Distinguished legal historian Professor Christopher Tomlins, from the Berkeley Law faculty at the University of California, will deliver a staff seminar and participate in a legal history workshop during a five-day visit to Kent Law School.

Professor Tomlins has been invited to visit the School from Monday 6 June to Friday 10 June by Law and History Research Group CLIO, part of the Law School’s Centre for Critical Thought. His seminar, sponsored by Kent Law School’s Visiting Scholars programme, will be held on Wednesday 8 June from 16.00 to 18.00 and is entitled ‘The Guilt of Fragile Sovereigns: Tyranny, Intrigue, and Martyrdom in an Unchanging Regime (Virginia, 1829-32)’.

Professor Tomlins, who is also an Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, will be available on Monday 6 June and Tuesday 7 June to meet with staff and postgraduate research students wishing to discuss his or their work. A reading group/workshop on Professor Tomlin’s work (and more general questions of history/legal history) will take place on Thursday 9 June.