[We have the following announcement of a "Legal histories, local histories," a conference conducted online by the Open University Law School, November 15-16, 2023. DRE. H/t Irish Legal History]
Legal history is inextricably entwined with its localities – including through jurisdictions, subject matter, and places of trial and punishment. Local and social historians, like legal historians, draw upon legal source material. This conference brings international researchers into conversation with each other and explores the benefits of their different approaches and perspectives.
If you are attending both days, you only need to book a ticket for either 15 or 16 November.
Programme (15 and 16 November) [after the jump].
Wednesday 15 November
1015 Welcome
1030 Keynote: Professor Mairead Enright, ‘What is a Magdalene laundry?: Examining St. Mary’s Refuge, Northfield through the lens of Irish institutional abuse’
1115 Break
1130 Panel 1: Methods and archives
• Sally Gold, ‘If at first you don’t succeed… Methods and methodologies for local legal history’
• Lenka Skoupa, ‘Disability in Roman legal sources- a database’
• Ashley Hannay, ‘Northern Legal Histories: Legal Sources and the Palatine of Lancaster, 1377-1547’
1230 Lunch
1315 Panel 2: Crime and place
• Lucy Henry, ‘The Petitioner shall be harmless and skaithless kept’: Lawburrows and inter-personal conflict in the Inverness Sheriff Court, 1777-95
• Fergus Smith, ‘Strife in a Northern Town : Crime and Punishment in 19th Century Wick’
• Anna Chiara Trapani, ‘The flaw in the system: an analysis of the society and problems of the judicial system in late imperial China’
1415 Break
1430 Panel 3: Local histories, global ideas
• Conor Logue, ‘Harmful Online Disinformation and Misinformation and local histories’
• Homero Chiaraba, ‘Social Consecration and Intellectual Networks: Brazilian Jurists and the Globalization of Ideas in the Early 20th Century’
1515 Break
1530 Panel 4: Governance, economy and place
• Andrew Le Sueur, ‘Parish pump constitutionalism: microhistorical perspectives on the British constitution’
• Neil Harrison, ‘Sir Joseph Cowen MP and James Stevenson MP, Chairmen of the Tyne Improvement commission in the nineteenth century. Fathers of the river Tyne and Tyneside?’
• Laura Panades, ‘Learning the ropes: a critical understanding on the foundations of offshore financial jurisdictions’
1630 End
Thursday 16 November
1000 Welcome
1005 Panel 1: Coroners and communities
• Sophie Michell, ‘Death, Dilemmas and Decisions: The Nineteenth-Century Inquest’
• Jacqueline Smart, ‘John Milnes Favell: discovering a 19th Century Durham coroner and his work in the local community’
1045 Break
1100 Panel 2: Criminal cases and places
• Cheryl Butler, ‘The cannibalisation of Richard Parker’
• Helen Rutherford and Clare Sandford-Crouch, ‘A local peculiarity in the trial of Archibald Bolam and the Savings Bank Murder, 1838’
• Caroline Derry, ‘Deptford: a virtual criminal law tour’
1200 Break
1215 Panel 3: Archives as places
• Alejandro Morales Quintana, ‘Lecumberri: The National Archives in a black palace’
• Carol Howells, ‘Whitland: Legal origins and legal gardens’
1300 Lunch
1345 Keynote: Professor Rosalind Crone, Local Lockups Project
1430 Break
1445 Panel 4: Local histories and race
• Sukaina Haider, ‘Tracing the legacy of slavery through local history and challenging the historical narrative’
• Suzanne Lenon, ‘What Legal History Can Tell Us About Racial Rule: The Case of Regulating Chinese Laundries in Lethbridge, Alberta’
• Hygo Carvalho, ‘Persistence of Racial Inequalities and Racial Democracy in Brazil: A Case Study in Boa Vista, Roraima’
1545 Break
1550 Panel 5: Property, locality and exclusion
• David Magalhães, ‘Legal sources in local history: the «jus gazzaga» and the marginalisation of Jewish people in Rome’
• Emma Lyons, ‘‘If there was a conscious intent … to ignore or circumvent the [Penal] Laws governing landholding, they had to be taken into consideration’: Collusion, Discovery and Catholic landownership in eighteenth-century Ireland.’
1630 End
