Online Meeting: Comparative Legal History, 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, October 15, 2020

October 15, 2020

Please note: All times are Eastern Standard Time.

11:00-11:10 AM EST OPENING OF THE ONLINE CONFERENCE

Jennifer L. Mnookin / Dean and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Richard Kay / President of the American Society of Comparative Law

Máximo Langer / Chair of the Annual Program Committee and Vice-President of the American Society of Comparative Law

Please use the same Zoom link as the First Plenary Panel found below.

11:10-12:40 PM EST FIRST PLENARY PANEL:“WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMPARATIVE LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY?”

Stuart Banner (chair) / Norman Abrams Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Helge Dedek / Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Tamar Herzog / Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Department of History, Harvard University
Sherally K. Munshi / Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University James Q. Whitman / Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale Law School

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/98091753424?pwd=QU5lbzN2bE9TOThLa2hIVkJkVHB5UT09 

Webinar ID: 980 9175 3424 Passcode: 405408

1:10-2:40PM EST CONCURRENT PANELS ON ANY COMPARATIVE LAW TOPIC YCC PANEL: COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Antonia Baraggia, Chair)

Eszter Bodnár / Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Comparative Law in the Practice of the European Court of Human Rights – Beyond the European Consensus
Michael Da Silva / Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Law and Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, Defeasibility and the Value of Rights, Or: American Jurisprudence Through the Comparative Theorist’s Eyes

Ioannis Kampourakis / Postdoctoral Associate, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford and Postdoctoral Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University, Protecting National Security Whistleblowers in the U.S. and in the ECtHR: The Limits of Balancing and the Social Value of Public Disclosures Emre Turkut / Doctoral Researcher, Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute (GRILI), Ghent University and DAAD Visiting Fellow, Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School, Emergency Powers, Constitutional (Self-) Restraint and Judicial Politics: The Turkish Constitutional Court in an Authoritarian Setting

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94782216476?pwd=S3orOG81Unh5dEZPamlHUUMwMkFhZz09 

Meeting ID: 947 8221 6476 Passcode: 474461

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PANEL: “DÉVELOPPEMENTS RÉCENTS EN DROIT FRANÇAIS”

(This session will be held in French)
Vivian Curran (chair) / Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Pittsburg School of Law Olivier Dutheillet de la Mothe / former member of the Constitutional Council of France

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99272661937?pwd=dTlxem5UOUJEWUFKenQ1eW5jaWExdz09

Meeting ID: 992 7266 1937 Passcode: 763868

COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY
Jason Mazzone (chair) / Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law and Director, Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Catherine Andrews / Professor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) (Mexico) Francesco Biagi / Senior Assistant Professor of Comparative Public Law, University of Bologna
Justin Collings, Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Justin Frosini / Associate Professor of Law, Bocconi University

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/91876504664?pwd=cktuV2pVQXZrS290Y3VLc2dLMktNUT09

Meeting ID: 918 7650 4664 Passcode: 553354

THE NATURE AND PURPOSE OF COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY
Mortimer Sellers (chair) / Regents Professor and Wilson H. Elkins Professor, University System of Maryland and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law, University of Baltimore

Dirk Heirbaut / Director of the Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, University of Ghent Aniceto Masferrer / Professor of Legal History and Comparative Law, University of Valencia

Ulrike Muessig / Chair of Civil Law and of German and European Legal History, University of Passau

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94177192839?pwd=OFJibkNoWm9ZdDRWTGJ4aUNYdUdzQT09

Meeting ID: 941 7719 2839 Passcode: 007632

MODELS OF COMPARATIVE LEGAL PRACTICE IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
David Schorr (chair) / Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, The Environment as a Factor in the Adoption and Rejection of the Common Law of Waters in the British World

Ron Harris / Kalman Lubowsky Professor of Law and History, Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Law, The First Globalization, the Expansion of Company Law to the British Empire, and the Emergence of the Multinational Corporation
Assaf Likhovski / Professor of Law and Legal History, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Law, Western Jurisprudence in the British Empire, 1900-1940

Jessica Apolloni / Assistant Professor of English Literature, Christopher Newport University, Examining Comparative Legal Histories in Literature at Early Modern Inns of Court

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95336133113?pwd=VjdFeWtuaS9oc05qNnVpOUptY1FiQT09

Meeting ID: 953 3613 3113 Passcode: 030063

COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY
Frank Gevurtz (chair) / Distinguished Professor of Law, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, A Comparative Historical View of the Business Corporation

Lukasz Jan Korporowicz / Assistant Professor, University of Loz Faculty of Law and Administration, Thomas Bever – Eighteenth-Century English Comparative Lawyer
Agustín Parise / Associate Professor, Maastricht University Faculty of Law, A Transatlantic and Transystemic Dialogue for the Development of Comparative Legal History: Exploring the Endeavours of John H. Wigmore and the Committee on Legal History of the AALS (1905-1927)

Michael H. Hoeflich / John H. & John M. Kane Distinguished Professor of Law, Kansas University School of Law, Language, Scholarship & the Fate of Comparative Legal History in the United States: 1800-2000

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97267083831?pwd=Z0dvR3Vpb3MwNThpZ09RRUpmblNadz09

Meeting ID: 972 6708 3831 Passcode: 504573

3:10-4:40 PM EST SECOND PLENARY PANEL: “COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORIES”

Anna di Robilant (chair) / Associate Dean for Equity, Justice, & Engagement, and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

Lauren Benton / Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law, Yale University
Ariela Gross / John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History, USC Gould School of Law
Marie Seong-Hak Kim / Professor of Legal History, Department of History, St. Cloud State University
H. Timothy Lovelace Jr. / John Hope Franklin Research Scholar Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/95736137667?pwd=dDVrY2JGczJzdTdRZkJpcTNDMGt5dz09

Webinar ID: 957 3613 7667 Passcode: 068833

6:10-7:40 PM EST CONCURRENT PANELS ON ANY COMPARATIVE LAW TOPIC BOOK EVENT: CONSTITUTIONAL STATECRAFT IN ASIAN COURTS: A DISCUSSION

Author Yvonne Tew / Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Jamal Greene (chair) / Dwight Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Rosalind Dixon / Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law
Tom Ginsburg / Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, University of Chicago Law School Ran Hirschl / Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Toronto

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94287916040?pwd=UFVXdmNCUTF3UUV4Q3REdndZa3dlQT09

Meeting ID: 942 8791 6040 Passcode: 160510

COMPARATIVE IMPERIAL LAW
Christian Burset (chair) / Associate Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame

Gregory Ablavsky / Associate Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of History, Stanford University Will Smiley / Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of New Hampshire
Nurfadzilah Yahaya / Assistant Professor of History, National University of Singapore

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99038422388?pwd=R3FjVnNHd2NnVlF6T0E4UHZJeVFEUT09

Meeting ID: 990 3842 2388 Passcode: 504573

FROM SYMBOLISM TO SUBSTANCE: COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON #METOO AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE

Rachel Van Cleave (chair) / Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law and J. William Fulbright Research Scholar, La Corte Suprema di Cassazione, Rome, Italy (Spring 2021)

Penelope Andrews / Professor of Law, New York Law School and President, Law and Society Association Brenda Cossman / Goodman-Schipper Professor of Law, University of Toronto and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Teri McMurtry-Chubb / Professor of Law, UIC John Marshall Law School

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97981041252?pwd=a0xNNWd5S2lrV1FVbGFYOW02ektZdz09

Meeting ID: 979 8104 1252 Passcode: 850952

LEGAL HETERODOXY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Kevin Davis (chair) / Beller Family Professor of Business Law, New York University School of Law

Vic Khanna, L. Bates Lea Global Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law
Mariana Pargendler / Professor of Law, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School, São Paulo Taisu Zhang / Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Shyamkrishna Balganesh / Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92019860495?pwd=TkVYK2JLM3hhVDBNai9JdVpsUGJrUT09

Meeting ID: 920 1986 0495 Passcode: 253207

CHINESE LEGAL HISTORY IN A COMPARATIVE CONTEXT

Roundtable 1: Adjudication and the Legal Profession

Alex Wang (chair) / Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Li Chen / Associate Professor of History, Global Asia Studies and Law, University of Toronto

Zhiqiang Wang / Professor of Law and Dean, Fudan University Law School
Chenjun You / Associate Professor, Renmin University Law School
Ting Zhang / Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99507952993?pwd=WjZrcEZsektCeEt3SXhLNzM1TlVUQT09

Meeting ID: 995 0795 2993 Passcode: 783729