[We share the following announcement about an upcoming online conference.]
English Law and Colonial Connections: Histories, Parallels, and Influences
(26-27 January 2021)
Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz and Northumbria University, Newcastle, this online symposium will take place across two afternoons (GMT) on January 26 and 27, 2021. This symposium aims to bring together researchers with interests in legal history and history more broadly. The symposium theme has no specific periodization or jurisdictional limitation.
Papers address the themes of:
• influences of English law on other parts of the world, particularly within an imperial context;
• comparative studies of English law;
• legacies and continuing influences of empire; and
• colonial influences of law back to the Metropole
Here is the program (all times are GMT):
Tuesday, 26th January 2021
3.00-3.15 PM – Introduction
Panel 1
3.15-3.35 PM
Richard Ireland (Aberystwyth University)
“It seems history is to blame”: Imagination and the Colonial Challenge to English Legal History.
3.35-3.55 PM
Matilde Cazzola (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
To Remake Britain in the Image of the Raj: James Fitzjames Stephen and India as a Legal Model.
3.55-4.15 PM
Justine K. Collins (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
The Role of Legislation in Racial Identities within the English Atlantic 1640s-1700s
4.15-4.45 PM
Discussion
Panel 2
5.15-5.35 PM
Sally Hadden (Western Michigan University)
London’s Middle Temple and Law Students from the New World
5.35-5.55 PM
Łukasz J. Korporowicz (University of Lodz)
Sir James Mackintosh – Barrister, Judge, Law Professor
5.55-6.15 PM
Discussion
Wednesday, 27th January 2021
Panel 3
3.00-3.20 PM
Cerian Griffiths (Northumbria University)
Fraud and the City of London: Global Opportunities in the Eighteenth-Century
3.20-3.40 PM
Michael Lobban (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Authority and Subjecthood at the Margins of Empire: the Case of Sekgoma Letsholathibe
3.40-4.00 PM
Discussion
Panel 4
4.30-4.50 PM
Julia Rudolph (North Carolina State University)
The Last Will and Testament of John Gardner Kemeys: Jamaican Mortgages and English Inheritance Disputes
4.50-5.10 PM
Stefan Vogenauer (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
Influences of English Law on Asian Contract Laws: Contractual Interpretation
5.10-5.30 PM
Jan Halberda, Jagiellonian University
The Principle of Good Faith and Fair Dealing in Anglo-American Contract Law
5.30-6.20 PM
Discussion
6.20-6.40 PM – Closing Remarks
Further information is available here.
--posted by Mitra Sharafi
