Prof Dr Elsemieke Daalder of the University of Münster will be presenting on the following topic: “Between emperor and senate: the oratio principis during the Principate” The paper will be held at 3pm on Friday 19 April in Room 207, 10 The Square, University of Glasgow. The paper will also be available on Zoom, following this link. All are welcome. For further information, please contact Dr Graeme Cunningham. The post Roman Law Lecture, University of Glasgow, 19th April appeared first on | The Edinburgh Legal History Blog ..read more

Patrick Polden Memorial Event: A history of law, courts and judging – Brunel University 9 April 2024, 2-5pm; Reception 5-6.30pm Your blogger did not know the late Patrick Polden at all well. But no one interested in the history of courts could ignore his work. When I was asked to write a short study of courts and procedure in Scotland and England in the nineteenth century, his work on the English courts was the major source for that. Using it made me appreciate the depth of his knowledge and his ability to explain. I quote below a recent invitation than event to commemorate his life and schola ..read more

The next Helsinki Legal History Series seminar is approaching, and this time they will host guest lecturer Cristina Nogueira da Silva from the NOVA School of Law. All warmly invited to join her intriguing seminar talk titled “Citizens of ‘black race’ in Portuguese legal doctrine from the twentieth century” Abstract: This paper aims to discuss the impact of racial criteria on access to citizenship and its influence on the identification and self-identification of local elites of native origin within the 20th-century Portuguese Empire. The focus will be on how this local elite countered the rac ..read more

This year’s topic is Historicising Jurisprudence: Person, Community, Form. While recognizing the universal and impersonal aspirations of jurisprudence, the 2024 Hart Workshop seeks to explore its historicization in particular times and places. The Workshop thus invites participants to take an alternative view of jurisprudence: as a human, all too human, practice, which is deeply personal while also being deeply social, and one that is shot through with historically-situated politics and culture. By digging deeply into its situated ethics, politics, and aesthetics, this Workshop will explore di ..read more

Using evidence from computational analysis of the digitised Old Bailey Proceedings, this paper examines the major transformations in courtroom practices which took place in this influential court in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It examines the changing roles played by courtroom participants (focusing on victims, juries and witnesses, but also with attention to defendants, counsel and judges), the evolution of the physical design of the courtroom, and changing trial outcomes (verdicts, punishments) to argue that historians have overemphasised the role of judges and counsel and the d ..read more

The deadline for the call for papers for the Legal History section of the 2024 Society of Legal Scholars’ Annual Conference has been extended to Wednesday 3 April 2024, 11:59pm UK time. The conference will be held at Bristol University, from 3rd-5th September. The Legal History section will meet in the first half of the conference on 3-4 September and will have four sessions, each lasting 90 minutes. The theme of the conference is “Learning from Others: Lessons for Legal Scholars?”. As scholars, we interact with others – students; fellow academics; legal practitioners; the wider public – and ..read more

This Blog has in the past mentioned John Grant and his collection of Law Reports of Jamaica a few times. A discussion of the reports is found here. The recent work on him and his family by a descendant of his brother (John Grant himself had no children) was discussed here. On Thursday 9 May at 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Richard Blake, the author of the work referred to above, Sugar, Slaves, and High Society: The Grants of Kilgraston, 1750-1860 (2023) is talking about John Grant, the Chief Justice, at the Advocates Library, under the auspices of the Faculty of Advocates’ Tumbling Lassie initiative, wh ..read more

Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age: 400 Years of De jure belli ac pacis, 1625-2025 International Conference, 19-20 June 2025, Leiden University Wijnhaven Campus, The Hague On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at the University of Leiden and the Department of Public Law and Governance at Tilburg Universi ..read more

Maksymilian Del Mar, Queen Mary University of London, will address the Helsinki Legal History Series on Monday 29 April 2024, 15-16:30 (UTC+2) in the Porthania Building, Room P545, University of Helsinki and on Zoom (Link to be published later).  His lecture is entitled, Beyond Belief and Deeper than Argument: Character and Intellectual Historiography: This talk explores the value of character for writing intellectual history, and in particular the history of philosophy and politics. The talk first considers the long and rich history of character – especially character writing in the rhe ..read more

History of Arbitration Project: ‘Your Christmas holidays cannot be more dull than mine. I pass the morning in arbitrations, the most irksome of all employments, and the evening in absolute solitude’: Arbitration in Nineteenth-Century England Event type Lecture Address In-Person – Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Speakers Francis Calvert Boorman Event dates 27 March 2024, 6:00PM – 7:30PM Add to calendar Contact ials.events@sas.ac.uk _ Book now For details see: The post History of Arbitration: Lecture, 27 March, I.A.L.S. appeared first on | The Edinburgh L ..read more