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

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2021 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Credit Makes the Rules (Frenchman 2) Chair: Justin Simard, Willamette University College of Law ([email protected]) Commentator: Edward Balleisen, Duke University ([email protected]) Felipe Ford Cole, Northwestern University ([email protected]) Making Sovereignty from Debt in the Americas, 1822-49 Sarah Winsberg, Harvard Law School ([email protected]) “Partner Wanted”: Creditors and the … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Credit Makes the Rules,” November 5, 2021 @ 8:30 – 10:00 am

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Crimes Against Humanity Trials in Postwar Germany (Pelican 1) Chair: Beth Van Schaack, Stanford University ([email protected]), Commentator: Beth Van Schaack, Stanford University ([email protected]) Lawrence Douglas, Amherst College ([email protected]) The Verbrecherstaat and the Jurisprudence of Atrocity Devin Pendas, Boston College ([email protected]) The Politics of Nazi Trials in Soviet Occupied Germany, 1945-1950: … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Crimes Against Humanity Trials in Postwar Germany,” November 5, 2021 @ 8:30 – 10:00 am

8:30 AM – 10:00 AM Jurisdiction, Legal Pluralism, and the Development of Medieval English Legal Traditions (Poydras) Charlotte Whatley, University of Wisconsin-Madison ([email protected]) Exclusion, Extortion, and Blackmail: Excommunication in the Fourteenth-Century Common Law Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Harvard Law School ([email protected]) Finding Facts in Medieval English Law: The Strategies of Confessors and Coroners Kenneth Duggan, University … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Jurisdiction, Legal Pluralism, and the Development of Medieval English Legal Traditions,” November 5, 2021 @ 8:30 – 10:00 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Gender, Family, and Legal Practice in the Medieval Mediterranean (Pelican 1) Chair: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center ([email protected]). Commentator: Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center ([email protected]) Arnaud Fossier, University of Bourgogne ([email protected]) Adultery and Impotence. Family Law … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Gender, Family, and Legal Practice in the Medieval Mediterranean,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM The Katherine T. Preyer Award Panel (Frenchman 1) Commentators: Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania ([email protected]) and Joanna Grisinger, Northwestern University ([email protected]), Chair: Elizabeth Katz, Washington University School of Law ([email protected]) Naama Maor, Tel Aviv University ([email protected]) In Search of the 'Real Culprits': The Adult Delinquent in a Progressive Era Juvenile … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Katherine T. Preyer Award Panel,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Author Meets Readers: Thomas J. McSweeney, Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law’s First Professionals (Melpomene) Chair: Elizabeth Kamali, Harvard Law School ([email protected]), Commentators: Sara Butler, The Ohio State University ([email protected]), James Whitman, Yale University ([email protected]) and Atria Larson, Saint Louis University ([email protected]) Author: … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Author Meets Readers: Thomas J. McSweeney, Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law’s First Professionals,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Law on the U.S.-Mexico Borderland: Critical Approaches in Legal History (Acadian) Chair: Deborah Kang, California State University San Marcos ([email protected]), Commentator: Deborah Kang, California State University San Marcos ([email protected]) Hardeep Dhillon, Harvard University ([email protected]) Crossing the Line: Migrant Geographies in the U.S.-Mexico Borderland in the Early Twentieth Century Irvin Ibarguen, … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Law on the U.S.-Mexico Borderland: Critical Approaches in Legal History,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Colonial Era Shari’a: The Making and Remaking of Islamic Legal Authority (Poydras) Chair: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law ([email protected]), Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law ([email protected]) Samy Ayoub, The University of Texas, Austin ([email protected]) The Obscure Appellate: The Egyptian Sharīʿa Supreme Court, … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Colonial Era Shari’a: The Making and Remaking of Islamic Legal Authority,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Commerce, the Police Power, and Federalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Pelican 2) Chair: William Novak, Michigan Law ([email protected]), Commentator: William Novak, Michigan Law ([email protected]) Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School ([email protected]) No Double Operation of Distinct Sovereignties: Persons, Commerce, and Police Before the Taney Court Kate Masur, Northwestern … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Commerce, the Police Power, and Federalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM Beyond Backlash: Opposition to Gay and Lesbian Rights (Frenchman 2) Chair: Deborah Dinner, Emory University School of Law ([email protected]), Commentator: Deborah Dinner, Emory University School of Law ([email protected]) Kate Redburn, Yale University ([email protected]) From Moral Majority to People of Faith: The Rise of Religious Exemptions to Anti-Discrimination Laws Marie-Amelie George, … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Beyond Backlash: Opposition to Gay and Lesbian Rights,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

1:15 PM – 2:40 PM What’s Public and Private in the History of American Slavery? Private Controls, Public Interests and Open Secrets under Southern Slavery (Poydras) Chair: Brittany Farr, University of Pennsylvania Law School ([email protected]), Commentator: Alexandra Finley, University of Pittsburgh ([email protected]) Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia ([email protected]) Private Mastery: The Legalities of Slaveholding … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “What’s Public and Private in the History of American Slavery? Private Controls, Public Interests and Open Secrets under Southern Slavery,” November 5, 2021 @ 1:15 – 2:40 pm

1:15 PM – 2:40 PM The Multiplicity of International Persons: State, Empire and Sovereignty in the Global Public Order of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries (Frenchman 1) Chair: Edward Kolla, Georgetown University ([email protected]), Commentator: Edward Kolla, Georgetown University ([email protected]) Sarath Pillai, University of Chicago ([email protected]) German Lessons: Princely Sovereignty and the Origins of … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Multiplicity of International Persons: State, Empire and Sovereignty in the Global Public Order of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries,” November 5, 2021 @ 1:15 – 2:40 pm

1:15 PM – 2:40 PM Author Meets Readers: Fei-Hsien Wang, Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China (Melpomene) Chair: Pär Cassel, University of Michigan ([email protected]), Commentators: Pär Cassel, University of Michigan ([email protected]), Maura Dykstra, Caltech ([email protected]) and Philip Thai, Northeastern University ([email protected]) Author: Fei-Hsien Wang, Indiana University, Bloomington ([email protected]) Note from … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Author Meets Readers: Fei-Hsien Wang, Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China,” November 5, 2021 @ 1:15 – 2:40 pm

1:15 PM – 2:40 PM The Politics of Land Registration: National Determination, Imperial Expansion, and Juristic Debate in the Long 19th Century (Pelican 1) Chair: Anna di Robilant, Boston University School of Law ([email protected]), Commentator: Anna di Robilant, Boston University School of Law ([email protected]) Pamela Cacciavillani, Universidad de Monterrey & Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte ([email protected]) … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Politics of Land Registration: National Determination, Imperial Expansion, and Juristic Debate in the Long 19th Century,” November 5, 2021 @ 1:15 – 2:40 pm

1:15 PM – 2:40 PM A Divided Nation: Federalism in the Early National Period (Frenchman 2) Chair: Gautham Rao, American University ([email protected]), Commentator: Gautham Rao, American University ([email protected]) Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown University ([email protected]) The Challenge of Cooperative Federalism Grace Mallon, Oxford University ([email protected]) Repugnancy: The Career of a Concept Derek Litvak, University of Maryland - … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “A Divided Nation: Federalism in the Early National Period,” November 5, 2021 @ 1:15 – 2:40 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 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 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 Roundtable: Identity and Criminal Responsibility in Comparative Historical Perspective (Frenchman 1) Commentator: Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota Law School ([email protected]), Chair: Simon Stern, University of Toronto ([email protected]) Catherine Evans, University of Toronto ([email protected]) Responsibility, Civilization and Empire Lindsay Farmer, University of Glasgow ([email protected]) Responsibility and Respectability in the Trial of … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Roundtable: Identity and Criminal Responsibility in Comparative Historical Perspective,” November 5, 2021 @ 2:50 – 4:15 pm

2:50 PM – 4:15 PM Family Matters: Status and Citizenship in Modern America (Pelican 2) Chair: Margot Canaday, Princeton University ([email protected]), Commentator: Margot Canaday, Princeton University ([email protected]) Kristin Collins, Boston University School of Law ([email protected]) Status Without Borders Nara Milanich, Barnard College/Columbia University ([email protected]) Blood Work: Defining Kinship in U.S. Immigration Proceedings Serena Mayeri, University … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Family Matters: Status and Citizenship in Modern America,” 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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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

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

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM Neglected Histories of Law and Religion: Jewish Lawyers and Legal Reform in the Twentieth Century (Frenchman 1) Chair: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School ([email protected]), Commentator: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School ([email protected]) William Forbath, University of Texas School of Law ([email protected]) Class Struggle, Group Rights and Socialist Pluralism on the Lower … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Neglected Histories of Law and Religion: Jewish Lawyers and Legal Reform in the Twentieth Century,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM Neglected Histories of Law and Religion: Jewish Lawyers and Legal Reform in the Twentieth Century (Frenchman 1) Chair: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School ([email protected]), Commentator: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School ([email protected]) William Forbath, University of Texas School of Law ([email protected]) Class Struggle, Group Rights and Socialist Pluralism on the Lower … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Neglected Histories of Law and Religion: Jewish Lawyers and Legal Reform in the Twentieth Century,” November 6, 2021 @ 2:40 – 4:05 pm

2:40 PM – 4:05 PM A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689-1760 (Acadian) Chair: Mark Neuendorf, University of Adelaide ([email protected]), Commentator: Julia Rudolph, North Carolina State University ([email protected]) Wilfrid Prest, University of Adelaide ([email protected]) Still Going to Law: Litigation and the Community, 1689-1760 Emily Ireland, University of Liverpool, University of Adelaide ([email protected]) 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 Paper Sovereignty: The Politics of "Custom," Natural Law, & Slavery (Melpomene) Chair: Laurie Wood, Florida State University ([email protected]), Commentator: Laurie Wood, Florida State University ([email protected]) Holly Brewer, University of Maryland ([email protected]) 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

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 ([email protected]), Commentator: Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara ([email protected]) Rachel Shelden, Penn State ([email protected]) 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 Unsettled Law: Lessons and Legacies of Migration and Diaspora in International Law (Pelican 1) Chair: Rohit De, Yale University ([email protected]), Commentators: Will Hanley, Florida State University ([email protected]) and Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University ([email protected]) Jessica Marglin, University of Southern California ([email protected]) 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 Legal Instruments and Actors in the Judicial Culture of Ante-Bellum Louisiana (Poydras) Chair: Olivier Moréteau, Louisiana State University Law Center ([email protected]), Commentator: Asya Ostroukh, University of the West Indies ([email protected]) John W. Cairns, School of Law University of Edinburgh ([email protected]) 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

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 ([email protected]), Commentator: Naveena Naqvi, University of British Columbia, ([email protected]) Shounak Ghosh, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) 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 ([email protected]), Commentator: Felicia Bevel, University of North Florida ([email protected]) Hannah Katherine Hicks, Vanderbilt University ([email protected]) “She Prays a Warrant:” Freedwomen and the Criminal Courts in Reconstruction-era South Carolina Kristin Olbertson, Alma College ([email protected]) … 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 ([email protected]), Commentator: Laura Rosanne Adderley, Tulane University ([email protected]) Tim Soriano, University of Illinois at Chicago ([email protected]) Legal Plurality and Black Agency in Early British Honduras Justine Collins, Tilburg University ([email protected]) 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 ([email protected]), Commentator: Fahad Bishara, University of Virginia ([email protected]) Rui Hua, Harvard University ([email protected]) Mr. Pan Versus the Tsar: How a Manchurian Peasant Made (up) Asian International Law, 1908-1921 George Remisovsky, Yale University ([email protected]) 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

4:15 PM – 5:45 PM Court Cases in the Making of African Legal History (Melpomene) Chair: Mariana Candido, University of Notre Dame ([email protected]), Commentator: Beatriz Mamigonian, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina ([email protected]) Mariana Dias Paes, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History ([email protected]) 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