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

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 (mteixeir@sas.upenn.edu), Commentator: Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania (mteixeir@sas.upenn.edu)

Raquel Sirotti, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History (sirotti@rg.mpg.de) The Rules of Anarchist Repression in Brazil: A Case Study of 1917’s General Strike

Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto (bhavani.raman@utoronto.ca) Crimes Against the State: Martial Law and Mediation in Early Colonial India

Timothy James, University of South Carolina (tjames@uscb.edu)
The Army and its Tribunals: Reforming Military Justice in Nineteenth-Century Mexico

Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania (mteixeir@sas.upenn.edu) Legal Exceptions During Economic Crisis in Twentieth-Century Brazil

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