I had a wonderful visit to Łódź - thank you to the Centre for Anglo-American Legal Tradition #UniLodz for hosting me and to the workshop participants for their very helpful comments and questions!

Very excited to be visiting Centre for Anglo-American Legal Tradition #UniLodz!

It has long been my view that the Irish judicial system never recovered from rejecting these robe designs.

Annual Colloquium - May 10

This year, our colloquium will be on the law. Organised by Prof. Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social and Dr. Jonathan Powell (@UniLeidenNews). We'll have a dizzying array of scholars speaking on early modern law.

10 May, 10:30 to 18:00 at KCL.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/law-and-the-…

In 1241, a princess died in Bristol Castle.

Prof Gwen Seabourne Gwen Seabourne looks at how the story of Eleanor of Brittany, confined to the castle not for what she had done, but for who she was, tells us important things about women, law & legal history:

bit.ly/4bYUirv

Great to receive a 'blast from the British Legal History Conference's past' from Richard Ireland and I have turned it into a shameless plug for BLHC 2024 in this post:
lawandhistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/02/16/the…

The 26th British Legal History Conference is now open for bookings! Join us for 'Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law':

📅 3-6 July 2024
🔗 Find out more and register: bit.ly/3vYyE68

I am bad at Twitter, so this late self-promotion. But my piece on Exemplary Damages for Misuse of Private Information came out in CommL just before Christmas and can be found here: tinyurl.com/jasexemplary

The offer of codes is still open!

Limited places for members of the public at the Sandbach Tinne Conference in Bristol on 24th Oct 2023, discussing Slave traders Sandbach Tinne, their mercantile dominance in the 19th century & beyond.
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#MalikAlNasir #SandbachTinne #Conference #Bristol #BHM

UCL Laws is offering a PhD studentship in legal history!

Details can be found below:

ucl.ac.uk/laws/news/2023…

I'm also now elsewhere - and have a couple of invite codes if anyone is interested!

Susan Amussen & Jordan Collver have made an amazing comic exploring patriarchy in #EarlyModern England.

It's beautiful and free! 👇🏾 #twitterstorians #History #OpenAccess

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Where the cool people will be … #LegalHistory

Alrighty, as US timezones wake up, here's some weekend promo:
Free, online public lecture on Wednesday, US/UK/EU timezones on the process of learning about 'Isabella Ruddok-Clyve, of Bristol' through her book of hours and legal documents. bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-archiv…

I have had a great time at FUTURES. So many great questions and conversations about personal property law, ownership and possession.

For anyone interested, a thread about this evening’s exhibit and my research:

Super excited to be at Futures Night presenting our Known Unknowns project Andrew Bell - and Katie McCay is here to explain ownership and possession!

Join Dr Anna McKay, Dr Jess White, and myself for a workshop that takes an interdisciplinary, longue durée approach to the topic of Race, Crime and Justice in Britain and its Empire.

Call for Papers below.
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Why did empires transplant their own institutions to some colonies but not others? My book, out next week from Yale University Press, challenges the conventional wisdom—with implications for how we understand the nature of empire, among other things.🧵amazon.com/dp/0300253230/

My book is available for pre-order! Coming January 2024!
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