Writing Legal History Conference: Oxford, 24 May 2010
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