In conversation with Professor Fernanda Pirie: Book launch: The Rule of Laws
The Zoom link for this seminar is
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83360063929?pwd=TkloYVJQMkQwODg5MUxmZy9xaTQ1UT09
Meeting ID: 833 6006 3929
Passcode: 092074
Almost without exception, the laws enforced throughout the world today are modelled on systems developed in Western Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For two hundred years, European colonisers exported their laws everywhere they could. But in many places they weren’t filling a void: again and again, they displaced local traditions that were already ancient when Vasco Da Gama first made landfall in India. Even the Romans, first framers of the European tradition, were inspired by earlier precedents. Where, then, did it all begin? And what sophisticated approaches to justice have been lost in the drive for uniformity? In The Rule of Laws, anthropologist Fernanda Pirie traces the development of the world’s great legal systems – Chinese, Indian, Roman, and Islamic – and the innumerable smaller traditions that have existed in their shadow. At the heart of her story is a persistent paradox: how have the pronouncements of the mighty so often ended up helping ordinary people in their struggle for a better world? Professor Michael Lobban (Law, LSE), Professor Morgan Clarke (Oxford, Anthropology) will each give a short response to the book, followed by a general discussion.
Date:
22 November 2021, 16:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Venue:
On Zoom. LInk: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83360063929?pwd=TkloYVJQMkQwODg5MUxmZy9xaTQ1UT09 Meeting ID: 833 6006 3929 Passcode: 092074
Speakers:
Professor Michael Lobban (LSE),
Professor Morgan Clarke (Anthropology, University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Organiser:
Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
admin@csls.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Linda Mulcahy (Director, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford)
Part of:
Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Alison Trinder
