Legal Biographies: An Online Workshop

 [We have the following announcement. DRE]

The Legal History Section of the Society of Legal Scholars and LSE’s Legal Biography Project are holding a joint online workshop on Legal Biographies on the afternoons of 9 and 10 September 2021.  You can register for this event via Eventbrite [here]. The programme is as follows:

9th September 15.00-18.00 BST: Lives in Context

15.05-15.55 BST: Morad El Kadmiri (UCL Faculty of Laws)

Wigmore and the Land of the Rising Sun: Revisiting Orientalism Through the Experience of a Late 19th Century Legal Westerniser

16.00-16.50 BST: Neil Harrison (Northumbria University)

Sir Joseph Cowen as Commissioner and Chairman of the Tyne Improvement Commission from 1850 to 1873: the Influence of his Networks on his Interpretation of the Law and his Actions

17.00-17.50 BST: Helen Rutherford (Northumbria University)

The People’s Judge: Examining the Life and Work of the Coroner for Newcastle upon Tyne 1857-1885

10th September 15.00-18.00 BST: Uses, Abuses and Methods in Legal Biographical Writing

15.05-15.55 BST: Sean Morris (University of Helsinki)

Walter George Frank Phillimore (1845 – 1929): The Early Years and Devotion to Church-Law Relations

16.00-16.50 BST: Charlotte Smith (University of Reading)

Legal Biography and Religion: Some Reflections

17.00-17.50 BST: John Tribe (University of Liverpool)

Pride & Posterity: A Reappraisal of the Earl of Birkenhead’s role in the passage of the Law of Property Act 1925

Sackar on Lord Devlin

Out this month by Justice John Sackar (Supreme Court of New South Wales) is Lord Devlin with Hart Publishing. From the press:

Lord Devlin was a leading lawyer of his generation. Moreover, he was one of the most recognised figures in the judiciary, thanks to his role in the John Bodkin Adams trial and the Nyasaland Commission of Inquiry. It is hard then to believe that he retired as a Law Lord at a mere 58 years of age. This important book looks at the life, influences and impact of this most important judicial figure. Starting with his earliest days as a school boy before moving on to his later years, the author draws a compelling picture of a complex, brilliant man who would shape not just the law but society more generally in post-war Britain.

Further information is available here.

--Mitra Sharafi

AJLH 60:2

American Journal of Legal History, 60:2 (June 2020) is now available online: 

Reforming Criminal Justice in the Ottoman Empire: Police, Courts and Prisons in Rusçuk, 1839-1864   
Mehmet Celik

Combatting Bias in the Criminal Courts of France, 1870s-1913   
James Donovan

Political Judging and Judicial Restraint: The Case of Learned and Augustus Hand   
Jak Allen

Law at a Critical Juncture: The US Army’s Command Responsibility Trials at Manila, 1945-1947   
Jamie Fellows

White Subversion of Public School Desegregation in South Carolina, 1963-1970   
Stephen Lowe

Book Reviews

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England   
Sarah B White

Anat Rosenberg, Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History   
Victoria Barnes