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American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Uses (and Abuses) of Military Justice: Legal Histories of Power and Politics in Latin America and Colonial India,” November 6, 2021 @ 9:00 – 10:30 am
November 6, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 pm
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
The Uses (and Abuses) of Military Justice: Legal Histories of Power and Politics in Latin America and Colonial India (Pelican 1)
Chair: Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected]), Commentator: Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected])
Raquel Sirotti, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History ([email protected]) The Rules of Anarchist Repression in Brazil: A Case Study of 1917’s General Strike
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto ([email protected]) Crimes Against the State: Martial Law and Mediation in Early Colonial India
Timothy James, University of South Carolina ([email protected])
The Army and its Tribunals: Reforming Military Justice in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected]) Legal Exceptions During Economic Crisis in Twentieth-Century Brazil
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