8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Roundtable: Ideas That Mattered on the Road to Practical Abolition of the Death Penalty (Acadian) Chair: Brandon Garrett, Duke University Law School ([email protected]) Discussants: Carol Steiker, Harvard Law School ([email protected]), Jordan Steiker, University of Texas Law School ([email protected]), Michael Meltsner, Northeastern University School of Law ([email protected]) and Ngozi Ndulue, Death … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Roundtable: Ideas That Mattered on the Road to Practical Abolition of the Death Penalty,” November 5, 2021 @ 8:30 – 10:00 am

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Author Meets Readers: Luca Scholtz, Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire (Melpomene) Chair: Sarah Ludin, University at Buffalo ([email protected]), Commentators: Albrecht Cordes, Goethe University ([email protected]), Adam Kosto, Columbia University ([email protected]) and John Torpey, The Graduate Center, CUNY ([email protected]) Author: Luca Scholz, University of Manchester ([email protected]) Note … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Author Meets Readers: Luca Scholtz, Borders and Freedom of Movement in the Holy Roman Empire,” November 5, 2021 @ 8:30 – 10:00 am

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Property and Contract: Race and Rights after the Civil War (Frenchman 1) Chair: Martha Jones, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected]), Commentators: Randy Sparks, Tulane University ([email protected]) and Martha Jones, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected]) Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected]) Staying in Place Cynthia Nicoletti, University of Virginia School of Law … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Property and Contract: Race and Rights after the Civil War,” November 5, 2021 @ 8:30 – 10:00 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

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, 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