Programme - Last revised 20 September 2011.

Law and Governance in pre-Modern Britain

Moot Court Room, Faculty of Law

The University of Western Ontario

Friday, 14 October 2011

Registration / pick-up conference packets at the Moot Court Room
12:00-1:30pm

Welcome:  Brian Timney, Dean of Social Science
1:30pm

Panel 1: Reading Between the Lines
1:45-3:45pm
Chair: Sharon Wright, St Thomas More College

1. "Bodies and Nobodies in Medieval Wales." Robin Chapman Stacey, University of Washington.
2. "Portrait of a Surgeon in Fifteenth-Century England." Sara M. Butler, Loyola University (New Orleans).
3. "Legal Narrative and the Records of the Court of Kings Bench." Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University.

Coffee
3:45-4:00pm

Panel 2: Sources and Methods
4:00-5:30pm
Chair: Jonathan Rose, Arizona State University

1. "Early English Laws: Contents and Use." Bruce O'Brien, University of Mary Washington.
2. "Questions about Constitutionalism." Richard Kaeuper, University of Rochester.

Conference Dinner, Windermere Manor
6pm

Saturday, 15 October 2011

Panel 3: Centre and Locality
10:00-12:00pm
Chair: DeLloyd Guth, University of Manitoba

1. "Centre and Periphery in the Formation of the Common Law." James Masschaele, Rutgers University.
2. "Edward I and the Law." Paul Brand, All Souls College, Oxford.
3. "Local Courts." Robert C. Palmer, University of Houston.

Lunch, Michael's Garden
12:00pm-1:15pm

Panel 4: Crossing Legal Boundaries
1:15-3:15pm
Chair: Kelly DeLuca, Algoma University.

1. "Laws across the North Sea: The Anglo-Frisian Connection in Early Medieval Europe." Lisi Oliver, Louisiana State University.
2. "The King's Peace and the King's Pardon in Later Medieval Scotland." Cynthia Neville, Dalhousie University.
3. "Real and Personal Actions in the Fourtheenth-Century Year Books." Charles Donahue Jr., Harvard University

Coffee
3:15pm-3:30pm

Panel 5: Interpretation and Change
3:30-5:30pm
Chair: David Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University

1. "Natural Law as an Instrument of Governance in Early Modern Europe." R.H. Helmholz, University of Chicago.
2. "Married Women and the 'Procheine Amy' in the Seventeenth-Century Chancery." Tim Stretton, St. Mary's University.
3. "Law and 'Revolution': The mid-Seventeenth Century British Example." Christopher Brooks, University of Durham.

Wine and Cheese Reception, Windermere Manor
6:00pm