0 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: 31st Annual Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society

Receiving Laws/ Giving
Laws: 

The 31st Annual Conference of the

Australia
and New Zealand Law and History Society

December 2012, UTS, Sydney

Paper proposals due 31 July 2012

The 31st Annual Conference of the Australia
and New Zealand Law and History Society will be held at the University of Technology,
Sydney (UTS), 10-12 December 2012.

 

• Keynote
  speaker: Professor Philip Girard, Dalhousie – “Colonization, Culture,
  Continuity:  The Role of Law”


• Plenary
  speaker: Professor Christopher Tomlins, UC Irvine – “Debt, Death, and
  Redemption: Toward a History of the Turner Rebellion”


• Keynote Panel:
  “Receiving Laws / Giving Laws: Three Takes” - Professor Anne Orford, Melbourne, A/Prof Katherine Biber, UTS, Dr Damen
  Ward, Crown Law, Wellington

More
information, including on the conference theme, can be found at http://www.law.uts.edu.au/research/conferences/index.html

Inquiries
or paper proposals - including a title, brief abstract and brief biography -
should be sent to shaunnagh.dorsett@uts.edu.au
by 31 July 2012. While papers on the conference theme are encouraged, abstracts
can be submitted on any legal history topic.

All
proposals will be assessed, and successful submitters contacted at the end of
July. Conference registration, accommodation and other information will be
posted to the conference webpage in August.

UTS is the
most centrally located law school in Sydney, situated next to Central Station,
on the edge of China Town, three minutes by monorail from Sydney’s central
shopping district and a short trip to the harbour by direct train or bus.