The LHSS will comprise at least seven seminars by leading legal history scholars on new directions in legal history topics, with an interdisciplinary turn. Currently the LHSS has scheduled the following topics and speakers.
The Comparative Turn
- Professor Emeritus John McLaren, University of Victoria
- "Widening the Lens from Local to Comparative Colonial Legal History: The Growth of Legal Cultures in Australia and Canada"
- 13 December 2011
The Identic Turn
- Dr Penny Crofts, University of Technology, Sydney
- "The Poisoned Apple of Malice"
- 26 April 2012
The Narrative Turn
- Professor Mark Finnane, Griffith University
- 1 August 2012
The Post-Colonial Turn
- Dr Shaunnagh Dorsett, University of Technology, Sydney
- 25 September 2012
The Constitutional Turn
- The Honourable Justice William Gummow AC, High Court of Australia
- October 2012
The Biographical Turn
- Professor David Saunders, Professor Emeritus, Griffith University
- November 2012
The End of Turns (or The Future of the Past or The Future’s Anterior)
- Professor Jim Philips, University of Toronto
- December 2012