Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
Events 2017-18
Martinmas Semester 2017
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Lecture (Organised jointly with the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies)
“Transitional Justice and Reconciliation: Conceptions and Misconceptions”
Paul Seils (International Centre for Transitional Justice)
27 September (5pm, Arts Lecture Theatre)
ILCR Academic Lecture
‘Sovereignty, RIP: Part of the Story’.
Don Herzog (Michigan Law)
28 September (5.15pm Old Class Library, 69 South Street)
The Law’s Two Bodies
Benjamin Earl (Procurator General of the Dominican Order)
3 October (12.30 lunch Room 9, 71 South Street; 1pm Old Class Library, 69 South Street)
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Roundtable (jointly with MECACS)
“Schizophrenic Liberalisation? Post-authoritarian change and conflict in Myanmar”
5 October 4pm, Seminar Room 1, Arts Building
ILCR Seminar –CANCELLED
“Milton and the Problem of Belief.”
Professor Victoria Kahn (U. of California, Berkeley)
16 October (12.30 lunch Room 9, 71 South Street; 1pm Old Class Library, 69 South Street)
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Seminar
“Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trials in Latin America.”
Dr. Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College, Associate Professor, University of Oxford)
18 October, 4.30pm, Arts Lecture Theatre, Arts Building
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Graduate seminar
“The Role of Domestic Courts in Human Rights Protection”
Dr. Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos (University of Oxford)
19 October, 5pm, location TBC
The Law’s Two Bodies
Angela Wilson (former Assistant Chief Constable, Tayside Police)
7 November (12.30 lunch Room 9, 71 South Street; 1pm Old Class Library, 69 South Street)
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Seminar
“In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey.”
Professor Payam Akhavan (McGill University / Oxford University (Former Judge, ICTY))
8 November, TBC
ILCR Reading group
Dr Jacqueline Rose
14 November, 1pm Old Class Library, 69 South Street (12.30 lunch Room 9, 71 South Street)
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Seminar
“Confessions of Perpetrators of Human Rights Violations.”
Professor Leigh Payne (St Antony’s College/Latin America Centre, University of Oxford)
15 November, 5pm, Arts Lecture Theatre, Arts Building
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Graduate Seminar
“Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations.”
Professor Leigh Payne (St Antony’s College/Latin America Centre, University of Oxford)
16 November, 9.15am, Parliament Hall
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Roundtable
“Biases in International Justice”
22 November (5pm, location TBC)
Candlemas Semester 2018
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Lecture
“Mobilising under uncertainty in civil war”
Dr Anastasia Shesterinina (Sheffield)
6 Feburary (5pm, Arts Lecture Theatre)
The Law’s Two Bodies
Douglas Kinnear (Thorntons)
13 February (12.30 lunch Room 9, 71 South Street; 1pm Old Class Library, 69 South Street)
Seminar
“Thoughts on Ideology and Mass Atrocities”
Dr. Jonathan Leader Maynard (Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford)
21 February (5pm, Arts Lecture Theatre)
Lecture
“Genocide and Political Violence”
Professor Scott Straus (Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
1 March (5pm, Parliament Hall)
ILCR Annual Event – CANCELLED
International Law in the Contemporary World: A Conversation with Professor Stephen Toope
Stephen Toope (Vice-Chancellor, Cambridge University)
Chair: Tony Lang
2 March (2.30pm, School 5, St Salvator’s Quad)
Institute of Intellectual History Colloquium
Voices of Conscience in Early Modern Europe: A colloquium to discuss Nicole Reinhardt, Voices of Conscience: Royal Confessors and Political Counsel in Seventeenth-Century Spain and France
9 March (10am, Room 103, Medical and Biological Sciences Building)
SAIMS Annual Lecture
‘The Materiality of Credit: Debt Collection as Pawnbroking in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe”
Professor Dan Smail (Harvard)
12 March (5.15pm Parliament Hall)
Professor David Armitage (Harvard)
A conversation with Professor Nick Rengger to discuss Professor Armitage’s book Civil Wars
14 March (11am-1pm, Senate Room)
Institute of Intellectual History Lecture
“The Dark Side of Enlightened Cosmopolitanism: Civilisation and Civil War”
Professor David Armitage (Harvard)
14 March (5.15pm, Room 1.10, St Katharine’s Lodge)
Institute of Intellectual History Conference
“Editing Early Modern Texts and Sources: Problems and Possibilities”
16 March (9.30am, Arts Lecture Theatre)
The Law’s Two Bodies
Stuart Pemble
17 April (12.30pm lunch Room 9, 71 South Street, 1pm Old Class Library, 69 South Street)
Butler/ILCR Lionel Butler Lecture
“The spread of Islam around the Indian Ocean”
Professor Michael Cook (Princeton)
Professor Cook will also give a lunchtime workshop on the same day (3pm, Old Seminar Room).
April 30 (5.15pm, Parliament Hall)
ILCR Lecture
“English Law in the Age of Blackstone: What Can We Learn from Sir Dudley Ryder?”
Professor Thomas Gallanis (Associate Dean for Research, Allan D. Vestal Chair in Law, and Professor of History at the University of Iowa)
May 4 (4.15pm followed by a drinks reception, Old Class Library, 71 South Street)
ILCR Conference
“Comparative Legal History 1050-1650”
11-12 May
Law And…, Law As…
Interview with Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford)
28 May (4.30pm, Old Class Library, 69 South Street)
SAIMS Graduate Conference
“Identifying Governmental Forms in Twelfth-Century Europe”
Dr Alice Taylor (King’s College London)
7 June (3.30pm, Old Class Library, 69 South Street)
Candlemas Semester 2019
ILCR Seminar
‘800 years of jury trial’
Rob Bartlett and John Hudson in conversation
26 January (4pm, Old Class Library)
Centre for Global Constitutionalism
Roundtable: ‘China and the 21st Century Global Order’
With Beverley Loke (Exeter), Chris Ogden (St Andrews), Catherine Jones (St Andrews), and Konrad Lawson (St Andrews)
7 February (5pm, Arts Lecture Theatre)
Talking Law
‘The jury on trial: a debate’
More information can be found here.
11 February (7pm, Arts Lecture Theatre)
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Lecture
‘Laws of War: Current Challenges’
Hyeran Jo (Texas A&M University)
6 March (5pm, Arts Lecture Theatre)
ILCR Lecture
‘Hidden Narratives in Medieval Welsh Law’
Robin Stacey (University of Washington)
11 March (5.15pm, Parliament Hall)
ILCR Workshop
Robin Stacey (University of Washington)
12 March (1pm, Old Class Library)
Centre for Global Constitutionalism
‘International courts in a time of populism’
Dr Taylor St John (St Andrews), Professor Jeffrey Dunoff (Temple University) and Professor Tony Lang Jr (St Andrews)
25 April (5–6.30pm, School 1). More information here.
ILCR Annual Conference/British Academy Conference
‘Sovereignty: a Global Perspective’
Registration required. For details see https://sovereignty.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
29-30 April
Centre for Global Constitutionalism Lecture
‘Islamic International Law’
Emilia Justyna Powell (Notre Dame)
Followed by a reception celebrating the launch of a new CGC Junior Working Paper.
1 May (4pm, Arts Lecture Theatre) – NB! New time
Law’s Two Bodies
Interview with Harry Potter as Thomas Erskine
3 May (12.30pm lunch Room 9, 71 South Street, 1pm Old Class Library)
ILCR Lecture
‘Talking Law II: The trial of Daenerys Targaryen’
3 May (5pm, Parliament Hall). Free but tickets required: available here.
Law’s Two Bodies
Interview with Bruce Frier (University of Michigan) as the jurist Julian.
9 May (12.30pm lunch Room 9, 71 South Street, 1pm Old Class Library)
ILCR Lecture
‘What held Roman Law together’
Bruce Frier (University of Michigan)
10 May (5pm, Old Class Library)
ILCR and SAIMS Graduate Conference lecture
‘Authoritative writing, writing as authority: the contribution of paleography to the history of the transmission of Roman legal thought’
Serena Ammirati (Roma Tre)
8 June (5pm, Old Class Library)
For more details see http://saimsgradconference.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
The British Legal History Conference
For details see http://www.blhc2019.uk/home
10-13 July
