Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau’s Legislator through Ancient Lawgivers: (1) ‘Nothing in Common with Human Dominion’; and (2) ‘Graven on the Hearts of the Citizens’

Authors of the Laws: Rethinking Rousseau’s Legislator through Ancient Lawgivers: (1) ‘Nothing in Common with Human Dominion’; and (2) ‘Graven on the Hearts of the Citizens’

Registration: Email [email protected] by 15 April (include dietary requirements). (St Andrews Classics event with ILCR members invited)

Professor Firnhaber-Baker's research interests encompass legal, political and institutional history. She has published widely on medieval lordship, women and gender, and power, especially with reference to later medieval France. Publications include Violence and the State in Languedoc, c. 1250-1400 (Cambridge, 2014) and The Jacquerie of 1358: A French Peasant’s Revolt (Oxford, 2021) as well as her new, critically acclaimed book House of Lillies: The Dynasty that Made Medieval France

Please join us on Thursday 6th November for a talk by Dr Gamze Yavuzer Eper from the University of St Andrews, who will be speaking on legal pluralism in the… Read More »Research Lunch with Dr. Gamze Yavuzer Eper

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This will be the first meeting of the Law and Film Group, which will run as an ongoing discussion group over the coming weeks. Our first session will focus on… Read More »Law and Film Group (part I)

This instalment of our Law and Film group will focus on Steven Zaillian’s ‘A Civil Action’ (1998). Based on a true story, the film follows a personal injury lawyer pursuing… Read More »Law and Film Group (part II)

The third and final meeting of the Law and Film Group for this term, will focus on Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ (2020), which dramatizes the prosecution… Read More »Law and Film Group (part III)

Online Reading Group: Aidan O'Neill KC on the UK Supreme Court (reading circulated in advance.) 5.15pm on Teams or Zoom (TBC)