‘Blooming Lawyers: from Sadgrove v Hole, via Palles CB and Ulysses, to Facebook’

steve on 27 January 2024 — Leave a Comment

I was reminded (plug alert) of my piece ‘The Aeolus Episode in Ulysses and the Freeman’s Journal: Chief Baron Palles and the law of defamation’, chapter 12 in Oonagh B Breen & Noel McGrath (eds) Palles. The Legal Legacy of the last Lord Chief Baron (Four Courts Press, 2022), when I had the pleasure of reading the recent re-publication of Brian McMahon’s article (first published: Law Society Gazette, October 2004, 12), focusing on Dublin’s legal fraternity in Ulysses by James Joyce (pictured left, on the right) … (more)

[Eoin O’Dell, Cearta, 10 October 2022]

Posted in Conflict of Laws, Defamation and Privacy, Legal History

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The Value of Personal Rights of Action: Hanoch Dagan and Avihay Dorfman, University of Toronto and Zoom, 17 May 2024

The paper claims claim that contemporary champions of personal rights of action do not explain why and when these rights matter. Moreover, contemporary critics of these rights do not explain why all such rights should be replaced with other alternatives … (more)

Deepfakes and the Law: City University, London, 20 May 2024

The theme of the conference is to explore the existing and potential relationships between deepfake technology and the law. It is organised and managed by Thomas Bennett (City) and Rebecca Moosavian (University of Leeds) … (more)

Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Universidade de São Paulo, 5-7 June 2024

Keynote Speakers: Bernard S Black (Northwestern University); Maria Paula Dallari Bucci (Universidade de São Paulo); Michael Heise (Cornell Law School); ... (more)

Private International Law and Global Crises (EAPIL), University of Wrocław, 6-8 June 2024

The general question discussed is whether private international law can respond to crises, and if so, how. Four thematic blocks are planned, concerned respectively with war and armed conflict, the rule of law, climate change and global supply chains ... (more)

Private Law Perspectives on the Contract of Employment: University College London, 7 June 2024

This conference will develop a dialogue between private lawyers and labour lawyers on theoretical and practical issues as they relate to the employment contract (broadly conceived). For historical reasons, this has been an underdeveloped dialogue in English law … (more)

Association for Law, Property, and Society (ALPS)
Annual Meeting, Malibu, California, 13-15 June 2024

The conference will be held at the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. This meeting will be an entirely in-person meeting ... (more)

‘Contract and Power’: SECOLA Annual Conference, University College London, 14-15 June 2024

I am pleased to send you the attached flyer for the upcoming annual conference of SECOLA, which will be held at University College London on June 14 and 15, 2024 … (more)

'Wronging and Making Right: The Morality and Law of Remedial Practices', Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 17-19 June 2024

We aim to discuss such topics as the nature and significance of interpersonal wronging, the role of directed duties and second-personal normativity, the relationship between corrective justice and remedial legal practice … (more)

17th Annual International Conference on Contracts (KCON XVII), University of Bristol, 20-21 June 2024

KCON is the largest annual international academic conference dedicated to contract law and related areas of commercial law. It brings together contract law scholars, practitioners, and graduate students from around the world ... (more)

Informed Consent to Dispute Resolution Agreements: University of Bremen, 20-21 June 2024

Dispute Resolution Agreements (DRA) are a very special kind of contract. They allow parties to make a choice on the rights (applicable law) and remedies (competent forum, including procedural rules), which govern their relationship … (more)

Tort Law Reform in Europe and Beyond – Why is Tort Law Reform So Difficult? University of Girona, 27-28 June 2024

The Symposium aims to analyse the reasons why it has been relatively uncomplicated in some countries to adapt tort law to the demands of the times, whereas in others the reform attempts – if any – are still lost in ministerial or academic drawers … (more)

British Legal History Conference 2024, University of Bristol, 3-6 July 2024

The history of Bristol is closely entwined with the law: the city has long been a significant legal centre, and a great deal of legal business has been done here for centuries. Bristol has also been an important site for protest and resistance to the law … (more)

Obligations XI - Private Law: Inside and Out, Harvard Law School, 8-11 July 2025

This will be co-hosted by Harvard Law School and Melbourne Law School and will be convened by John Goldberg, Andrew Robertson and Henry Smith. A call for papers will be issued in 2024 … (more)

Equitable Property – Journal of Equity Conference, University of Melbourne, 18 July 2024

Property may be legal or equitable. Examples of equitable property typically given include the interest of a beneficiary under a private express trust and that of a partner in partnership assets. However, beneath this answer lies some complexity … (more)

Society of Legal Scholars, 115th Annual Conference, University of Bristol, 3-5 September 2024

The Conference will run at our central Bristol campus based in the iconic Wills Memorial Building … (more)

Commercial Insurance Law – Contemporary and Emerging Trends, Swansea University, 11-12 September 2024

The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law is pleased to offer this expert international forum for the analysis of contemporary and comparative aspects of commercial insurance law. The Colloquium will be held at Swansea University and will convene a forum of professional and academic experts … (more)

‘New Trends in Teaching Contract Law’, University of Sussex, Brighton, 12 September 2024

This conference brings together legal educators to showcase innovative approaches to teaching Contract Law, a core module with large student numbers. This conference aims to highlight and explore issues and topics that will be of interest and importance not only to those that teach Contract Law, but also to the wider teaching community … (download)

‘Empirical Research Methods in Advancing Legal Knowledge’: Northumbria Law School, 17 September 2024

Presentations can be on any aspect of empirical legal research methodology, on any topic, and from any jurisdiction. Conference organisers welcome abstracts from researchers and academics at any stage of their career on subjects relating to empirical research methods including (but not limited to) … (more)

‘Inheritance Inequality’: Thomas R Kline School of Law, Philadelphia, 27-28 September 2024

We are pleased to announce a conference on ‘Inheritance Inequality’ (the Fifth Biennial Conference on Critical Trusts and Estates). The conference will take place on Friday September 27 and Saturday September 28, 2024 at Drexel University’s Thomas R Kline School of Law, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and will be sponsored by the Drexel Law Review … (more)

‘The Evolution or Revolution of European Insolvency Law’: INSOL Europe, Sorrento, 2-3 October 2024

In line with the practice established in our past academic conferences, the intention for the autumn conference is to have research papers that challenge existing approaches, stimulate debate and ask, and attempt to answer, comparative and interdisciplinary questions within the above broadly defined theme … (more)

The Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform: Westminster Law School, 25 October 2024

Papers are invited until 15 August 2024. Special themes in 2024 are: (1) sustainable finance and emissions disclosure and their impact on commercial contracts; (2) standard forms and terms in construction contracts – comparative aspects … (more)

Private and Commercial Law Annual Conference, University of Western Australia Law School, 9-10 December 2024

The aims of the conference are to provide academics with an informal and supportive environment in which to present work in progress, and to facilitate a collegial discussion of issues related to teaching and publishing in the field. We encourage early and midcareer academics and research higher degree students to consider presenting on aspects of their work relating to the broad conference theme of ‘Wrongs in Private and Commercial Law’ … (more)

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