CANADIAN LEGAL HISTORIES: CURRENT RESEARCH AND FUTURE PROSPECT

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

ASLH Pre-conference workshop:

The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) schedules pre-conference workshops at its annual meetings. The 2024 conference is taking place in San Francisco beginning on Friday October 25th, 2024. The ASLH’s pre-conference workshops will run from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, 24 October 2024.

We are proposing that one of these workshops be entitled ‘Canadian Legal Histories: Current Research and Future Prospects.’ This workshop would allow participants briefly to describe their current research in the field of Canadian legal histories, including those that have encompassed empires, borderlands, comparative research, and Indigenous legal histories.  We seek the participation of scholars whose work encompasses diverse geographic areas, chronologies, topics, theoretical frameworks, and methodologies.

The format will be designed to welcome as many voices as possible and provide time for conversation. All topics are welcome within the broad rubric of legal histories relating to Canada. To ensure inclusion of as many researchers as possible, we will structure this as a series of lightning panel sessions, allowing each participant ten minutes to introduce their research.  We will conclude the day with a final panel that seeks to make some preliminary forecasts of what the future might hold for Canadian legal history research. 

At this stage we are asking for expressions of interest so that we can get a sense of the numbers and make arrangements accordingly.   We assume that participants in the workshop will also be attending the ASLH conference. For further information and to express your interest please contact Lyndsay Campbell by February 3, 2024 (lcampbe@ucalgary.ca).

Please feel free to forward this to others you think might be interested.

Workshop Organizers

Constance Backhouse, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa, past president of ASLH. Constance.Backhouse@uOttawa.ca

Jim Phillips, Professor of Law, History and Criminology, University of Toronto, Editor-in-Chief, Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.  j.phillips@utoronto.ca

Lyndsay Campbell, Associate Dean (Research), Professor of Law and History, University of Calgary.  lcampbe@ucalgary.ca

Philip Girard, Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, ASLH Honorary Fellow. pgirard@osgoode.yorku.ca

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Congratulations to Ron Harris!

Congratulations to Ron Harris (Tel Aviv). We are delighted to have learned that Ron has been made an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History. This is such an honour and acknowledges the immense contribution of his scholarship to the discipline of legal history (and of course to the legal history of empires!).  Congratulations again Ron!!

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Upcoming conference: International Society for History and Theory of IP

Another conference of interest to colleagues has been sent to us:

The 14th ISHTIP Conference (International Society for History and Theory of IP) to be held at Tel Aviv University, June 19-21, 2023.

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Upcoming conferences of interest

Dear Colleagues, we would like to draw your attention to two upcoming conferences, both of which may be relevant to this group:

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The European Society for Comparative Legal History – CFP

A CFP from one of our sister organisations! The European Society for Comparative Legal History has sent out a CFP for its 2023 conference – 21-23 June, University of Augsburg, Germany.

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Final Registrations

We know a few people are still registering. If you are still needing to register can you please register through this link and, if you are registering for remote attendance, also send an email to shaunnagh.dorsett@uts.edu.au in order that we can ensure you get the zoom links.

see you next week.

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Final Final Program and Abstract Book

So this really really is the final version of both the abstract book and the program. Please check carefully, there have only a few changes but your slot might be one of them as two or three panels have shifted due to timezone /presenters dropping out!

Thank you to all those who answered the call for chairs. It is most appreciated and it is your collegiality which helps make this a success. If – as is almost inevitable – there are any changes between now and next week these will be communicated to the relevant chairs. The program will not change.

Please bring a copy of each of these. The era of the conference bag is, I hope, dead. So if you do want a hard copy or a note pad, please bring those. Most of us I suspect moved on to some form of device years ago (and a reminder the free wifi is at the end of the transportation guide).

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Getting to Maynooth: Transport and Wifi

Its not long now. So to ensure you get to us safely, a transport guide has been prepared. It has all the information you need on reaching Maynooth. And so you can stay in touch once you get here, at the end is info on Wifi.

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Legal Histories of Empires Meets COVID-19

We are very much looking forward to gathering very soon in Maynooth. We would like to hold this conference as safely as reasonably possible, so we thought we would set in place some cautious COVID-19 policies and practices that we hope will end in everyone leaving the conference healthy and ready for new adventures. Although Ireland in general is ‘business as usual’, we are a diverse group of travellers.

  1. We have booked large classrooms in the John Hume building (rooms 1-4 and 6) for the conference, so people can spread out.
  2. Please plan to wear a mask in the classrooms and elsewhere indoors, unless you are speaking at the podium or actively eating or drinking.
  3. We are endeavouring to arrange boxed lunches, so that you can take your lunch outdoors or at least can spread out.
  4. We are having a reception before the plenary rather than a sit-down dinner, partly to make it easier to spread out and partly because it is a Legal Histories of Empires tradition to give participants an opportunity to sample the local entertainment and refreshments.
  5. We understand that the residences are aiming to group our participants together in apartments, so that if you are staying in residence you should end up sharing an apartment with other conference participants. We also understand that residence staff may ask for proof of vaccination and that they ask that masks be worn in residence if you are outside your own room. Please consult correspondence you have received from the accommodations people for information (info@maynoothcampus.com).
  6. Some participants may need to show negative COVID tests as they continue on with their travels. It is possible to get covid testing with an appointment at Dublin Airport (https://www.dublinairport.com/covid-19/pre-departure-covid-19-testing). Antigen testing in preparation for travel may also be available in Maynooth at Hickey’s Pharmacy (https://www.hickeyspharmacies.ie/antigen-testing). Hickey’s has informed us that you need to book an appointment in advance online and that they offer appointments only in the morning. They appear to be the only outfit offering travel covid testing within walking distance of the campus. We highly recommend that if you will need testing to go onward, you make your testing appointment well in advance. (Maynooth is in Kildare.)
  7. General rules for travelling to Ireland (including Northern Ireland) are here: https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/77952-government-advice-on-international-travel/. Different countries (even within the EU) have different rules, and we encourage you to stay abreast of the rules pertinent to your itinerary.
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CFP for the ANZLHS December 2022 Sydney

We do not often post non-conference announcements, but we are noting the CFP by a sister legal history organisation, the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society. Their 40th conference is at UTS, Sydney, Australia 1-3 December 2022. There can never be too much legal history….

Date:                     1-3 December 2022

Venue:                 University of Technology Sydney

Theme:                 Tenuous Histories and Provable Pasts: How Legal Historians Create Knowledge

Abstracts due:   15 August 2022

Details:                 https://anzlhs.org/conferences-2/

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