ASLH @ AHA 2019

As an affiliated association, the American Society of Legal History may lay claim to two slots on the program of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.  For the AHA meeting in January 2019, the ASLH finally has, with panels intended to showcase more junior legal historians.  I'm pleased to be, with Serena Mayeri, one of two chair/commentators for the panels.  Credit for organizing the panels goes to Malick Ghachem, MIT.

New Directions in American Legal History, Part 1
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-2

Chair: Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania

Papers:
Emancipation with neither Courts nor Constitution: The Remarkable Case of Revolutionary Massachusetts
Gloria Whiting, University of Wisconsin–Madison

The Making of Modern Law: Digital Computation and Anglo-American Legal History
Kellen Funk, Columbia University

Storehouse of the Industry of the Nation: Fire and Federalism in the Age of Jackson
Jane Manners, New-York Historical Society

Comment: Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University

New Directions in American Legal History, Part 2
Saturday, January 5, 2019: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Hilton Chicago, Stevens C-2

Chair: Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University

Papers:
Racial Discounting and Self-Help: Blacks, Americanization, and the Early 20th-Century Legal Aid Movement
Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Columbia University

Punishing Queer Sexuality in the Age of LGBT Rights
Scott De Orio, Northwestern University

Arrestable Women: Sexual Policing and the Making of Law and Order America
Anne Gray Fischer, Indiana University

Comment: Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania