LAW AND LITERATURE COLLOQUIUM, SWANSEA UNIVERSITY, JULY 2007
Friday 6th July 2007
9.00 am – 9.45 am coffee and registration
9.45 – 10.00 am WELCOME: Professor Melanie Williams
10.00 – 11.30 SESSION 1:
ROOM 1: LAW, NARRATIVES AND THE CHILD
Professor Christine Metteer Lorillard – Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles
‘Changing the tenor of the dialogue: judicial narratives that determine application of the Indian Child Welfare Act by retelling the stories of Indian families’
Professor Susan Ayres – Texas Weslyan School of Law
‘Stories of neonaticide’
Joshua Tate, Assistant Professor of Law – Southern Methodist University, Dallas
‘The legal status of abandoned children in the Later Roman Empire’
ROOM 2: DISCOURSES AND RATIONALITY
Dr W. McNeil – Associate Professor, Griffith Law School, Brisbane
‘First rule about Fight Club – no talking about Fight Club!: the perverse core of legal positivism’
Professor Jeanne Schroeder – Cardozo School of Law, New York
‘The four Lacanian discourses: or, law inside-out’
Professor Neil Sargent – Carleton University, Ottawa
‘Law, mystery and method: representing rationality in detective fiction’
11.30-11.45 Break coffee
11.45 – 1.15 SESSION 2:
ROOM 1: LAW AND THE VOICE OF WOMAN
Professor Nancy Marder – Chicago-Kent College of Law
‘Women’s rights: a study in law and literature’
Elisabetta Bertolino – Birkbeck School of Law, London
‘Can she speak in her own voice?’
Ummni Khan – University of Toronto Faculty of Law
‘A woman’s right to be spanked – contrasting representations of sado-masochism in law and popular culture’
ROOM 2: GOVERNANCE AND THE RULE OF LAW
Professor Mary Polito – University of Calgary
And Jean-Sebastien Windle – University of Calgary
‘Country justice: a new 17th century dramatic manuscript’
Michael Halley – Attorney at law, Cambridge Massachusetts
‘Breaking the Law in America’
1.15 – 2.15 LUNCH
2.15 – 3.15 PLENARY LECTURE: PROFESSOR RICHARD WEISBERG with an Introduction and Welcome from PROFESSOR IWAN DAVIES
3.15 – 3.45 coffee/tea
3.45 – 5.15 SESSION 3
ROOM 1: THE POSTCOLONIAL AND THE ORIENTAL
Dianne George – Department of Law, University of Ottawa
‘Dogs in Disgrace: a cosmopolitical reading of Coetzee’s novel’
Kevin D Barker – Birkbeck School of Law, London
‘Postcolonial constitutional texts and ‘the popular’: questions in Caribbean jurisprudence’
Professor Ed Morgan – University of Toronto
‘Orientalism and the foreign sovereign: today I am a man of law’
ROOM 2: JUSTICE AND RATIONALITY
Dr Stephen Skinner – Department of Law, University of Aberystwyth
‘Everything is dislocated: justice, isolation and violence in legal theory and Joseph Conrad’s fiction’
Professor Jeanne Gaakeer – Erasmus University, Rotterdam
‘The word that coincides with you’
Dr David Gurnham – School of Law, University of Manchester
‘“I’ll have grounds more relative than this”: justice and revenge in inter-personal violence’
Dinner 7.00pm
SATURDAY 7TH JULY
10.00 – 11.30 SESSION 4
ROOM 1:
INTERNATIONAL LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE HUMANITIES I (Law and Humanities Institute Delegates)
Daniel Tritter, Esq. New York City and Vice President of Law and Humanties Institute
'The Wars Against Terror and Their Progeny: The Wars Against Ideas'
Professor Ilene Durst, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California
'Legacies of Guilt: Law's Inability to Make Whole the Bystander-Witness to Persecution'
Professor John Parry, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College
'"Your position is rather an awkward one" : The Interrogated Body in Bram v. United States and at Abu Ghraib'
ROOM 2: RIGHTS AND DIGNITY
Professor Richard French Storrow, School of Law, Pennsylvania State University
‘Reproducing therapeutic clones: the perils of regulating cloning in the name of human dignity’
Michael Bowman, Associate Professor, School of Law, Nottingham University
‘Dignity and the Rights of Natural Persons’
Dr Stephen Riley, School of Law, Sheffield Hallam University
‘Everything that comes into being must decay: Plato and Utopia in Rights Theory’
11.30 – 11.45 coffee
11.45 – 1.15 SESSION 5
ROOM 1: INTERNATIONAL LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE HUMANITIES II (Law and Humanities Institute Delegates)
Professor Susan W. Tiefenbrun, President Law and Humanities Institute West Coast Branch and Director of Center for Global Legal Studies, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California
'Women's Human Rights in Iran as Represented by Women in Memoirs, Films, and Novels'
Professor Ellen Waldman, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California
'Depicting Victim Need: Restorative Justice in Rwanda and the Paradox of Compulsory Compassion'
Professor Kevin J. Greene, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, San Diego, California
'From African-American Artists to Indigenous Cultures: Can International Law Repair the Harms of Mass Intellectual Property Appropriation'
ROOM 2: LANGUAGE AND JURISTIC TRUTH
Professor Les Moran – Birkbeck School of Law, London
‘Writing English Judicial Lives: towards a history and critical analysis’
Professor Katherine C Sheehan – Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles
‘Carrying on in the Dark: a reading of Hickman v Taylor’
Julen Etxabe – University of Michigan School of Law
‘James Boyd White, living speech and the empire of force’
1.15 – 2.15 LUNCH
2.15 – 3.15 PLENARY – PROFESSOR DESMOND MANDERSON
3.15 – 3.45 - coffee/tea
3.45 – 5.15 SESSION 6
ROOM 1: NATURAL AND UNNATURAL LAW
Andrew Woodcock – Cayman Islands Law School
‘The Natural Lawyer’s interpretation of Kafka’s The Trial’
Marett Leiboff – Law School, QUT
‘Reality TV and the reality of law’
Sara Ramshaw – School of Law, Queen’s University, Belfast
‘The song and silence of the Sirens: Blanchot, Kafka and the power of imperfect law’
ROOM 2: TEXTUAL IDENTITIES
Dr Sanne Taekema and Malu Vermeer, Department of Jurisprudence and Legal History, Tilburg University
‘Contesting the values of law: pluralism from a literary perspective’
Dr Christine Kunzel, University of Hamburg
‘Mr Law and Mrs Literature: erotic interdisciplinary affair or mismarriage?’
Dr Dawn Watkins – School of Law, Leicester University
‘The protection of literature in a postmodern age’
7.00 Dinner, music
SUNDAY :
WALES CULTURAL OUTING
COLLOQUIUM ENDS