The Department of History, School of Social Sciences, has marked the 50th Golden Jubilee Year of the University of Hyderabad by holding an International Conference on Legal History, entitled RULES, LAWS, CONVENTIONS: THE MOMENTOUS AND THE EVERYDAY on 23-24 February, 2024, in the Social Science Conference Hall.

The School of Social Sciences had hosted Professor Uma Chakravarty’s Documentary “Zameer” in the Zakir Hussain Auditorium on 23 February, 2023. Papers were read by recognized scholars from nationally and internationally known universities: Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi), National Academy of Legal Research (NALSAR), Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT, Hyderabad), Pune University, Nagpur Law Institute, India International University of Legal Education and Research (IIULER Goa), University of Cambridge (UK), University of Oxford (UK), and University of Toronto (Canada) through the 2 days of the Conference. All the participants were unanimous about the excellence of the papers and the efforts of the History Department to make the academic event a resounding success.

The Conference was followed by a classroom lecture on 26 February, 2024 by a talk by Dr. Abhik Majumdar of IIULER to the Masters students of the History Department.