History of Law and Governance Centre
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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.

2026

HLGC Knowledge Exchange Seminar: Manuscripts and Special Collections with Dr Charlotte May

Date
23 February 2026 (12:00-14:00)
Location:
D13 Monica Partridge building
Description
HLGC will be joined by Dr Charlotte May from the University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections.

HLGC Research Seminar - Circulating models of social control in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires (1906–1919) with Laila Maia Galvão

Date
04 March 2026 (17:00-19:00)
Location:
D13 Monica Partridge building
Description
HLGC are delighted to be joined by Laila Maia Galvão, a professor at the IDP – Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research and a visiting scholar at the Law and Humanities Hub – Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

HLGC Research Seminar - Towards a Mesoamerican Law of Nations?

Date
18 March 2026 (17:00-19:00)
Location:
D13 Monica Partridge building

 

2025

Wax nose, Welsh hose, poison box: Imagining legal interpretation in early modern England with Dr Joanna McCunn

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: The Role and Presence of Indigenous Peoples within the Caribbean 1640s-1700s with 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: "Property Disputes about Leper Houses, Pest Houses and Fever Hospitals" with 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)

HLGC Research Seminar: Bankruptcy without Borders with Dr Fleur Stolker

Date
01 October 2025 (17:00-18:00)
Location:
Monica Partridge D13

 

2024

HLGC Seminar Series: 'The European Context of the Early Medieval English Laws' with Dr Ingrid Ivarsen

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' with Professor Rebecca Probert

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: 'The Libri feudorum: From Fiefs to Feudalism' with Dr Attilio Stella

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

HLGC Annual Lecture: Legal pluralism in the Middle Ages with Professor Caroline Humfress

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 Seminar: Chapter 3: Apartheid as a regime of racial domination with Dr Victor Kattan

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

 

History of Law and Governance Centre

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University of Nottingham
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