Making Connections: New Works in Legal History Series
Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History
All sessions will be on Zoom Wednesdays from 6:00-7:00 pm (Central). We will send an email [to ASLH members] two weeks in advance of each event. [Non-ASLH members should request a link to RSVP from Emily Prifogle (prifogle [at] umich.edu) for Fall sessions and Siobhan Barco (sbarco [at] princeton.edu) for Spring sessions.] You must RSVP to receive the zoom link.
September 18th
Hendrik Hartog, Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2024) with interlocutor Susanna Blumenthal
November 20th
Giuliana Perrone, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023)(Studies in Legal History) with interlocutor Cynthia Nicoletti
December 11th
Chloë Kennedy, Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024) with interlocutor Catherine Evans
January 22nd
Gender & History, Special Issue, Engendering Carcerality (July 2024).
Authors in Conversation:
Rachel Klein, “Surviving Domestic and State Violence: Women’s Prison Organizing and the Gendered Politics of Solidarity,”
Anne Gray Fischer, “Bad, Mad or Both: A Legal History of Battered Woman Syndrome"
April Haynes, “The Other Women’s Rights Movement: ‘Streetwalkers’, Habeas Corpus and Anti-Carceral Activism in New York City, 1830-1860”
February 26th
Allison Powers, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law (Oxford University Press 2024) with interlocutor Sam Erman
March 26th
Joint event with the Immigration & Ethnic History Society
Brianna Nofil, The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Migrant Incarceration (Princeton University Press, 2024) with interlocutor Lucy Salyer
April 16th
Joint event with the Business History Society.
Xaq Frohlich, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (University of California Press, 2023)
Sean Vanatta, Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control (Yale University Press, 2024)
