in settlements of land, c.1660-1750’

Meetings take place at 5:15pm in the History Faculty boardroom.

All are welcome. Any questions to Joe Sampson (jws43@cam.ac.uk).