Oxford Legal History Forum
About the Group
The Oxford Legal History Forum is a discussion group for every type of legal history ancient and modern. It aims to meet twice a term, and all are welcome.
Convenor: Moira Gillis
Senior member: Joshua Getzler
Previous Group Events
November 2012
Thursday 29 November 2012
- Paper Money, Debt Relief, and the Creditors' Constitution: Why Were the Anti-Federalists Silent?
- Speaker: Dr George van Cleve, Universities of Virginia and Seattle
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:30
May 2012
Thursday 17 May
- “Time in the Court of King's Bench”
- Speaker: Professor Douglas Hay, Professor of Law and History at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Department of History, York University
Oxford Law Faculty Lecture Theatre II, St Cross Building, Manor Road Oxford at 17:00
June 2011
Friday 10 June 2011
- Misdemeanour in 18th-century King's Bench
- Speaker: Professor Douglas Hay, Osgoode Hall, York University
University College Swire Room at 12:45
May 2011
Tuesday 24 May
- How public international law has been made, found and proven from the 17th to the 21st century
- Speaker: Professor Stefan Talmon, Oxford Law Faculty
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:00
January 2011
Thursday 27 January
- Navigating the Law in Mid-Tudor England
- Speaker: James McComish, Magdalen College Oxford
Merton College Breakfast Room at 17:00
June 2010
Thursday 10 June 2010
- Law and violence in medieval Jewish Law
- Speaker: Dr Joseph David, Oriental Institute
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 12:45
May 2010
Friday 14 May
- Lawyers, Laypeople and Legal Knowledge in Mid-Tudor England
- Speaker: James McComish, Magdalen College, University of Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty 19A at 12:50
March 2010
Friday 5 March
- Some observations on reading Bracton in early-modern England
- Speaker: Dr Ian Williams, UCL Faculty of Laws
Oxford Law Faculty Room 5, near Law Board Room, St Cross Building at 12:15
January 2010
Tuesday 26 January
- James Fitzjames Stephen and the Indian Codification of the Common Law of Evidence
- Speaker: Justice J Dyson Heydon, Justice of the High Court of Australia
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:30
Monday 25 January
- The making of mistake(s) in English contract law
- Speaker: Dr Catharine MacMillan, Queen Mary School of Law
Oxford Law Faculty Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre at 17:30
October 2009
Wednesday 21 October 2009
- Causa Fidei Laesionis in the English Ecclesiastical Courts and Its Influence on the Court of Chancery
- Speaker: Remus Vulsan, Faculty of Law, McGill University and Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
Oxford Law Faculty Senior Common Room at 12:15
November 2008
Friday 28 November 2008
- The Court for Crown Cases Reserved 1848-1908
- Speaker: Dr Phil Handler, University of Keele
Oxford Law Faculty Room 5 at 12:45
Friday 7 November
- 'Transplant of Trusts from England to America: Saunders v Vautier versus Claflin'
- Speaker: Dr Joshua Getzler
Oxford Law Faculty Room 5 at 13:00
May 2008
Friday 9 May
- Maine to Maitland via America
- Speaker: David Rabban, Law, University of Texas at Austin
Oxford Law Faculty SCR at 13:00
April 2008
Friday 25 April
- Legislative Reform of English Evidence and Civil Procedure in the 1850s
- Speaker: Deirdre Dwyer, Pembroke College, Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty tbc at 13:00
March 2008
Monday 10 March
- Puritan Godly Discipline in Comparative Perspective: Legal Pluralism and the Sources of “Intensity”
- Speaker: Richard Ross, Law and History, University of Illinois
Oxford Law Faculty tbc at 13:00
February 2008
Monday 25 February
- Prosecutions by the Attorneys General in Star Chamber and King’s Bench 1603-1675
- Speaker: Henry Mares, St Hilda’s College, Oxford
Oxford Law Faculty tbc at 13:00
October 2007
Wednesday 17 October 2007
- The Legal Status of Muslim Slaves and Freedmen in Medieval Spain and Portugal
- Speaker: Dr Francois Soyer, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Evora, Portugal
Oxford Law Faculty Room 5 at 13:00
June 2007
Wednesday 13 June
- Misdemeanours and Counsel
- Speaker: Professor Thomas Gallanis, (Minnesota)
Oxford Law Faculty Rm 5 St Cross Building at 1300
May 2007
Tuesday 1 May
- Blackstone as a comparativist
- Speaker: Professor E. Kadens , Texas
Oxford Law Faculty Room 5 at 1300
March 2007
Friday 2 March
- Statutory Theory and Judicial Practice in the Contract Law of Colonial India (1781-1862) : A Re-Appraisal
- Speaker: Stelios Tofaris, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Oxford Law Faculty Room 5 at 13:00
November 2006
Thursday 23 November 2006
- Estate Preservation and Preserving Estates: Protection of Family Property Against Creditors in the Late Eighteenth-Century Chancery.
- Speaker: Adam Hofri-Winogradow, Somerville
Oxford Law Faculty Room 4 in the St Cross Building. at 12:50
