American Society for Legal History Conference

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689-1760 (Acadian) Chair: Mark Neuendorf, University of Adelaide (mark.neuendorf@adelaide.edu.au), Commentator: Julia Rudolph, North Carolina State University (jerudolp@ncsu.edu) Wilfrid Prest, University of Adelaide (wilfrid.prest@adelaide.edu.au) Still Going to Law: Litigation and the Community, 1689-1760 Emily Ireland, University of Liverpool, University of Adelaide (emily.ireland@adelaide.edu.au) Legal … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689-1760,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM Legal Instruments and Actors in the Judicial Culture of Ante-Bellum Louisiana (Poydras) Chair: Olivier Moréteau, Louisiana State University Law Center (moreteau@lsu.edu), Commentator: Asya Ostroukh, University of the West Indies (asya.ostroukh@fulbrightmail.org) John W. Cairns, School of Law University of Edinburgh (john.cairns@ed.ac.uk) Printing a Bilingual Code in 1808 Catharine MacMillan, King's College … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Legal Instruments and Actors in the Judicial Culture of Ante-Bellum Louisiana,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm

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 (rohit.de@yale.edu), Commentators: Will Hanley, Florida State University (whanley@fsu.edu) and Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University (tshep75@jhu.edu) Jessica Marglin, University of Southern California (marglin@usc.edu) 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 (kalman@history.ucsb.edu), Commentator: Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara (kalman@history.ucsb.edu) Rachel Shelden, Penn State (rshelden@psu.edu) 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 (lmwood@fsu.edu), Commentator: Laurie Wood, Florida State University (lmwood@fsu.edu) Holly Brewer, University of Maryland (hbrewer@umd.edu) 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 (mcandido@nd.edu), Commentator: Beatriz Mamigonian, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (bgmamigo.ufsc@gmail.com) Mariana Dias Paes, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History (mdiaspaes@gmail.com) 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 (bhavani.raman@utoronto.ca), Commentator: Naveena Naqvi, University of British Columbia, (naveena.naqvi@ubc.ca) Shounak Ghosh, Vanderbilt University (shounak.ghosh@vanderbilt.edu) 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 (lmacivor1@gsu.edu), Commentator: Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida (felicia.bevel@unf.edu) Hannah Katherine Hicks, Vanderbilt University (hannah.k.hicks@vanderbilt.edu) “She Prays a Warrant:” Freedwomen and the Criminal Courts in Reconstruction-era South Carolina Kristin Olbertson, Alma College (olbertson@alma.edu) … 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 (rsparks1@tulane.edu), Commentator: Laura Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University (adderley@tulane.edu) Tim Soriano, University of Illinois at Chicago (tsoria2@uic.edu) Legal Plurality and Black Agency in Early British Honduras Justine Collins, Tilburg University (J.Collins@tilburguniversity.edu) 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 (taisu.zhang@yale.edu), Commentator: Fahad Bishara, University of Virginia (bishara@virginia.edu) Rui Hua, Harvard University (ruihua@fas.harvard.edu) Mr. Pan Versus the Tsar: How a Manchurian Peasant Made (up) Asian International Law, 1908-1921 George Remisovsky, Yale University (george.remisovsky@yale.edu) 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