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Trajectories of Law in History: The Future Behind Us

With the generous support of the NZ Law Foundation

The Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society provides a focus for a range of scholars and researchers across many disciplines who are interested in the relationship between law and history. The Society runs an annual conference to showcase the work of Australian, New Zealand and international researchers in the field.

The 24^th annual conference will be at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 10^th to 12^th July, 2005.

Papers are invited dealing with any aspect of law and history. A special session will focus on the theme of how we as scholars conceive of the trajectories of legal and historical analyses in chronological or other notions of time and ‘progress'. “History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot' (Mark Twain) – what do you think?

  Guest speakers will be Justice Paul Finn (Federal Court) and Chief Judge Joe Williams (Maori Land Court).

Please register formally as soon as possible

A pleasing number of quality abstracts have been received. The conference is shaping up to be an interesting and intellectually stimulating event. I am assuming that all those who have offered papers are indeed coming to the conference, but to assist us in our organising for the conference it is important that all participants should register formally as soon as possible , and in any event by 10th May at the latest . The registration form is on the Society website: Registration form available now for Download

Late registrations will be accepted at the discretion of the organisers, but that will depend on the availability of the limited space at our venues.

Publication and refereeing of conference papers

A generous grant from the New Zealand Law Foundation will cover the costs of creating a new e-journal for the publication of papers presented at this and future annual conferences of the Society. This enables us to implement a policy decision to that effect agreed to at our 23rd annual conference in Perth. The Australia Legal History Journal will remain the flagship for the highest quality scholarly articles on law and history in Australasia. The e-journal, like Murdoch University’s E-Law, will allow the publication of our conference papers following a refereeing procedure. My understanding is that no paper published in the e-journal will be republished on any other electronic site, but the paper may be worked on and revised for publication in a hard copy journal. If your university requires you to have your conference paper accepted as a refereed conference paper then please send me your paper by 10th May if at all possible. I will remove identifying details and arrange for a formal refereeing procedure. If you do not need to have your paper refereed in advance, but wish to have a copy of it made available to participants then please send me the paper by 10th June. If papers are not received in advance then the abstracts submitted will be made available to all participants on arrival in Auckland.

d.williams@auckland.ac.nz

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