Past Events
2024-2025
Manchester Lecture
'Libellous Letters and Gender Nonconformity: the Chevalier d’Eon in the English law courts, 1763-77'
Dr Daniel Gosling
Legal Records Specialist
The National Archives
3 October 2024
Liverpool Lecture
Title TBC
Dr Nathália Lipovetsky
Professor of Law
Federal University of Minas Gerais
4 December 2024
York Lecture
'Damna Usuum: Common Law, Conscience and the "Sufferance of Uses"'
Dr Ashley Hannay
Lecturer in Property Law
University of Manchester
11 December 2024
Nottingham Lecture
'Wax nose, Welsh hose, poison box: Imagining legal interpretation in early modern England'
Dr Joanna McCunn
Senior Lecturer in Law
University of Bristol
3 March 2025
Lancaster Lecture
‘Enslaved people using law in late medieval southern Europe’
Professor Hannah Skoda
Fellow in History
St John's College, University of Oxford
6 March 2025
Newcastle Lecture
Details TBC
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