2:50 PM – 4:15 PM Indigenous Peoples and Settler Colonial Law: Contesting Citizenship, Justice, and Equality. (Acadian) Chair: Jacqueline Briggs, University of Toronto ([email protected]), Commentator: Jacqueline Briggs, University of Toronto ([email protected]) Lila Teeters, University of New Hampshire ([email protected]) Fighting Imposed Citizenship in Canada and the United States: A Comparative Study of Haudenosaunee Responses Jacqueline Briggs, … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Indigenous Peoples and Settler Colonial Law: Contesting Citizenship, Justice, and Equality.,” November 5, 2021 @ 2:50 – 4:15 pm

2:50 PM – 4:15 PM Innovation and Enslavement: Adapting Legal Instruments in the 19th Century Law of Slavery (Pelican 1) Chair: Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia ([email protected]), Commentator: Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia ([email protected]) Brittany Farr, University of Pennsylvania Law School ([email protected]) African American Contract Practice and Theory During the Age of Enslavement … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Innovation and Enslavement: Adapting Legal Instruments in the 19th Century Law of Slavery,” November 5, 2021 @ 2:50 – 4:15 pm

2:50 PM – 4:15 PM Roundtable: Legal Knowledge in Global Perspective (Melpomene) Chair: Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School ([email protected]) Discussants: Richard Ross, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ([email protected]), Li Chen, University of Toronto ([email protected]), Ting Zhang, University of Maryland ([email protected]) and Rohit De, Yale University ([email protected]) Note from the organizers: We are very excited about the … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Roundtable: Legal Knowledge in Global Perspective,” November 5, 2021 @ 2:50 – 4:15 pm

2:50 PM – 4:15 PM The Graduate Student Lightening Round (Poydras) Chair: Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected]) Joshua Blecher-Cohen, Yale Law School ([email protected]) Habeas Corpus for Child Custody Sannoy Das, Harvard University ([email protected]) Empire, Liberalism and Doux Commerce: International Economic Law, 1946-48 Jessica Fletcher, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) Before the Amistad: Cuba, Haiti, and … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Graduate Student Lightening Round,” November 5, 2021 @ 2:50 – 4:15 pm

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM: Plenary Lecture Garland’s Million: The Tragedy and Triumph of Legal History (Lavin-Bernick Center, Tulane Law School) Presenter: John Witt, Yale Law School ([email protected]) Note from the organizers: We are very excited about the upcoming program our program committee has developed, and wanted to make sure a working link to the … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Garland’s Million: The Tragedy and Triumph of Legal History,” November 5, 2021 @ 5:15 – 6:30 pm

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2021 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Insurance and the Slave Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century (Acadian) Chair: Christian Burset, Notre Dame Law School ([email protected]), Commentator: Christian Burset, Notre Dame Law School ([email protected]) James Oldham, Georgetown University ([email protected]) Insuring British Slave Cargo in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries Hannah Farber, … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Insurance and the Slave Trade in the Long Eighteenth Century,” November 6, 2021 @ 9:00 – 10:30 am

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Law in the Borderlands: Legal Frontiers in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East (Frenchman 1) Chair: Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]), Commentator: Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison ([email protected]) Emily Greble, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) Muslims and Contested Legal Domains in the post-Ottoman Balkans Aimee Genell, University of West Georgia ([email protected]) Young … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Law in the Borderlands: Legal Frontiers in Southeastern Europe and the Middle East,” November 6, 2021 @ 9:00 – 10:30 am

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Law, Liberalism, and People on the Margins: The Challenges of Reform (Frenchman 2) Chair: Tera Eva Agyepong, Depaul University, American Bar Foundation ([email protected]), Commentator: Tera Eva Agyepong, Depaul University, American Bar Foundation ([email protected]) Brooke Depenbusch, Colgate University ([email protected]) The Left, Liberals, General Relief and the Struggle for a Nationwide Safety … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Law, Liberalism, and People on the Margins: The Challenges of Reform,” November 6, 2021 @ 9:00 – 10:30 am

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM Forced and Broken Marriages in England, 1500-1900 (Poydras) Chair: Lawrence Poos, The Catholic University of America ([email protected]), Commentator: Lawrence Poos, The Catholic University of America ([email protected]) Loreen Giese, Ohio University ([email protected]) Litigating Women: Separation Strategies in Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century London Consistory Court Marital Cruelty Cases Tim Stretton, Saint … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Forced and Broken Marriages in England, 1500-1900,” November 6, 2021 @ 9:00 – 10:30 am

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 Akande, Harvard Law School ([email protected]), Erin Braatz, Suffolk University Law School ([email protected]) and Anthony Idigbe, York University ([email protected]) Author: Samuel Fury Childs Daly, African & … 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