The School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London, comprises nine specialist research institutes – including the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS). SAS is able to support a small number of Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships – three-year postdoctoral fellowships from the academic year 2017-18. We welcome expressions of interest from candidates wishing to conduct research in…
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…
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…
The ninth Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory This year the forum is particularly concerned with questions of method: How do we reckon with law? Reckoning holds this tension – how can we meet our scholarly responsibilities in the present and live the outcomes as our institutional lives? In actuarial disciplines, reckoning is about calculating…
Keynotes Louise Amoore (Durham, UK) Chiara Bottici (New School, NYC) Davide Panagia (UCLA) Dimitris Vardoulakis (Western Sydney University) Convenors Fiona Jenkins (Philosophy) Desmond Manderson (CASS/Law) Forms of authority inhabit aesthetic events and practices, and equally suffuse political and social discourse. The intersection of these modalities is attracting unprecedented attention amongst contemporary political and critical theorists.…
Thursday, 3 November 2016 – 9:00am – Friday, 4 November 2016 – 4:00pm ANU College of Law welcomes applications to the first Challenging Words workshop to be held in Canberra on 3-4 November 2016. It may change how you approach the law forever. Engage your thinking about—and experiencing—the law in a wholly new and…
This transdisciplinary symposium explores how ethics can figure eminently in the generation of art and images after modernism and postmodernism, starting from the premise that in the Anthropocene, the work cannot rest upon its separation from the world. The symposium asks what ethics are at play in the relations between the human artist, the art, and the human…
What does it mean to be seen? What does it mean to see? What can and cannot, should and should not, be visible? What are the limits of legal sight, and what lies beyond? What can academic and critical study make visible to law? Can (in)visibility produce (in)justice? The Law and Culture Conference 2016 aims…
Daniel Hourigan’s book Law and Enjoyment: Power, Pleasure and Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2015) was recently awarded third prize in the internal University of Southern Queensland’s Publication Excellence Awards for Authored Books. The award showcases research and esteemed publication, and rewards the improvement of USQ’s research performance. Law and Enjoyment was also a finalist for the Association’s…