The Fiftieth Conference on Editorial Problems - Day 2
Legal Texts and the New Philology
Room FA3, Falconer House, Faculty of Law, 84 Queen's Park
How has bibliographic context shaped the way legal texts are written, disseminated, read, and copied? And what does that mean for the law in our digital age?
9:30–10:45 am
Simon Stern, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Margins of Authority: Precedent and Citation in Coke’s Institutes
11:00 am–12:15 pm
Michael Hoeflich, University of Kansas School of Law
The Rise of the Legal Editor in the Antebellum United States
12:15–1:30: Lunch Break
1:30–2:45 pm
Robert Spoo, University of Tulsa College of Law
Legal Paratexts: Binding Legitimacy into the Literary Text