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International Borrowings
Kaius Tuori, University of Helsinki, <email>:
“Colonialism, Spurious Traditions, and Modernization: American Law Professors and the Downfall of African Customary Law”
Charlotte Walker, Yale University, <email>:
“Manipulating the State: Legal Evolutions and the Emergence of Corruption in Colonial Cameroon”
Marie Seong-Hak Kim, St. Cloud State University, <email>:
“The Sources of Law in the Korean Civil Code”
Gender, Soldiering, and Citizenship
in the Twentieth Century United States
Rebecca Rix, Princeton University, <email>: “‘No Longer the Men of Lexington’: Unfit Draftees and the Changing Meaning of ‘the General Welfare’ During World War I”
Melissa Murray, University of California, Berkeley <email>: “‘Made with Men in Mind’: Veterans’ Benefits, Gender, and Social Policy”
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: “Preferred Veterans, Prison Guards, and Pregnant Workers: Attacking ‘Disparate Impact’ in the 1970s”
Slave, Freeman, and Citizen in Antebellum America
Kristen Foster, Marquette University, <email>: “Creating the American Citizen: A look at the Impact of the Haitian Revolution on American Ideas about Equality”
Kelly Kennington, Duke University, <email>: “Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum St. Louis Courts”
H. Robert Baker, Georgia State <email>: “The Prigg Fallacy: The Use of Constitutional History to Legitimate Constitutional Law”
Friday, Session B
Civilizing and Un-Civilizing War in the Nineteenth Century
Stephen Neff, University of Edinburgh, <email>:
“Partisans, Prowlers and Guerrillas: Historical Roots of International Law on Unlawful Belligerency”
James Whitman, Yale University, <email>:
“The Breakdown of Battle Culture, from Waterloo to Sedan”
John Witt, Yale University, <email>:
“Rules of Wrong: The Crisis of the Laws of War in the Age of Democratic Ideals”
Year Books and Plea Rolls On-Line: Seipp’s Abridgement and Palmer’s AALT
David Seipp, Boston University, <email>: “The Year Books Database and After: What More Do We Need?”
Robert Palmer, University of Houston, <email>: “The AALT: Usage, Projection, and the Role of the Reader”
Circumnavigating the Pacific: The United States and the Philippines, 1898–1945
Nancy Buenger, University of Chicago, <email>: “Home Rule: Equitable Justice in Chicago and the Philippines, 1898-1917”
Anna Leah Fidelis Castañeda, Harvard University, <email>: “A Pacific ‘Quest for Power’: Governor General Forbes and the Rise of the Philippine Assembly, 1907-1913”
Christopher Capozzola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, <email>: “A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945”
Gendered Murder on Trial in Australia, England, and the United States
Marianne Constable, University of California, Berkeley, <email>: “‘The Justification was Perfect’—Jessie Hopkins’ Acquittal”
Carolyn B. Ramsey, University of Colorado, <email>: “Violence and Respectability: Intimate-Partner Homicide in Australia and the American West, 1860-1930 “
Martha Merrill Umphrey, Amherst College, <email>: “Reconstructing Responsibility: Narrating Violence in the Trials of Harry K. Thaw”
Martin Wiener, Rice University, <email>: “The New Leniency Towards Female Murderers in Victorian England”
The Long Cold War
Jennifer Uhlmann, Washington University <email>: “The Communist Contribution to Constitutional Law”
Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin, <email>: “A Great Case Not Taken: The Forgotten History of the Rosenberg Case”
Anders Walker, St. Louis University, <email>: “‘The End of America’: Lewis F. Powell’s Russian Revelation”
Friday, Session C
Sources of Law in 15th-18th Century Europe: A Panel in Honor of Joe McKnight
Amalia Kessler, Stanford University, <email>: “The Law Merchant in Old Regime France”
Emily Kadens, University of Texas, <email>: “The Myth of Spontaneous Law”
Alan Watson, University of Georgia, <email>: “Sources of Law in Early Modern Europe”
Kathryn T. Preyer Prize Panel
Cary Franklin, Yale University, <email>: “Sex Roles and the Foundations of Constitutional Sex Discrimination Law”
Elizabeth Katz, University of Virginia, <email>: “‘Wife Beating’ and ‘Uninvited Kisses’ in the Supreme Court and Society in the Early Twentieth Century”
The Preyer Scholars did not submit abstracts; rather they submitted their entire papers to the selection committee.
Emancipation, Enslavement, and Identity in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Alejandro de la Fuente, University of Pittsburgh, <email>: and Ariela Gross, University of Southern: California, <email>: “Comparing Law and Racial Identity under Slavery in Colonial Cuba, Louisiana and Virginia”
Malick Ghachem, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, <email>: “Prosecuting Torture: Risk and Revolution in an Eighteenth-Century Slave Colony”
Rebecca J. Scott, University of Michigan, <email>: “Paper Thin: Freedom, Re-enslavement, and Contests over the Attribution of Legal Status”
Manly Madness: Honor, Manhood, and Responsibility in the American Courtroom
Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota, <email>: “Suicidal Salesmen: Accounting for Self-Killing in Nineteenth-Century Life Insurance Litigation”
Rachel Ponce, University of Chicago, <email>: “‘Chimerical Dogmas’: Honor and Insanity in Nineteenth- Century American Law”
Carolyn Strange, Australian National University, <email>: “Mind, Motive and Masculinity: Killing the Father to Save the Family”
Wartime Administration and the Rule of Law: The Case of the United States in the 1940s
Mark Wilson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, <email>:
“‘Taking a Nickel Out of the Cash Register’: Statutory Renegotiation of Military Contracts and the Politics of Profit Control in the USA During World War II”
Joanna Grisinger, Clemson University, <email>:
“The Office of Price Administration and the War at Home”
Karen Tani, University of Pennsylvania, <email>:
“Administering ‘Welfare Rights’: ‘Fair Hearings’ in Public Assistance in the 1940s”
Saturday, Session A
Race, Law, and the Local in Nineteenth Century America
Laura Edwards, Duke University, <email>:
“Individual Rights and the Transformation of Slave Law, 1787-1860”
Martha Jones, University of Michigan, <email>:
“Overturning Dred Scott v. Sandford: African American Citizenship in the Antebellum City”
Dylan Penningroth, Northwestern University, <email>:
“Law and the Black Church in the Jim Crow South”
Law and Drama in Athens
Judith Fletcher, Wilfrid Laurier University, <email>: “The Incompetent Jurors of Aeschylus’ ‘Agamemnon’”
Adele Scafuro, Brown University, <email>: “Euripides’ ‘Orestes’ (408 BCE) and the Rule of Law”
Jess Miner, College of Charleston, <email>: “No Laughing Matter: Comic Characterization in the Courts at Athens”
Law and Markets
Daniel Klerman, University of Southern California, <email>: “Legal Fictions as Strategic Instruments” [no abstract]
Sachin Pandya, University of Connecticut, <email>:
“The First Liability Insurance Cartel in America”
Jérôme Sgard, Sciences Po Paris, <email>:
“The History of Market Discipline: Bankruptcy, Renegotiation, and Debt Discharge in England and France”
National Sovereignty and Allegiance in the Age of Mass Migration
Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire, <email>: “Exits: Forming International Rules on Expatriation”
Matthew Lindsay, Harvard University, <email>: “A Power 'Inherent in Sovereignty and Essential to Self- Preservation': National Security and the Origins of the Federal Immigration Power”
Candice Bredbenner, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, <email>: “Pacifists, Naturalization, and the Rebirth of the ‘Attachment’ Standard”
Judicial Power and Judicial Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century
Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago, <email>: “Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction, 1802-1835”
Kristin Collins, Boston University, <email>: “Federal Equity Power, Judicial Lawmaking, and the Process Acts”
Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Harvard University, <email>: “Economic Crises and Two Revolutions for Judicial Independence: The 1830s-40s and the 1930s-40s”
Saturday, Session B
Thomas Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Mark Tushnet, Harvard University, <email>
Risa: Goluboff, University of Virginia, email>
Adrienne Davis, Washington University, email>
Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University, email>
Rational Choice Approaches to Ancient Law
Melissa Schwartzberg, Columbia University, <email>: “Voting and Judgment in Assemblies and Juries in Classical Athens”
Dennis Kehoe, Tulane University, <email>: “Economic Incentives and Risk in Roman Contract Law”
Bruce Frier, University of Michigan, <email>: “Institutional Constraints on Rational Choice: The Case of Roman Dowry”
Exploring the Distinctiveness of Canadian Legal History
Jim Phillips, University of Toronto, <email>: “The Origins of Canada’s Regulatory Takings Doctrine”
Lyndsay Campbell, University of Calgary, <email>: “Policing Decency: Obscene, Immoral, and Indecent Literature in Early 19th-Century Nova Scotia and Massachusetts”
Hamar Foster, University of Victoria, <email>: “One Good Thing: Law and Elevator Etiquette in the Indian Territories”
Shelley Gavigan, York University, <email>: “High Law, Low Law, and Discourses of Criminalization: Aboriginal Women and Girls in the Criminal Court on the
Canadian Plains, 1876-1903”
Wesley Pue, University of British Columbia, <email>: “The Martin Case, Communism and Professionalism”
Blurred Sovereignties: U.S. Law at the Edge
Michael Willrich, Brandeis University, <email>:
“War is Health: U.S. Military Medicine and Police Power at the Edges of Empire”
Rachel St. John, Harvard University, <email>:
“Between Nations: American Capitalists and the Politics of Corporate Nationality on the Baja California Border, 1900–1930”
Andrew Wender Cohen, Syracuse University, <email>:
“The Perils of Inspection: Smuggling, Globalism, and the Right to Privacy”
The Law of Administration in the Early American Republic
Nicholas Parrillo, Yale University, <email>: “The Rise of Non-Profit Government in America: Incentives, Scandal, and Discretionary Judgment”
James Pfander, Northwestern University, <email>: “Public Wrongs and Private Bills: Legislative Indemnification and Official Compliance with Law”
Gautham Rao, Rutgers University/New Jersey Institute of Technology, <email>: “Administrative Law’s Scandalous Past: Rethinking Jefferson’s Embargo”
Saturday, Session C
Temporality in Legal History
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation, <email>: “Representations of Law and Justice: The American Mainland, from ‘Beginning’ to ‘End’”
Kunal Parker, Cleveland State University, <email>: “Thinking ‘Historically’ About Law: Legal Modernism and its Antecedents”
Mary Dudziak, University of Southern California, <email>: “Law, War, and the History of Time”
Exceptional Women in the Medieval Courtroom
Marie Kelleher, California State University, Long Beach, <email>: “Facing off from the Margins: Female Slaves and Jews in Medieval Procedural Law”
Jamie Smith, Alma College, <email>: “Avoiding Great Harm, Danger, and Absurdity: Legal Protection for Wives with Absent Husbands”
Sara McDougall, Yale University, <email>: “Abandoned Wives and the Law in Late-Medieval Champagne”
International Law and the Periphery
Arnulf Becker Lorca, King’s College London, <email>: “International Law in the Periphery 1850-1900: The Internalization of the Standard of Civilization and the Appropriation of the European Legal Tradition”
James Thuo Gathii, Albany Law School, <email>: “Elias T. Olawale’s Project of Re-Writing International Legal History to Acknowledge Africa’s Contribution”
Carl Landauer, University of California, Berkeley, <email>: “Imaging India and International Law in Nagendra Singh’s ‘India and International Law’”
Ambiguities of Citizenship
Christina Duffy Burnett, Columbia University, <email>: “Citizenship in the Time of Empire: The Non-Citizen National in Constitutional and International Law”
Linda Kerber, University of Iowa, <email>: “Americans and the UN Statelessness Conventions”
David Abraham, University of Miami, <email>: “Is Citizenship Worthwhile? Membership and Insecurity in America”
American Philanthropies and Socio-Legal Change
Elisabeth Anderson, Northwestern University, <email>: “Expert Jurisdiction and Social Problems: The Russell Sage Foundation and Poor People’s Credit in Early 20th-Century America”
Maribel Morey, Princeton University, <email>: “The Making of ‘An American Dilemma’ (1944): The Carnegie Corporation President’s Decision to Fund a Negro Study, 1923-1937”
Bryant Garth, Southwestern University, <email>: “Elite Civilizers of Empire: Philanthropic Foundations in the Cold War and After”
Saturday, Session D
Crimes Against Peace and Humanity: Poland, Germany, Rwanda
Catherine Epstein, Amherst College, <email>:
“Nazis in Polish Courtrooms: The 1946 Trial of Arthur Greiser”
Devin Pendas, Boston College, <email>:
“Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945-1950: Ironies, Paradoxes and Unintended Consequences”
Jens Meierhenrich, Harvard University, <email>:
“Lawfare”
A Comparative History of Family Law
Gail Savage, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, <email>: “Regulation and De-Regulation of Family Life: Family Law in a Comparative Perspective” [no abstract]
Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University, <email>:
“Transforming Coverture: Contesting Personal and Political Authority in Early Modern England and America”
Varsha Chitnis, Ohio State University, <email>: “Family Law and Colonialism in Nineteenth-Century India” [no abstract]
The Aftermath of Financial Crises
Julia Rudolph, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: “Women, Moral Sense, and the Critique of Equity” [no abstract]
Frank Partnoy, University of San Diego, <email>:
“Historical Perspectives on the Financial Crisis: Ivar Kreuger, Credit Rating Agencies, and the Impetus for the Securities >Laws”
Dror Goldberg, Bar Ilan University, <email>:
“The Invention of Fiat Money”
Litigation Strategies of Social Movements
Henning Grunwald, Vanderbilt University, <email>:
“From Courtroom to Revolutionary Stage: Party Lawyers and Political Justice in the Weimar Republic”
Linda Upham-Bornstein, Plymouth State University, <email>:
“The Hammer of Justice:
Taxpayers’ Litigation and Political Reform in New York City, 1900 - 1930”
Joel Black, University of Florida, <email>:
“Economic Rights and Community Membership in Black Industrial Chicago, 1890-1930”
Megan Francis, University of Chicago, <email>:
“The Improbable Journey: The NAACP Launches the Modern Criminal Procedure Revolution”
Biography and Legal History
Catharine MacMillan, Queen Mary University of London, <email>:
“Judah Benjamin: An Émigré Barrister and International Law”
Grant Morris, Victoria University of Wellington, <email>:
“Chief Justice James Prendergast and the Treaty of Waitangi: Judicial Attitudes to the Treaty in New Zealand during the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century”
David Marcus, University of Arizona, <email>:
“Charles Clark, Legal Realism, and the Jurisprudential Basis of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure”
Polly Price, Emory University, <email>:
“‘The Intensely Practical Nature of the Political Process’: Judge Richard S. Arnold’s Legislative Role in the Third Branch”
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