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 Scott, University of Michigan ([email protected]) and Martha Jones, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected]) Authors: Ariela Gross, University of Southern California ([email protected]) and Alejandro delaFuente, Harvard Universitye … 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 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 … 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 University ([email protected]) Kimberly Welch, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) Arteries of Capital: Black Moneylenders and Economic Citizenship in the Antebellum U.S. South Louise Walker, Northeastern University ([email protected]) … 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, University of New Hampshire ([email protected]) A New Order for the Ages? Rethinking the American Confederation, 1776-1789 Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University ([email protected]) Transatlantic Justice: Governors’ … 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: Elizabeth Kolsky, Villanova University ([email protected]) Jennifer Wells, George Washington University ([email protected]) The Company’s Law: Crafting Legal Status in South Asia Keith Pluymers, Illinois State University … 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 Yahaya, National University of Singapore ([email protected]) Hollian Wint, University of California, Los Angeles ([email protected]) Conjugality, Courts, and Contracts: Western Indian Ocean Proprietary Practices at the … 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 School of Law ([email protected]), Robert Tsai, Boston University School of Law ([email protected]) and Julia Kraut, New York University School of Law ([email protected]) Authors: Cristina Rodriguez, … 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 of Sex Crimes in Colonial India Ian Burney, University of Manchester ([email protected]) The Innocence of Men: Erle Stanley Gardner's Court of Last Resort and Sex … 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 at Omaha ([email protected]) Rio de Janeiro on Trial: Public Health, Urban Reform, and Law in Modern Brazil Marie-Amelie George, Wake Forest University School of Law … 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

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM The Critical Turn in Roman Legal History (Pelican 2) Chair: Zachary Herz, University of Colorado, Boulder ([email protected]), Commentator: Paul du Plessis, The University of Edinburgh ([email protected]) Michele Lowrie, The University of Chicago ([email protected]) The Roman Republican Constitution as System (not Form) Nicole Giannella, Cornell University ([email protected]) Faith and Other Luxuries: … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Critical Turn in Roman Legal History,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm