Legal theory and legal history: prospects for dialogue / Michael Lobban -- Beyond universality and particularity, necessity, and contingency: on collaboration between legal theory and legal history / Maksymilian del Mar -- Legal theory and legal history / Fernanda Pirie -- Legal theory and legal history: which legal theory? / Sionaidh Douglas Scott -- Historicism and materiality in legal theory / Christopher Tomlins -- Legal consciousness: a metahistory / Jonathan Gorman -- Modelling law diachronically: temporal variability in legal theory / Maksymilian del Mar -- Is comparative law necessary for legal theory? / John Bell -- Reading juristic theories in and beyond historical context: the case of Lundstedt's Swedish legal realism / Roger Cotterrell -- Legal realism and natural law / Dan Priel and Charles Barzun -- The role of rules: legal maxims in early-modern common law principle and practice / Ian Williams -- Theory in history: positivism, natural law, and conjectural history in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English legal thought / Michael Lobban -- Legal history and legal theory shaking hands: towards a gentleman's agreement about a definition of the state / Pierre Brunet and Jean-Louis Halperin -- Law, self-interest, and the Smithian conscience / Joshua Getzler -- The practical dimension of legal reasoning / Stephen Waddams -- Corrective Justice? an idea whose time has gone? / Steve Hedley -- How history does and does not bear on jurisprudence / Brian Z Tamanaha.