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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.com\, with ‘Seminar’ in the subject line.\n\nAbstract\n
 \nMarianne Constable will give a seminar for graduate students and faculty
  on her 2014 book Our Word is our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts. In this boo
 k\, Constable argues that both law and language bind us\, and that attendi
 ng to law’s language enables us to recognize law not primarily as a matter
  of rules but of speech. Constable draws on Austin\, Cavell\, Reinach\, Ni
 etzsche\, and others to show how claims of law are performative and passio
 nate utterances or social acts that appeal implicitly to justice. Those wh
 o 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 rhetoric inf
 orms her new project on Chicago’s husband killers and will lead a discussi
 on about the pre-circulated chapter.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nMarianne Cons
 table is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of California\, Berkeley 
 and author of The Law of the Other: The Mixed Jury and Changing Conception
 s of Citizenship\, Law and Knowledge (winner of the Law & Society Associat
 ion J. Willard Hurst Prize in Legal History)\; Just Silences: The Limits a
 nd Possibilities of Modern Law\; and Our Word is Our Bond: How Legal Speec
 h Acts (finalist for two Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK) book prizes)
 .\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 C
 alifornia\, Berkeley.  As demonstrated through her publications and servic
 e in sociology\, political science\, anthropology\, history\, literature\,
  and philosophy\, she is committed to the study of law in its broadest sen
 se. She was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 2005-2006\, ta
 ught a short course on law and language at Melbourne University in 2012\, 
 and was the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellow in Communication 
 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, Stanford Uni
 versity in 2014-2015. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awa
 rds\, including the James Boyd White Award from the Association for the St
 udy of Law\, Culture and the Humanities (LCH).\n\nOrganized by Professor M
 ark Antaki (91ºÚÁÏÍø Law) and Professor Katherine Lemons (91ºÚÁÏÍø Anthropolog
 y).\n\nSponsors: Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law\, Katharin
 e A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy\, Dean of Arts Devel
 opment Fund\, Legal Theory Workshop\, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pl
 uralism\, Department of Anthropology\, Critical Social Theory\, Institute 
 for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas.\n
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LOCATION:NCDH 202\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36
 44 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Law\, Language\, and the Words that Bind 
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