Events

The History of Law and Governance Centre (HLGC) is proud to host a variety of events which are of interest to academics, students, legal practitioners, and civil society. Our programme of lectures, seminars, reading groups, and workshops provide an ongoing source of engagement, discussion, and impact and a forum for leading interdisciplinary research.

2025

Wax nose, Welsh hose, poison box: Imagining legal interpretation in early modern England

Date: 03 March 2025 (18:00-20:00)
Location:: B55 Law & Social Sciences Building
Description: HLGC Seminar: Dr Joanna McCunn, University of Bristol

HLGC Seminar - Dr Justine Collins, University of McGill

Date: 19 March 2025 (16:30-18:30)
Location:: MS Teams
Description: The Role and Presence of Indigenous Peoples within the Caribbean 1640s-1700s

HLGC Seminar - Professor Garton, University of Warwick

Date: 15 May 2025 (17:15-18:30)
Location:: B55 LASS
Description: Professor Garton's talk is titled "Property Disputes about Leper Houses, Pest Houses and Fever Hospitals" (co-written with Prof Charles Mitchell, UCL)

2024

HLGC Seminar Series - 'The European Context of the Early Medieval English Laws'

Date: 29 February 2024 (18:00-19:30)
Location:: B55 Law & Social Sciences Building

HLGC Lecture co-hosted with Northern Legal History Group 'Bigamy in Nineteenth-century Nottinghamshire and Lancashire'

Date: 25 March 2024 (18:00-19:30)
Location:: MS Teams
Description: This talk explores the changing legal framework governing bigamy in nineteenth-century England and Wales.

HLGC Seminar - Dr Attilio Stella 'The Libri feudorum: From Fiefs to Feudalism'

Date: 28 June 2024 (14:00-15:30)
Location:: C15+ Monica Partridge Building

Research Conversation - 'The Vice of Regimen': Biopolitics, Racial Capitalism, and the Origins of Public Health in British Caribbean Slavery, 1768-1834

Date: 14 October 2024 (13:00-14:30)
Location:: B55 Law & Social Sciences Building

HLGC Seminar Series - Dr Emily Ireland

Date: 25 November 2024 (18:00-19:30)
Location:: B55 LASS

HLGC Annual Lecture: Legal pluralism in the Middle Ages

Date: 06 December 2024 (18:00-20:00)
Location:: LASS B63
Description: HLGC are delighted to be welcoming Professor Caroline Humfress (St Andrews; Michigan) and Professor Emanuele Conte (Roma Tre; Paris EHESS) for a conversation about legal pluralism in the Middle Ages

2023

HLGC Inaugural Annual Lecture - Historians, Lawyers, and the Varieties of Legal History

Date: 03 November 2023 (18:00-20:00)
Location:: B63 Law & Social Sciences Building

HLGC seminar series - "Libellous Articles" and "Scandalous Interrogatories": Defamatory Manipulations of Legal Practice in Early Modern England'

Date: 28 November 2023 (18:00-19:30)
Location:: B55 Law & Social Sciences Building

HLGC Seminar - Dr Victor Kattan

Date: 07 December 2023 (13:00-14:00)
Location:: B55 Law & Social Sciences Building, University Park