The Program in Islamic Law (PIL) has curated a list of presentations from the American Society for Legal History‘s (ASLH) 2024 Annual Meeting schedule that are related to Islamic law, history, and data science. ASLH’s annual meeting was held between October 24-26, 2024. The full (preliminary) program is available here. Is there a session missing that you’d like to see here? Send us a note at pil@law.harvard.edu.
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- “Ottomans with an Asterisk: The Freedom Suits of Ottomans of African Descent & the Racialization of Ottoman Slavery” by Joshua White, University of Virginia – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Organizer: Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon; Co-Chairs and Commentators: Lauren Benton, Yale University; Dirk Hartog, Princeton University; and Brett Rushforth, Huntington Library.
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- “Slavery, Urban Belonging, and Citizenship in 17th- and 18th-Century Mediterranean Spain” by Daniel Hershenzon, University of Connecticut – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Organizer: Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon; Co-Chairs and Commentators: Lauren Benton, Yale University; Dirk Hartog, Princeton University; and Brett Rushforth, Huntington Library.
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- “Financing Freedom: Slavery and Self-Purchase in the Iberoamerican World” by Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon School of Law – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Organizer: Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon; Co-Chairs and Commentators: Lauren Benton, Yale University; Dirk Hartog, Princeton University; and Brett Rushforth, Huntington Library.
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- “Remaking Subjects in Colonial Mauritius: British Legal Reform in the Early Nineteenth Century” by Fisayo Akinlude, Yale University – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Conveners: Nicole Breault, University of Texas at El Paso and John Wertheimer, Davidson College.
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- “Imperial Expansion and the Legal (After)lives of Slavery: The Enduring Juridical Mark of the Black Mother’s Belly in Postbellum Indian Territory Criminal Jurisdiction” by Keziah Anderson, Harvard University – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Conveners: Nicole Breault, University of Texas at El Paso and John Wertheimer, Davidson College.
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- “African Customs and the Making of Inheritance Law in Colonial Lagos” by Ibrahim Babatunde Anoba, University of California, Davis – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Conveners: Nicole Breault, University of Texas at El Paso and John Wertheimer, Davidson College.
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- “Improvising Capital Punishment: The End of Public Executions in Egypt” by Alaa Aly El-Shafei, Columbia University – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Conveners: Nicole Breault, University of Texas at El Paso and John Wertheimer, Davidson College.
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- “Empires of Obligation: Global Monetary Governance between Early Modern England and the Ottoman Empire” by Ellen Nye, Purdue University – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Convener: Christopher Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law & American Bar Foundation.
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- “Contested Claims: French Citizenship in Colonial Senegal” by Larissa Kopytoff, University of South Florida – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Convener: Christopher Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law & American Bar Foundation.
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- “Materials of Law: A Global Microhistory of a Law Court in Colonial Indonesia” by Sanne Ranvensbergen, University of Michigan – October 24, 2024 @ 9:00am. Convener: Christopher Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law & American Bar Foundation.
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- “Determining Slave Status in a Late Medieval Community” by Daniel Smail, Harvard University – October 25, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair: James Whitman, Yale Law School; Commentator: Piotr Górecki, University of California, Riverside.
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- “Nationalist Humanitarian Intervention: Bangladesh’s Liberation and India’s Plans to Go to War, 1971” by Charlotte Kiechel, Williams College – October 25, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair & Commentator: Moria Paz, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.
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- “Settling Decolonization: International Arbitration, Multinational Corporations, and the Legal End of Empire” Aden Knaap, Yale University – October 25, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair & Commentator: Moria Paz, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco.
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- “Protection and Politics on the Sierra Leone Frontier: 1860-1890” by Trina Leah Hogg, Oregon State University – October 25, 2024 @ 10:15am. Chair: Binyamin Blum, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco; Commentators: Binyamin Blum, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and Felipe Cole, Boston College Law School.
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- “Protecting What from Whom: British Protection in Colonial Ghana, 1844-1874” by Erin Braatz, Suffolk University Law School – October 25, 2024 @ 10:15am. Chair: Binyamin Blum, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco; Commentators: Binyamin Blum, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and Felipe Cole, Boston College Law School.
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- “Protection as an Economic Regime: The Case of the Senegal River Valley in the 19th Century” by Idriss Fofana, Harvard University – October 25, 2024 @ 10:15am. Chair: Binyamin Blum, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco; Commentators: Binyamin Blum, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and Felipe Cole, Boston College Law School.
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- “Consuming Abortion On Demand: Medicine, Law, & Consumer Rights After Roe v. Wade” by Christen Hammock Jones, University of Pennsylvania – October 25, 2024 @ 10:15am. Chair: Gregory Ablavsky, Stanford Law School; Commentators: Reva Siegel, Yale Law School and Anna Lvovsky, Harvard Law School.
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- “A New Constitution for India? Parliamentary Reform and the India Question, circa 1757-1857” by Tiraana Bains, Brown University – October 25, 2024 @ 1:15pm. Chair: Bradley Miller, University of British Columbia; Commentator: Holly Brewer, University of Maryland.
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- “The Moral and Legal Ambiguity of Imperial British Constitutionalism” by Alison Hight, Rutgers University – October 25, 2024 @ 1:15pm. Chair: Bradley Miller, University of British Columbia; Commentator: Holly Brewer, University of Maryland.
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- “Making and Challenging Settler Constitutionalism in the Webs of Empire, c. 1860-1920” by Alex Martinborough, Queen’s University – October 25, 2024 @ 1:15pm. Chair: Bradley Miller, University of British Columbia; Commentator: Holly Brewer, University of Maryland.
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- “Anonymity and Time in Medieval Customary Law” by Ada Kuskowski, University of Pennsylvania – October 25, 2024 @ 3:00pm. Chair: Anthony Perron, Loyola Marymount University; Commentator: Laurent Mayali, University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
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- “Three Concepts Underpinning Ottoman Public Law in the Early Modern Period: Insights from Düstûr al-Amal” by Sezer Durak, University of Texas at Austin – October 26, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair & Commentator: Mairaj Syed, University of California, Davis.
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- “Obscure Legal Agents in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire” by Arif Erbil, Brown University – October 26, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair & Commentator: Mairaj Syed, University of California, Davis.
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- “Redefining Boundaries: Maruzât Fatwas and Sultanic Authority on Family Law in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire” by Huseyin Saglam, Istanbul University – October 26, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair & Commentator: Mairaj Syed, University of California, Davis.
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- “Baptized by Law: Religion and Adoption” by Elizabeth Katz, University of Florida Levin College of Law – October 26, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair & Commentator: David Tanenhaus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Law.
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- “The Group Rights Project: Visualizing Rights Globally” by Simon Rabinovitch, Northeastern University – October 26, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair: Rowan Dorin, Stanford University.
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- “Digital Legal Histories in the Classroom: Engaging Students with the Joys and Complexities of Digital Archives” by Rebecca Horwitz-Willis, Harvard University – October 26, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair: Rowan Dorin, Stanford University.
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- “Slavery, Law, and Power” by Michael Becker, William & Mary – October 26, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair: Rowan Dorin, Stanford University.
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- “Around the World of Parliamentary Immunity: A Case Study of Comparative Legislative Research in Three Post-British-Rule Parliaments” by Shlomi Balaban, University of Ottawa – October 26, 2024 @ 8:30am. Chair: Rowan Dorin, Stanford University.
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- “Bringing History to the Courtroom: Historians in Everyday Legal Action (Roundtable)” – October 26, 2024 @ 10:15am—11:45am. Chairs: Ananda Burra, Democracy Forward Foundation and Smita Ghosh, Constitutional Accountability Center; Participants: Laura Edwards, Princeton University; H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr., Duke University School of Law; Yael Schacher, Refugees International; Joshua Stein, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP.
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- “‘A clear text that will not lend itself to ambiguity’?: Debates about French Citizenship in Colonial Senegal” by Larissa Kopytoff, University of South Florida – October 26, 2024 @ 10:15am. Chair & Commentator: Sam Erman, University of Michigan Law School.
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- “Illiterate Claimants as Phony Malayan Citizens at the End of Empire, 1957–1972” by Darren Wan, Cornell University – October 26, 2024 @ 10:15am. Chair & Commentator: Sam Erman, University of Michigan Law School.
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- “Lost Property: Ownership, Trust, and Community” by Samy Ayoub, University of Texas at Austin – Islamic Law of Property in Colonial Contexts: The Cases of Egypt, Morocco, and Crimea – October 26, 2024 @ 2:15pm. Chair & Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
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- “Legacy and Limitation: Property Adjudication in Crimean Islamic Courts under Russian Rule” by Dilyara Agisheva, University of Toronto – Islamic Law of Property in Colonial Contexts: The Cases of Egypt, Morocco, and Crimea – October 26, 2024 @ 2:15pm. Chair & Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
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- “Testimony as Land Title? Contesting Proof of Property in Colonial-Era Morocco” by Ari Schriber, Utrecht University – Islamic Law of Property in Colonial Contexts: The Cases of Egypt, Morocco, and Crimea – October 26, 2024 @ 2:15pm. Chair & Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law.
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- “Race, Criminality, and Manumission in the Late Medieval Mediterranean” by Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Emory University – October 26, 2024 @ 2:15pm. Chair: Grace Delmolino, University of California, Davis; Commentator: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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- “Mothering while Enslaved in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World” by Debra Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara – October 26, 2024 @ 2:15pm. Chair: Grace Delmolino, University of California, Davis; Commentator: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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- “Amas de leche: Wetnurses and Migration in the Early Modern Iberian Empire” by Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon – October 26, 2024 @ 2:15pm. Chair: Grace Delmolino, University of California, Davis; Commentator: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the CUNY Graduate Center.
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- “Can Legal Pluralism be Applied to Medieval Canon Law?: Secular Law, Religious Law, Ducal Law, and Customary Law in Worms in the Early Eleventh Century” by Greta Austin, University of Puget Sound – October 26, 2024 @ 4:00pm. Chair: Jessie Sherwood, University of California, Berkeley School of Law; Commentator: Jennifer Jahner, California Institute of Technology.