Twenty-First British Legal History Conference

When:
July 10, 2013 – July 14, 2013 all-day
2013-07-10T07:00:00+00:00
2013-07-14T07:00:00+00:00
Where:
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland

The conference addresses the ways law has been shaped historically by different forms and ideas of authority, and by assumptions, arguments and debates about the relationship between law and authority. The theme embraces the authority of lawyers, judges and jurists; law courts, legislatures and other institutions of governance; judicial decisions, legislation and codes; texts such as legal opinions, law reports and juristic treatises; records such as charters, court decrees and verdicts; rules, principles and precedents; forms of argument, interpretation and doctrinal categories; custom, social practice and myth; ideology, equity and wider traditions in intellectual history, legal and political thought.