2022 ASLH

Convener: Reuel Schiller, University of California Hastings ([email protected]) Brooke Depenbusch, University of Illinois, Springfield ([email protected]) General Relief and the Politics of Precarity in the Shadow of the Welfare State, 1935-1978. Myisha S. Eatmon, Harvard University ([email protected]) Litigating in Black and White: Black Legal Culture, White Violence, Jim Crow, and Their Legacies. Maeve Glass, Columbia University, … Continue reading 2022 ASLH Conference: The Johnson Program for First Book Authors (American Bar Foundation) (Thursday, November 10, 2022 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm)

Chair & Commentator: Julia Leikin, University College London ([email protected]) William Smiley, University of New Hampshire ([email protected]), Criminals, Enemies, and Disobedient Soldiers: War Crimes in the Early Modern Muslim World? Vita Zalar, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts ([email protected]), People on the Move in Imperial Borderlands: ‘Gypsies’ and the Habsburg Criminal Law Vladislav Lilic, Vanderbilt University … Continue reading 2022 ASLH Conference: Shifting Criminal Legal Landscapes in 19th-Century Habsburg and Ottoman Borderlands (Missouri) (Friday, November 11, 2022 @ 1:15 pm – 2:40 pm)

Chair: Intisar Rabb, Harvard University ([email protected]) Commentator: Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Yale University ([email protected]) Adam Mestyan, Duke University ([email protected]), Muslim Legal Ecology: The Norms of Reviving Barren Land as a Source of Ownership in Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Fatwas Nora Barakat, Stanford University ([email protected]), Hujaj vs. Tapu Registers: Evidentiary Tensions in Agricultural Land Disputes from Homs to Hufuf Alishar … Continue reading 2022 ASLH Conference: Islamic Law and Agriculture in Global History, 1850-1950 (Superior A) (Saturday, November 12, 2022 @ 10:15 am – 11:45 am)

Chair: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center ([email protected]) Commentator: Rowan Dorin, Stanford University ([email protected]) Patrick Morgan, UCLA ([email protected]), Secundum legem: Documentary Culture and Legal Pluralism in the Twelfth-Century Kingdom of Sicily Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin, Madison ([email protected]), Bad Mothers and Legal Pluralism in Medieval Europe Lev Weitz, The … Continue reading 2022 ASLH Conference: Many Peoples, Many Laws: Legal Pluralism Across the Medieval World (Ontario) (Saturday, November 12, 2022 @ 2:05 pm – 3:35 pm)