Past Events
2023-2024
Manchester Lecture
‘A forest, a map; a castle, a ship. Imagining the law from Selden to Blackstone’
Dr Andrew Cecchinato
Marie Curie Research Fellow
University of St Andrews
14 November 2023
Liverpool Lecture
'Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women’s Association'
Professor Sharon Thompson
Professor in Law
Cardiff University
7 December 2023
Lancaster Lecture
‘What do we know about law in Roman Britain?’
Sir Rupert Jackson KC
(Retired Justice of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales; Justice of the Astana International Financial Centre Court)
21 March 2024
Nottingham Lecture
‘Bigamy in Nineteenth Century Nottinghamshire and Lancashire’
Prof Rebecca Probert
Professor in Law
University of Exeter
25 March 2024
2022-2023
Manchester Lecture
'In the Footsteps of D.E.C. Yale: 70 Years of Chancery Historiography'
Professor Neil Jones
Professor of English Legal History
University of Cambridge
10 January 2023
Lancaster Lecture
'Maitland, Common Law, and Civil Law'
Professor John Hudson
Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Legal History
University of St Andrews
20 April 2023
Liverpool Lecture
'The Civil War Chancery, 1642–51'
Dr David Foster
Lecturer in Law
University College London
'Cooper v Stewart: Parks and Reservation (clauses)'
Rhiannon Ogden-Jones
PhD Candidate in Law
University of Oxford
5 May 2023