A guest seminar on the office of jurisprudent and the care of the dying and the dead will be delivered by visiting academic Shaun McVeigh, an Associate Professor from the Department of Law at the University of Melbourne on Wednesday (18 January).
The seminar is the first in a series entitled ‘Law and the Human’ to be hosted by Kent’s Centre for Critical Thought (CCT). It will address aspects of “the human relation” through the office of jurisprudent and the methods and repertoires of humanist jurisprudents within the common law tradition. In his abstract Shaun says: ‘By way of noting the passing of John Berger, I consider the sense in which a jurisprudence might be “adequate to the task” of training a jurisprudent in creating lawful relations, and acknowledging a human relation, in a time and place. To do so, I bring into relation a number of overlapping accounts of value and technique presented by the “Whitstable School” of legal thought and some contemporary accounts of dying in a dignified manner and caring for the dead.’
Open to all, the seminar will take place in Eliot Lyons Room from 4pm to 6pm.
Shaun, a member of the Institute of International Law and the Humanities, will also be delivering a master class for Kent Law and CCT students on Thursday 19 January from 12pm to 2pm in the Brian Simpson Room (in Eliot Extension).
Shaun’s research interests include Professional ethics, histories of legal thought, jurisprudence and jurisography. He is currently working on a collaborative research project with Ann Genovese and Peter Rush entitled “Lives Lived with Law”.