The program for the annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History, to be held in Boston, November 21-24, 2019, has been announced. More information on the conference is here.
--Dan Ernst
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
What is a Legal Archive? (Center for History and Economics, Harvard University)
Moderators: Elizabeth Lhost, Dartmouth College (elizabeth.d.lhost@dartmouth.edu) and Emma Rothschild, Harvard University (rothsch@fas.harvard.edu)
Convener: Kalyani Ramnath, Harvard University (kalyaniramnath@fas.harvard.edu)
Debjani Bhattacharya, Drexel University (db893@drexel.edu)
South Asia 1
Julia Stephens, Rutgers University (julia.stephens@rutgers.edu)
South Asia 2
Tatiana Seijas, Rutgers University (tatiana.seijas@rutgers.edu)
Latin America 3
Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon (michelle@uoregon.edu)
Latin America 1
Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania (mteixeir@sas.upenn.edu)
Latin America 2
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto (bhavani.raman@utoronto.ca)
South Asia 3
Thursday, November 21, 2019
12:00-6:00 Registration (Exeter Foyer)
12:00-6:00 Exhibits (Statler Room)
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
African Legal History Symposium (White Hill Room)
Breakfast 8:00-9:00
Panel 1: African Voices, 9:00-10:30
Commentators: Sally Engle Merry, New York University (sally.merry@nyu.edu), Richard Roberts, Stanford University (rroberts@stanford.edu)
Stephanie Lämmert, Max Planck Institute (laemmert@mpib-berlin.mpg.de)
Listening, Observing, Being Seen and Being Heard: A History of the Senses through Court Proceedings
Nienke Boer, Yale-NUS College (nienke.boer@yale-nus.edu.sg)
The Speaking Slave in the Court Records of the Cape of Good Hope, 1700-1795
Marcus Filippello, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (filippem@uwm.edu)
Litigating Legislation: Hearing Recaptive African Voices in West Indian Colonial Courts
Ari Schriber, Harvard University (schriber@g.harvard.edu)
The Orthodoxy of Custom: Lafīfa Testimony in Colonial Moroccan Shariʿa Courts
Wallace Teska, Stanford University (wteska@stanford.edu)
Shifting Concepts of People and Property in the French Soudan: Evidence from Bamako Appeals Cases, 1897-1912
Panel 2: Borders of Belonging, 11:00am-12:30pm
Commentators: Sara Berry, Johns Hopkins University (sberry@jhu.edu), Richard Roberts, Stanford University (rroberts@stanford.edu)
Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law (k.swanson@northeastern.edu)
Inventing a Black Republic: Patents and Race in Early Liberia
Jessica Marglin, University of Southern California (marglin@usc.edu)
Beyond Citizen vs Subject: Nationality and Citizenship in the French Colonial Maghrib, 1830-1962
Larissa Kopytoff, New York University (lkopytoff@gmail.com)
The Legal Construction of “Originaires” in French Colonial Senegal
Ruth Ginio, Professor, Department of History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev (rginio@bgu.ac.il)
The Jeandet Affair as a Window to French, Métis, and African Perceptions of the Law in Late 19th century Senegal
David Glovsky, Michigan State University (glovskyd@msu.edu)
Citizenship at the Border: Regularizing Cross-Border Migrants in Southern Senegambia
Mariana Armond Dias Paes, Max Planck Institute (diaspaes@rg.mpg.de)
Colonialism and Possession: The Case of "mera posse" Registration in Angola
Sanele Sibanda, School of Law, University of Witwatersrand (Sanele.Sibanda@wits.ac.za)
History as Mere Context or Decolonizing Method?: The Case for Critical Histories as Method in Decolonizing South African Legal Education
Lunch 12:30-2:00 (St. James Room)
Panel 3: The Disciplinary State, 2:00-3:30
Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter (s.hynd@exeter.ac.uk)
(Re-)Constructing Murder: Capital Punishment and the Criminalization of African Bodies in Colonial Ghana, c. 1890-1957
Dior Konate, South Carolina State University (dkonate@scsu.edu)
Imprisonment and Citizenship in Senegal, 1917-1946 The Case of the Originaires
Jessica Reuther, Ball State University (jcreuther@bsu.edu)
Vio[lated]: Sexual Assaults of Girl Hawkers and the Reaction of Colonial Market Women in Colonial Dahomey, 1924-1941
Ray Thornton, Princeton University (rayt@princeton.edu)
Fraudulent Developments: Technology and Deception in Postcolonial Kenya
Charles Omotayo, McPherson University Seriki Sotayo, Nigeria (charlesotomayo@yahoo.com)
Trial by Ordeal: Untangling Indigenous Methods of Trial and Justice in Ondo during Colonial Administration
Coffee and Cookies Break 3:30-4:00
Panel 4: Decolonization and African Laws and Legal Systems, 4:00-5:30
Commentator: Frederick Cooper, New York University (fred.cooper@nyu.edu)
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Duke University (samuel.furychilds.daly@duke.edu)
Of Oracles and Autocrats: Customary Law in Independent Africa
Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia, Montclair State University (brizuelagare@montclair.edu)
Constituting the Nation. Ghana’s Constitutional history from 1840 to 1960
Nikki Kalbing, U.S. Department of Commerce (nikkikalbing@gmail.com)
The Future of Law in British Africa on the Eve of Independence
Rabiat Akande, Harvard Law School (oakande@sjd.law.harvard.edu)
Marginalizing "Secularism," Decolonizing the State: Missionary Advocacy for Religious Freedom in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1945-1960
Terence Mashingaidze, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe (mashingaidzet@staff.msu.ac.zw)
Constitutionalism and Ritual Controversies in a Zimbabwean Chiefdom, 1953-1981
Reception 5:30-6:30 (Back Bay Room)
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Johnson Program for First Book Authors (Harvard Law School / TBD)
The Johnson Program for First Book Authors provides advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of their first books in legal history. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, the Fellows will develop and revise book proposals and sample chapters. They will also meet with guest editors to learn about approaching and working with publishers. Fellows will meet several times during the year, with the first session being at the ASLH Annual Meeting. Participation is by invitation only, but we encourage the ASLH community to chat with the Fellows about their projects throughout the conference.
Johnson Fellows:
Pedro Cantisano, Kenyon College (cantisano1@kenyon.edu)
Rio de Janeiro on Trial: Law and Urban Reform in Modern Brazil
Marie-Amélie George, Wake Forest University School of Law (georgemp@wfu.edu)
Deviant Justice: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Rights in America
Amanda Laury Kleintop, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (amanda.kleintop@mcla.edu)
The Balance of Freedom: Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves after the U.S. Civil War
Kalyani Ramnath, Harvard University (kalyaniramnath@fas.harvard.edu)
Boats in a Storm: Law and Displacement in Postwar South Asia
Evan Taparata, University of Pennsylvania (taparata@sas.upenn.edu)
State of Refuge: Refugee Law and the Modern United States
Adnan Zulfiqar, Rutgers Law School (adnan.zulfiqar@rutgers.edu)
Collective Duties in Islamic Law: The Moral Community, State Authority, and Ethical Speculation in the late 9th to the 14th Centuries CE
Convener: Reuel Schiller, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (schiller@uchastings.edu)
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Student Research Colloquium (Harvard Law School / TBD)
At the annual ASLH Student Research Colloquium, eight graduate students will workshop early-stage research projects under the guidance of senior scholars. This event is closed to the public.
Student Presenters:
Jonathon Booth, Harvard University (jonathonbooth@g.harvard.edu)
The Birth of Policing in Post-Emancipation Jamaica
Lauren Feldman, Johns Hopkins University (lauren.feldman@jhu.edu)
Constructing Legal Matrimony and the State in New York and the United States: Debating New York's Marriage Act of 1827 and its Effects
Jamie Grischkan, Boston University (jgrisch@bu.edu)
Banking, Law, and American Liberalism: The Rise and Regulation of Bank Holding Companies in the Twentieth Century
Derek Litvak, University of Maryland (litvak.derek@gmail.com)
Articles of Failure: Slavery Under the Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
Doris Morgan Rueda, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (doris.morgan@unlv.edu)
"No One's Getting Smarter, No One's Learning the Score": San Diego's Surveillance of Youth and the Border in the 1950s
Katharina Isabel Schmidt, Princeton University (kis2@princeton.edu)
From Free Law to Free Love: On Theodor Sternberg's Sexological Explorations in Imperial Japan, 1935-1937
Geneva Smith, Princeton University (gajsmith@princeton.edu)
Compensating Whiteness: Slave Courts in Colonial Maryland and the Atlantic World
Lila Teeters, University of New Hampshire (lmt2006@wildcats.unh.edu)
"A Simple Act of Justice": Congressional Attempts to Make Native Americans U.S. Citizens, 1919-1924
Conveners: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School (kmack@law.harvard.edu), Laurie Wood, Florida State University (lmwood@fsu.edu), Jacqueline Briggs, University of Toronto - Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies (jacq.briggs@mail.utoronto.ca), and John Wertheimer, Davidson College (jowertheimer@davidson.edu)
11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Law and Empire in the Sino-Asian Context (Harvard Law School / TBD)
Co-hosted by the ASLH, the International Society for Chinese Law and History, and the Harvard Law School Program in East Asian Legal Studies
Panel 1: Graduate Student Panel
Yue Jiang, Stanford University (jiangyue@stanford.edu)
Gender, Property, and Lineage in Mid-Qing: Property Disputes Between Women and Lineages
Commentator: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University (szonyi@fas.harvard.edu)
Rui Hua, Harvard University (ruihua@fas.harvard.edu)
Imperial Wars in a Magistrate's Court: Translingual Legal Literacy and the Everyday Politics of Territorial Land Laws in Manchuria, 1900-1931
Commentator: Sakura Christmas, Bowdoin College (schristm@bowdoin.edu)
Xinyu Huang, Yale Law School (xinyu.huang@yale.edu)
The Censorial Impeachments under Qianlong and Jiaqing Reign, 1736-1820
Commentator: Thomas Buoye, The University of Tulsa (thomas-buoye@utulsa.edu)
Jingjian Wu, Yale Law School (jingjian.wu@yale.edu)
W.A.P. Martin, Naturalism and The Translation of International Law in Late Qing China
Panel 2: Legal And Intellectual Constructs of Empire
Chair: Philip Thai, Northeastern University (p.thai@northeastern.edu)
Commentator: Fei-Hsien Wang, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of History (feihwang@indiana.edu)
Colin Jones, Columbia University (colin.jones@columbia.edu)
Living Law, Legal Consciousness, and the Afterlives of Empire: The Origins and Legacy of the North China Rural Customs Survey, 1941-1944
Tristan Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (tb606@cam.ac.uk)
Breaking the Land, Breaking the Law: Fengshui and the End of Imperial China
Peter Thilly, University of Mississippi (pdthilly@olemiss.edu)
Consular Jurisdiction and the Pioneers of Flexible Citizenship
Panel 3: Laying Down and Crossing Borders
Commentator: Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School (taisu.zhang@yale.edu)
Geng Tian, Peking University (gengtian@pku.edu.cn)
The Boundary Works in the Qing’s Legal Analogies between “Violent” Social Groups, 1750-1850
Yonglin Jiang, Bryn Mawr College (yjiang@brynmawr.edu)
The Contested Order: Central-Local Legal Dynamics on the Borderlands of the Ming Empire
Jenny Huangfu, Skidmore College (jhuangfu@skidmore.edu)
The Last Refuge of the Scoundrel: Transnational Fugitives and the Spaces of Law in Late Qing China, 1860s-1900s
Larissa Pitts, Quinnipiac University (Larissa.Pitts@quinnipiac.edu)
The Abortive Forest Law of 1914: Russian Timber Merchants, Chinese "Traitors," and the Collapse of Modern Chinese Environmental Law
12:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Legal History and the Persistent Power of State and Local Governments (Cambridge Room)
Conveners: Brooke Depenbusch, University of Minnesota (depen003@umn.edu) and Rabia Belt, Stanford Law School (belt@law.stanford.edu)
Historiographical Interventions
Kate Masur, Northwestern University (kmasur@northwestern.edu)
William Novak, Michigan Law (wnovak@umich.edu)
Karen Tani, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (ktani@law.berkeley.edu)
Narrative Choices
Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota (welke004@umn.edu)
Christopher Tomlins, University of California-Berkeley Law School (ctomlins@law.berkeley.edu)
Emily Prifogle, University of Michigan (emilyaprifogle@gmail.com)
Source Decisions
Felicity Turner, Georgia Southern University (fturner@georgiasouthern.edu)
Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University (sally.hadden@wmich.edu)
Kellen Funk, Princeton University (kfunk@princeton.edu)
12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
The Second Book (MIT / Building E51, Room 095)
Moderator: Alison Lefkovitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark (alison.lefkovitz@njit.edu)
Alison Lefkovitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University-Newark (alison.lefkovitz@njit.edu)
Fortune Hunting: Sex, Class, and Social Mobility in the 20th-Century United States
Anne Fleming, Georgetown Law (anne.fleming@law.georgetown.edu)
Household Borrowing and Bankruptcy in Jim Crow America
Caley Horan, MIT (cdhoran@mit.edu)
Investing in the Stars: Astrology and Capitalism in Modern America
Gautham Rao, American University (grao@american.edu)
The Master's State: Slavery and the American State
Nate Holdren, Program in Law, Politics, and Society (nate.holdren@drake.edu)
Capitalism's Heartland
Kimberly Welch, Vanderbilt University (kimberly.m.welch@vanderbilt.edu)
The Black Atlantic Economy
Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt University (sara.mayeux@vanderbilt.edu)
The Catholic Left and the American Constitutional Tradition in the Twentieth Century
Sarah Milov, University of Virginia (smilov@virginia.edu)
Shrill Alarm: Gender and Whistle Blowing in Modern America
4:00-5:00 Finance Committee (Hancock Room)
6:30-7:30 Executive Committee (Hancock Room)
7:00-8:30 Opening Reception (Arlington/Berkeley/Clarendon Room)
7:30-10:00 Board of Directors Meeting (Georgian Room)
10:00-11:00 Night Cap (M.J. O'Connor's Pub)
Friday, November 22, 2019
7:30 - 4:00 Registration (Exeter Foyer)
7:30 - 4:15 Exhibits (Grand Ballroom B)
7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast (Grand Ballroom B)
7:30 – 8:30 Committee Breakfasts
- Membership Committee (Hancock Room)
- Studies in Legal History (Exeter Room)
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Petitioning the President: James Madison, The Haitian Revolution, and a Resurgence of the International Slave Trade (Arlington Room)
Chairs: Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mghachem@mit.edu), Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan (rjscott@umich.edu), and Darrell Meadows, Nation Historical Publications & Records Commission (darrell.meadows@nara.gov)
Discussants: Ana María Silva, University of Michigan (anasilva@umich.edu), Jean Hébrard, Johns Hopkins University (jhebrard@ehess.fr) and Andrew Walker, Wesleyan University (awalker01@wesleyan.edu)
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
The Consequences of Union Victory and the Legal Legacy of the Civil War (Berkeley Room)
Chair and Commentator: Taja-Nia Henderson, Rutgers Law School (thenderson@kinoy.rutgers.edu)
Catharine MacMillan, King's College London (catharine.macmillan@kcl.ac.uk)
The ‘So-called Confederate Government’: The United States of America’s Quest for Confederate property in England
Christopher Bryant, University of Cincinnati (bryantac@ucmail.uc.edu)
"Both Parties Bidding": Ohio’s 1884 Civil Rights Act and the Evolving Concept of Equal Citizenship (co-authored with Matthew Norman)
Matthew Norman, University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College (normanmh@ucmail.uc.edu)
“Both Parties Bidding”: Ohio’s 1884 Civil Rights Act and the Evolving Concept of Equal Citizenship(co-authored with Christopher Bryant)
Cynthia Nicoletti, University of Virginia Law School (cln4x@virginia.edu)
William Henry Trescot and Land Redistribution in South Carolina, 1865-1866
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
The Legal Regulation of Punishment in Comparative Perspective (White Hill Room)
Chair: Erin Braatz, Suffolk University Law School (ebraatz@suffolk.edu)
Commentator: Michael Meranze, University of California, Los Angeles (meranze@history.ucla.edu)
Mina Khalil, University of Pennsylvania (mikhalil@sas.upenn.edu)
Tracing the Criminal Defendant in Modern Egypt
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart, University of Toronto Mississauga (kate.bruce.lockhart@utoronto.ca)
Dissent and Dignity in Late Colonial Uganda: The 1957 Bufulubi Prison Strike
Thomas Buoye, The University of Tulsa (thomas-buoye@utulsa.edu)
Death in Detention, Jail Breaks, and Summary Execution: The Crisis in Eighteenth-century Chinese Criminal Justice
Toussaint Losier, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (tlosier@afroam.umass.edu)
“So I guess its up to us”: Locating the Place of Prisoner Litigation in the History and Historiography of Mass Incarceration
Ashley Rubin, University of Toronto, Mississauga (ashley.rubin@utoronto.ca)
Benevolent Discretion: Prison Administration and Legal Ambiguity in Eastern State Penitentiary, 1829-1849
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Law, Indenture and Free Labor in the British Empire, 1640–1870 (Clarendon Room)
Chair and Commentator: Mary Bilder, Boston College Law School (bilder@bc.edu)
Sonia Tycko, Rothermere American Institute and St. Peter's College, Oxford (sonia.tycko@gmail.com)
The Question of Consent in 17th c. Transatlantic English Kidnapping Prosecutions
Jon Connolly, Princeton University (jon.s.connolly@gmail.com)
Indentured Labor Migration and the Making of Post-Slavery Free Labor
Padraic Scanlan, London School of Economics and Political Science (padraic.scanlan@gmail.com)
Special Magistracy in the British Empire, 1834–1838
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Sex and Motherhood Reimagined (Georgian Room)
Chair and Commentator: Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University (ak571@columbia.edu)
Melissa Murray, NYU School of Law (MurrayM@mercury.law.nyu.edu)
Griswold v. Connecticut and Criminal Law Reform
Julie Suk, CUNY - The Graduate Center (jsuk@gc.cuny.edu)
From "Home Protection" to Family Privacy: Penumbras of Prohibition and its Repeal
Reva Siegel, Yale Law School (reva.siegel@yale.edu)
Reimagining Motherhood When the Nineteenth Amendment Was Fifty: The Strike For Equality, August 26, 1970
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania (smayeri@law.upenn.edu)
Double Standards: Sex, Sexuality, and Marital Status in the Long 1970s
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
War and the Law: Global Perspectives (Boylston Room)
Chair and Commentator: Vasuki Nesiah, New York University (vn10@nyu.edu)
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National University of Singapore (hisny@nus.edu.sg)
Soldiers Without War: Military Logistics and Sepoy Mutiny in Singapore (1915)
Kalyani Ramnath, Harvard University (kalyaniramnath@fas.harvard.edu)
Checkpoints: Law and Migration in Interwar South Asia
Franziska Seraphim, Boston College (seraphim@bc.edu)
War Crimes Trials and Geolegality
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Wallace Johnson Fellows Roundtable: Turning a Dissertation Into Your First Book (Exeter Room)
Chair: Reuel Schiller, University of California, Hastings College of the Law (schiller@uchastings.edu)
Discussants: Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown Law (kevin.arlyck@georgetown.edu), Winston Bowman, Federal Judicial Center (wbowman@fjc.gov), Wesley Chaney, Bates College (wchaney@bates.edu), Trina Leah Hogg, Oregon State University (trina.hogg@oregonstate.edu) and Amanda Hughett, University of Illinois, Springfield (ahugh9@uis.edu)
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Lightning Round: Civil Law, Common Law, Customary Law: Consonance, Divergence and Transformation in Western Europe from the Late Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries (White Hill Room)
Chair: Emanuele Conte, Università Roma Tre (emanuele.conte@uniroma3.it)
Andrew Cecchinato, University of St Andrews (ac355@st-andrews.ac.uk)
A European Science of English Law? System and History from Selden to Blackstone
Sarah White, Univesrity of St Andrews (sbw@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Romano-canonical Procedural Treatises in England
Will Eves, University of St Andrews (wae@st-andrews.ac.uk)
The concept of ‘ownership’ in England and Northern France
Matthew McHaffie, Univesrity of St Andrews (mm795@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Comparative History of Warranty Obligations (France and England, 1000–1270)
Cory Hitt, University of St Andrews (ch775@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Redemption of property and status in Old French and Anglo-Norman coutumiers
Attilio Stella, University of St Andrews (as346@st-andrews.ac.uk)
Feudal law and the Libri Feudorum in Italy and Southern France
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Indigenous Articulations & Critiques of the Law in American History (Exeter Room)
Chair: Bethany Berger, University of Connecticut (bethany.berger@uconn.edu)
Discussants: Keith Richotte, Jr., University of North Carolina (richotte@email.unc.edu), Kevin Bruyneel, Babson College (kbruyneel@babson.edu), Maurice Crandall, Dartmouth College (maurice.s.crandall@dartmouth.edu) and Katrina Jagodinsky, University of Nebraska Lincoln (kjagodinsky@unl.edu)
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Taking the Rural Seriously in Twentieth-Century Legal History: Centering Gender & Sexuality (Berkeley Room)
Chair and Commentator: Anna Lvovsky, Harvard University (alvovsky@law.harvard.edu)
Emily Prifogle, University of Michigan (emilyaprifogle@gmail.com)
Prosecutorial Discretion & Masculinity in Small-Town Iowa, 1920-1928
Brian Balogh, University of Virginia (bb9s@virginia.edu)
“They resented her from day one:” The role of gender in the first American Rural National Historic Landmark District
Anne Gray Fischer, Indiana University (agrayf@gmail.com)
“A Rugged Task”: Policewomen in the Depression-era Countryside
Gabriel Rosenberg, Duke University (gabriel.rosenberg@duke.edu)
Beastly Vice: On the Legal Transformation of Bestiality and the Political Ecology of Rural America
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Legal History in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa: Legislation and Courts in the Making of Political Culture (Georgian Room)
Chair and Commentator: Charlotte Walker-Said, John Jay-CUNY (cwalker-said@jjay.cuny.edu)
Walter Nkwi, University of Buea (nkwi.walters@ubuea.cm)
Prostitution, Women’s Mobility, and the Development of Criminal Regulatory Systems in Anglophone and Francophone Cameroon
Elizabeth Thornberry, Johns Hopkins University (thornberry@jhu.edu)
Traditional Leadership and the Temporality of Custom: South Africa’s Nhlapo Commission
Erin Mosely, Chapman University (mosely@chapman.edu)
Ferdinand Nahimana, the International Criminal Tribunal, and Rwanda’s Politics of Regret
Katherine Luongo, Northeastern University (k.luongo@northeastern.edu)
The Nyayo House Reparations Case – A Crucible of Human Rights in Contemporary Kenya
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Law and Forced Migration in the 19th Century United States (Arlington Room)
Chair and Commentator: K-Sue Park, UCLA Law School (park@law.ucla.edu)
Samantha Seeley, University of Richmond (sseeley@richmond.edu)
African American Residency and the Limits to Belonging in the Early Nineteenth Century
Evan Taparata, University of Pennsylvania (taparata@sas.upenn.edu)
Removal and Refuge: Conceptualizing the Indian Removal Act of 1830 as a Law that Created Refugees
Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University (bethlw@princeton.edu)
"Mary Chinaman:" Trafficking, Runaways, and Early Immigration Law
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Making Markets: Law and American Capitalism (Clarendon Room)
Chair and Commentator: Andrew Cohen, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (awcohe01@maxwell.syr.edu)
Noam Maggor, Queen Mary University of London (MAGGOR1@GMAIL.COM)
Antitrust as Development Strategy: Law and the Remaking of American Capitalism, 1865-1890
Gabrielle Clark, Dartmouth College (gec213@nyu.edu)
Remaking Deportable Labor: Legal Coercion and Globalization in US Labor Markets
Nicolas Barreyre, The École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) (nicolas.barreyre@ehess.fr)
Constituting Public Debt: Re-shaping the Administrative State and US Finance after the Civil War
Martin Giraudeau, Sciences Po (martin.giraudeau@sciencespo.fr)
Who owns accounting? A History of Intellectual Property Rights on Accounting Methods, 1970-2020
10:15 AM – 11:45 AM
Kathryn T. Preyer Memorial Prize Panel (Boylston Room)
Chair: Laura Kalman, Department of History (kalman@history.ucsb.edu)
Commentators: Gerald Neuman, Harvard Law School (neuman@law.harvard.edu) and Sophia Lee, University of Pennsylvania Law School (slee@law.upenn.edu)
Ofra Bloch, Yale Law School (ofra.bloch@yale.edu)
The Untold History of Israel's Affirmative Action for Arab Citizens, 1948-1968
Brianna Nofil, Columbia University (bln2109@columbia.edu)
"Chinese Jails" and the Birth of Immigration Detention for Profit, 1900-1905
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Lunch Break
Committee Lunch Meetings
- Peter Gonville Stein Prize Committee (Hancock Room)
- Law & History Review (Exeter Room)
- Standing Committee on the Annual Meeting (Commonwealth Room)
12:00 PM – 1:10 PM
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Demise of the Warren Court (Arlington Room)
Chair: Lucas Powe, University of Texas School of Law (spowe@law.utexas.edu)
Commentator: Linda Greenhouse, Yale Law School (linda.greenhouse@yale.edu)
Earl Maltz, Rutgers University (emaltz@law.rutgers.edu)
Revisiting Rodriguez and Roe: The Trials of Richard Nixon, The Travails of Abe Fortas, and the Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment
David Golland, Governors State University (dgolland@gmail.com)
A Case is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher, Griggs v. Duke Power, and the American Workplace
James Viator, Loyola-New Orleans (jeviator@loyno.edu)
Did the Warren Court End With the Burger Court: A Comparison of Their Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence
12:00 PM – 1:10 PM
Lunchtime Conversation on Publishing Legal History Books (Clarendon Room)
Chair: Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University (lauren.benton@vanderbilt.edu)
Discussants: Deborah Gershenowitz, Cambridge University Press (dgershenowitz@cambridge.org), Finola O'Sullivan, Cambridge University Press (fosullivan@cambridge.org), Samuel Erman, USC Gould School of Law (serman@law.usc.edu) and Kimberly Welch, Vanderbilt University (kimberly.m.welch@vanderbilt.edu)
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Authors-Meet-Readers Salon: New Books in American Legal History (Georgian Room)
Dan Edelstein’s On the Spirit of Rights
Chair: Camille Robcis, Columbia University (car2129@columbia.edu)
Commentators: Camille Robcis, Columbia University (car2129@columbia.edu) and Jud Campbell, University of Richmond (uncjud@gmail.com)
Blake Emerson’s The Public's Law: Origins and Architecture of Progressive Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2019) (Georgian Room)
Chair: Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center (Daniel.Ernst@law.georgetown.edu)
Commentators: Anne Kornhauser, City University of New York (akornhauser@ccny.cuny.edu) and Jessica Blatt, Marymount Manhattan College (jblatt@mmm.edu)
Author: Blake Emerson, UCLA School of Law (emerson@law.ucla.edu)
Sam Erman’s Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire
Chair: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California (perlrose@usc.edu)
Commentators: Karen Tani, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (ktani@law.berkeley.edu), Cristina Rodriguez, Yale (cristina.rodriguez@yale.edu) and Sanford Levinson, University of Texas (SLevinson@law.utexas.edu)
Legal Histories of Modern American Capitalism: Anne Fleming’s City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance and Laura Phillips Sawyer’s American Fair Trade: Proprietary Captialism, Corporatism, and the “New Competition,” 1890-1940
Chair: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School (kmack@law.harvard.edu)
Commentators: Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School (kmack@law.harvard.edu) and Meg Jacobs, Princeton University (megj@princeton.edu)
Authors: Laura Phillips Sawyer, Harvard Business School (lsawyer@hbs.edu) and Anne Fleming, Georgetown University Law Center (anne.fleming@law.georgetown.edu)
Carlton F.W. Larson's The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution
Chair: Daniel Hamilton, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law (Daniel.Hamilton@unlv.edu)
Commentators: Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School (lacroix@uchicago.edu), Renee Lerner, George Washington University Law School (rlerner@law.gwu.edu) and Amanda Tyler, University of California, Berkeley School of Law (atyler@berkeley.edu)
Author: Carlton Larson, UC Davis School of Law (clarson@ucdavis.edu)
Sarah Seo’s Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Chair: Michael Willrich, Brandeis University History Department (willrich@brandeis.edu)
Commentators: Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt Law School (Sara.mayeux@vanderbilt.edu), Timothy Lovelace, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (lovelace@indiana.edu) and Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Columbia Law School (sossei-owusu@law.columbia.edu)
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
The Making of Social Rights: Global Crossings in the First Half of the 20th Century (Boylston Room)
Chair and Commentator: William Novak, Michigan Law (wnovak@umich.edu)
Laila Maia Galvão, Federal Institute of Paraná (lailamg@gmail.com)
Education, democracy and administrative state in 1930’s Brazil: the connections between Anísio Teixeira and John Dewey
Maria Pia Guerra, Universidade de Brasília (mapiaguerra@gmail.com)
Delegations of powers and authoritarianism in the Brazilian 1930´: connections between Brazil and the United States
Nie Xin, Tsinghua University School of Law (niexin@tsinghua.edu.cn)
The Chinese Constitutional Social Welfare Articles before 1949: Comparison with the Weimar Constitution
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Commercial Dispute Resolution in the Early Modern Atlantic World (White Hill Room)
Chair: Esther Sahle, University of Oldenburg (esthersahle@yahoo.de)
Commentator: Amalia Kessler, Stanford University (akessler@law.stanford.edu)
Hunter Harris, University of Michigan (hgharris@umich.edu)
Commercial Arbitration in Eighteenth Century Glasgow
Francis Boorman, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London (francisboorman@hotmail.com)
Arbitration and the Industrial Revolution
Strum Daniel, University of Sao Paolo (danistrum@gmail.com)
Formal enforcement as a designed supplementary institution: cases involving traders of Jewish origin in sixteenth and seventeenth century Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands
Esther Sahle, University of Oldenburg (esthersahle@yahoo.de)
Gospel Order and Economic Growth: Quaker Arbitration in Colonial Philadelphia
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Adjudication in Islamic Law: Between Juristic Critique and Political Power (c. 13th-19th centuries CE) (Arlington Room)
Chair: Intisar Rabb, Harvard Law School (irabb@law.harvard.edu)
Commentator: Mohammad Fadel, University of Toronto - Faculty of Law (mohammad.fadel@utoronto.ca)
Mariam Sheibani, Harvard Law School (msheibani@law.harvard.edu)
Judicial Misconduct and the Critique of Adjudication in Medieval Cairo: The Case of the Orphan and Her Cunning Ward
Samy Ayoub, The University of Texas - Austin (sayoub@utexas.edu)
Judicial Overreach: Ḥanafī Criticism of Ottoman State Practices
Amir Toft, University of Chicago (atoft@uchicago.edu)
Here and Gone: A Month in the Life of an Ottoman Judge (Üsküdar, 1579)
Sohaira Siddiqui, Georgetown University (szs8@georgetown.edu)
A Subtle Imbibe: Islamic law in 19th Century Colonial Courts in India
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Law, Family, and Society in 19th-Century France (Clarendon Room)
Chair: Judith Miller, Emory University (histjam@emory.edu)
Commentator: Edward Kolla, Georgetown University (ejk55@georgetown.edu)
Erika Vause, St John's University (erika.vause@gmail.com)
A Criminal Enterprise: Murder, Life Insurance, and the Law in 19th Century France
Claire Cage, University of South Alabama (ccage@southalabama.edu)
Poisoning Trials, Legal Medicine, and the Problem of Proof in Nineteenth-Century France
Hannah Callaway, Harvard University (hbcallaw@fas.harvard.edu)
When Your Family Makes You Crazy: Civil Interdiction and the Intersection of Individual and Family Interest in 19th-Century France
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Criminal Justice and Social Control in Latin America (1887-1930) (Berkeley Room)
Chair and Commentator: Amy Chazkel, City University of New York, Queens College (amychazkel@gmail.com)
Sol Calandria, National University of La Plata/ CONICET (calandria.sol@conicet.gov.ar)
Sexual Morality, Intimacy and Gender in Infanticide Rulings in Argentina (1887-1921)
Pedro Cantisano, Kenyon College (cantisano1@kenyon.edu)
Courts, Bodies, and Barricades: Legal Consciousness and Mobilization in Rio de Janeiro’s 1904 Vaccine Revolt
Teresita Rodríguez Morales, University of San Andrés/CONICET (trodriguez@conicet.gov.ar)
“A carnival incident and sensationalistic process”: tensions between police and justice through the Buenos Aires press at the beginning of the twentieth century
Raquel R. Sirotti, Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History (sirotti@rg.mpg.de)
Criminalizing politics. Judicial responses to political conflicts in Brazil (1889-1930)
1:15 PM – 2:40 PM
Opportunities and Pitfalls: Property Claims across Multiple Legal Worlds in Modern East Asia (Exeter Room)
Chair: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University (szonyi@fas.harvard.edu)
Commentator: Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School (taisu.zhang@yale.edu)
Peter Thilly, University of Mississippi (pdthilly@olemiss.edu)
Consular Jurisdiction and the Pioneers of Flexible Citizenship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Rui Hua, Harvard University (ruihua@fas.harvard.edu)
The Empire Effect: Translingual Legal Literacy and The Promiscuous Borderland Market of Laws in Manchuria, 1900-1930s
Colin Jones, Columbia University (colin.jones@columbia.edu)
The Terrible Magic of Credit: Property Law in Manchuria and Japan’s Postwar Land Reforms
Teng Li, Northwestern University (tengli2016@u.northwestern.edu)
A Glitch with Teeth: Legal Transition, Property Registration, and Taiwanese Landlords in Post-1945 Taiwan
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Authors-Meet-Readers Salon: New Books in Global Legal History (Georgian Room)
Rohit De’s A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic
Chair: Laura Weinrib, University of Chicago Law School (weinrib@uchicago.edu)
Commentators: Faiz Ahmed, Dept. of History, Brown University (faiz_ahmed@brown.edu), Samuel Daly, African & African American Studies, Duke University (samuel.furychilds.daly@duke.edu) and Heinz Klug, University of Wisconsin Law School (heinz.klug@wisc.edu)
Elizabeth Papp Kamali’s Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England
Chair: Ada Kuskowski, University of Pennsylvania (akusk@upenn.edu)
Commentators: Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School (rhelmhol@uchicago.edu), Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University (shannon.mcsheffrey@concordia.ca) and Stephen Bednarski, St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo (steven.bednarski@uwaterloo.ca)
Bernadette Meyler’s Theaters of Pardoning
Chair: Elizabeth Anker, Cornell University (anker@cornell.edu)
Commentators: James Whitman, Yale University (james.whitman@yale.edu), Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota (blume047@umn.edu) and Jed Shugerman, Fordham (jshugerman@fordham.edu)
Rose Parfitt’s The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance
Chair: Christopher Tomlins, University of California-Berkeley Law School (ctomlins@law.berkeley.edu)
Commentators: Tony Anghie, University of Utah School of Law (anghiet61@gmail.com), Genevieve Painter, Simone de Beauvoir Institute (genevieve.painter@concordia.ca) and Nate Holdren, Program in Law, Politics, and Society (nate.holdren@drake.edu)
Judith Surkis’s Sex, Law, and Sovereignty in French Algeria, 1830-1930
Chair: Mitchel Lasser, Cornell (ml355@cornell.edu)
Commentators: Janet Halley, Harvard Law School (jhalley@law.harvard.edu) and Chantal Thomas, Cornell Law School (ct343@cornell.edu)
Author: Judith Surkis, Rutgers (js1633@history.rutgers.edu)
Philip Thai’s China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965
Chair: Pär Cassel, University of Michigan (cassel@umich.edu)
Commentators: Fei-Hsien Wang, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of History (feihwang@indiana.edu) and Gautham Rao, American University (gauthrao@gmail.com)
Author: Philip Thai, Northeastern University (p.thai@neu.edu)
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Civil Rights, Religious Groups, and Race Discrimination in the 20th Century (Arlington Room)
Chair: Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (tbrownnagin@law.harvard.edu)
Commentator: Smita Ghosh, Georgetown University Law Center (smghosh@law.upenn.edu)
Elizabeth Katz, Washington University in St. Louis (edkatz@stanford.edu)
“Racial and Religious Democracy”: Identity and Equality at Mid-Century
Ronit Stahl, University of California, Berkeley (rystahl@berkeley.edu)
Civil Rights and Conscience Rights: The Divergent Paths of State Action Doctrine and the American Hospital
Victoria Woeste, American Bar Foundation (vswoeste@abfn.org)
Practicing God’s Law in a Secular World: The Civil Rights Law Practice of the Lawyers of the Westboro Baptist Church
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Exempted & Excluded: Citizenship, Belonging, Alienage, and Nativism in Twentieth Century North America (Clarendon Room)
Chair and Commentator: Emma Teng, MIT (eteng@mit.edu)
Mary Anne Vallianatos, University of Victoria (maryannev@uvic.ca)
Exception and the Port of Entry: Race, Gender and the ‘Exempted Classes’ to the Canadian Head Tax
Hardeep Dhillon, Harvard University (hdhillon@g.harvard.edu)
Naturalized & Denaturalized, White & Not White: Indian Immigration and Claims to U.S. Citizenship
Priscilla Martinez, University of California, Santa Cruz (prmamart@ucsc.edu)
Arbitrary Borders: Chinese Tucson and Indigenous Salt Pilgrimages, 1924-1934
Brendan Shanahan, University of California, Berkeley (brendan.shanahan@berkeley.edu)
Contesting “Citizen Only” Rights: Noncitizens Confront Professional Licensing Restrictions, 1915-1952
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Between Slavery and Freedom: The Struggle over the Legal Status of Black Northerners, 1780-1850 (Berkeley Room)
Chair: Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University (sally.hadden@wmich.edu)
Commentator: Allison Madar, University of Oregon (amadar@uoregon.edu)
Lucien Holness, University of Maryland (lholness@terpmail.umd.edu)
“Black Southwestern Pennsylvanians’ Freedom Claims and Free Soil in the Slave South”
Anne Twitty, University of Mississippi (atwitty@olemiss.edu)
“Mapping Unfreedom: Tracing Indentured Servitude in the Northwest Territory”
Cory James Young, Georgetown University (cjy28@georgetown.edu)
“The Legal Foundations of Pennsylvania Term Enslavement during the Age of Gradual Abolition, 1780 to 1826”
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
International Women, Feminist Movements, and Human Rights (Exeter Room)
Chair and Commentator: Katherine Marino, UCLA (kmarino@history.ucla.edu)
Shauni Armstead, Rutgers University (sta50@history.rutgers.edu)
Searching for Global Justice and Freedom in the United Nations: Eunice Hunton Carter’s and Mary McLeod Bethune’s interpretations of the 1945 San Francisco Conference
Gwen Jordan, University of Illinois Springfield (gjorda2@uis.edu)
The Federación International de Abogadas’ Campaigns for Global Women’s Rights, 1944-1975
Myra Houser, Ouachita Baptist University (houserm@OBU.EDU)
Rising Above ‘Our’ Problems: African-American Women Litigating Against Apartheid
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
Money and Governance: Institutions and Ideas (Boylston Room)
Chair and Commentator: Michael Zakim, Tel Aviv University (zakim@post.tau.ac.il)
Christine Desan, Harvard Law School (desan@law.harvard.edu)
A Revisionary History of Credible Commitment
Nadav Orian Peer, Tulane University Law School (nadllalla@gmail.com)
Housing Segregation and the Secondary Mortgage Market
Roy Kreitner, Tel Aviv University (kreitner@tau.ac.il)
The Gold Standard(s) and Multiple Liquidity Regimes
2:50 PM – 4:15 PM
The Bicentennial of Dartmouth College: A Retrospective and Future Directions (White Hill Room)
Chair: Kevin Butterfield, Washington Library (kbutterfield@mountvernon.org)
Discussants: Evelyn Atkinson, University of Chicago (ematkinson@uchicago.edu), Nikolas Bowie, Harvard Law School (nbowie@law.harvard.edu), Jane Manners, Columbia Law School (jane.c.manners@gmail.com), Paul Gutierrez, Brown University (paul.gutierrez@brown.edu) and Alyssa Penick, University of Michigan (agpenick@umich.edu)
4:30 – 4:45 Buses to Harvard Law School (Lobby)
5:15 – 6:30 Plenary Lecture (Harvard Law School / Milstein East AB)
Hamilton, Jefferson, and the Judges: Contrasting Visions of Law and Judicial Review in the Early American Republic
Annette Gordon-Reed
Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History
and Professor of History, Harvard University
6:30 – 8:00 Plenary Reception (Milstein East BC)
7:45 – 8:15 Buses to the Park Plaza Hotel
9:45 – 11:00 Graduate Student Gathering (M.J. O'Connor's Pub)
Saturday, November 23, 2019
7:45 – 12:00 Registration (Exeter Foyer)
7:45 – 5:00 Exhibits (Grand Ballroom B)
7:45 – 8:45 Continental Breakfast (Grand Ballroom B)
7:45 – 8:45 Committee Breakfast Meetings
- Graduate Student Outreach Committee (Exeter Room)
- Publications Committee (Commonwealth Room)
- Web Committee (Hancock Room)
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Infanticide and Illegitimate Pregnancies in Premodern Europe and the Modern Americas (Arlington Room)
Chair and Commentator: Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School (mitra.sharafi@wisc.edu)
Sara McDougall, Dept. of History, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center (smcdougall@jjay.cuny.edu)
Punishing and Pardoning Infanticide in Late Medieval France
Felicity Turner, Georgia Southern University (fturner@georgiasouthern.edu)
Proving Pregnancy: Physicians, Infanticide, & the Law in the Nineteenth-Century US
Cassia Roth, University of Georgia (cassia.roth@uga.edu)
The Madness of Maternity: Puerperal Insanity Pleas and Infanticide Jurisprudence in Early Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Roundtable Conversation with Martha Jones About Writing the Legal History of Citizenship (Georgian Room)
Chair: Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (capozzol@mit.edu)
Discussants: Martha Jones, Johns Hopkins University (msjonz@jhu.edu), Kristin Collins, University of Chicago Law School (collinsk@bu.edu) and Kendra Field, Tufts University (Kendra.Field@tufts.edu), and Daniel Sharfstein, Vanderbilt University (daniel.sharfstein@vanderbilt.edu)
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Iberian Empires and the Production of Normativities in Asia (1500-1800) (Boylston Room)
Chair: Manuel Bastias Saavedra, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (bastias@rg.mpg.de)
Commentator: Tamar Herzog, Harvard University- CGIS (therzog@fas.harvard.edu)
Marya Svetlana Camacho, University of Asia and the Pacific (svetlana.camacho@uap.asia)
Understanding and Regulating Bridewealth and Bride Service in Spanish Colonial Philippines
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (coutinho@rg.mpg.de)
Legal Encounters between Empires: Japanese and Portuguese Normativities (1540s – 1630s)
Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, JSPS International Research Fellow, Sophia University (romuloehalt@gmail.com)
How to hide a church from quite a long way away? Theological problems of Japanese Christianity in times of persecution (1620s)
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Unsettling Legal Histories of the Modern Business Corporation (Berkeley Room)
Chair and Commentator: Claire Priest, Yale Law School (claire.priest@yale.edu)
Dan Danielsen, Northeastern University School of Law (d.danielsen@northeastern.edu)
The End of History for Corporate Law? A Critical Reassessment
Philip Stern, Duke University (philip.stern@duke.edu)
Corporations and History: Rethinking the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Aaron Dhir, Osgoode Hall Law School (adhir@osgoode.yorku.ca)
Black Star Line, Inc.: Race in the Historical Life of the Corporation
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Courts, Constitutions and Democracy in Postcolonial South Asia (Clarendon Room)
Chair and Commentator: Elizabeth Lhost, Dartmouth College (Elizabeth.D.Lhost@Dartmouth.edu)
Sarah Gandee, University of Leeds (sarah.gandee@hotmail.co.uk)
Criminality, Equality and the Constitution in Early Postcolonial India
Alastair McClure, University of Hong Kong (amcclure@hku.hk)
‘To Hang by the Neck Until Dead’: Law, Killing and Politics in Postcolonial India
Saumya Saxena, University of Cambridge (ss2035@cam.ac.uk)
Court’ing Hindu nationalism: Law and Hindutva in Contemporary India
Adeel Hussain, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law (hussain@mpil.de)
Constitutionalism in Pakistan
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
"Teaching Legal History in the 21st Century: New Approaches, Transnational Perspectives" (White Hill Room)
Chair and Commentator: Joanna Grisinger, Center for Legal Studies, Northwestern University (joanna.grisinger@northwestern.edu)
Ashton Merck, Duke University (ashton.merck@duke.edu)
Teaching “The Modern Regulatory State”
Troy Andrade, University of Hawai'i at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law (tandrade@hawaii.edu)
Teaching "Paradise": Legal History of Hawai'i
Raha Rafii, University of Pennsylvania (rafii@sas.upenn.edu)
Teaching the "Other": Islamic Law as a Contested Legal System
Sueann Caulfield, University of Michigan (scaul@umich.edu)
Teaching the History of Inter-American Human Rights Law through Transnational Collaboration on the Internet
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Lost Histories of Emergency and Martial Law (Georgian Room)
Chair: John Witt, Yale Law School (john.witt@yale.edu)
Commentator: Will Smiley, Reed College (will.smiley@gmail.com)
Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto (bhavani.raman@utoronto.ca)
Before Emergency: The Colonial State and the Jurisprudence of Disturbance in South Asia
Will Smiley, Reed College (will.smiley@gmail.com)
To Save the Country: The Lieber Theory of Martial Law
Joel Isaac, University of Chicago (jisaac@uchicago.edu)
Constitutionalism at the Limit: Emergencies and Dictatorship in American Legal Thought, 1920-1950
Karin Loevy, NYU School of Law (karinloevy@nyu.edu)
From Limited Spheres to Limited Capacities: Tracing a Lost Jurisprudence of Emergency Powers
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Discovered or Uncovered: Dealing with New or Neglected Sources (White Hill Room)
Chair and Commentator: Matthew C. Mirow, Florida International University (mirowm@fiu.edu)
Albrecht Cordes, Goethe University (cordes@jur.uni-frankfurt.de)
Lost and Found, the Bardewik-Codex of 1294: The Lubeck Law in the Baltic after the Rediscovery of its Most Important Source
Angela Huang, Research Centre for Hanse and Baltic History (alhuang@fgho.eu)
Hanserecesse -- Hanse Law? Exploring the legal nature of the proceedings of Hanse diets (14th - 17th centuries)
Sara Ludin, UC Berkeley (saraludin@berkeley.edu)
Finding "the Reformation" in Records of Sixteenth-Century Civil Litigation
Serge Dauchy, Centre d'Histoire Judiciaire (serge.dauchy@univ-lille2.fr)
The Forgotten Records of the Superior Council of Louisiana of the Eighteenth Century
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Through the Lens of Feminist Legal Biography (Boylston Room)
Discussants: Constance Backhouse, Women's Education and Research Foundation of Ontario (constance.backhouse@uottawa.ca), Jane De Hart, University of California- Santa Barbara (dehart@ucsb.edu), Marlene Trestman, Retired (marlenetrestman@gmail.com), Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of Law (plahav@bu.edu) and Leandra Zarnow, University of Houston, Department of History (lrzarnow@Central.UH.EDU)
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
States, Aliens and the Law: New Views of Immigration Federalism (Arlington Room)
Chair: Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire (Lucy.Salyer@unh.edu)
Commentator: Gerald Neuman, Harvard Law School (neuman@law.harvard.edu)
Brendan O'Malley, Newbury College (bomalley500@gmail.com)
Defending State Immigration Regulation in Nineteenth-Century New York
Matthew Lindsay, University of Balitmore School of Law (mlindsay1@ubalt.edu)
From Indemnification to Exclusion: Revisiting the “Federalization” of American Immigration Law
Allison Tirres, DePaul University College of Law (atirres@depaul.edu)
Exclusion from Within: State Licensing and the Regulation of Migration
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
New Approaches to Legalities of Indian Slavery (Clarendon Room)
Chair: Arianne Sedef Urus, Harvard University (asurus@fas.harvard.edu)
Commentator: Carolina Gonzalez, Univ. de Chile (carolina.gonzalezu@gmail.com)
Linford Fisher, Brown University (linford_fisher@brown.edu)
Enslaved Native Americans’ Use of the Law in Revealing and Obscuring Native Slavery in the United States, c. 1770s-1820s
Timo McGregor, New York University (timo.mcgregor@nyu.edu)
Defining Freedoms: the Laws of War, Contract, and Indigenous Slavery in Suriname, 1667-1680
Alexandre Pelegrino, Vanderbilt University (alexandrecpelegrino@gmail.com)
An Indigenous Past to Freedom: Race, Empire, and Slavery (Maranhão, 1688-1790)
10:45 AM – 12:15 PM
American Internationalism or International Americanism? The United States and International Law from Empire to Nuremberg (Berkeley Room)
Chair and Commentator: Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki (martti.koskenniemi@helsinki.fi)
Allison Useche, Texas Tech University (allison.powers.useche@ttu.edu)
Dangerous Precedents: International Eminent Domain in the Panama Canal Zone
Lael Weinberger, Harvard Law School (laelweinberger@gmail.com)
Precedent at the World Court: Interpreting the Permanent Court of International Justice in Interwar America
Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University in St. Louis (eborgwar@wustl.edu)
Crimes against Human-kind: Arendt at Nuremberg
12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Annual Lunch and Awards Ceremony (Grand Ballroom A)
2:40 PM – 4:05 PM
Legalities of the Peace: Empire, Peace-making and Peace-keeping: 1750-1850 (Georgian Room)
Chair and Commentator: David Armitage, Harvard (armitage@fas.harvard.edu)
Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University (lauren.benton@vanderbilt.edu)
Small Wars of Peace: Defining the Legal Limits on the Use of Force in European Empires
Lisa Ford, University of New South Wales (l.ford@unsw.edu.au)
The King’s Peace and the Transformation of Empire
Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire (Eliga.Gould@unh.edu)
Peace at What Price — and Whose? The Laws of Slavery and Freedom in the Anglo-American Treaty of Paris (1783)
2:40 PM – 4:05 PM
Disability, Family, and the Limits of Law in North America in the Twentieth Century (Arlington Room)
Chair and Commentator: Michael Grossberg, Indiana University (grossber@indiana.edu)
Chelsea Chamberlain, University of Pennsylvana (chelsc@sas.upenn.edu)
“A few years at your celebrated school will almost bring her back to normal”: When Parents Chose the Eugenic Institution
Molly Ladd-Taylor, York University (mltaylor@yorku.ca)
Parents and the Sterilization of “Children” with Intellectual Disabilities in the 1970s and 1980s
Barbara Welke, University of Minnesota (welke004@umn.edu)
“A kid that is scarred up something like that. . .’: Life once law is done
2:40 PM – 4:05 PM
Legal Knowledge and Claims-Making among Enslaved and Freedpeople (Clarendon Room)
Chair and Commentator: Ariela Gross, University of Southern California (agross@law.usc.edu)
Sara Forsdyke, University of Michigan (forsdyke@umich.edu)
Leveraging the Law: Slaves and the Law in Ancient Greece
Erika Edwards, University of North Carolina (eedward27@uncc.edu)
The Rights of Citizenship: Contested Freedom Cases in Chilean and Argentine Courts, 1810-1850
Jonathon Booth, Harvard University (jonathonbooth@g.harvard.edu)
Jonathon Booth, Learning the Law of Freedom: Legal Knowledge after Emancipation
2:40 PM – 4:05 PM
Contested Movement: Law, State Power, and the Policing of Mobility Rights (Berkeley Room)
Chair and Commentator: Sarah Gronningsater, University of Pennsylvania (gronning@sas.upenn.edu)
Daniel Farbman, Boston College Law School (farbman@bc.edu)
The City’s Protection: Local Ordinances to Protect Fugitive Slaves from Capture
Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan, Rutgers University (kristin.obrassillkulfan@rutgers.edu)
“In a state of vagrancy”: Poverty and Mobility in Settlement Law
Kate Masur, Northwestern University (kmasur@northwestern.edu)
Free African Americans, State Sovereignty, and Migration before Reconstruction
Naama Maor, University of Chicago (naamam@uchicago.edu)
“Little Bits of Human Drift Wood”: Runaway Children, Juvenile Courts, and the Geography of Parental Power
2:40 PM – 4:05 PM
Disrupting the Cause Lawyering Narrative in the Nineteenth to Twentieth Century United States (Boylston Room)
Chair and Commentator: Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law (k.swanson@northeastern.edu)
Alexandra Havrylyshyn, University of California, Berkeley (ahavry@berkeley.edu)
Client Advocacy, Not Cause Lawyering: Representing Louisiana Freedom Litigants in the 1840s-50s
Myisha S. Eatmon, Northwestern University (myishaeatmon2018@u.northwestern.edu)
Litigants and Liaisons: Sympathetic Attorneys and Black Legal Networks in Mississippi and Beyond, 1919-1953
Peter Labuza, University of Southern California (labuza@usc.edu)
"A Device for Cracking a Concerted Industry-Wide Boycott:" The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the End of the Hollywood Blacklist
2:40 PM – 4:05 PM
Global Legal History Lightning Round (White Hill Room)
Chair and Commentator: Robert Gordon, Stanford Law School (rwgordon@stanford.edu)
Iker Saitua, University of California, Riverside (isaitua@ucr.edu)
Spanish Immigration to the United States, the Franco Regime, and the Immigration Act of 1965
Jesse Watson, UC Berkeley (jessedwatson@gmail.com)
Law and Materiality in Petitions from Roman Egypt and Early Imperial China
Gilad Ben-Nun, GWZO - The Leibniz Institute for the Study of History and Culture of Eastern Europe (gilad.ben-nun@uni-leipzig.de)
‘A Treaty after Trauma’: The Holocaust-Surviving Drafters of the 4th Geneva Convention for Civilians (1949) and the idea of ‘Protection for All’
Rabiat Akande, Harvard Law School (oakande@sjd.law.harvard.edu)
Marginalizing ‘Secularism,’ Decolonizing The State: Missionary Advocacy for Religious Freedom in British Colonial Northern Nigeria, 1945-1960
Afroditi Giovanopoulou, Columbia University (agiovanopoulou@sjd.law.harvard.edu)
Between Legal Progressivism and the “White Man’s Burden:” American Social Legal Thought on the Unmaking of Empire
Melissa Teixeira, University of Pennsylvania (mteixeir@sas.upenn.edu)
Why dictators write constitutions: the case of Brazil
Jhuma Sen, Jindal Global Law School (sen.jhuma@gmail.com)
Early Portias and the Colonial Bar in India: Towards the Legal Practitioners' (Women) Act 1923
4:15 PM – 5:40 PM
Law, Equity, and Accountability in the Early Republic (Georgian Room)
Chairs: Nicholas Parillo, Yale Law School (nicholas.parillo@yale.edu) and James Pfander, Northwestern Law School (j-pfander@law.northwestern.edu)
Discussants: Jane Manners, Columbia Law School (jane.c.manners@gmail.com), Maggie Blackhawk, University of Pennsylvania Law School (blackhawk@law.upenn.edu), Laura Edwards, Duke University (ledwards@duke.edu) and Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale University (naomi.lamoreaux@yale.edu)
4:15 PM – 5:40 PM
A Roundtable Conversation with Angela Fernandez on Researching, Writing, and Teaching the History of Pierson v. Post (White Hill Room)
Chair: Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University (hartog@princeton.edu)
Discussants: Angela Fernandez, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto (angela.fernandez@utoronto.ca), Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota (blume047@umn.edu), Deborah Dinner, Emory University School of Law (deborah.dinner@emory.edu), Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University (Hulsebosch@mercury.law.nyu.edu), and Kunal Parker, University of Miami Law School (kparker@law.miami.edu)
4:15 PM – 5:40 PM
Changing the Spanish Empire from Inside: Law, Legal Practitioners, and Political Discourses in the Hispanic World (1760 – 1820) (Boylston Room)
Chair and Commentator: Mónica Ricketts, Temple University (mrickett@temple.edu)
Renzo Honores, Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Sociedad (rhonoresg@gmail.com)
Native Legal Facilitators in the Eighteenth- Century Audiencia of Lima
Alvaro Caso, Johns Hopkins University (acasobe1@jhu.edu)
From the Fringes of the Legal Profession to Keepers of the Empire: The Agentes del Número de Indias and the Representation of Colonial Interests in Madrid, c. 1778-1808
Ricardo Pelegrin Taboada, Florida International University (rpele002@fiu.edu)
Too Many Lawyers: The Control over the Number of Legal Professionals in Colonial Cuba
Silvia Escanilla Huerta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (escanil2@illinois.edu)
“No authority but their own”. Cadiz and the jurisdictional revolution in the viceroyalty of Peru (1812-1820).
4:15 PM – 5:40 PM
The Legal Origins of European Humanitarianism, c. 1500–c. 1800 (Clarendon Room)
Chair and Commentator: Richard Ross, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (rjross@illinois.edu)
Christian Burset, Notre Dame Law School (cburset@nd.edu)
Despotic Humanitarianism and Colonial Law in the Eighteenth-Century British Empire
Jennifer Wells, George Washington University (jenniferwells@email.gwu.edu)
The Westphalian Moment?: The Origins of Humanitarian Law in Europe
Catherine Arnold, University of Memphis (crnold13@memphis.edu)
Affairs of Humanity: Arguing for Humanitarian Intervention in Britain and Europe, 1698-1715
4:15 PM – 5:40 PM
Credible Women: Gender & Knowledge Production in English & Colonial American Courts, 1600-1800 (Berkeley Room)
Chair and Commentator: Holly Brewer, University of Maryland (hbrewer@umd.edu)
Kristin Olbertson, Alma College (olbertson@alma.edu)
“She must prove as she goes”: Gender & Credibility in 18th-Century Massachusetts Criminal Courts
Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College (lisa.cody@claremontmckenna.edu)
Wives’ Ways With Words: Coverture versus Cruelty in London’s Ecclesiastical Courts, 1680-1820
Christine Eisel, University of Memphis (cleisel@memphis.edu)
“In Right of their Children: The Status of Mothers in Early Virginia Courts”
4:15 PM – 5:40 PM
Labor and Civil Liberties in the Twentieth Century (Arlington Room)
Chair and Commentator: TBA
Catherine Fisk, University of California Berkeley (cfisk@berkeley.edu)
"'Lie Down Like Good Dogs': Labor Lawyers and Activist Clients in the 1950s"
Sophia Lee, University of Pennsylvania Law School (slee@law.upenn.edu)
“Making Privacy Popular: Labor, Prohibition, and the Fourth Amendment”
Paul Frymer, Princeton University (pfrymer@princeton.edu)
The Resiliency of the At-Will Doctrine: Twentieth Century Employee Movements and their Doctrinal and Political Limits
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Closing Reception: "Honoring Betsy Clark" (Boston University School of Law / Atrium and Barristers Hall)
Shuttles and Public Transportation to BU Law School
