Legal Histories of the British Empire Conference
sponsored by National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and the University of Victoria's Faculty of Law and Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives
Law, Spaces, Cultures & Empire: Engagements & Legacies
5–7 July, 2012 Singapore
Keynote Speakers
Martin Wiener is Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of History at Rice University, Texas. His areas of research and teaching interest are British and British Empire History, and Crime and Punishment in Britain and its Empire. Among his books are: Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (2004) and An Empire on Trial: Murder and Justice under British Rule, 1870-1935 (2008). He is currently a National Humanities Centre Fellow, researching Liberalism in the British Empire. See http://history.rice.edu/Wiener/
Justice Andrew Phang, Singapore Court of Appeal – Justice Phang has a longstanding and abiding interest in the legal histories of Southeast Asia, in particular the relationship of English and local law. In the latter context his book on the Charter of Justice in Singapore in 2006 delved extensively into the legal history of that former part of the British Empire. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Phang