Call for papers: Land and Property Beyond the Centenary

The centenary of the 1925 property statutes enacted in Westminster marks an opportunity to explore the legal history of land and property. The OU Legal Histories cluster is hosting a free, online conference on this theme on 16 May 2025 from 10.00–17.00.

We welcome papers relating to the following, non-exhaustive list of topics considering any jurisdiction, domestic or international:

• The relationship between property and public law
• Property, imperialism, and colonialism
• Concepts and forms of ownership
• Treaties relating to land
• Indigenous concepts and perspectives on land systems and registers
• The constitutive role of land systems and registers
• Cultural and literary perspectives
• Critical, doctrinal, feminist, Marxist, comparative, etc, approaches.

Please send an abstract of up to 250 words to ouls-legalhistory@open.ac.uk by 28 March 2025.