Conference funding for scholars in Global South

 [We share the following announcement, from the Max Planck Institute. It is also posted on the Legal Histories of Empire website here.]

The Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is delighted to offer a bursary scheme for scholars who wish to attend and deliver a talk at the Legal Histories of Empires conference (29 June-1 July 2022 at Maynooth University, Ireland) and who are currently based in the Global South. The Institute is promoting research on, among others, legal transfers in the common law world, where the development of law on the Indian subcontinent is of particular interest, and the legal history of Ibero-America.

The Institute offers a bursary to attend the conference comprised of: flights to and from the conference, the registration fee, accommodation, a daily stipend, and the expenses associated with a visa application. Applicants must be currently based at an institution in one of the G77 Group of countries at the United Nations.

In order to apply for the scholarship, candidates will be asked to submit the following information: a statement of interest, the proposed topic to be delivered, and a short CV (no more than 3 pages). Applications should be sent to vogenauer@lhlt.mpg.de by 31 October 2021. Acceptances will be sent around mid-December.

--posted by Mitra Sharafi

Weekend Roundup

• The American Historical Association has canceled its annual meeting scheduled for Seattle from January 7–10, 2021.  More.

• Annie Virginia Stephens Coker, the first Black woman to graduate from Berkeley Law. (Berkeley News). 

• Research for our times: Emily Prifogle, University of Michigan Law, has brought together this compilation of online archival materials and primary sources. For when you can't go to the archives in person.

• Mary Ziegler, Florida State University Law, discusses Abortion and the Law in America over at Nursing Clio.

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ASLH 2020: Stay Tuned

The officers of the American Society for Legal History recently sent its members the following message about the annual meeting scheduled for Chicago in November:

In such uncertain times, we know you may be wondering about the status of our annual meeting, which is scheduled for November 11-13, 2020 in Chicago. The Society will make a decision about whether to hold or cancel this meeting in mid August. We will not provide members with registration information until we are certain that the meeting will go on as planned.

In the meantime, we are very grateful to the Program Committee, which is proceeding with its work in planning the program.

Once again, we send our best wishes to all our members and hope that you are well and safe.

--Dan Ernst

Women's Enfranchisement: Beyond the 19th Amendment

[We share the following announcement about an upcoming conference on women's enfranchisement at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder. The conference is in honor of the centennial of the 19th Amendment's ratification, and has a significant emphasis on legal history.]

The University of Colorado Law School’s Byron R. White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, directed by Professor Suzette Malveaux, will host its 2020 Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference on Constitutional Law on Friday, April 3, 2020, on the topic:  “Women’s Enfranchisement: Beyond the 19th Amendment.”  This year's conference will feature three exciting panels of diverse scholars and lawyers with a Keynote Address by Reva Siegel. 

2020 marks the centennial of the 19th Amendment, formally extending suffrage to some, but not all, women. This conference will use the centennial to take stock of how far we’ve come and how far we have to go in terms of formal political enfranchisement, as well as the social and economic empowerment of women more broadly. 

6 general CLE credits have been approved for this free conference, and breakfast and lunch will be served to attendees. Register by March 30.

Location: Wittemyer Courtroom | Wolf Law Building (2450 Kittredge Loop Dr, Boulder, CO 80305)

Time: Friday, April 3, 2020 |8:30 am-5:00 pm

Speakers include: 
• Keynote: Reva Siegel (Yale Law)  
• Panelists: 

Historical Perspectives
• Carolyn Ramsey (Colorado Law)
• Susan Schulten (University of Denver, Dept. of History)
• Julie Suk (CUNY, Graduate Center)
• Mary Ziegler (Florida State Law)

Barriers to Political Representation
• Ming Chen (Colorado Law)
• Atiba Ellis (Marquette Law)
• Justin Levitt (Loyola Law)
• Bertrall Ross (Berkeley Law)
• Dara Strolovitch (Princeton University, Gender & Sexuality Studies)

Lived Equality:  Beyond Formal Political Rights 
• Chinyere Ezie (Center for Constitutional Rights)
• Diana Flynn (Lambda Legal)
• Cary Franklin (University of Texas Law)
• Aya Gruber (Colorado Law)
• Scott Skinner-Thompson (Colorado Law)

Further information is available here.

--Mitra Sharafi

Weekend Roundup

• CFP: Performing Law, Staging History: The (Re)Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar, a “one-day interdisciplinary roundtable [that] aims to bring together academics and practitioners from various fields including law, history, military studies, theatre, visual culture, politics and literature to analyse the Uprising of 1857 and the subsequent trial of the last Mughal Emperor of India at the Red Fort in Delhi.”  More.

• We don't know how many LHB readers teach Sanborn v. McLean in a law-school Property course, but those who do really owe it to themselves and their students to consult the illustration on page 117 of Robert M. Fogelson's Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930 (Yale University Press, 2005), a gem of a book on restrictive covenants. 

• Available online from Law and History Review and Cambridge Core is “South Africa is the Mississippi of the world”: Anti-Apartheid Activism through Domestic Civil Rights Law, by Joanna L. Grisinger, Northwestern University.

• Patrick S. O'Donnell has posted the latest in his series of extraordinary bibliographies: North American Indians: History, Culture, Politics, and Law—A Bibliography.

• Having created Women Also Know History, Emily Prifogle and friends are now launching Women Also Know Law. Both databases offer a way to increase diversity on conference panels and beyond.

• "The Law Society of British Columbia has moved to require Indigenous cultural competency training for all practising lawyers in the province" (Coast Mountain News).  More.

• “The Delaware State Bar Association is set to host a CLE program titled “Delaware and Desegregation: Belton v. Gebhart and a History of Desegregation in Delaware” from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Dec. 17" (Law.com).  More.

• Seth Barrett Tillman has posted A Religious Test in America?: New Sources on the 1809 Motion to Vacate Jacob Henry’s North Carolina State Legislative Seat.

• ICYMI:  David Dismore on Alice Paul in Ms. David Blanchette on Teaching LGBT history in the Illinois Times. Matthew Walther on The English history of impeachment in The Week. The State Historical Society of Missouri--which, we should add, opened a stunning, new research center in Columbia earlier this year--has awarded its 2020 fellowships, including one on “laws that tried to keep Native Americans out of the state,” in the Missourian.  Noah Feldman on Trump and the Meaning of Impeachment: My Testimony Before Congress, in the NYRB.

• Update: Submission deadline for Policy History Conference had been extended to January 15, 2020.  Registration for the May 2020 annual meeting of Law and Society Association has opened.
  

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