‘Receiving Laws/Giving Laws’: 31st Annual Conference of the Australia New Zealand Law and History Society, December 2012
Call for Papers
The 31st Annual Conference of the Australia New Zealand Law and History Society, December 2012
'Receiving Laws/Giving Laws'
The 31st Annual Conference of the Australia New Zealand Law and History Society will be held at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), 10-12 December 2012. UTS is the most centrally located law school in Sydney, situated next to Central Station, on the edge of China Town, three minutes by monorail from Sydney’s central shopping district and a short trip to the harbour by direct train or bus.
The conference theme is “Receiving Laws/Giving Laws”. It is orientated towards the movement, transmission and transformation of laws and their histories – across Empire, through time, in and between genres and disciplines. The receiving and giving of laws could be addressed in a broad range of ways. How do laws and histories translocate? By what means (doctrinal, processual, cultural) are laws transmitted and received in new places? What transformations happen as a result of this movement? Whose histories, cultures and laws appear and disappear through these transformations? What kinds of interventions can bring about ways of transforming, perceiving and transmitting the law and its histories/cultures?
The keynote speaker is Professor Philip Girard, University Research Professor and Professor of Law, History & Canadian Studies, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. There will also be a plenary panel in which three scholars will address the theme of the conference, each through a different genre of legal history: Professor Anne Orford, Melbourne Law School; Dr Katherine Biber, School of Law, UTS; Dr Damen Ward, Crown Law Office, Wellington.
The organising committee would welcome interest from legal historians from any jurisdiction. The call for papers will be open until late June. Inquiries or paper proposals – including a title, brief abstract and brief biography – should be sent to Shaunngh Dorsett, and further information is available at http://www.law.uts.edu.au/research/conferences/receiving_laws.html