The program for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, to be held in Boston, November 21-24, 2019, has been announced. More information on the conference is here.
Download the conference program at this link.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2019
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
What is a Legal Archive? (Center for History and Economics, Harvard University)
Moderators: Elizabeth Lhost, University of Wisconsin-Madison ([email protected]) and Emma Rothschild, Harvard University ([email protected])
Debjani Bhattacharya, Drexel University ([email protected])
South Asia 1
Julia Stephens, Rutgers University ([email protected])
South Asia 2
Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University ([email protected])
Latin America 3
Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon ([email protected])
Latin America 1
Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
Latin America 2
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto ([email protected])
South Asia 3
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2019
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Registration (Exeter Foyer)
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Exhibits (Statler Room)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
African Legal History Symposium (White Hill Room)
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Johnson Program for First Book Authors (Harvard Law School / TBD)
Moderator: Reuel Schiller, University of California, Hastings College of the Law ([email protected])
Pedro Cantisano, Kenyon College ([email protected])
Rio de Janeiro on Trial: Law and Urban Reform in Modern Brazil
Marie-Amelie George, Wake Forest University School of Law ([email protected])
Deviant Justice: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Rights in America
Amanda Laury Kleintop, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts ([email protected])
The Balance of Freedom: Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves after the U.S. Civil War
Kalyani Ramnath, Harvard University ([email protected])
Boats in a Storm: Law and Displacement in Postwar South Asia
Evan Taparata, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
State of Refuge: Refugee Law and the Modern United States
Adnan Zulfiqar, Rutgers Law School ([email protected])
Collective Duties in Islamic Law: The Moral Community, State Authority, and Ethical Speculation in the late 9th to the 14th Centuries CE
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Student Research Colloquium (Harvard Law School / TBD)
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
This event is closed to the public.
Student Presenters:
Jonathon Booth, Harvard University ([email protected])
The Birth of Policing in Post-Emancipation Jamaica
Lauren Feldman, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected])
Constructing Legal Matrimony and the State in New York and the United States: Debating New York’s Marriage Act of 1827 and its Effects
Jamie Grischkan, Boston University ([email protected])
Banking, Law, and American Liberalism: The Rise and Regulation of Bank Holding Companies in the Twentieth Century
Derek Litvak, University of Maryland ([email protected])
Articles of Failure: Slavery Under the Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
Doris Morgan Rueda, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ([email protected])
“No One’s Getting Smarter, No One’s Learning the Score”: San Diego’s Surveillance of Youth and the Border in the 1950’s
Katharina Isabel Schmidt, Princeton University ([email protected])
From Free Law to Free Love: On Theodor Sternberg’s Sexological Explorations in Imperial Japan, 1935-1937
Geneva Smith, Princeton University ([email protected])
Compensating Whiteness: Slave Courts in Colonial Maryland and the Atlantic World
Lila Teeters, University of New Hampshire ([email protected])
“A Simple Act of Justice”: Congressional Attempts to Make Native Americans U.S. Citizens, 1919-1924
Conveners:
Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School ([email protected])
Laurie Wood, Florida State University ([email protected])
Jacqueline Briggs, University of Toronto ([email protected])
John Wertheimer, Davidson College ([email protected]
Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context (Harvard Law School / TBD)
12:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Legal History and the Persistent Power of State and Local Governments (Cambridge Room)
Moderators: Brooke Depenbusch, University of Minnesota ([email protected]) and Rabia Belt, Stanford Law School ([email protected])
Kate Masur, Northwestern University ([email protected])
Historiographical Interventions (1)
William Novak, Michigan Law ([email protected])
Historiographical Interventions (2)
Karen Tani, University of California, Berkeley School of Law ([email protected])
Historiographical Interventions (3)
Laura Edwards, Duke University ([email protected])
Historiographical Interventions (4)
Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota ([email protected])
Narrative Choices (1)
Christopher Tomlins, University of California-Berkeley Law School ([email protected])
Narrative Choices (2)
Emily Prifogle, University of Michigan ([email protected])
Narrative Choices (3)
Felicity Turner, Georgia Southern University ([email protected])
Source Decisions (1)
Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University ([email protected])
Source Decisions (2)
Kellen Funk, Princeton University ([email protected])
Source Decisions (3)
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
The Second Book (Building E51, Room 095)
Moderator: Alison Lefkovitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark ([email protected])
Alison Lefkovitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark ([email protected])
Associate Professor, “Fortune Hunting: Sex, Class, and Social Mobility in the 20thCentury United States.”
Anne Fleming, Georgetown Law ([email protected]), Professor
Household Borrowing and Bankruptcy in Jim Crow America
Caley Horan, MIT ([email protected]) Associate Professor
“Investing in the stars: Astrology and capitalism in modern America”
Gautham Rao, American University ([email protected]) American University, Associate Professor
“The Master’s State: Slavery and the American State.”
Nate Holdren, Program in Law, Politics, and Society ([email protected]) Assistant Professor
“Capitalism’s Heartland.”
Kimberly Welch, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) Assistant Professor
“The Black Atlantic Economy.”
Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) Assistant Professor
“The Catholic Left and the American Constitutional Tradition in the Twentieth Century.”
Sarah Milov, University of Virginia ([email protected]) Assistant Professor
“Shrill Alarm: Gender and Whistleblowing in Modern America.”
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Finance Committee (Hancock Room)
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Executive Committee (Hancock Room)
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Opening Reception (Arlington/Berkeley/Clarendon Room)
7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Board of Directors Meeting (Georgian Room)
10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Night Cap (M.J. O’Connor’s Pub)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2019
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Petitioning the President: James Madison, The Haitian Revolution, and a Resurgence of the International Slave Trade (Arlington Room)
Chairs: Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ([email protected]), Rebecca J Scott, University of Michigan ([email protected]) and Darrell Meadows, Nation Historical Publications & Records Commission ([email protected])
Discussants: Ana María Silva, University of Michigan ([email protected]), Jean Hébrard, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected]) and Andrew Walker, Wesleyan University ([email protected])
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
The Consequences of Union Victory and the Legal Legacy of the Civil War (Berkeley Room)
Chair: Timothy Huebner, Rhodes College ([email protected])
Commentator: Taja-Nia Henderson, Rutgers School of Law ([email protected])
Catharine MacMillan, King’s College London ([email protected])
The ‘So-called Confederate Government’: The United States of America’s Quest for Confederate property in England
Christopher Bryant, University of Cincinnati ([email protected])
“Both Parties Bidding”: Ohio’s 1884 Civil Rights Act and the Evolving Concept of Equal Citizenship (co-authored with Matthew Norman)
Matthew Norman, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College ([email protected])
“Both Parties Bidding”: Ohio’s 1884 Civil Rights Act and the Evolving Concept of Equal Citizenship(co-authored with Christopher Bryant)
Cynthia Nicoletti, University of Virginia Law School ([email protected])
William Henry Trescot and Land Redistribution in South Carolina, 1865-1866
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
The Legal Regulation of Punishment in Comparative Perspective (White Hill Room)
Chair: Erin Braatz, Suffolk University Law School ([email protected])
Commentator: Michael Meranze, University of California, Los Angeles ([email protected])
Mina Khalil, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
Tracing the Criminal Defendant in Modern Egypt
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart, University of Toronto Mississauga ([email protected])
Dissent and Dignity in Late Colonial Uganda: The 1957 Bufulubi Prison Strike
Thomas Buoye, The University of Tulsa ([email protected])
Death in Detention, Jail Breaks, and Summary Execution: The Crisis in Eighteenth-century Chinese Criminal Justice
Toussaint Losier, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ([email protected])
“So I guess its up to us”: Locating the Place of Prisoner Litigation in the History and Historiography of Mass Incarceration
Ashley Rubin, University of Toronto, Mississauga ([email protected])
Benevolent Discretion: Prison Administration and Legal Ambiguity in Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829-1849
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Law, Indenture and Free Labor in the British Empire, 1640–1870 (Clarendon Room)
Chair: Mary Bilder, Boston College Law School ([email protected])
Commentator: Mary Bilder, Boston College Law School ([email protected])
Sonia Tycko, Rothermere American Institute and St. Peter’s College, Oxford ([email protected])
The Question of Consent in 17th c. Transatlantic English Kidnapping Prosecutions
Jon Connolly, Princeton University ([email protected])
Indentured Labor Migration and the Making of Post-Slavery Free Labor
Padraic Scanlan, London School of Economics and Political Science ([email protected])
Special Magistracy in the British Empire, 1834–1838
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Sex and Motherhood Reimagined (Georgian Room)
Chair: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University ([email protected])
Commentator: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University ([email protected])
Melissa Murray, NYU School of Law ([email protected])
Griswold v. Connecticut and Criminal Law Reform
Julie Suk, CUNY – The Graduate Center ([email protected])
From “Home Protection” to Family Privacy: Penumbras of Prohibition and its Repeal
Reva Siegel, Yale Law School ([email protected])
Reimagining Motherhood When the Nineteenth Amendment Was Fifty: The Strike For Equality, August 26, 1970
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
Double Standards: Sex, Sexuality, and Marital Status in the Long 1970s
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
War and the Law: Global Perspectives (Boylston Room)
Chair: Vasuki Nesiah, New York University ([email protected])
Commentator: Vasuki Nesiah, New York University ([email protected])
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore ([email protected])
Soldiers Without War: Military Logistics and Sepoy Mutiny in Singapore (1915)
Kalyani Ramnath, Harvard University ([email protected])
Checkpoints: Law and Migration in Interwar South Asia
Franziska Seraphim, Boston College ([email protected])
War Crimes Trials and Geolegality
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Civil Law, Common Law, Customary Law. Consonance, Divergence and Transformation in Western Europe from the late eleventh to the thirteenth centuries (White Hill Room)
Chair: Emanuele Conte, Università Roma Tre ([email protected])
Andrew Cecchinato, University of St Andrews ([email protected])
A European Science of English Law? System and History from Selden to Blackstone
Sarah White, Univesrity of St Andrews ([email protected])
Romano-canonical Procedural Treatises in England
Will Eves, University of St Andrews ([email protected])
The concept of ‘ownership’ in England and Northern France
Matthew McHaffie, Univesrity of St Andrews ([email protected])
Comparative History of Warranty Obligations (France and England, 1000–1270)
Cory Hitt, University of St Andrews ([email protected])
Redemption of property and status in Old French and Anglo-Norman coutumiers
Attilio Stella, University of St Andrews ([email protected])
Feudal law and the Libri Feudorum in Italy and Southern France
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Indigenous Articulations & Critiques of the Law in American History (Exeter Room)
Chair: Bethany Berger, University of Connecticut ([email protected])
Discussants: Keith Richotte, Jr., University of North Carolina ([email protected]), Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College ([email protected]) and Maurice Crandall, Dartmouth College ([email protected])
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Taking the Rural Seriously in Twentieth-Century Legal History: Centering Gender & Sexuality (Berkeley Room)
Chair: Anna Lvovsky, Harvard University ([email protected])
Commentator: Anna Lvovsky, Harvard University ([email protected])
Emily Prifogle, University of Michigan ([email protected])
Prosecutorial Discretion & Masculinity in Small-Town Iowa, 1920-1928
Brian Balogh, University of Virginia ([email protected])
“They resented her from day one:” The role of gender in the first American Rural National Historic Landmark District
Anne Gray Fischer, Indiana University ([email protected])
“A Rugged Task”: Policewomen in the Depression-era Countryside
Gabriel Rosenberg, Duke University ([email protected])
Beastly Vice: On the Legal Transformation of Bestiality and the Political Ecology of Rural America
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Legal History in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa: Legislation and Courts in the Making of Political Culture (Georgian Room)
Chair: Charlotte Walker-Said, John Jay-CUNY ([email protected])
Commentator: Charlotte Walker-Said, John Jay-CUNY ([email protected])
Walter Nkwi, University of Buea ([email protected])
Prostitution, Women’s Mobility, and the Development of Criminal Regulatory Systems in Anglophone and Francophone Cameroon
Elizabeth Thornberry, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected])
Traditional Leadership and the Temporality of Custom: South Africa’s Nhlapo Commission
Erin Mosely, Chapman University ([email protected])
Ferdinand Nahimana, the International Criminal Tribunal, and Rwanda’s Politics of Regret
Katherine Luongo, Northeastern University ([email protected])
The Nyayo House Reparations Case – A Crucible of Human Rights in Contemporary Kenya
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Making Markets: Law and American Capitalism (Clarendon Room)
Chair: Noam Maggor, Queen Mary University of London ([email protected])
Commentator: Andrew Cohen, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs ([email protected])
Noam Maggor, Queen Mary University of London ([email protected])
Antitrust as Development Strategy: Law and the Remaking of American Capitalism, 1865-1890
Gabrielle Clark, Dartmouth College ([email protected])
Remaking Deportable Labor: Legal Coercion and Globalization in US Labor Markets
Nicolas Barreyre, The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) ([email protected])
Constituting Public Debt: Re-shaping the Administrative State and US Finance after the Civil War
Martin Giraudeau, Sciences Po ([email protected])
Who owns accounting? A History of Intellectual Property Rights on Accounting Methods, 1970-2020
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Kathryn T. Preyer Memorial Prize Panel (Boylston Room)
Chair: Laura Kalman, Department of History ([email protected])
Commentators: Gerald Neuman, Harvard Law School ([email protected]) and Sophia Lee, University of Pennsylvania Law School ([email protected])
Ofra Bloch, Yale Law School ([email protected])
The Untold History of Israel’s Affirmative Action for Arab Citizens, 1948-1968
Brianna Nofil, Columbia University ([email protected])
“Chinese Jails” and the Birth of Immigration Detention for Profit, 1900-1905
12:00 PM – 1:10 PM
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEMISE OF THE WARREN COURT (Arlington Room)
Chair: Lucas Powe, University of Texas School of Law ([email protected])
Commentator: Linda Greenhouse, Yale Law School ([email protected])
Earl Maltz, Rutgers University ([email protected])
Revisiting Rodriguez and Roe: The Trials of Richard Nixon, The Travails of Abe Fortas, and the Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment
David Golland, Governors State University ([email protected])
A Case is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher, Griggs v. Duke Power, and the American Workplace
James Viator, Loyola-New Orleans ([email protected])
Did the Warren Court End With the Burger Court: A Comparison of Their Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
The making of social rights: global crossings in the first half of the 20th century (Boylston Room)
Chair: William Novak, Michigan Law ([email protected])
Commentator: William Novak, Michigan Law ([email protected])
Laila Maia Galvão, Federal Institute of Paraná ([email protected])
Education, democracy and administrative state in 1930’s Brazil: the connections between Anísio Teixeira and John Dewey
Maria Pia Guerra, Universidade de Brasília ([email protected])
Delegations of powers and authoritarianism in the Brazilian 1930´: connections between Brazil and the United States
Nie Xin, Tsinghua University School of Law ([email protected])
The Chinese Constitutional Social Welfare Articles before 1949: Comparison with the Weimar Constitution
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Authors-Meet-Readers: Legal Histories of Modern American Capitalism (Georgian Room)
Chair: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School ([email protected])
Commentators: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School ([email protected]) and Meg Jacobs, Princeton University ([email protected])
Authors: Laura Phillips Sawyer, Harvard Business School ([email protected]) and Anne Fleming, Georgetown University Law Center ([email protected])
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
On the Spirit of Rights: Author Meets Reader Session (Georgian Room)
Chair: Camille Robcis, Columbia University ([email protected])
Commentators: Camille Robcis, Columbia University ([email protected]) and Jud Campbell, University of Richmond ([email protected])
Author: Dan Edelstein, Stanford University ([email protected])
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Author Meets Readers: Carlton F.W. Larson’s The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2019) (Georgian Room)
Chair: Daniel Hamilton, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law ([email protected])
Commentators: Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School ([email protected]), Renee Lerner, George Washington University Law School ([email protected]) and Amanda Tyler, University of California, Berkeley School of Law ([email protected])
Author: Carlton Larson, UC Davis School of Law ([email protected])
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Author Meets Readers: Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom (Georgian Room)
Chair: Michael Willrich, Brandeis University History Department ([email protected])
Commentators: Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt Law School ([email protected]), Timothy Lovelace, Indiana University Maurer School of Law ([email protected]) and Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Columbia Law School ([email protected])
Author: Sarah Seo, University of Iowa College of Law ([email protected])
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Commercial Dispute Resolution in the Early Modern Atlantic World (White Hill Room)
Chair: Esther Sahle, University of Oldenburg ([email protected])
Commentator: Amalia Kessler, Stanford University ([email protected])
Hunter Harris, University of Michigan ([email protected])
Commercial Arbitration in Eighteenth Century Glasgow
Francis Boorman, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London ([email protected])
Arbitration and the Industrial Revolution
Strum Daniel, University of Sao Paolo ([email protected])
Formal enforcement as a designed supplementary institution: cases involving traders of Jewish origin in sixteenth and seventeenth century Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands
Esther Sahle, University of Oldenburg ([email protected])
Gospel Order and Economic Growth: Quaker Arbitration in Colonial Philadelphia
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Almost Citizens: an author-meets-reader panel with Sam Erman (Georgian Room)
Chair: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California ([email protected])
Commentators: Karen Tani, University of California, Berkeley School of Law ([email protected]), Cristina Rodriguez, Yale ([email protected]) and Sanford Levinson, University of Texas ([email protected])
Author: Samuel Erman, USC Gould School of Law ([email protected])
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Adjudication in Islamic Law: Between Juristic Critique and Political Power (c. 13th-19th centuries CE) (Arlington Room)
Chair: Intisar Rabb, Harvard Law School ([email protected])
Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto – Faculty of Law ([email protected])
Mariam Sheibani, Harvard Law School ([email protected])
Judicial Misconduct and the Critique of Adjudication in Medieval Cairo: The Case of the Orphan and Her Cunning Ward
Samy Ayoub, The University of Texas – Austin ([email protected])
Judicial Overreach: Ḥanafī Criticism of Ottoman State Practices
Amir Toft, University of Chicago ([email protected])
Here and Gone: A Month in the Life of an Ottoman Judge (Üsküdar, 1579)
Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown University ([email protected])
A Subtle Imbibe: Islamic law in 19th Century Colonial Courts in India
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Criminal Justice and Social Control in Latin America (1887-1930) (Berkeley Room)
Chair: Amy Chazkel, City University of New York, Queens College ([email protected])
Commentator: Amy Chazkel, City University of New York, Queens College ([email protected])
Sol Calandria, National University of La Plata/ CONICET ([email protected])
Sexual Morality, Intimacy and Gender in Infanticide Rulings in Argentina (1887-1921)
Pedro Cantisano, Kenyon College ([email protected])
Courts, Bodies, and Barricades: Legal Consciousness and Mobilization in Rio de Janeiro’s 1904 Vaccine Revolt
Teresita Rodríguez Morales, University of San Andrés/CONICET ([email protected])
“A carnival incident and sensationalistic process”: tensions between police and justice through the Buenos Aires press at the beginning of the twentieth century
Raquel R. Sirotti, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History ([email protected])
Criminalizing politics. Judicial responses to political conflicts in Brazil (1889-1930)
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Opportunities and Pitfalls: Property Claims across Multiple Legal Worlds in Modern East Asia (Exeter Room)
Chair: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University ([email protected])
Commentator: Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School ([email protected])
Peter Thilly, University of Mississippi ([email protected])
Consular Jurisdiction and the Pioneers of Flexible Citizenship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Rui Hua, Harvard University ([email protected])
The Empire Effect: Translingual Legal Literacy and The Promiscuous Borderland Market of Laws in Manchuria, 1900-1930s
Colin Jones, Columbia University ([email protected])
The Terrible Magic of Credit: Property Law in Manchuria and Japan’s Postwar Land Reforms
Teng Li, Northwestern University ([email protected])
A Glitch with Teeth: Legal Transition, Property Registration, and Taiwanese Landlords in Post-1945 Taiwan
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Author-Meets-Readers: Rose Parfitt’s The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2019) (Georgian Room)
Chair: Christopher Tomlins, University of California-Berkeley Law School ([email protected])
Commentators: Tony Anghie, University of Utah School of Law ([email protected]), Genevieve Painter, Simone de Beauvoir Institute ([email protected]) and Nate Holdren, Program in Law, Politics, and Society ([email protected])
Author: Rose Parfitt, Kent Law School ([email protected])
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Author Meets Reader: Theaters of Pardoning (Georgian Room)
Chair: Elizabeth Anker, Cornell University ([email protected])
Commentators: James Whitman, Yale University ([email protected]), Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota ([email protected]) and Jed Shugerman, Fordham ([email protected])
Author: Bernadette Meyler, Stanford Law School ([email protected])
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Civil Rights, Religious Groups, and Race Discrimination in the 20th Century (Arlington Room)
Chair: Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ([email protected])
Commentator: Smita Ghosh, Georgetown University Law Center ([email protected])
Elizabeth Katz, Washington University in St. Louis ([email protected])
“Racial and Religious Democracy”: Identity and Equality at Mid-Century
Ronit Stahl, University of California, Berkeley ([email protected])
Civil Rights and Conscience Rights: The Divergent Paths of State Action Doctrine and the American Hospital
Victoria Woeste, American Bar Foundation ([email protected])
Practicing God’s Law in a Secular World: The Civil Rights Law Practice of the Lawyers of the Westboro Baptist Church
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Exempted & Excluded: Citizenship, Belonging, Alienage, and Nativism in Twentieth Century North America (Clarendon Room)
Chair: Emma Teng, MIT ([email protected])
Commentator: Emma Teng, MIT ([email protected])
Mary Anne Vallianatos, University of Victoria ([email protected])
Exception and the Port of Entry: Race, Gender and the ‘Exempted Classes’ to the Canadian Head Tax
Hardeep Dhillon, Harvard University ([email protected])
Naturalized & Denaturalized, White & Not White: Indian Immigration and Claims to U.S. Citizenship
Priscilla Martinez, University of California, Santa Cruz ([email protected])
Arbitrary Borders: Chinese Tucson and Indigenous Salt Pilgrimages, 1924-1934
Brendan Shanahan, University of California, Berkeley ([email protected])
Contesting “Citizen Only” Rights: Noncitizens Confront Professional Licensing Restrictions, 1915-1952
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Author meets Reader: China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965 (Georgian Room)
Chair: Pär Cassel, University of Michigan ([email protected])
Commentators: Fei-Hsien Wang, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of History ([email protected]) and Gautham Rao, American University ([email protected])
Author: Philip Thai, Northeastern University ([email protected])
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Author-Meets-Reader: Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Georgian Room)
Chair: Ada Kuskowski, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
Commentators: Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School ([email protected]), Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University ([email protected]) and Stephen Bednarski, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo ([email protected])
Author: Elizabeth Kamali, Harvard Law School ([email protected])
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
“Between Slavery and Freedom: The Struggle over the Legal Status of Black Northerners, 1780-1850” (Berkeley Room)
Chair: Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University ([email protected])
Commentator: Allison Madar, University of Oregon ([email protected])
Lucien Holness, University of Maryland ([email protected])
“Black Southwestern Pennsylvanians’ Freedom Claims and Free Soil in the Slave South”
Anne Twitty, University of Mississippi ([email protected])
“Mapping Unfreedom: Tracing Indentured Servitude in the Northwest Territory”
Cory James Young, Georgetown University ([email protected])
“The Legal Foundations of Pennsylvania Term Enslavement during the Age of Gradual Abolition, 1780 to 1826”
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
International Women, Feminist Movements, and Human Rights (Exeter Room)
Chair: Katherine Marino, UCLA ([email protected])
Commentator: Katherine Marino, UCLA ([email protected])
Shauni Armstead, Rutgers University ([email protected])
Searching for Global Justice and Freedom in the United Nations: Eunice Hunton Carter’s and Mary McLeod Bethune’s interpretations of the 1945 San Francisco Conference
Gwen Jordan, University of Illinois Springfield ([email protected])
The Federación International de Abogadas’ Campaigns for Global Women’s Rights, 1944-1975
Myra Houser, Ouachita Baptist University ([email protected])
Rising Above ‘Our’ Problems: African-American Women Litigating Against Apartheid
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Money and Governance: Institutions and Ideas (Boylston Room)
Chair: Michael Zakim, Tel Aviv University ([email protected])
Commentator: Michael Zakim, Tel Aviv University ([email protected])
Christine Desan, Harvard Law School ([email protected])
A Revisionary History of Credible Commitment
Nadav Orian Peer, Tulane University Law School ([email protected])
Housing Segregation and the Secondary Mortgage Market
Roy Kreitner, Tel Aviv University ([email protected])
The Gold Standard(s) and Multiple Liquidity Regimes
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Author Meets Readers: Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930 (Georgian Room)
Chair: Mitchel Lasser, Cornell ([email protected])
Commentators: Janet Halley, Harvard Law School ([email protected]) and Chantal Thomas, Cornell Law School ([email protected])
Author: Judith Surkis, Rutgers ([email protected])
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Author-meets-Reader: Rohit De, A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Princeton University Press, 2018) (Georgian Room)
Chair: Laura Weinrib, University of Chicago Law School ([email protected])
Commentators: Faiz Ahmed, Dept. of History, Brown University ([email protected]), Samuel Daly, African & African American Studies, Duke University ([email protected]) and Heinz Klug, University of Wisconsin Law School ([email protected])
Author: Rohit De, Yale Univ. ([email protected])
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
The Bicentennial of Dartmouth College: A Retrospective and Future Directions (White Hill Room)
Chair: Kevin Butterfield, Washington Library ([email protected])
Discussants: Evelyn Atkinson, University of Chicago ([email protected]), Nikolas Bowie, Harvard Law School ([email protected]), Jane Manners, Columbia Law School ([email protected]), Paul Gutierrez, Brown University ([email protected]) and Alyssa Penick, University of Michigan ([email protected])
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2019
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Infanticide and Illegitimate Pregnancies in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas (Arlington Room)
Chair: Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School ([email protected])
Commentator: Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School ([email protected])
Sara McDougall, Dept. of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center ([email protected])
Punishing and Pardoning Infanticide in Late Medieval France
Felicity Turner, Georgia Southern University ([email protected])
Proving Pregnancy: Physicians, Infanticide, & the Law in the Nineteenth-Century US
Cassia Roth, University of Georgia ([email protected])
The Madness of Maternity: Puerperal Insanity Pleas and Infanticide Jurisprudence in Early Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Roundtable Conversation with Martha Jones About Writing the Legal History of Citizenship (Georgian Room)
Commentator: Dan Sharfstein, Vanderbilt University ([email protected])
Chair: Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ([email protected])
Discussants: Martha Jones, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected]), Kristin Collins, University of Chicago Law School ([email protected]) and Kendra Field, Tufts University ([email protected])
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Iberian Empires and the Production of Normativities in Asia (1500-1800) (Boylston Room)
Chair: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History ([email protected])
Commentator: Tamar Herzog, Harvard University- CGIS ([email protected])
Marya Svetlana Camacho, University of Asia and the Pacific ([email protected])
Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Bride Service in Spanish Colonial Philippines
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History ([email protected])
Legal Encounters between Empires: Japanese and Portuguese Normativities (1540s – 1630s)
Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, JSPS International Research Fellow, Sophia University ([email protected])
How to hide a church from quite a long way away? Theological problems of Japanese Christianity in times of persecution (1620s)
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Unsettling Legal Histories of the Modern Business Corporation (Berkeley Room)
Chair: Claire Priest, Yale Law School ([email protected])
Commentator: Claire Priest, Yale Law School ([email protected])
Dan Danielsen, Northeastern University School of Law ([email protected])
The End of History for Corporate Law? A Critical Reassessment
Philip Stern, Duke University ([email protected])
Corporations and History: Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Aaron Dhir, Osgoode Hall Law School ([email protected])
Black Star Line, Inc.: Race in the Historical Life of the Corporation
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Courts, Constitutions and Democracy in Postcolonial South Asia (Clarendon Room)
Chair: TBD
Commentator: TBD
Sarah Gandee, University of Leeds ([email protected])
Criminality, Equality and the Constitution in Early Postcolonial India
Alastair McClure, University of Chicago ([email protected])
‘To Hang by the Neck Until Dead’: Law, Killing and Politics in Postcolonial India
Saumya Saxena, University of Cambridge ([email protected])
Court’ing Hindu nationalism: Law and Hindutva in Contemporary India
Adeel Hussain, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law ([email protected])
Constitutionalism in Pakistan
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
“Teaching Legal History in the 21st Century: New Approaches, Transnational Perspectives” (White Hill Room)
Chair: Joanna Grisinger, Center for Legal Studies, Northwestern University ([email protected])
Commentator: Joanna Grisinger, Center for Legal Studies, Northwestern University ([email protected])
Ashton Merck, Duke University ([email protected])
Teaching “The Modern Regulatory State”
Troy Andrade, University of Hawai’i at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law ([email protected])
Teaching “Paradise”: Legal History of Hawai’i
Raha Rafii, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
Teaching the “Other”: Islamic Law as a Contested Legal System
Sueann Caulfield, University of Michigan ([email protected])
Teaching the History of Inter-American Human Rights Law through Transnational Collaboration on the Internet
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Lost Histories of Emergency and Martial Law (Georgian Room)
Chair: John Witt, Yale Law School ([email protected])
Commentator: Will Smiley, Reed College ([email protected])
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto ([email protected])
Before Emergency: The Colonial State and the Jurisprudence of Disturbance in South Asia
Will Smiley, Reed College ([email protected])
To Save the Country: The Lieber Theory of Martial Law
Joel Isaac, University of Chicago ([email protected])
Constitutionalism at the Limit: Emergencies and Dictatorship in American Legal Thought, 1920-1950
Karin Loevy, NYU School of Law ([email protected])
From Limited Spheres to Limited Capacities: Tracing a Lost Jurisprudence of Emergency Powers
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Discovered or Uncovered: Dealing with New or Neglected Sources (White Hill Room)
Chair: Matthew C. Mirow, Florida International University ([email protected])
Commentator: Matthew C. Mirow, Florida International University ([email protected])
Albrecht Cordes, Goethe University ([email protected])
Lost and Found, the Bardewik-Codex of 1294: The Lubeck Law in the Baltic after the Rediscovery of its Most Important Source
Angela Huang, Research Centre for Hanse and Baltic History ([email protected])
Hanserecesse — Hanse Law? Exploring the legal nature of the proceedings of Hanse diets (14th – 17th centuries)
Sara Ludin, UC Berkeley ([email protected])
Finding “the Reformation” in Records of Sixteenth-Century Civil Litigation
Serge Dauchy, Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire ([email protected])
The Forgotten Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana of the Eighteenth Century
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Through the Lens of Feminist Legal Biography (Boylston Room)
Chair: Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study ([email protected])
Discussants: Constance Backhouse, Women’s Education and Research Foundation of Ontario ([email protected]), Jane De Hart, University of California- Santa Barbara ([email protected]), Marlene Trestman, Retired ([email protected]), Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of Law ([email protected]) and Leandra Zarnow, University of Houston, Department of History ([email protected])
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
States, Aliens and the Law: New Views of Immigration Federalism (Arlington Room)
Chair: Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire ([email protected])
Commentator: Gerald Neuman, Harvard Law School ([email protected])
Brendan O’Malley, Newbury College ([email protected])
Defending State Immigration Regulation in Nineteenth-Century New York
Matthew Lindsay, University of Balitmore School of Law ([email protected])
From Indemnification to Exclusion: Revisiting the “Federalization” of American Immigration Law
Allison Tirres, DePaul University College of Law ([email protected])
Exclusion from Within: State Licensing and the Regulation of Migration
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
New Approaches to Legalities of Indian Slavery (Clarendon Room)
Chair: Arianne Sedef Urus, Harvard University ([email protected])
Commentator: Carolina Gonzalez, Univ. de Chile ([email protected])
Linford Fisher, Brown University ([email protected])
Enslaved Native Americans’ Use of the Law in Revealing and Obscuring Native Slavery in the United States, c. 1770s-1820s
Timo McGregor, New York University ([email protected])
Defining Freedoms: the Laws of War, Contract, and Indigenous Slavery in Suriname, 1667-1680
Alexandre Pelegrino, Vanderbilt University ([email protected])
An Indigenous Past to Freedom: Race, Empire, and Slavery (Maranhão, 1688-1790)
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
American Internationalism or International Americanism? The United States and International Law from Empire to Nuremberg (Berkeley Room)
Chair: Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki ([email protected])
Commentator: Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki ([email protected])
Allison Useche, Texas Tech University ([email protected])
Dangerous Precedents: International Eminent Domain in the Panama Canal Zone
Lael Weinberger, Harvard Law School ([email protected])
Precedent at the World Court: Interpreting the Permanent Court of International Justice in Interwar America
Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University in St. Louis ([email protected])
Crimes against Human-kind: Arendt at Nuremberg
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Annual Lunch and Awards Ceremony (Grand Ballroom A)
2:40 PM – 4:10 PM
Legalities of the Peace: Empire, Peace-making and Peace-keeping: 1750-1850 (Georgian Room)
Chair: David Armitage, Harvard ([email protected])
Commentator: David Armitage, Harvard ([email protected])
Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University ([email protected])
Small Wars of Peace: Defining the Legal Limits on the Use of Force in European Empires
Lisa Ford, University of New South Wales ([email protected])
The King’s Peace and the Transformation of Empire
Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire ([email protected])
Peace at What Price — and Whose? The Laws of Slavery and Freedom in the Anglo-American Treaty of Paris (1783)
2:40 PM – 4:10 PM
Disability, Family, and the Limits of Law in North America in the Twentieth Century (Arlington Room)
Chair: Michael Grossberg, Indiana University ([email protected])
Commentator: Michael Grossberg, Indiana University ([email protected])
Chelsea Chamberlain, University of Pennsylvana ([email protected])
“A few years at your celebrated school will almost bring her back to normal”: When Parents Chose the Eugenic Institution
Molly Ladd-Taylor, York University ([email protected])
Parents and the Sterilization of “Children” with Intellectual Disabilities in the 1970s and 1980s
Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota ([email protected])
“A kid that is scarred up something like that. . .’: Life once law is done
2:40 PM – 4:10 PM
Legal Knowledge and Claims-Making among Enslaved and Freedpeople (Clarendon Room)
Chair: Ariela Gross, University of Southern California ([email protected])
Commentator: Ariela Gross, University of Southern California ([email protected])
Sara Forsdyke, University of Michigan ([email protected])
Leveraging the Law: Slaves and the Law in Ancient Greece
Erika Edwards, University of North Carolina ([email protected])
The Rights of Citizenship: Contested Freedom Cases in Chilean and Argentine Courts, 1810-1850
Jonathon Booth, Harvard University ([email protected])
Jonathon Booth, Learning the Law of Freedom: Legal Knowledge after Emancipation
2:40 PM – 4:10 PM
Contested Movement: Law, State Power, and the Policing of Mobility Rights (Berkeley Room)
Chair: Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
Commentator: Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
Daniel Farbman, Boston College Law School ([email protected])
The City’s Protection: Local Ordinances to Protect Fugitive Slaves from Capture
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Rutgers University ([email protected])
“In a state of vagrancy”: Poverty and Mobility in Settlement Law
Kate Masur, Northwestern University ([email protected])
Free African Americans, State Sovereignty, and Migration before Reconstruction
Naama Maor, University of Chicago ([email protected])
“Little Bits of Human Drift Wood”: Runaway Children, Juvenile Courts, and the Geography of Parental Power
2:40 PM – 4:10 PM
Disrupting the Cause Lawyering Narrative in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Century United States (Boylston Room)
Chair: Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law ([email protected])
Commentator: Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law ([email protected])
Alexandra Havrylyshyn, University of California, Berkeley ([email protected])
Client Advocacy, Not Cause Lawyering: Representing Louisiana Freedom Litigants in the 1840s-50s
Myisha S. Eatmon, Northwestern University ([email protected])
Litigants and Liaisons: Sympathetic Attorneys and Black Legal Networks in Mississippi and Beyond, 1919-1953
Peter Labuza, University of Southern California ([email protected])
“A Device for Cracking a Concerted Industry-Wide Boycott:” The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the End of the Hollywood Blacklist
2:40 PM – 4:10 PM
Global Legal History Lightning Round (White Hill Room)
Chair: Confex Tester, XX ([email protected])
Iker Saitua, University of California, Riverside ([email protected])
Spanish Immigration to the United States, the Franco Regime, and the Immigration Act of 1965
Jesse Watson, UC Berkeley ([email protected])
Law and Materiality in Petitions from Roman Egypt and Early Imperial China
Gilad Ben-Nun, GWZO – The Leibniz Institute for the Study of History and Culture of Eastern Europe ([email protected])
‘A Treaty after Trauma’: The Holocaust-Surviving Drafters of the 4th Geneva Convention for Civilians (1949) and the idea of ‘Protection for All’
Rabiat Akande, Harvard Law School ([email protected])
Marginalizing ‘Secularism,’ Decolonizing The State: Missionary Advocacy for Religious Freedom in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1945-1960
Afroditi Giovanopoulou, Columbia University ([email protected])
Between Legal Progressivism and the “White Man’s Burden:” American Social Legal Thought on the Unmaking of Empire
Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
Why dictators write constitutions: the case of Brazil
Jhuma Sen, Jindal Global Law School ([email protected])
Early Portias and the Colonial Bar in India: Towards the Legal Practitioners’ (Women) Act 1923
4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
Law, Equity, and Accountability in the Early Republic (Georgian Room)
Chairs: Nicholas Parillo, Yale Law School ([email protected]) and James Pfander, Northwestern Law School ([email protected])
Discussants: Jane Manners, Columbia Law School ([email protected]), Maggie Blackhawk, University of Pennsylvania Law School ([email protected]), Laura Edwards, Duke University ([email protected]) and Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University ([email protected])
4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
A Roundtable Conversation with Angela Fernandez on Researching, Writing, and Teaching the History of Pierson v. Post (White Hill Room)
Commentators: Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota ([email protected]) and Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University ([email protected])
Chair: Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University ([email protected])
Discussants: Angela Fernandez, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto ([email protected]), Kunal Parker, University of Miami Law School ([email protected]) and Deborah Dinner, Emory University School of Law ([email protected])
4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
Changing the Spanish Empire from Inside: Law, Legal Practitioners, and Political Discourses in the Hispanic World (1760 – 1820) (Boylston Room)
Chair: Mónica Ricketts, Temple University ([email protected])
Commentator: Mónica Ricketts, Temple University ([email protected])
Renzo Honores, Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad ([email protected])
Native Legal Facilitators in the Eighteenth- Century Audiencia of Lima
Alvaro Caso, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected])
From the Fringes of the Legal Profession to Keepers of the Empire: The Agentes del Número de Indias and the Representation of Colonial Interests in Madrid, c. 1778-1808
Ricardo Pelegrin Taboada, Florida International University ([email protected])
Too Many Lawyers: The Control over the Number of Legal Professionals in Colonial Cuba
Silvia Escanilla Huerta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ([email protected])
“No authority but their own”. Cadiz and the jurisdictional revolution in the viceroyalty of Peru (1812-1820).
4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
The Legal Origins of European Humanitarianism, c. 1500–c. 1800 (Clarendon Room)
Chair: Richard Ross, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ([email protected])
Commentator: Richard Ross, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ([email protected])
Christian Burset, Notre Dame Law School ([email protected])
Despotic Humanitarianism and Colonial Law in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Jennifer Wells, George Washington University ([email protected])
The Westphalian Moment?: The Origins of Humanitarian Law in Europe
Catherine Arnold, University of Memphis ([email protected])
Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Britain and Europe, 1698-1715
4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
Credible Women: Gender & Knowledge Production in English & Colonial American Courts, 1600-1800 (Berkeley Room)
Chair: Holly Brewer, University of Maryland ([email protected])
Commentator: Holly Brewer, University of Maryland ([email protected])
Kristin Olbertson, Alma College ([email protected])
“She must prove as she goes”: Gender & Credibility in 18th-Century Massachusetts Criminal Courts
Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College ([email protected])
Wives’ Ways With Words: Coverture versus Cruelty in London’s Ecclesiastical Courts, 1680-1820
Christine Eisel, University of Memphis ([email protected])
“In Right of their Children: The Status of Mothers in Early Virginia Courts”
4:20 PM – 5:50 PM
Labor and Civil Liberties in the Twentieth Century (Arlington Room)
Chair: William Jones, University of Minnesota ([email protected])
Commentator: William Jones, University of Minnesota ([email protected])
Catherine Fisk, University of California Berkeley ([email protected])
“‘Lie Down Like Good Dogs’: Labor Lawyers and Activist Clients in the 1950s”
Sophia Lee, University of Pennsylvania Law School ([email protected])
“Making Privacy Popular: Labor, Prohibition, and the Fourth Amendment”
Paul Frymer, Princeton University ([email protected])
The Resiliency of the At-Will Doctrine: Twentieth Century Employee Movements and their Doctrina