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Gillian Black, David Cabrelli, Parker Hood, Laura MacGregor and Scott Wortley
Writing Legal History Conference: Oxford, 24 May2010
07 May 2010 12:15

It is worth noting the forthcoming conference in Oxford debating the need to move away from  overly national focus on legal history.

 

WRITING LEGAL HISTORY :  BREAKING OUT OF NATIONAL FRAMEWORKS (FRANCE & UNITED KINGDOM)

Monday 24 May 2010, Maison Française d’Oxford

Convenor:  Frédéric AUDREN, CNRS-MFO

Introduction by Luc BOROT (MFO), Jacques KRYNEN (Université Toulouse 1 Capitole) and Frédéric AUDREN (CNRS-MFO)

10:00 - 13.00
John CAIRNS (University of Edinburgh), National, Transnational, and European Legal Histories: Paradigms and Problems

Jean-Louis HALPÉRIN (ENS Ulm, Paris), Is it time for the de-construction of myths in French legal history ?

Michael LOBBAN (Mary Queen, University of London), The Varieties of Legal History

Alain WIJFFELS (CNRS - Centre Georges Chevrier), Le ius commune européen: les limites d'une base commune pour l'historiographie du droit anglais et français

Paul BRAND (All Souls, University of Oxford), The English medieval Common Law and the learned law tradition

14:00 - 17.00

Soazick KERNEIS (Université Paris Ouest), Alternative Dispute Resolution. Penal Law, History and Anthropology

Andrew LEWIS (University College London), The Tithe and La Dîme : similarities and différence

Chantal STEBBINGS (University of Exeter), The ‘Unreported’ Tax Case: its Place in the Development of Law in Nineteenth Century England

David DEROUSSIN (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), Une nouvelle nationalisation du droit : la culture juridique française vue par la doctrine (1ère moitié du XXè s.)

Conclusion : Louis ASSIER-ANDRIEU (CNRS-ISP Cachan)

With the support of Institute of European and Comparative Law, Service Culturel de l’Ambassade de France à Londres, Centre de Théorie et Analyse de Droit (CNRS-UMR 7074), Centre Lyonnais d’Histoire du Droit et de la Pensée Politique, and Centre Toulousain d’Histoire du Droit et des Idées Politiques

 - All welcome - 
 
For any further detail, please contact Frédéric AUDREN: frederic.audren@iecl.ox.ac.uk


Maison Française d’Oxford, 2- 10 Norham Road, Oxford OX2 6SE
Tel: 01865 274 220 ; maison@herald.ox.ac.uk

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