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We have a call for papers for ISHTIP 2019, to be held July at UTS: Law Sydney, 4-6 July. The theme is Intellectual Property and the Visual. Date for submission of proposals: 15 October 2018 Expected date for notification of … Continue reading →

Our sister society, the American Society for Legal History, and the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School are inviting applications for the tenth biennial Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, to be held 9-22 June … Continue reading →

Congratulations to our past president  Shaunnagh Dorsett (UTS) for her book Juridical Encounters: Maori and the Colonial Courts 1840-1852 (Auckland UP) and Jane McCabe (Otago) for her book Race, Tea and Colonial Settlement (Bloomsbury) who have been jointly awarded New Zealand’s prestigious Ian Wards Prize for 2018. This prize recognises an outstanding … Continue reading →

Kercher scholarships are open to any postgraduate student currently enrolled in an Australian or New Zealand university wishing to attend the annual Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society Conference, and are awarded on the basis of merit through … Continue reading →

In Australia this past week the Garma Festival has put the Uluru Statement back in the national news.  The Statement from the Heart composed by Australia’s Indigenous communities in May 2017 had the potential to move Australia’s constitutional relations with … Continue reading →

The CFP  is out for the British Legal History conference. 10-13 July 2019 at St Andrews. The theme is Comparative Legal History. Abstracts (strict maximum 250 words) to blhc2019@st-andrews.ac.uk by 15 September 2018. More on the conference website.  

37th Annual Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society  Exclusion, Confinement, Dispossession: Uneven Citizenship and Spaces of Sovereignty University of Wollongong, 10-12 December 2018  Call for papers now extended to 31 July. Keynote Speakers   Professor Audra Simpson, … Continue reading →