Friday, October 9, 2020

Comparative Legal History @ ASCL

We've previously noted that the theme for this year's annual meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law is "Comparative Legal History."  The meeting is October 15 and 16 and the schedule is here.  Many great panels (including "The Demise of American Exceptionalism? The Trump Presidency in Comparative and Historical Perspective," with Mark Graber, Kim Lane Scheppele, David Pozen, Miguel Schor and Ralf Michaels) and these two plenary panels on Thursday:

"What is the Relationship between Comparative Law and Legal History?"

Stuart Banner (chair), Norman Abrams Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Helge Dedek, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University
Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Department of History, Harvard University
Sherally K. Munshi, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University
James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale Law School

"Comparative Legal Histories"

Anna di Robilant (chair), Associate Dean for Equity, Justice, & Engagement, and Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
Lauren Benton, Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law, Yale University
Ariela Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History, USC Gould School of Law.
Marie Seong-Hak Kim, Professor of Legal History, Department of History, St. Cloud State University
H. Timothy Lovelace Jr., John Hope Franklin Research Scholar Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law.

--Dan Ernst.  H/t: DST