Emotions in Legal Practices: Historical and Modern Attitudes Compared – Registrations Now Open

Registrations now open for:

Emotions in Legal Practices: Historical and Modern Attitudes Compared
The University of Sydney
26-28 September 2016

This interdisciplinary conference aims to stimulate genuine debate and encourage serious reflection on the enduring ‘problem’ of rationality and emotions. Our aim is for scholars and legal practitioners to bring their different disciplinary expertise to reconsider collectively the role of emotions in legal practices both historically and today and, potentially, inform new legal policies.

Further details are available on the Centre for Emotions website: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/emotions-in-legal-practices-historical-and-modern-attitudes-compared/?date=2016-09-27

Date: 26-28 September 2016 (commencing with a public lecture on the evening of 26 September by Prof. Annalise Acorn, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta, Canada).
Venue: Holme Building Refectory, Science Rd, The University of Sydney
Symposium organisers: Merridee Bailey (The University of Adelaide) and Kimberley-Joy Knight (The University of Sydney)
Enquiries: Jacquie Bennett (jacquie.bennett@adelaide.edu.au)
Registration: Registration is free but bookings are essential as places are limited. Please register at: http://alturl.com/zyfjq

Confirmed keynote speakers:

  • Prof. Annalise Acorn, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta
  • Prof. Hila Keren, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, USA
  • Magistrate Hugh Dillon, Deputy State Coroner, NSW
  • Prof. Payam Akhavan (via Skype), McGill University, Montreal, Canada