BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260710T202236EDT-1954JsulUd@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260711T002236Z DESCRIPTION:A Law & Anthropology seminar with Marianne Constable\, Universi ty of California\, Berkeley. (Prof. Constable is also giving a public lect ure the prior evening). Those who attend the seminar will be expected to r ead a pre-circulated chapter from the book. RSVP by November 1\, 2015 to c onfirm your place in the seminar and receive the book chapter: constableat mcgill [at] gmail [dot] com\, with ‘Seminar’ in the subject line.\n\nAbstr act\n\nMarianne Constable will give a seminar for graduate students and fa culty on her 2014 book Our Word is our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts. In thi s book\, Constable argues that both law and language bind us\, and that at tending to law’s language enables us to recognize law not primarily as a m atter of rules but of speech. Constable draws on Austin\, Cavell\, Reinach \, Nietzsche\, and others to show how claims of law are performative and p assionate utterances or social acts that appeal implicitly to justice. Tho se who attend the seminar will be expected to read a chapter from the book . In the seminar\, Constable will talk about how her work on legal rhetori c informs her new project on Chicago’s husband killers and will lead a dis cussion about the pre-circulated chapter.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nMarianne Constable is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California\, Berk eley and author of The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conce ptions of Citizenship\, Law and Knowledge (winner of the Law & Society Ass ociation J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History)\; Just Silences: The Lim its and Possibilities of Modern Law\; and Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts (finalist for two Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) book pr izes).\n  \n Constable earned her B.A. in political science and philosophy\, her JD\, and her Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social Policy\, from University of California\, Berkeley.  As demonstrated through her publications and s ervice in sociology\, political science\, anthropology\, history\, literat ure\, and philosophy\, she is committed to the study of law in its broades t sense. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 2005-2006 \, taught a short course on law and language at Melbourne University in 20 12\, and was the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellow in Communica tion at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, Stanfor d University in 2014-2015. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships an d awards\, including the James Boyd White Award from the Association for t he Study of Law\, Culture and the Humanities (LCH).\n\nOrganized by Profes sor Mark Antaki (91ºÚÁÏÍø Law) and Professor Katherine Lemons (91ºÚÁÏÍø Anthro pology).\n\nSponsors: Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law\, Kat harine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy\, Dean of Arts Development Fund\, Legal Theory Workshop\, Centre for Human Rights and Leg al Pluralism\, Department of Anthropology\, Critical Social Theory\, Insti tute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas.\n DTSTART:20151113T180000Z DTEND:20151113T193000Z LOCATION:NCDH 202\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36 44 rue Peel SUMMARY:Law\, Language\, and the Words that Bind URL:/channels/event/how-legal-speech-acts-255421 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR