The Coffin Annual Memorial Lecture 2017
Title: Ways of seeing law: What can art history tell
lawyers about their discipline?
Date: 24 Apr 2017,
17:30 19:30
Venue: Institute
of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR
Speaker: Professor Linda Mulcahy, Department of Law,
London School of Economics
Chair: Professor Michelle O’Malley, Professor of the
History of Art and Deputy Director, The Warburg Institute
Host: Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Institute of Advanced
Legal Studies
Lawyers love the word.
When we teach our students it is primarily through the lens of written
judgments and textual analysis.
Engagements between law and art
tend to focus on the ways in which authoritative
legal texts facilitate the commodification of creativity or seek to impose
discipline on the sensual realm. This
paper will focus on the implications of us moving beyond the law of art to the
more complex territory of law and art.
In doing so it will explore the value of the image as a source of
information about law and legal phenomena which is otherwise lacking or
marginalised in the legal canon.
About the speaker:
Professor Mulcahy is professor of law at London School of
Economics, where she is also the first Director of the LSE’s new PhD Academy.
She is co-director of a Leverhulme Trust research project grant on 'Design and
due process: facilitating participation in the justice system’ on the recent
history of court design, in partnership with the Ministry of Justice and with
architect Emma Rowden; and of an Arts and Humanities Research Council Collaborative
Doctoral Award on oral history and legal biography, held in partnership with
the British Library. Having gained qualifications in law, sociology and the
history of art and architecture, Linda’s work has a strong interdisciplinary
flavour. Her research focuses on disputes and their resolution and she has
studied the socio-legal dynamics of disputes in a number of contexts including
the car distribution industry, NHS, divorce, public sector complaints systems
and judicial review. Her work often has an empirical focus and she has received
a number of grants from the ESRC, AHRC, Department of Health, Nuffield
Foundation and Lotteries Fund in support of her work.
This event will be followed by a reception
How to book: This event is free but those wishing to
attend are asked to book in advance. Please book via the event page at: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/8005
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