American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Commerce, the Police Power, and Federalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM

Commerce, the Police Power, and Federalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Pelican 2)

Chair: William Novak, Michigan Law (wnovak@umich.edu), Commentator: William Novak, Michigan Law (wnovak@umich.edu)

Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School (lacroix@uchicago.edu)
No Double Operation of Distinct Sovereignties: Persons, Commerce, and Police Before the Taney Court

Kate Masur, Northwestern University (kmasur@northwestern.edu)
Civil Rights and the Commerce Power before the Fourteenth Amendment

Laura Edwards, Duke University (ledwards@duke.edu)
R. G. Dun and Company’s Problems with Women: The Portability of Property Rights and Credit

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