Presentation
In tracing the way that legal ideas emerge and expand, historians have become increasingly interested in exploring the way that networks are developed and connections made. Legal history is full of connections – between people and places, jurisdictions and ideas. The way that the law develops may be influenced by particular social, professional or political groups, or by wider national, imperial or transnational networks. The law may change direction because of new connections made, whether in the form of the transplantation of legal concepts from one forum to another, or in the form of the influence of new ways of thinking or acting. These connections or networks may be simple or complex, transitory or enduring, ad hoc or accidental. The aim of this conference is to explore the wide range of networks and connections which influence the development of law and legal ideas over time, in a variety of different scholarly contexts.
Programme
Wednesday 5 July
Session I, 13:45-15:15
Room 1 : Medieval remedies and jurisdictions
Chair : Joshua Tate
Once More : The Rise of the Action on the Case
Charles Donahue
Creating the common law : the effects of repeated pleas in court on thirteenth-century English law in Ireland
Stephen Hewer
Networks and Influences : Contextualising Personnel and Procedures in the Court of Chivalry
Anthony Musson
Room 2 : European Connections
Chair : Mark Godfrey
The recurring myth of the justice of the peace : from the English justice de la pees to the Italian conciliatore
Dolores Freda
Networkers of the Constitutional Discourses of 18th century Europe – The British American discursive common law community
Ulrike Müßig
Victim reparation under the ius post bellum prior to Westphalia : Englishmen and Scots seeking redress through a network of legal institutions in the Low Countries
Louis Sicking and Remco van Rhee
Room 3 : Personal Networks in the British Empire
Chair : Daniel Hulsebusch
Do Friends Matter ? Networks and the Legal History of British India
Ray Cocks
Judicial Networks and Connections : Ireland and Victoria, 1841-1899
James McComish
The Thistle, the Rose, and the Palm : Scottish and English Legal Officials in British East Florida
Matthew Mirow
Session II, 15:45-17:15
Room 1 :Legal Pluralism in a Connected Empire
Chair : Charlotte Smith
Colonial Law and Pakistan's Early Interpretation of Islamic law
Shazia Ahmad
Legal networks and the response to polygamy in the British Empire, 1870-1950
Penny Sinanoglou
The Architecture of Imperial Law in early British Palestine
John Strawson
Room 2 : Eighteenth century doctrinal change
Chair : James Oldham
Municipal politics and mandamus : points of connection 1700-1835
Kevin Costello
Wrongful connections ? Conspiracy doctrine in the later 17th and early 18th century
Michael Macnair
« By lying in wait, feloniously and unlawfully did make an assault » : Coventry's Act and malicious injury in the long eighteenth century
Katherine Watson
Room 3 : Early Modern Codification, criminal law reform and legal discourse : A Critical and Comparative Analysis
Chair : Steve Banks
The fundamental principles of a reformatory penology : convergences, transplantations and divergences in the penal codification of the 18 century in Europe
Yves Cartuyvels
The Role of Nature in the 18th-century criminal law discourse : A Critical and Comparative Analysis
Aniceto Masferrer
Selden Society AGM, 17:30-18:00 : Darwin Lecture Theatre
Plenary I, 18:00-19:00
Shakespeare and the European ius commune
Richard H Helmholz
19:15 : Drinks Reception
Thursday 6 July
Session III, 09:00-10:30
Room 1 : Networks in the slave empire
Chair : Julia Rudolph
Legislation in Jamaica, 1664-1839, and the transatlantic legislative revolution
Aaron Graham
« Dies diem docet , One Day Teaches Another »: Experts and Legal Knowledge in Early Modern Empire Building
Jennifer Wells
Slavery and Subjecthood in Revolutionary Era South Carolina
Lee Wilson
Room 2 : Developing International law
Chair : Louis Sicking
The Failure of the plan for a Commonwealth Tribunal
Donal Coffey
The development of the concept of jus cogens : from the British and American campaigns against piracy to the Armenian genocide
Michael Mulligan
Anglo-African Legal Connections and the Roots of Britain's Imperial International Law in West Africa (1815-1884)
Inge van Hulle
Room 3 : Early modern jurisprudential exchanges and interactions
Chair : Guido Rossi
Natural Rights in Early Modern England : Development and Influence, c. 1500-1650
Ryan Greenwood
Tithe Networks and Connexions : moduses and real compositions
Andrew Lewis
Interpretatio ex aequo et bono – the emergence of equitable interpretation in European legal scholarship
Lorenzo Maniscalco
Session IV, 11:00-12:30
Room 1 : Curial Connections: Appeals and Jurisdiction in the British Isles
Chair : Hamilton Bryson
Seventeenth-century appellate jurisdiction over Irish cases
Coleman Dennehy
Connections between Courts and Networks of Jurisdiction : the Court of Session and the Privy Council in Scotland 1532-1707
Mark Godfrey
Making British Law : Scottish Appellants, Legal Pluralism, and the Westminster House of Lords as Scotland's « Supreme Court », 1707-1875
Philip Loft
Room 2 : Transnational influences on private law
Chair : David Ibbetson
The phenomenon of a hollow legal shell –a few remarks on the course of implementation of the French commercial law on the Polish territories in the 19th century
Anna Klimaszewska
Valtazar Bogišić (1834-1908) and Gustave Boissonade (1825-1910) : some neglected aspects of Modern Japanese Law
Emi Matsumoto
Room 3 : Private law disputes
Chair : Joshua Getzler
Montagu v Bath : a seventeenth century contentious probate
Ruth Paley
Law Reporting and Law Making : the missing link in nineteenth-century tax law
Chantal Stebbings
Whose money is it anyway ?: Trusts and the Doctrine of Reputed Ownership
Andreas Televantos
Session V: 13:30-15:00
Room 1 : Lay participants in the medieval common law
Chair : David Seipp
Benefit of the Belly ? Pregnant Convicts and Juries of Matrons in Medieval England
Sara Butler
Gossip Networks, Craft Connections, and Legal Investigation : Homicide Inquests in London, 1321-1340
Elizabeth Kamali
Ecclesiastical gaols and lay convicts in early Tudor England
Margaret McGlynn
Room 2 : Connections between Domestic and International
Chair : David Rabban
« A sharp line between legal and moral wrongs » : The Anglo-American debate over war crimes at Versailles in 1919
John Hepp
English Liberties outside England : Floors, Doors, Windows, Mirrors, and Ceilings in the Legal Architecture of Empire
Daniel Hulsebosch
The World is On Our Side : The U.S. and the U.N. Race Convention
Herbert Lovelace
Room 3 : Text, Translation and the Transmission of Ideas in Early-Modern Britain
Chair : Krista Kesselring
Printers, Pamphlets and the Law in the first English Civil War
Alex Hitchman
Networking across the North Sea – the influence of German civilian authors on Sir George Mackenzie's « Laws and Customs of Scotland in Matters Criminal »
Thomas Krause
Continental Natural Law Ideas and English Legal Culture : English Translations of Samuel Pufendorf's De officio hominis et civis juxta legem naturalem of the 17th and 18th centuries revisited
Andreas Thier
Session VI: 15:30-17:00
Room 1 : Law and Peace: Empire, War and Law
Chair : Nurfadzilah Yahaya
Corporate Conquests : A Study of the Development of the Common Law and the Imperial Constitution, 1600-1923
Edward Cavanagh
Colonial Administrators as Jurists ? Boer POWs, Imperial Bureaucracy and the International Laws of War
Chris Holdridge and Wm Matthew Kennedy
War and Peace : Legal Regimes in South Asia during the Second World War
Kalyani Ramnath
Room 2 : Connecting Commerce and the Law in early-modern England
Chair : David Waddilove
Arbitration in English Law and Society before the Act of 1698
Julia Kelsoe
The movement of ideas in early modern interpretation
Joanna McCunn
Merchant practices and understandings relating to marine insurance and the common law before Lord Mansfield
Jeffrey Thomson
Room 3 : Networks and Connections in the Drafting of Legislation
Chair : Chantal Stebbings
The « real » engine of change for the 1925 legislation
Tola Amodu and Kate McCarthy
Seeking efficiency in debt recovery : The influence of fairs' merchants on French Early Modern insolvency law
Nga Bellis-Phan
Legal tensions and the forging of Britain's emergency powers framework, 1919–27
Patrick Graham
Plenary II, 17:15-18:30
Creating a Common law of Slavery for the Empire in the Seventeenth Century
Holly Brewer
Drinks Reception
Friday 7 July
Session VII, 09:00-10:30
Room 1 : Law and text in medieval Britain
Chair : Gwen Seabourne
A Friend and an Enemy to Man : Fire in Medieval Irish and Welsh Legal Material
Riona Doolan
Legal connections in medieval Welsh Literature : Dafydd ab Edmwnd's eulogy to Siôn Eos
Gwynedd Parry
Maintenance and Medieval Literature
Jonathan Rose
Room 2 : Connecting Criminal law to Context
Chair : Thomas P. Gallanis
Mental states and careless acts : the development of fault in tort and crime since 1850
Matthew Dyson
John Taylor Coleridge and the Criminal Law
Philip Handler
British Criminal Trial Procedure in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Conor Hanly
Room 3 : Professional networks in Britain
Chair : Raymond Cocks
Scottish Solicitors in London 1740-1860
John Finlay
Professional Networks and Connections at the Bar : life on the Northern Circuit in the 18th Century
David Hoffmann
Men of law and legal networks in Aberdeen, 1600-1650
Adelyn Wilson
Session VIII, 11:00-12:30
Room 1 : The circulation of legal ideas in medieval Britain
Chair : Andrew Lewis
The Ius Commune and the Performance of Kingship during the personal rule of Henry III, c.1230-c.1250
Lucy Hennings
After Bracton : Redefining the Audience for Legal Literature in the Later Thirteenth Century
Thomas McSweeney
Wrongdoing and remission : canonical influences on royal pardon in later medieval Scotland
Cynthia Neville
Room 2 : The Role of Networking for 'First Female Lawyers' in Europe
Chair : Chloe Kennedy
« First English Women Lawyers » Networks and Connections
Judith Bourne
The Belgian Lawyer Louis Frank, His Finnish Networks and Constructing La Femme-Avocat : Advocating the Female Cause by Networking
Mia Korpiola
Networks and Connections of the First Estonian Female Lawyers
Merike Ristikivi
Room 3 : English law in the British Empire
Chair : Stephen Kos
Conflict over the law in New Zealand ; 1840-1860 : Evangelical networks and Māori understanding of English law
Michael Belgrave
A Failed Transplant : The Troubled Life and Lingering Death of Trial by Jury in India
James Jaffe
A « trust » to benefit indigenous peoples : The Nelson settlement, New Zealand, in the 1840s
David Williams
Session IX, 13:30-15:00
Room 1 : Networks of legal ideas in medieval Europe
Chair : Thomas J. McSweeney
Exploring connections between private and public law. The contribution of the ius commune to the conceptualization of diplomatic representation
Dante Fedele
Networks of feudal lawyers in Flanders, Lombardy and Saxony
Dirk Heirbaut
The Birth of Common Law and the Invention of Legal Traditions
Ada Maria Kuskowski
Room 2 : Juristic Networks Making Law
Chair : Matthew Dyson
The Making of a Discipline : The « Italian School » and the Creation of Private International Law
Nikitas Hatzimihail
Anglo-American Jurisprudence and Legal Discourse in Weimar Germany
Regina Poertner
The Society for Comparative Legislation and the Liberal Imperial Origins of Comparative Law
David Schorr
Room 3 : Britain's Imperial Constitution
Chair : Niamh Howlin
The Constitution of Empire : Nation and Treaty in the Late Victorian Legal Imagination
Coel Kirkby
Dicey's Defence of the Unwritten Imperial Constitution
Dylan Lino
Jousting Over Jurisdiction : Sovereignty and International Law in Late Nineteenth-Century South Asia
Priyasha Saksena
Session X, 15:30-17:00
Room 1 : Connecting the Living and the Dead in medieval England
Chair : Paul Brand
Connecting Treatise and Reality : Mort d'Ancestor in Bracton and in the Courts
Will Eves
Connections through instrumenta in the wills of England 1066 to 1300
Timothy Haskett
The live issue of live issue : considering medieval curtesy
Gwen Seaborne
Room 2 : Networks of Modern Jurists
Chair : Kjell Åke Modéer
« Network of Jurists » A project on legal cultures in Europe
Nader Hakim and Annamaria Monti
The Transatlantic Dialogue Between the American and French Scholars (1900-1950)
Prune Decoux
Between « national reality » and looking outwards : Brazilian and Argentine lawyers in dialogue with Europe (1917-1943)
Mariana de Moraes Silveira
Room 3 : Law in Practice in the Eighteenth Century British Empire
Chair : Matthew Mirow
The Last British Justice in Colonial America : Charleston's Board of Police, 1780-1782
Sally Hadden
English Law in Bengal, 1774-1796
David Ibbetson
The Royal Navy, Legal Pluralism, and Authority in Early Colonial Sierra Leone : 1670 – 1815
Tim Soriano
Plenary III, 17:15-18:30
The Google of its Time ? The East India Company's Past in Our Present
Philip J Stern
Drinks Reception ( sponsored by the Journal Of Legal History), 18:30-19:30
Conference Dinner, 19:30
Saturday 8 July
Session XI, 09:30-11:00
Room 1 : Texts and Connections in Medieval Canon Law
Chair : John Hudson
« That We May Uphold the Justice Found in the Law » A Late-Twelflth Century Notabilia in an Oxford College Manuscript
Bruce Brasington
Schools, networks and « new law » : the genesis of the Breviarium of Bernard of Pavia
Danica Summerlin
Arguments of Law in the Thirteenth-Century Court of Canterbury
Sarah White
Room 2 : The Jury
Chair : Philip Handler
Female Jurors and Administrative Independence in Early 1920s England
Kevin Crosby
« Mere Surplusage ? » Jury Riders in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Niamh Howlin and Mark Coen
Nineteenth Century Hawai'i's Mixed Jury System and the Insanity Plea
Avis Poai
Room 3 : Commercial networks
Chair : Neil Jones
Credit Networks in the Eighteenth-century Empire : Mortgage in England and Ireland
Julia Rudolph
The History of Factors and Pledges : Paterson v Tash in Context
Sean Thomas
Sureties in Early-Modern England
David Waddilove
Plenary IV, 11:30-13:00
Trans-Atlantic connections : The Enduring Legacy of J.P. Benjamin
Catharine Macmillan
Lunch, 13:00 – 14:00
Conference ends
Registration Fees :
£200 Full Conference with Dinner
£150 Full Conference only
The registation fee includes all refreshments, lunches and receptions throughout the conference. If you purchase the Full Conference with Dinner ticket then the conference dinner on Friday 8 July is also included.
