Newcastle Law School to Host Stanley Fish Symposium

Newcastle Law School will be hosting a symposium on the work by Professor Stanley Fish on May 1st 2012.

Professor Fish, of Florida International University, is a leading public intellectual and has authored over 200 scholarly publications and books. In addition to being Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, he has held positions at Cardozo Law School, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Duke University, and The John Marshall Law School.

The Symposium will focus in particular on Professor Fish’s work on formalism, law and literature and pragmatism.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Stanley Fish

Respondents : Richard Mullender, Ian Ward and Ole W Pedersen

The event starts at 10.00

A limited number of places are available on a first-come-first-served basis.

Registration: Please email Mrs Suzanne Johnson on suzanne.johnson@newcastle.ac.uk   Enquiries to: Dr Ole W. Pedersen on ole.pedersen@ncl.ac.uk or Richard Mullender on richard.mullender@ncl.ac.uk

published on: 17th April 2012