The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference offer an annual prize for the best book in business history, broadly defined. The next Hagley Prize will be presented at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 29-31, 2012.
The prize committee encourages the submission of books from all methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of the discipline. Scholars, publishers, and other interested parties may submit nominations. Eligible books can have either an American or an international focus. They must be written in English and be published during the two years prior to the award (2010 or 2011).
Four copies of a book must accompany a nomination and be submitted to the prize coordinator, Carol Ressler Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library, P.O. Box 3630 – Buck Rd. East, Wilmington, DE 19807-0630. Email: clockman [at] hagley.org.
The deadline for nominations is December 31, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on August 14th, 2011
| Business Law, Legal History, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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San Francisco State University will host the 2011 Rights Conference exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, and society on Sept. 15-16, 2011 in San Francisco, CA.
Rights, both individual and collective, have long been a theme in American society, often seen in conflict with state power. Our goal is to bring together a wide variety of people from a range of academic, activist, legal, and community spaces to examine the place of rights within both the context of American society (as situated within a boarder global political community). To that end, we welcome participation from historians, both senior and junior scholars, graduate students, community advocates, archivists, and lawyers. sr
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 30th, 2011
| CONFERENCES, Law and Politics, Law and Society, Legal History |
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The Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev hosts the 16th Annual International Workshop, Socio-legal Perspectives on the Passage to Modernity in and beyond the Middle East, June 4-6, 2012. Proposals are due Sept. 30, 2011. Details available on H-Net. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 29th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Comparative Law, CONFERENCES, Law and Society, Legal History |
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The Ralph Gomory Prize of the Business History Conference recognizes historical work (in English) on the effect business enterprises have on the economic conditions of a country in which they operate. Two prizes of $5000 are awarded annually, one for a book and second for an article. The Gomory Prize for work published in 2010 or 2011 will be presented at the BHC annual meeting (Philadelphia, March 29-31, 2012). Book nominations are accepted from publishers and article nominations from the author of the article. Nominations are due Dec. 31, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2011
| Business Law, Law and Economics, Legal History, OTHER SCHOLARLY OPPORTUNITIES |
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The 2012 annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) will take place March 29-31 in Philadelphia. The theme for the conference is “Business and the State.” Proposals—for individual papers or entire panels—are due Oct. 1, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2011
| Business Law, CALLS FOR PAPERS, Commercial Law, CONFERENCES, Law and Society, Legal History |
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The 30th annual conference of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society will be held in Brisbane, Australia, Dec. 12-13, 2011. The 2011 conference theme – “Private Law, Public Lives” – examines the social dimensions of private law in history. The call for papers deadline was July 14, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 27th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Legal History |
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The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, “an interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period . . . from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century,” will hold its 43rd annual meeting March 22-25, 2012, in San Antonio. Among the many panels listed in the call for papers (available as a Word document here) are:
- “Copyright: Contexts and Contests” (The Bibliographical Society of America) Molly O’Hagan Hardy, mollyohardy [at] mail.utexas.edu (pp. 2-3)
- “Authors and Readers in the Eighteenth Century” (Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading, and Publishing — SHARP) Marta Kvande, marta.kvande [at] ttu.edu (p. 17)
- “Law & the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century” Andrew Benjamin Bricker, abricker [at] stanford.edu (pp. 41-42)
- “Scotland, England, and Copyright Law” Jared Richman, jrichman [at] coloradocollege.edu (p. 51)
- “I Testify: Truth and Self in Law and Fiction” Kate Gaudet, ksgaudet [at] uchicago.edu (p. 54)
- “Literature and Human Rights in the Eighteenth Century” Ramesh Mallipeddi, ramesh.mallipeddi [at] hunter.cuny.edu (p. 58)
The deadline for proposals is Sept. 15, 2011. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 25th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Human Rights Law, Intellectual Property, Law and Humanities, Law and Literature, Legal History |
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Western Michigan University presents the 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies takes place May 10-13, 2012. The deadline for the general call for papers is Sept. 15, 2011. The conference includes a legal history panel, Law as Culture: Legal Development and Social Change, organized by Sasha Volokh (Emory) and Paul Hyams (Cornell). For more information, see this post. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on July 15th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Legal History |
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Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts seeks submissions for an issue (Winter 2012) on “500 Years Later: Reverberations of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.” The new submission deadline is July 6, 2011.
There is little doubt that from its origins in the 16th century through its end in the 19th century the transatlantic slave trade dramatically shaped the trajectories of many millions of lives on at least four continents (Africa, Europe, North America, and South America, and the Caribbean). Whether, in what forms, by what means, and to what effect the slave trade continues to leave social, cultural, institutional, familial and personal impressions in the present day are matters of considerable debate and even tension – in the former slave-trading and slave-hosting nations, in West and Central Africa, but also in countries whose involvement was less obvious.* * *The Transatlantic Slave Trade most immediately touched societies and lives in France, Great Britain, Portugal and Brazil, the Netherlands, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa and Central Africa. We especially welcome analyses, critiques, reflections, and documentation by activists, community-based organizations, and others living and working in these countries and regions or working on issues that implicate developments and dynamics in these places. Of course, the work of scholars, advocates, activists and practitioners in all disciplines working elsewhere are also welcome.
mw/ update – sr
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on June 16th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Comparative Law, Law and Race, Legal History |
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Touro Law announces a three-day conference, Persecution Through Prosecution: Alfred Dreyfus, Leo Frank and the Infernal Machine, in Paris, France, July 5-7, 2011.
The Conference will explore parallels between the Dreyfus Affair in France and the Leo Frank case in the United States, with the purpose of identifying and then analyzing the ways in which the law, politics, and the media may incite and abet one another in perpetrating injustice.
Reduced rates are available for students and higher education faculty. mw
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on May 16th, 2011
| CONFERENCES, Law and Politics, Legal History |
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Brown University and Harvard University present Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development, April 7-9, 2011. The conference will be at Brown on April 7-8 and at Harvard on April 9.
This conference is intended to explore the centrality of slavery to national economic development in the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War. New archival research on banking, finance, manufacturing, migration, and transportation reveals greater integration and greater complexity in the economic relationship of North and South. Presentations will explore New England investment in the plantation economies of the Caribbean; the technological and managerial innovations in plantation management that coincided with northern industrialization; and the origins of modern finance and credit in the buying and selling of enslaved men and women and the crops they produced. The papers convey that slavery was a national institution whose importance reached far beyond the boundaries of plantation lands. Moreover, this new research suggests that the hotbeds of American entrepreneurship, speculation, and innovation might as readily be found in Mississippi or Virginia as in New York or Massachusetts. The issue is not whether slavery was or was not capitalist (an older debate), but rather the impossibility of understanding the nation’s spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. The result is a new history of American capitalism that recognizes slavery as a constitutive element of the nation’s economic rise in the nineteenth century.
Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman are the conveners of this conference and would like to call particular attention to slavery’s importance to the institutional histories of both Harvard University and Brown University. This conference marks the continued investment of both universities in recovering and publicizing this history.
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Posted by uwlegalscholarship on February 21st, 2011
| CONFERENCES, Legal History |
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The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LH&RB) of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with Cengage Learning, announces the third annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is open to students in law, history, librarianship, and related fields. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. The submission deadline is March 15, 2011. Jump to full post
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 30th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Law Librarianship, Legal History |
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The NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies will organize a workshop in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on Internment, Incarceration and Detention: Captivation Histories in Europe Around the First and Second World War Nov. 3-4, 2011. The deadline for proposals is March 15, 2011.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on January 4th, 2011
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, Human Rights Law, Legal History, National Security Law |
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The Maastricht University Faculty of Law will celebrate its 30th anniversary by organizing a legal conference about the challenges of teaching globalised law June 23-24, 2011. The call for papers deadline is Jan. 15, 2011.
Topics include: legal education in a global environment; skills in a legal curriculum; English as the language of law; impact of international and European law; how to compare law; development of transnational programs; lawyers as a national profession; and how to teach comparative criminal law, comparative tax law, environmental law, and private law.
Posted by uwlegalscholarship on December 17th, 2010
| CALLS FOR PAPERS, Comparative Law, CONFERENCES, Criminal Law, Environmental Law, International Law, Legal Education, Legal History, Tax Law |
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