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: Henry Mares
Senior member: Joshua Getzler
Forthcoming Group Events
May 2012
Thursday 17 May 2012 Week 4
- “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
Previous Group Events
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
