9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Author Meets Readers: Samuel Fury Childs Daly, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War (Pelican 2) Commentators: Rabiat … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Author Meets Readers: Samuel Fury Childs Daly, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War,” November 6, 2021 @ 9:00 – 10:30 am

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Comparative Approaches to the Law of Slavery and Freedom: Lessons from Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Gross, Becoming Free, Becoming Black (Melpomene) Chairs: Rebecca … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Comparative Approaches to the Law of Slavery and Freedom: Lessons from Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela Gross, Becoming Free, Becoming Black,” 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 … Continue reading 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

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM New Perspectives on Ordinary People and the Law in the Age of Capitalism (Frenchman 1) Chair: Nate Holdren, Drake University ([email protected]), Commentator: Nate Holdren, Drake … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “New Perspectives on Ordinary People and the Law in the Age of Capitalism,” November 6, 2021 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Transatlantic Constitutions: Exploring American Legal Thought in the Eighteenth Century (Acadian) Chair: Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford University ([email protected]), Commentator: Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford University ([email protected]) Eliga Gould, … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Transatlantic Constitutions: Exploring American Legal Thought in the Eighteenth Century,” November 6, 2021 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM What’s in a Name?: Legal Status and Labor Discipline in the Global British Empire, 1600- 1750 (Frenchman 2) Chair: Philip Stern, Duke University ([email protected]), Commentator: … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “What’s in a Name?: Legal Status and Labor Discipline in the Global British Empire, 1600- 1750,” November 6, 2021 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Property Ownership and Inheritance in the Indian Ocean World Over the Longue Durée (Pelican 2) Chair: Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore ([email protected]), Commentator: Nurfadzilah … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Property Ownership and Inheritance in the Indian Ocean World Over the Longue Durée,” November 6, 2021 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Author Meets Readers: Adam Cox and Cristina Rodríguez, The President and Immigration Law (Melpomene) Chair: Cristina Rodriguez, Yale Law School ([email protected]), Commentators: Blake Emerson, UCLA … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Author Meets Readers: Adam Cox and Cristina Rodríguez, The President and Immigration Law,” November 6, 2021 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM Innocence Projects: Global Forensic Histories Before DNA (Pelican 1) Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School ([email protected]) Blood vs. Sperm: Falsity and the Competitive Forensics … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Innocence Projects: Global Forensic Histories Before DNA,” November 6, 2021 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM The Johnson Panel for First Book Authors (Poydras) Chair: Reuel Schiller, University of California, Hastings College of the Law ([email protected]) Pedro Cantisano, University of Nebraska … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Johnson Panel for First Book Authors,” November 6, 2021 @ 10:45 am – 12:15 pm