:: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
8th ::
Noon - 1:30 California Supreme
Court Historical
Society lunch
4pm
Plenary Session,
University of
California at San Diego
Reception Follows
:: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9th
::
|
8:45 - 10:15 am |
Law and
Statebuilding in Modern
America |
Morality, Economics,
Community, and Gender
in the Fault/Strict
Liability Debate |
Market Forces in the
Marketplace of Ideas:
Business-driven First
Amendment Change,
1900-1950 |
The Politics of Law and
Race: A Critical Look
at the History of
Federal Indian Law |
The Conceptualization
of Change in English
Legal History:
Evolution,
Transformation,
Revolution, 1300-1700 |
|
10:30 - noon |
The Work of Anthony
Lewis: Journalism in
History and History in
Journalism |
Giving Substance to
Legal Freedom:
Emancipation, Property
and the Recognition of
Rights in Cuba and the
United States |
The Unemployed, the
Widowed, and the
Crippled: Law and the
Making of
Twentieth-Century
American Social
Provision Policy |
New Directions in the
Cultural History of
Lawyers |
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm Annual Luncheon
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Coffee Sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson Center
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception
at California Western
School of Law
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FULL SCHEDULE ::
ASLH 2002 Annual Meeting
San Diego, California :: November 7-9, 2002
::
Thursday, November
7th ::
3:00 - 6:00 pm,
Registration, U. S. Grant Hotel
4:30 - 5:30 pm, Graduate
student reception, U. S. Grant Hotel
5:30 - 7:00 pm, ASLH
reception, U. S. Grant Hotel
7:30 - 10:00, Board of
Directors meeting, U. S. Grant Hotel
::
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8th
::
7:30 - 8:45 am,
continental breakfast, U. S. Grant Hotel
8:30 am - 3:00 pm,
registration, U. S. Grant Hotel
Session #1
8:45 am - 10:15 am
Civil Liberties in
Time of War: A
Roundtable
Chair: Sanford
Levinson, University of
Texas
Papers:
“The Civil War”
Michael Kent Curtis,
Wake Forest University
“World War I and the
Aftermath”
John E. Semonche,
University of North
Carolina
“World War II and the
Aftermath”
Mary Dudziak,
University of Southern
California
Commentator: Sanford
Levinson
Law and Legislation
in Greece and the Near
East
Chair: Michael
Gagarin, University of
Texas
Papers:
“Inscribing Laws in
Greece and the Near
East”
Michael Gagarin
“Solon and the Spirit
of Early Greek Law”
Edward M. Harris, City
University of New York
Commentator: Eva
Cantarella, University
of Milan
Struggles Over
Sexual Speech and the
Regulation of Obscenity
in Nineteenth-Century
America
Chair:
Patricia Cline Cohen,
University of
California, Santa
Barbara
Papers:
“The New York Sporting
Press of the 1840s and
Obscene Libel”
Helen Lefkowitz
Horowitz, Smith College
“Obscenity Regulation
and Its Consequences in
the Nineteenth-Century
United States”
Donna I. Dennis,
Rutgers University,
Newark
Commentators:
Patricia Cline Cohen
A Duty of Care:
Being Responsible for
the Mentally Incapable
in the
Eighteenth-Century
Atlantic World
Chair: Joanna L.
Grossman, Hofstra
University
Papers:
“Capax and Incapax in
the Civil Law of
Eighteenth-Century
Scotland”
Rab Houston, University
of St. Andrews
“Gender, Rights Talk,
and Local Knowledge:
Non-Compos Mentis
Guardianships as Legal
Process in New England,
1725-1830”
Cornelia H. Dayton,
University of
Connecticut
Commentators: Lloyd
Bonfield, Tulane
University
Joanna L. Grossman
Session #2
10:30 - noon
The Constitution
Outside the Courts:
History and Theory
Chair: Laura Kalman,
University of
California, Santa
Barbara
Papers:
“The Transformation of
Popular
Constitutionalism”
Larry Kramer, New York
University
“Constitutional
Imagination in
Progressive America”
William Forbath,
University of Texas
“Judicial Supremacy?
Reflections on Judicial
and Popular
Constitutionalism in
the Aftermath of
Brown”
Robert Post, University
of California, Berkeley
Reva Siegel, Yale
University
Commentator: Keith
Whittington, Princeton
University
Citizenship in
Comparative Perspective
Chair: Richard
Wetzell, German
Historical Institute,
Washington, D.C.
Papers:
“Citizenship in
Emerging Nation-States:
The Practical
Definition of
Nationality in Europe
Around 1800”
Andreas Fahrmeir,
University of Frankfurt
“Citizenship in the
Confrontation of
Nation-States: Germany
and France at the End
of the 19th Century”
Dieter Gosewinkel, Free
University Berlin
“Political Rights and
Ethnic Duties:
Citizenship Regimes and
the Nationality of
Married Women in
Germany, France, and
the United States,
1900-1930”
Eli Nathans, Albion
College
Commentator: Kenneth
Ledford, Case Western
Reserve University
Religion and Law in
Roman Republican
Society
Chair: W. Jeffrey
Tatum, Florida State
University
Papers:
“Dictator Interregni
Caussa”
Christoph Konrad, Texas
A&M University
“Restraints on
Assembly: Religious and
Legal Aspects of
Nocturnal Conspiracy in
Ancient Rome”
Hans-Friedrich Mueller,
University of Florida
“The Role of the People
in the Legislation of
Roman Religion”
W. Jeffrey Tatum
Commentator: Peter
Oh, Florida State
University
New Perspectives on
American Military Legal
History, 1950-2000:
Travails, Trials, and
Tribulations
Chair: William
Eckhardt, University of
Missouri-Kansas City
Papers:
“Political Manipulation
of Military Justice –
The Nixon White House
and the Calley Court
Martial, 1970-1974”
Michael Belknap,
California Western
School of Law
“Recent Trends in
Appellate Military
Justice, Civilian
Control of the
Military, and Legal
Scholarship – Why the
Deafening Silence?”
Jonathan Lurie, Rutgers
University, Newark
“Chains of Command:
Some Recent Examples of
the Uneasy Relationship
between Reforms in
Military Justice and
Court-Martials,
1951-1973”
Beth Hillman, Rutgers
University, Camden
Commentator: Diane H.
Mazur, University of
Florida
Noon-1:30 pm
California Supreme
Court Historical
Society lunch
(Speaker will be Ray E.
McDevitt, Esq., author
of California
Courthouses: An
Illustrated History,
and partner at the San
Francisco firm of
Hanson, Bridgett,
Marcus & Vlahos. The
title of his
presentation will be
“Courthouses and
Communities: Doing
Justice, Past and
Future.”)
Session #3
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
The New Departure:
Social Movements and
the American
Constitutional Order
Chair: Gretchen
Ritter, University of
Texas
Papers:
“The New Departure in
the Constitutional
Canon”
Jack Balkin, Yale
University
“The New Departure and
the Construction of
American Citizenship”
Gretchen Ritter
Commentator: Ellen
Carol DuBois,
University of
California, Los Angeles
Regulation,
Manumission, and the
Legal Culture of
Slavery in the United
States and Cuba
Chair: Walter
Johnson, New York
University
Papers:
“Between ‘Race’ and
‘Nation’: Black/Indian
Identity in the
Southern Courtroom,
1780-1840”
Ariela Gross,
University of Southern
California
“Constructing ‘Rights’
and ‘Respect’:
African-Americans in
the Legal Culture of
Antebellum Baltimore”
Martha Jones,
University of Michigan
“Slave Law,
Claims-Making, and
Citizenship in Cuba:
The Tannebaum Debate
Revisited”
Alejandro de la Fuente,
University of
Pittsburgh
Commentator: Walter
Johnson
Social Engineering
and the Law: Postwar
Japan and China
Chair: Eric Feldman,
University of
Pennsylvania
Papers:
“Japanese Legal Reform
in Historical
Perspective”
Thomas Ginsburg,
University of Illinois
“Visions of Socialist
Utopia: China’s Penal
System as the Model for
‘New China’”
Glenn Tiffert,
University of
California, Berkeley
Commentators: Sayuri
Shimizu, Michigan State
University
Paul Pickowicz,
University of
California, San Diego
The Constitutional
and Legal Implications
of the Long Parliament
Chair:
Allen Dillard Boyer,
Staten Island, New York
Papers:
“D’Ewes’ Diary of the
Long Parliament and
English Constitutional
and Legal History”
Michael Mendle,
University of Alabama
“Impeachment in Early
Stuart Parliaments,
1621-1641”
Robert Zaller, Drexel
University
“Which Law? Common and
Civil Law in
Mid-Seventeenth-Century
England”
Maija Jansson, Yale
University
Commentator:
Allen Dillard Boyer
Plenary Session
Address:
“Law, Theology and
Social Practice: The
Story of Medieval
Marriage Law”
Charles Donahue, Jr.
Paul A. Freund
Professor of Law,
Harvard Law School
University of
California, San Diego
4:00 pm
Reception follows
(buses will provide
transportation between
the U. S. Grant
Hotel and the
University
buses depart hotel
beginning 3:15; return
beginning 6:30)
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Saturday, November 9
7:30-8:45 am,
continental breakfast,
U. S. Grant Hotel
8:30 am -noon,
registration, U. S.
Grant Hotel
Session #4
8:45 am - 10:15 am
Law and
Statebuilding in Modern
America
Chair: Jim Wooten,
State University of New
York at Buffalo
Papers:
“The Sympathetic State:
Disaster Relief in the
19th and Early 20th
Centuries”
Michele Landis Dauber,
Stanford University
“The Legal Origins of
the Modern American
State”
Bill Novak, University
of Chicago
“‘Saint George and the
Dragon.’ Courts and
the Administrative
State in 20th Century
America”
Reuel E. Schiller,
Hastings College of Law
Commentator: Jim
Wooten
Morality, Economics,
Community, and Gender
in the Fault/Strict
Liability Debate
Chair: Susanna
Blumenthal, University
of Michigan
Papers:
“Holmes on Strict
Liability and its
Rationale”
Thomas Grey, Stanford
University
“Moral and Economic
Rhetoric in the
Adoption of Strict
Liability”
Jed Handelsman
Shugerman, Yale
University
“Women and the
Embodiment of Product
Liability, 1890-1930”
Barbara Y. Welke,
University of Minnesota
“Law and Neoclassical
Economics Theory: A
Critical History of the
Distribution/Efficiency
Debate”
James R. Hackney, Jr.,
Northeastern University
Market Forces in the
Marketplace of Ideas:
Business-driven First
Amendment Change,
1900-1950
Chair: Norman L.
Rosenberg, Macalester
College
Papers:
“Free Enterprise and
Free Speech During the
Progressive Era”
John W. Wertheimer,
Davidson College
“Business Strategies
and the Development of
First Amendment Rules
on Print and Film after
1930”
Charles F. Bethel,
University of
California, San Diego
"Suing Henry Ford:
Rhetorics of Persuasion
and Conversion
Narratives in
Antisemitism and Libel,
1920-1927"
Victoria Saker Woeste,
American Bar Foundation
Commentators: Alison
M. Parker, SUNY
Brockport
Norman L. Rosenberg
The Politics of Law
and Race: A Critical
Look at the History of
Federal Indian Law
Chair: Aviam Soifer,
Boston College
Papers:
“'Power over this
Unfortunate Race':
United States v.
Rogers, Race, Power,
and Indian Law”
Bethany Berger,
University of
Connecticut
“Law
and Order on Indian
Reservations: A History
of Broken Promises”
Dalia Tsuk, University
of Arizona
Commentator: Aviam
Soifer
Carole Goldeberg,
University of
California, Los Angeles
The
Conceptualization of
Change in English Legal
History: Evolution,
Transformation,
Revolution, 1300-1700
Chair: Richard H.
Helmholz, University of
Chicago
Lecture: Robert C.
Palmer, University of
Houston
Commentators: Richard
H. Helmholz
Stephen
D. White, Emory
University
Session #5
10:30 am - noon
The Work of Anthony
Lewis: Journalism in
History and History in
Journalism
Chair: Pnina Lahav,
Boston University
Papers:
“Anthony Lewis as a
Supreme Court Reporter”
Scot Powe, University
of Texas
“Anthony Lewis:
History, Journalism,
and Civil Liberties in
the United States”
Philippa Strum, Woodrow
Wilson Center,
Washington, D.C.
“Anthony Lewis and the
Burger Court”
Pnina Lahav
Commentator: Lincoln
Caplan, Yale University
Giving Substance to
Legal Freedom:
Emancipation, Property
and the Recognition of
Rights in Cuba and the
United States
Chair: Hendrik Hartog,
Princeton University
Papers:
“Taking Kin to Court:
The Renegotiation of
Property and Family
Relationships after
Emancipation in the
U.S. South”
Dylan Penningroth,
University of Virginia
“The Right to Have
Rights: The Oral and
the Written in the
Claims-making of Former
Slaves. Cuba,
1870-1940”
Rebecca Scott,
University of Michigan
Michael Zeuske,
University of Cologne,
Germany
Commentator: Hendrik
Hartog
The Unemployed, the
Widowed, and the
Crippled: Law and the
Making of
Twentieth-Century
American Social
Provision Policy
Chair: Gillian
Lester, University of
California, Los Angeles
Papers:
“The Constitution of
American Accident Law:
Ives v. South Buffalo
Railway and the
Employers’ Liability
Cases”
John Witt, Columbia
University
“‘A New Charter of
Rights for Women’:
Supporting Widows in
the Age of Dower’s
Demise”
Ariela R. Duber,
Columbia University
“‘Who They Are – or
Were’: Delivering
Public Relief to the
White-Collar Unemployed
in the Early Years of
the New Deal”
Deborah Malamud,
University of Michigan
Commentator: Gillian Lester
New Directions in
the Cultural History of
Lawyers
Chair: David Sugarman,
Lancaster University,
England
Papers:
“Bush Lawyers and
Kangaroo Courts”
Rob McQueen, Victoria
University, Melbourne,
Australia
“Liberals, Vampires,
and Empires: Issues in
the Cultural History of
Legal Professions”
W. Wesley Pue,
University of British
Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada
“From Idealistic to
Realistic Surroundings
for Swedish Legal
Actors: Iconography and
Architecture in Swedish
Courthouses 1900 -
1970”
Kjell Å Modéer,
University of Lund,
Sweden
Commentator: David Sugarman
12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
Annual Luncheon
Session #6
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
The Twentieth
Century as Legal
History
Chair: Risa Goluboff,
University of Virginia
Papers:
“Comment on Nelson, The
Legalist Reformation:
Law, Politics, and
Ideology in New York,
1920-1980”
Lawrence Friedman,
Stanford University
“Comment on Friedman,
American Law in the
Twentieth Century”
William E. Nelson, New
York University
Commentator: Risa
Goluboff
“Others” in Medieval
Courts: Jews, Muslims,
and Slaves in Medieval
Iberia
Chair: Claire Valente,
Independent Scholar
Papers:
“In Pursuit of Justice:
the Prosecution of
Informers in Jewish and
Royal Courts in
Medieval Spain”
Elka Klein, University
of Cincinnati
“Complicated Subjects:
Muslims and the Law in
the Medieval Crown of
Aragon”
Brian Catlos,
University of
California, Santa Cruz
“Cosa de mal exemple:
Slave Plaintiffs before
the Courts”
Debra Blumenthal,
University of Kansas
Commentator: Teofilo
Ruiz, University of
California, Los Angeles
Globalization in Law
and History:
Comparative
Perspectives in Time
and Space
Chair: Robert W.
Gordon, Yale University
Papers:
“Shaping
Responses to
Globalization: The
World Economic
Conference of 1927”
David J. Gerber,
Chicago-Kent College of
Law
“American Praxis:
Globalization and
Antitrust in Twentieth
Century America, Japan,
Europe, and Australia”
Tony A. Freyer,
University of Alabama
“Organizational Choice
and Economic
Development: A
Comparison of France
and the United States
during the
Mid-Nineteenth Century”
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,
University of
California, Los Angeles
Naomi R. Lamoreaux,
University of
California, Los Angeles
Commentator: Robert
W. Gordon
Victorian Law Reform
Revisited
Chair: Richard A.
Cosgrove, University of
Arizona
Papers:
“Politics and Principle
in Chancery Reform
1830-1860”
Michael Lobban, Queen
Mary College,
University of London
“Private Litigation and
Public Spectacle: The
Making of the Criminal
Trial 1848-1898”
Linsday Farmer,
University of Glasgow
Commentator: David
Lieberman, University
of California, Berkeley
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Coffee
Sponsored by the
Woodrow Wilson Center
Session #7
3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Sex, Race, and the
Law: Segregation,
Sexual Practice and
Racial Formation in the
Post-Brown Era
Chair:
Ariela Gross,
University of Southern
California
Papers:
“Bastards Out of North
Carolina, Law,
Illegitimacy and the
Subversion of Civil
Rights in the Most
Progressive Southern
State”
Anders Walker, Yale
University
“Separate But Equal?
Sex Segregation, Racial
Desegregation, and the
Law, 1969-1977”
Serena Mayeri, Yale
University
Commentator: Adrienne
Davis, University of
North Carolina
Revisiting the Rule
of Law in British India
Chair: Kunal
Parker, Princeton
University
Papers:
“Evidence, Experts, and
the Ethnographic Gaze
of Medico-Legal Jurists
in Colonial India”
Elizabeth Kolsky,
Columbia University
“Enfeebling the Arm of
Justice: Perjury,
Prevarication and the
Rule of Law Under the
East India Company”
Wendie Schneider, Yale
University
“Dower, Divorce and
Contract: The Judicial
Reshaping of Islamic
Marriage Law in late
Colonial India”
Mitra Sharafi,
Princeton University
Commentator: Kunal
Parker, Princeton
University
Religious,
Scientific, and Legal
Authority in
Comparative
Perspective, 1880-1925
Chair: Carolyn C.
Jones, University of
Connecticut
Papers:
“‘More Like An
Operation In A Clinic’:
Law, Medicine, and
Juvenile Justice in
Germany, 1900-1925”
Edward Ross Dickinson,
University of
Cincinnati
“The Ethical Economists
and the Question of
Taxation”
Ann F. Thomas, New York
University
“Criminal
Responsibility and Sin
in the Progressive Era:
Justice David Brewer on
the Freedom of the
Will”
Linda Przybyszewski,
University of
Cincinnati
Commentator: Carolyn
C. Jones
Self-Help, Social
Control, and Public
Order in Classical
Athens
Chair: Cynthia
Patterson, Emory
University
Papers:
“Private Violence and
Social Control in
Classical Athens”
David Cohen, University
of California, Berkeley
“Self-Help from Hades:
The Dying Injunction at
Athens”
David Phillips,
University of
California, Los Angeles
Commentator: Cynthia
Patterson
The Dimensions of
Imperial Employment
Law, 1563-1939
Chair: Lauren Benton,
New Jersey Institute of
Technology and Rutgers
University
Papers:
“Taking Statutes
Seriously: A
Comparative Study of
Master and Servant in
the British Empire”
Paul Craven and Doug
Hay, York University
“Master and Servant in
Whitehall: The
Colonial Office and
Labour”
Mandy Banton, Assistant
Keeper, Public Record
Office, London
“The Chain of Law in
Settler Societies”
Michael Quinlan,
University of New South
Wales
Commentator: Lauren
Benton
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Reception, California Western
School of Law (transportation
provided)
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