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SUMMARY:'History and the Law' graduate conference - Various (see descripti
 on below)
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CONTACT:Jonathan Green
DESCRIPTION:'History and the Law'\n18 March 2014\nTrinity Hall\, Cambridge
 \n\nIn 1975\, Michael Oakeshott’s 'On Human Conduct' distinguished betwe
 en ‘nomocratic’ and ‘teleocratic’ regimes. The latter\, he claimed
 \, fix upon an abstract vision of human flourishing\, and slash through th
 e dense web of custom and tradition in order to implement it. In teleocrat
 ic regimes\, then\, the law shapes history. Nomocratic regimes\, in contra
 st\, seek to protect the traditional liberties and social norms of their c
 itizens\, or their nomos. Here\, the law reflects history.\n\nThis confere
 nce aims to explore the borderland between law as nomos and law as telos. 
 What were the essential features of law under the ancien régimes? What di
 fferentiates them from modern legal orders? How\, and why\, did this trans
 ition occur? And what factors—intellectual\, cultural\, economic\, relig
 ious\, or political—crippled nomocratic legal thinking\, and encouraged 
 the development of the teleocratic legal order? In raising these questions
 \, this conference aims to revive a broad conversation about the relations
 hip between history and the law\, at both a theoretical and a practical le
 vel.\n\n\n\nPanel I: Law and Custom (11:00am – 12:30pm)\n \n‘A Common 
 Law of Inheritance: Mort d’Ancestor and the Learned Laws’ – James La
 wson (Downing)\n\n‘Abstract Legal Order and Scholastic Natural Law’ 
 – Benjamin Slingo (John’s)\n\n\n\nPanel II: Law and Enlightenment (1:3
 0 – 3:00pm) \n\n‘The Politics of Autonomy and the Pursuit of Progress
 ’ – Paul Wilford (Tulane University) \n\n‘Edmund Burke\, the German 
 Romantics\, and the Paradox of Tradition’ – Jonathan Green (Trinity Ha
 ll)  \n\n\n\nPanel III: History and Constitutionalism (3:30 – 5:30pm) \n
 \n'The History of Legal Thought as Intellectual History’ – Benjamin Ha
 nd (Emmanuel) \n\n'The Pitfalls of “Law Office” History: An Example fr
 om American Constitutional Interpretation’ – Mikolaj Barczentewicz (Un
 iversity College\, Oxford) \n\n'Colonial Law and Teleology: The Ethnograph
 ic Present in the New Hebrides?’ – Kate Stevens (Lucy Cavendish) 	 \n\
 nKEYNOTE ADDRESS (6:00pm): Prof. Sir John Baker (St Catharine’s College)
LOCATION:Graham Storey Room\, Trinity Hall
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