2:40 PM – 4:05 PM Unsettled Law: Lessons and Legacies of Migration and Diaspora in International Law (Pelican 1) Chair: Rohit De, Yale University ([email protected]), Commentators: Will Hanley, Florida State University ([email protected]) and Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected]) Jessica Marglin, University of Southern California ([email protected]) The Nationality Principle between Public and Private International Law: … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Unsettled Law: Lessons and Legacies of Migration and Diaspora in International Law,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM New Approaches to the History of the United States Supreme Court (Frenchman 2) Chair: Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara ([email protected]), Commentator: Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara ([email protected]) Rachel Shelden, Penn State ([email protected]) Political Questions & Political Answers: Luther v. Borden and the Partisan Politics of the … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “New Approaches to the History of the United States Supreme Court,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM Paper Sovereignty: The Politics of "Custom," Natural Law, & Slavery (Melpomene) Chair: Laurie Wood, Florida State University ([email protected]), Commentator: Laurie Wood, Florida State University ([email protected]) Holly Brewer, University of Maryland ([email protected]) The Problem of Custom in English & American Law: Slavery, Power, and Legitimacy 1619 through 1837 Amelie Hopkins, Columbia … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Paper Sovereignty: The Politics of “Custom,” Natural Law, & Slavery,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Court Cases in the Making of African Legal History (Melpomene) Chair: Mariana Candido, University of Notre Dame ([email protected]), Commentator: Beatriz Mamigonian, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina ([email protected]) Mariana Dias Paes, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History ([email protected]) Judicial Land Disputes and the History of Land Dispossession in Angola (1880-1920) Fernanda … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Court Cases in the Making of African Legal History,” November 6, 2021 @ 4:15 – 5:45 pm

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Legal Cultures in the Early Modern World: Perspectives from Islamicate South Asia (Poydras) Chair: Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto ([email protected]), Commentator: Naveena Naqvi, University of British Columbia, ([email protected]) Shounak Ghosh, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) Diplomatic Protocols and Codes of Ethical Conduct in the Early Modern Persian Cosmopolis Anurag Advani, University of … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Legal Cultures in the Early Modern World: Perspectives from Islamicate South Asia,” November 6, 2021 @ 4:15 – 5:45 pm

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Women, Justice, and Testimony in American Courts, 1700-Present (Pelican 2) Chair: Lauren MacIvor Thompson, Kennesaw State University ([email protected]), Commentator: Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida ([email protected]) Hannah Katherine Hicks, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) “She Prays a Warrant:” Freedwomen and the Criminal Courts in Reconstruction-era South Carolina Kristin Olbertson, Alma College ([email protected]) … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Women, Justice, and Testimony in American Courts, 1700-Present,” November 6, 2021 @ 4:15 – 5:45 pm

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Empire and Racial Identities in the Common Law World (Pelican 1) Chair: Randy Sparks, Tulane University ([email protected]), Commentator: Laura Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University ([email protected]) Tim Soriano, University of Illinois at Chicago ([email protected]) Legal Plurality and Black Agency in Early British Honduras Justine Collins, Tilburg University ([email protected]) The Role of Legislation … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Empire and Racial Identities in the Common Law World,” November 6, 2021 @ 4:15 – 5:45 pm

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Property Law and Power in Imperial Borderlands (Acadian) Chair: Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School ([email protected]), Commentator: Fahad Bishara, University of Virginia ([email protected]) Rui Hua, Harvard University ([email protected]) Mr. Pan Versus the Tsar: How a Manchurian Peasant Made (up) Asian International Law, 1908-1921 George Remisovsky, Yale University ([email protected]) Preserving Customs or … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Property Law and Power in Imperial Borderlands,” November 6, 2021 @ 4:15 – 5:45 pm