American Society for Legal History Conference

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 … 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 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 … 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 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 … 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 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 … 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

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 … 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 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 … 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

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 … 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

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 … 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

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 … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “The Graduate Student Lightening Round,” 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 … Continue reading American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Roundtable: Legal Knowledge in Global Perspective,” November 5, 2021 @ 2:50 – 4:15 pm