Conference Information

Conference Papers

Professor Charles Donahue Jr, Harvard Law School: 'The Hypostasis of Prophecy”: Legal Realism and Legal History'

Historiography and Jurisprudence

Professor David Rabban, University of Texas at Austin: 'Roscoe Pound: Overcoming Individualism Through Sociological Jurisprudence'

Early-Modern Jurisdictions

Professor Louis Knafla, University of Calgary: 'Litigating Complaints in Early Seventeenth Century Kent: Lawyers, Sergeants and Jurors "Engineering" Common Law Process in Local Courts'

Professions and Practice

Professor Jonathan Rose, Arizona State University: 'Advocatorum Militia: The Chivalric Ethos of the Legal Profession – Loyalty and Honor'

Criminal Legislation

Dr Kim Stevenson, University of Plymouth: '"I Beg to Apologise for Troubling You on This Disagreeable Subject": the Criminal Law Amendment Acts and the Elusivity of Establishing the Age of Consent'

Commerce

Dr Dave De Ruysscher, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven: 'The Reception of Civil Law and the Structuring of Commercial Jurisdiction in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp'

Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century Innovation in Practice

Dr Gwen Seabourne, University of Bristol: 'Abduction and Elopement: Aspects of the Relationship Between Women, Law and Legal Process in Fourteenth-Century England'

Protecting the Powerless and Specific Performance

Professor Jerry L Anderson, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa: 'Procedural Mechanisms to Enforce Animal Cruelty Laws'

Changing Law in a Changing Empire 1600-1825

Professor Timothy A. Milford, St John’s University, New York: 'The Trial of the Mirandistas: Liberal Imperialism after the First American Revolution'

Stories from Chancery

Professor David Seipp, Boston University: 'Trust and Conscience in the Early Common Law'

Public Law

Mr Michael Nash, Glion Institute of Higher Education: 'The Golden Met-wand and Royal Litigation'

Judicial Instigators and Outcomes

Professor Dolores Freda, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II": 'The Great Tribunals and Law Reporting in England and Continental Europe: the Reappraisal of a Comparison'

History of Contract

Dr Warren Swain, University of Durham: 'Equity in English Contract Law: the Impact of the Judicature Acts'

Case Law and Justice

Professor Richard Ross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 'Distinguishing Eternal and Transient Law in Early Modern England: the Judicial Laws of Moses and Natural Law'

Martin Burr, Chambers of Martin Burr: 'Anglo-Saxon Law v Anglo-Saxon Legal Process? (What Makes Anglo-Saxon Law and Legal Process Special?'