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 18^th 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 17^th and early 18^th 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 18^th-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 19^th 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 18^th 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.