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Below please find details of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, and its annual conference https://anzlhs.org/ The Society is a group brought together through shared interest in connections which can be made between law and history, and members are drawn from backgrounds as historians or lawyers, within the academic community and beyond. Whilst many members either live in Australia or New Zealand or who have research interests in these places, the Society embraces a very broad spectrum of interest arising from exploring connections between law and history. Amongst its members are those whose interests lie in economics and business, and there are always papers presented on these subjects at its annual conference. Here the society provides a friendly and highly stimulating environment to explore a very extensive range of interests. The Society publicizes key events likely to interest its membership, and also sources of funding etc. The Society also publishes the journal *Law& History*, and is now on Facebook. The Society is really keen to encourage UK based scholars to join. Its annual conference is an excellent way of getting to know members, and to receive feedback on projects at all stages of development; and also an excellent way of discovering and exploring shared interests. This is all within a highly collegiate and friendly setting. The Society’s annual conferences are organised around key themes which are likely to encourage connections between law and history. The theme for 2017 is: *“Legal and social change – gradual evolution or punctuated equilibrium?”* The Conference will be held at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand in December 2017. It will run 14th, 15th and 16th December, and in selecting these dates, the Society has been mindful of the UK autumn term. Full details can be found on the ANZLHS website, and briefly, the CFP notes that ‘This conference theme draws on evolutionary theory about how species form, and asks whether changes in the law and in the effects of particular laws on society occur through a gradual process of incremental change or through periods of relative stasis with intervening major shifts’. The CFP is open until *21 August 2017*, and invites submissions for both papers and panels related to any aspect of the conference theme. In the spirit of the Society’s broad spectrum approach, it also welcomes offers of papers or panels on other areas in the intersection of law and history. Postgraduate students are welcomed. The Society provides its Kercher Scholarships to encourage postgraduate student attendance. Inquiries or submissions of papers should be accompanied by a brief abstract and biography and sent to the programme co-ordinator, Professor Jeremy Finn [log in to unmask] by 21 August 2017. All proposals will be assessed, and successful submitters contacted as soon as possible, and definitely by the end of August. It is a condition of presentation of a paper or participation in a panel that the contributor is a financial member of the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society at the time of presentation. Membership can be initiated or renewed at the time of registration for the conference. Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested Thank you Sarah Wilson University of York, UK Liaison ANZLHS -- Dr Sarah Wilson Senior Lecturer York Law School University of York Law and Management Building Heslington York Tel: (+44) 01904 325809 email: [log in to unmask] *Recent Publications * *Monograph * * *The Origins of Modern Financial Crime: Historical foundations and current problems in Britain** (Abingdon: Routledge (Criminology), 2014) Shortlisted for the 2015 Wadsworth Prize awarded by the Business Archives Council for outstanding contribution to the study of British Business History *Journal Article* ‘The new Market Abuse Regulation and Directive on Criminal Sanctions for Market Abuse: European capital markets law and new global trends in financial crime enforcement’, (2015) 16 ERA Forum (the Journal of the Academy of European Law), 427 *Book Contribution* (with TT Arvind and J Gray) ‘From the Mid-Nineteenth Century Bank Failures in the UK to the Twenty-First Century Financial Policy Committee – Changing Views of Responsibility for Systemic Stability’ in R Michie, et al (eds) *Complexity, Crisis and the Evolution of the Financial System: Critical Perspectives on American and British Banking* (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016).