Legal History Seminar

Regular meetings take place in the History Faculty boardroom on Tuesdays at 5.15pm, though one meeting this term (29 May) will be on a Friday. Additionally, this term the Centre is holding a workshop on Thursday 7 May. This will take place in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College at 2pm. All are welcome.

• 5 May: Richard Kay (University of Connecticut School of Law) The Glorious Revolution and the continuity of law
• 7 May (on Thursday at 2pm): Workshop – Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
  • Halcyon Weber (St John’s College, Cambridge) An enquiry into Justinianic legislation on the ius antiquum
  • Lorenzo Maniscalco (Trinity Hall, Cambridge) Aequitas and epieikeia in medieval and early-modern legal scholarship
  • Joanna McCunn (Clare College, Cambridge) The interpretation of deeds at common law, c. 1530–80
  • Jeffrey Thomson (Hughes Hall, Cambridge) Marine insurance in the seventeenth century
• 19 May: Guido Rossi (University of Edinburgh) Sin and abuse of power in the political thought of medieval lawyers
• 29 May (on Friday): Warren Swain (University of Queensland) The common law and the Code civil: the curious case of the law of contract

If you have any questions or would be interested in offering a paper to a future meeting of the seminar, please contact the convenors: Jacob Currie jmrc2@cam.ac.uk and Joe Sampson jws43@cam.ac.uk.