Register to participate in our 2023 Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference which will take place at Toronto University School of Law on June 22-23, 2023. Our theme this year is: Absence, the Present and the Past.
Fees for in-person participation will increase by $50 after June 1st (excluding graduate students and post-doctoral scholars).
Deadline for Julien Mezey Dissertation Award: Friday, April 14th
Only a few days remaining to submit your dissertation for the Julien Mezey Award! This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities. Eligible applicants must have defended their dissertations successfully between March 2022 and March 2023.
Call for Papers – Deadline Extended to Monday, March 27, 2023
Submit a proposal for our 2023 Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference which will take place at Toronto University School of Law on June 22-23, 2023. The deadline for proposals has been extended to Monday , March 27, 2023.
The conference considers topics broadly related to law and legal studies. In addition, our theme this year is: Absence, the Present and the Past.
Deadline Extended for applications to the 2023 LCH Graduate Workshop
Our graduate workshop will take place at Toronto University School of Law on June 21, 2023. The graduate workshop offers graduate students an intimate venue in which to discuss their research projects with senior scholars in the field.
Application deadline extended to Monday, March 27, 2023.
Submit a proposal for our 2023 Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference which will take place at Toronto University School of Law on June 22-23, 2023. Proposals are due Friday , March 17, 2023.
The conference considers topics broadly related to law and legal studies. In addition, our theme this year is: Absence, the Present and the Past.
One new benefit of membership in LCH is access to a password-protected archive of syllabi, contributed by law and humanities colleagues with the goal of sharing pedagogical approaches to the field.
We would love for you to contribute your syllabi! (Please be sure your name and affiliation appear clearly on anything you submit so that you are credited for your work.)
Our graduate workshop will take place at Toronto University School of Law on June 21, 2023. The graduate workshop offers graduate students an intimate venue in which to discuss their research projects with senior scholars in the field.
We mourn the passing of Peter Fitzpatrick, Anniversary Professor of Law and Birkbeck Law School, one of the Association’s founders, and a central figure in law and humanities scholarship globally. We plan to hold a plenary session in honor of Peter’s work and legacy at the 2022 annual meeting at Emory Law School. https://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/obituaries/obituary-professor-peter-fitzpatrick
Peter joined Birkbeck Law School in 2000 having already established himself as one of the world’s leading legal philosophers at Kent Law School, and at Queen Mary. His arrival at Birkbeck helped to consolidate the School as one of the leading centres of critical legal studies, postcolonial legal studies, and law and the humanities. An early proponent of the significance of poststructuralist theory, Peter helped to introduce the work of Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy to generations of students and legal scholars. Engaging closely with the laws and legal systems of numerous postcolonial settings – including Australia, Canada, Papua New Guinea, and South Africa – he wrote powerful accounts of how racial othering constituted modern law. Through countless articles, books, and edited collections, he inspired research that de-centred the torpid repetition of analytic jurisprudence. Peter leaves an immense scholarly legacy that will inform legal research for decades to come.