Prof. Terry Halliday seminar on Religion in the Politics of Lawyers in Struggles for Political Liberalism

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Date:

Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Time:

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

UQ Location:

Emmanuel College (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.centressrs.org/events/seminars/

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Full Description:: Professor Terry Halliday seminar on Religion in the Politics of Lawyers in Struggles for Political Liberalism.

The fight for political liberalism and open political societies has punctuated the history of many countries from 18th-century France to 21st-century China.

Lawyers often are deeply embroiled in struggles for political freedom, whether against military dictatorships in Latin America, Big Man regimes in Africa, British colonialism, or one-party states. This talk presents disparate and often puzzling findings from a twenty-year collaborative project of social scientists and historians on the politics of lawyers worldwide with particular attention to the interplay of lawyers and religion in these perpetual struggles for basic legal freedoms.

Terry Halliday is Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation and Co-Director of the Foundation’s Center on Law and Globalization. He is Adjunct Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and Adjunct Professor at ANU’s Regulatory Institutions Network.

A light lunch will be served prior to the seminar.

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