symposium

Ethnohistorical Models of the Evolution of Law in Specific Societies

Date

Aug 10-18, 1985

Organized by

Jane Collier and June Starr

Location

Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Lake Como, Italy

Publications

History and Power in the Study of Law: New Directions in Legal Anthropology (J. Starr and J.F. Collier, Eds.) Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1989.

Participants

Said Arjomand State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
Vilhelm Aubert University of Oslo, Norway
Anton Blok University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jeremy Boissevain University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bernard Cohn University of Chicago, USA
George Collier Stanford University, USA
Jane Collier Stanford University, USA
Elizabeth Colson University of California, Berkeley, USA
Carol Greenhouse Cornell University, USA
Hanneke Grotenbreg University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Philip Gulliver York University, Canada
Robert Hayden American Bar Foundation, USA
Sally Humphreys University College, London, UK
Jessica Kuper University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Richard Maddox Stanford University, USA
Sally Falk Moore Harvard University, USA
Laura Nader University of California, Berkeley, USA
June Nash City College, New York, USA
Lita Osmundsen Wenner-Gren Foundation, USA
Lawrence Rosen Princeton University, USA
Francis G. Snyder University College, London, UK
June Starr State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA
William Twining University College, London, UK
Joan Vincent Barnard College, USA

ORGANIZER’S STATEMENT: The goal of the conference was to compare case studies of legal change in particular societies using historical frameworks in order to search for shared questions and methodologies to direct future research. The twenty anthropologists, sociologists, and law professors from North America and Europe who attended devoted five half-days to discussing seventeen previously circulated papers and four half-days to a general consideration of conference issues. In their discussion, participants focused on the models they were using to analyze the development, change, decay, integration, and articulation of legal systems within specific social units.

Wenner-Gren Symposium #97