The Association of Young Legal Historians holds its 21st annual forum, Law in Transition, March 1-3, 2015, at the Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. The deadline for proposals is Nov. 1, 2014.
The upcoming XXIst Annual Forum of the Association of Young Legal Historians aims at a
comprehensive discussion of law in transition. A wide variety of transitions of historical significance can be explored: political, economic, social, cultural, and more. “Law”—legal symbols, discourses, players, institutions, theories, and texts—has played a significant role in historical transitions, and legal historians have been crucial in exploring its multiple and contradictory effects. The stakes are not just
historical, but current: these studies encourage transitions in the way law itself is conceived, theorised, and researched.
We invite young legal historians to present papers dealing with any aspect of law in transition. (Proposals on other topics will also be considered.) Papers can explore specific events or periods in a particular region or state, or provide a comparative analysis of different periods or multiple locations. Papers can focus on local questions or deal with transnational legal justice. We welcome papers combining legal transitions with political, economic, social, and cultural ones. Methodological reflections are also welcome: Have legal transitions been “top-down” or “bottom-up”? What have been the legal sources of transition? What are the relationships between legal and non-legal histories of transition? What
conceptions of law, its forms of operation, its effects, and its significance inform the analysis of transition?
