American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Neglected Histories of Law and Religion: Jewish Lawyers and Legal Reform in the Twentieth Century,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM

Neglected Histories of Law and Religion: Jewish Lawyers and Legal Reform in the Twentieth Century (Frenchman 1)

Chair: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School (kmack@law.harvard.edu), Commentator: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School (kmack@law.harvard.edu)

William Forbath, University of Texas School of Law (wforbath@law.utexas.edu)
Class Struggle, Group Rights and Socialist Pluralism on the Lower East Side: Radical Lawyering and Constitutional Imagination in the Early Twentieth Century

Amalia Kessler, Stanford Law School (akessler@law.stanford.edu) Religion, Arbitration, and the State: The Jewish Conciliation Court as the “Official Arbitrating Organ” of the State-Run Courts, 1919-1950

Elizabeth Katz, Washington University School of Law (elizabeth.katz@wustl.edu)
Faith and Family Formation: Jewish Lawyers and Interreligious Adoption Advocacy during the Civil Rights Movement

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