CALL FOR PAPERS
16 May 2019 | Q501/2, Toowoomba Campus | USQ
Legal rules, decisions, institutions, and individual actors have had an enormous impact on our cultures and societies today. Please join renowned Oxford University historian Professor Paul Brand and the Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG in a special colloquium titled The Past is Prologue: The Impact of Law’s History. We are inviting papers that consider how legal history in Aboriginal, British, Australian, American or wider contexts have shaped our shared present.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Paul Brand is a scholar of international standing in legal history. He is Professor of English Legal History in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Professor Brand’s global research impact has been immense. Since 1975 he has published or edited 17 books, 46 book chapters, 21 journal articles, and numerous reviews. From 2012 he was one of the lead investigators of the major three-year AHRC (UK equivalent of the ARC) Magna Carta project.
The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG is an internationally-known jurist and educator. He served as a Justice on the High Court of Australia from 1996-2009. In addition to his many activities for the United Nations, he is actively engaged in international arbitrations, domestic mediations, and law teaching. In 1990 he was awarded the Australian Human Rights Medal. His passion for legal history has informed his written judgments and advocacy of curriculum changes in Australian legal education.
Invitation
Academics across law, the humanities and social sciences are invited to give scholarly presentations at this colloquium. These may be on any topic broadly related to legal history.
Venue
The Colloquium will be held on the USQ Toowoomba campus in Q501/2. Refreshments will be served throughout the event.
What is required?
Contributors should prepare an oral presentation of approximately 20 minutes. This presentation may be supported by a written paper or represent work-in-progress. The organisers of the colloquium may ask interested participants if they would like to later publish their papers in a joint format.
Are you interested in contributing?
Please register your interest in presenting at this Colloquium by contacting Associate Professor Marcus Harmes (Marcus.Harmes@usq.edu.au). You are asked to identify the title of your contribution (with a 100 word précis) by 22 March 2019.
If you are interested in attending, but without delivering a paper, please RSVP with <law@usq.edu.au>.
Hosted by the Law, Religion, and Heritage Research Program Teamand the Centre for Heritage and Culture
