UK Professor to give Keynote Address at UNE Law and History Conference
Thu 20 Sep 2007
Professor Lobban
Michael Lobban, Professor of Legal History at Queen Mary, University of London (pictured), will deliver the Keynote Address at an international Law and History conference in Armidale on Friday 21 September.
The UNE School of Law is hosting the 26th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society in Armidale from 21-23 September.
Professor Lobban’s address is entitled, “Fenceposts of the Empire: The Politics of English law in the Nineteenth Century”. According to Professor Lobban, “in the nineteenth century, new rules of law were developed both in court, and through the instrumentality of the legal profession, which were vital to the developing industrial and commercial economy. But the politics of the courts cannot be mapped in the same way as parliamentary party politics. This means that a history which takes account of what the lawyers and judges did will throw up a different view of nineteenth century political culture from that seen through traditional party lenses”.
Professor Lobban was awarded a prize for outstanding legal scholarship for his book, The Common Law and English Jurisprudence, 1760-1850. He is presently working on two volumes of the New Oxford History of the Laws of England.
The conference theme is Fenceposts in Legal History which, while picking up UNE’s regional setting, encourages deep consideration of discrete or pivotal events, laws, issues or people (‘fenceposts’) as well as longer term analysis of historical periods or paradigms (connecting fenceposts as themes through time and place).
Delegates will be traveling to Armidale for the conference from all Australian states, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Registration is open to anyone interested in attending. Details about the full conference program can be found at the ANZLHS conference web-page.
For any further information about the conference, contact Associate Professor Mark Lunney in UNE’s School of Law on (02) 6773 2713 (e-mail: mark.lunney@une.edu.au).
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