The ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium will convene on March 8, 2025. Virtual participation remains an option for those who want to attend. Register here. The schedule:
ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium
March 8, 2025 | 10 AM - 3 PM (CST)
Notre Dame Law School | Chicago, IL
March 8, 2025 | 10 AM - 3 PM (CST)
Notre Dame Law School | Chicago, IL
Registration/Welcome 09:45 - 10:05 AM
Paper #1: Legal History of Science and Medicine 10:05 - 11:00 AM
“Visions of the Body and Citizenship in 19th Century U.S. Jurisprudence”
Author: Michael Ortiz-Castro, Bentley University
Respondent: Ijeoma Kola, Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Paper #2: Gender & Criminal Law in the Progressive Era 11:05 - 12:00 PM
“‘For a Good Reason’: Surveillance of Prostitution in Progressive Era Chicago”
Author: Abbie Reese, Loyola University - Chicago
Respondent: Kate Masur, Board of Visitors Professor of History, Northwestern University
Afternoon Break (Lunch) 12:05 - 1:00 PM
Paper #3: Regulation in the Nineteenth Century 01:05 - 2:00 PM
“The Long Shadow of Railroad Governmental Ownership”
Author: Alon Jasper, New York University
Respondent: Barry Cushman, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Paper #4: Medicine & Gender in Chinese Legal History 02:05 - 3:00 PM
“Gendered Citizenship in Republican China: Women’s Rights, Feminist Constitutionalism, and Eugenics”
Author: Yu Liu, University of California - Santa Barbara
Respondent: Michel Hockx, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame
“Visions of the Body and Citizenship in 19th Century U.S. Jurisprudence”
Author: Michael Ortiz-Castro, Bentley University
Respondent: Ijeoma Kola, Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Paper #2: Gender & Criminal Law in the Progressive Era 11:05 - 12:00 PM
“‘For a Good Reason’: Surveillance of Prostitution in Progressive Era Chicago”
Author: Abbie Reese, Loyola University - Chicago
Respondent: Kate Masur, Board of Visitors Professor of History, Northwestern University
Afternoon Break (Lunch) 12:05 - 1:00 PM
Paper #3: Regulation in the Nineteenth Century 01:05 - 2:00 PM
“The Long Shadow of Railroad Governmental Ownership”
Author: Alon Jasper, New York University
Respondent: Barry Cushman, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Paper #4: Medicine & Gender in Chinese Legal History 02:05 - 3:00 PM
“Gendered Citizenship in Republican China: Women’s Rights, Feminist Constitutionalism, and Eugenics”
Author: Yu Liu, University of California - Santa Barbara
Respondent: Michel Hockx, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame
-- Karen Tani
