The papers from the second “Law As . . .” conference, held in March 2012, at the University of California Irvine Law School, organized by Christopher L. Tomlins, late of UC Irvine's law faculty and now of Berkeley's Jurisprudence and Social Policy faculty, is out in the UC Irvine Law Review 4:1 (March 2014). The papers from the “Law As” III conference, held earlier this year, are forthcoming in the law review.
Here’s a list of the papers. All are available here.
Foreword: “Law As . . .” II, History As Interface for the Interdisciplinary Study of Law
Christopher Tomlins
Every Law Tells a Story: Orthodox Divorce in Jewish and Islamic Legal Histories
Lena Salaymeh
Law As Temporality: Colonial Politics and Indian Settlers
Renisa Mawani
Routine Exceptionality: The Plenary Power Doctrine, Immigrants, and the Indigenous Under U.S. Law
Susan Bibler Coutin, Justin Richland, and Véronique Fortin
Repetition in History: Anglo-American Legal Debates and the Writings of Walter Bagehot
Kunal M. Parker
?Standing on Shaky Ground: Criminal Jurisdiction and Ecclesiastical Immunity in Seventeenth-Century Lima, 1600–1700
Michelle A. McKinley
Demonic Ambiguities: Enchantment and Disenchantment in Nat Turner’s Virginia
Christopher Tomlins
Property, Law, and Race: Modes of Abstraction
Brenna Bhandar
Hargrave’s Nightmare and Taney’s Dream
Michael Meranze
Reconstructing the Limits of Schmitt’s Theory of Sovereignty: A Case for Law As Rhetoric, Not As Political Theology
Brook Thomas
Mannheim’s Pendulum: Refiguring Legal Cosmopolitanism
Thomas Kemple
Humane Killing and the Ethics of the Secular: Regulating the Death Penalty, Euthanasia, and Animal Slaughter
Shai J. Lavi
The Rescaling of Feminist Analyses of Law and State Power: From (Domestic) Subjectivity to (Transnational) Governance Networks
Mariana Valverde
Beyond Sexual Humanitarianism: A Postcolonial Approach to Anti-Trafficking Law
Prabha Kotiswaran
Political Theology with a Difference
Nomi Maya Stolzenberg
How to Speak Well of the State: A Rhetoric of Civil Prudence
Jeffrey Minson
Law As (More or Less) Itself: On Some Not Very Reflective Elements of Law
Shaun McVeigh
