CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2017 The Legal Intersections Research Centre at the University of Wollongong invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit LIRC for a minimum period of two weeks in 2017. The Visiting PhD Scholar Program aims to support high quality interdisciplinary PhD research in LIRC’s areas of research, to provide…
We are pleased to announce that the LLHAA’s Annual Conference for 2017 will be co-organised by La Trobe University and Melbourne Law Schools and hosted in the City of Melbourne. The organisers invite consideration of the character, craft and arrangements of relations between laws and the humanities in times of revolution, transformation and resistance…. Papers…
Olivia Barr, ‘A Jurisprudential Tale of a Road, an Office and a Triangle’ (2015) 27:2 Law and Literature 199. Katherine Biber, ‘”Peeping: Open justice and law’s voyeurs”‘ in Sharp, C. & Leiboff, M. (eds), Cultural Legal Studies: Law’s Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law, Routledge, 2016, pp. 160-182. Karen Crawley, ‘The Critical Force of Irony:…
Marco Wan, Masculinity and the Trials of Modern Fiction (Routledge, 2016) How do lawyers, judges and jurors read novels? And what is at stake when literature and law confront each other in the courtroom? Nineteenth-century England and France are remembered for their active legal prosecution of literature, and this book examines the ways in which…
Hosted by the Cardozo Law School in collaboration with the Roma Tre- Law School May 25-28 2017 International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law CALL FOR PAPERS Singularity, Generality and Exemplarity in Legal Discourse The use and practice of exemplarity are rooted in classic rhetoric, literature, politics and law. Because of the shift from pre-modern…
law&history is the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society. The journal, now in its third edition, publishes original high quality research on law and history in the Australasian-Pacific region and also welcomes articles on any other area and period. The journal is double-blind peer reviewed and ERA listed. Edited…