American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Property Ownership and Inheritance in the Indian Ocean World Over the Longue Durée,” November 6, 2021 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

Property Ownership and Inheritance in the Indian Ocean World Over the Longue Durée (Pelican 2)

Chair: Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore (hisny@nus.edu.sg), Commentator: Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore (hisny@nus.edu.sg)

Hollian Wint, University of California, Los Angeles (wint@history.ucla.edu)
Conjugality, Courts, and Contracts: Western Indian Ocean Proprietary Practices at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

Darren Wan, Cornell University (dw597@cornell.edu)
Property Claims as Anticommunist Pedagogy: Seeking Redress during the Malayan Emergency, 1948– 1960

Du Fei, Cornell University (df433@cornell.edu)
Fatima’s Inheritance: Early Modern Indian Ocean Trade Between Islamic Law and Natural Law

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