The Legal History Section of the Society of Legal Scholars and LSE’s Legal Biography Project are holding a joint online workshop on Legal Biographies on the afternoons of 9 and 10 September 2021.
The programme is as follows
9th September 15.00-18.00 BST: Lives in Context
15.05-15.55 BST: Morad El Kadmiri (UCL Faculty of Laws)
Wigmore and the Land of the Rising Sun: Revisiting Orientalism Through the Experience of a Late 19th Century Legal Westerniser
16.00-16.50 BST: Neil Harrison (Northumbria University)
Sir Joseph Cowen as Commissioner and Chairman of the Tyne Improvement Commission from 1850 to 1873: the Influence of his Networks on his Interpretation of the Law and his Actions
17.00-17.50 BST: Helen Rutherford (Northumbria University)
The People’s Judge: Examining the Life and Work of the Coroner for Newcastle upon Tyne 1857-1885
10th September 15.00-18.00 BST: Uses, Abuses and Methods in Legal Biographical Writing
15.05-15.55 BST: Sean Morris (University of Helsinki)
Walter George Frank Phillimore (1845 – 1929): The Early Years and Devotion to Church-Law Relations
16.00-16.50 BST: Charlotte Smith (University of Reading)
Legal Biography and Religion: Some Reflections
17.00-17.50 BST: John Tribe (University of Liverpool)
Pride & Posterity: A Reappraisal of the Earl of Birkenhead’s role in the passage of the Law of Property Act 1925
For further information, contact Victoria Barnes (barnes@lhlt.mpg.de)
You can register for this event via Eventbrite on https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legal-biography-workshop-tickets-162918711251.
