American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Roundtable: Identity and Criminal Responsibility in Comparative Historical Perspective,” November 5, 2021 @ 2:50 – 4:15 pm

2:50 PM – 4:15 PM

Roundtable: Identity and Criminal Responsibility in Comparative Historical Perspective (Frenchman 1)

Commentator: Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota Law School (blume047@umn.edu), Chair: Simon Stern, University of Toronto (simon.stern@utoronto.ca)

Catherine Evans, University of Toronto (catherine.evans@utoronto.ca) Responsibility, Civilization and Empire

Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow (Lindsay.Farmer@glasgow.ac.uk)
Responsibility and Respectability in the Trial of the City of Glasgow Bank Directors (1879)

Chloë Kennedy, University of Edinburgh (Chloe.Kennedy@ed.ac.uk) Deceptive Sex: From Seduction to Sex Offence

Martha Umphrey, Amherst College (mmumphrey@amherst.edu)
Between Panic and Hate: A Genealogy of Provocation from the Unwritten Law to the Matthew Shepard Case

Note from the organizers: We are very excited about the upcoming program our program committee has developed, and wanted to make sure a working link to the conference schedule reached your inbox. So please, take a moment to look at the terrific panels and other events on tap this year at the 2021 ASLH annual conference. Additionally, we know the course of the COVID-19 pandemic can change rapidly. New Orleans policies are detailed here. The Society is committed to updating the 2021 ASLH annual conference webpage as such information comes to us. We invite you to check back often for additional updates.