American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Graduate Student Lightening Round,” November 5, 2021 @ 2:50 – 4:15 pm

2:50 PM – 4:15 PM

The Graduate Student Lightening Round (Poydras)

Chair: Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania (sbgordon@law.upenn.edu)

Joshua Blecher-Cohen, Yale Law School (josh.blechercohen@gmail.com) Habeas Corpus for Child Custody

Sannoy Das, Harvard University (sdas@sjd.law.harvard.edu)
Empire, Liberalism and Doux Commerce: International Economic Law, 1946-48

Jessica Fletcher, Vanderbilt University (jessica.s.fletcher@vanderbilt.edu)
Before the Amistad: Cuba, Haiti, and Caribbean Political Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century U.S. Freedom Suits

Ben Halom, Stanford Law School (benhalom@stanford.edu) The Ruiz Riot: Popular Violence in 1850s Los Angeles

Eric Stephen, Harvard University (eric.m.stephen@gmail.com)
Judicializing Secularism in the American Gilded Age: How the Cincinnati Bible War Reshaped the Concept of “Secularism” into a Contested Legal Principle

Min Tae Cha, Princeton University (mcha@princeton.edu)
The Transatlantic First Amendment: America, Scotland, and Disestablishment, 1800-1840

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