Past Conferences

Beyond the Pale: Legal Histories on the Edges of Empires

29 June – 1 July 2022, Maynooth University, Ireland

Organised by Lyndsay Campbell, Shaunnagh Dorsett, Donal Coffey, David Doyle,
Pooja Parmar, David V Williams

Keynote Panel: Anglicisation of and through law in British America, Ireland, and India,
c.1550-1800: Jane Ohlmeyer, Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History,
Trinity College Dublin; Richard J Ross, David C. Baum Professor of Law and
Professor of History, University of Illinois; Philip Stern, Associate Professor
History, Duke University

Legal Histories of Empires Conference: Perspectives from the Colonised

1-13 July 2018, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Organised by John McLaren, Asya Ostroukh, Shaunnagh Dorsett, Pooja Parmar, David V. Williams

Keynotes: Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, Harvard University; Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor, University of the West Indies

Legal Histories of the British Empire Conference: Laws, Engagements, Legacies

4-7 July 2012, National University of Singapore

Organised by John McLaren, Shaunnagh Dorsett, Kevin Tan and David V. Williams

Keynotes: Martin J. Wiener, Rice University; Justice Andrew Phang, Singapore Court of Appeal