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Comparative Method and Administrative Law History: Europe, America, East Asia
Jerry Mashaw, Yale Law School, <email>: “Explaining Administrative Law: Reflections on Federal Administrative Law in Nineteenth Century America”
John Ohnesorge, University of Wisconsin, <email>: “Administrative Law in East Asia”
Kim Lane Schepple, Princeton University, <email>: “Administrative State Socialism”
Bernardo Sordi, University of Florence, Italy, <email>: “The ‘Rechtsstaat’ and ‘Rule of Law’ Confront State Interventionism in Interwar Western Europe”
Sanctuary in Medieval England: New Approaches
Karl Blaine Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin, <email>: “The Domestication of Sanctuary in Medieval English Law”
Shannon McSheffrey, Concordia University, <email>: “Alien Artisans and the London Sanctuary of St. Martin Le Grand in the Sixteenth Century”
Margaret McGlynn, University of Western Ontario, <email>: “The Use and Abuse of Sanctuary in Henrician England"
Friday, Session B
Presidential Panel: In Honor of Joan Sangster
Tamara Myers, University of British Columbia, <email>: “Police, Children, and ‘The Softball Solution’: Regulation and Discipline of Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century City”
Karen Balcom, McMaster University, <email>: “Aboriginal Families and the Child Welfare State: Placing Aboriginal Children with White Families in the 1960s and 1970s”
Amanda Glasbeek, York University, <email>: “‘An Avalanche of Tragedy’: Working Class Women, Resistance, and the Murder of Mrs. Mick”
New Perspectives on the Trial of Socrates
David D. Phillips, UCLA, <email>: “The Charge Against Socrates in Its Legal and Formal Context”
Alan L. Boegehold, Brown University, <email>: “Plato’s Defense Speech for Socrates”
Mark J. Sundahl, Cleveland State University, <email>: “Sentencing Socrates to Death: Game Theory and the Athenian Method of Sentencing”
The Future of English Legal History
Charles Donahue, Jr., Harvard University, <email>
John H. Langbein, Yale University, <email>
Michael Lobban, University of London, <email>
James C. Oldham, Georgetown University, <email>
The Significance of Judge Made Law in Mexico, 1870–1932
Timothy James, University of South Carolina, Beaufort, <email>: “The Question of Judicial Autonomy and Judicial Interpretation during the Porfiriato, 1877–1907”
Alejandra Nunez-Luna, Harvard University, <email>: “Judicial Decision-Making in Private Law and Administrative Regulation of Water Sources in Mexico, 1870–1910”
Kif Augustine-Adams, Brigham Young University, <email>: “Marriage and the Mestizaje, Chinese and Mexican: Constitutional Interpretation and Resistance in Sonora, 1924–1932”
William Suarez-Potts, Kenyon College, <email>: “Judge-Made Law, Labor, and the State in Mexico, 1927–1930”
New Approaches to the Legal History of American Capitalism
Richard F. Bensel (with Gwendoline M. Alphonso), Cornell University, <email>: “The Juridical Construction of Racial Identity and the Social Practice of Slavery”
Nicholas P. Osborne, Columbia University, <email>: “The Political Economy of Poverty: Class, Capitalism, and Savings in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States”
Jonathan Levy, Princeton University, <email>: “The Legal Transformation of Mutual Aid in Nineteenth-Century America”
Friday, Session C
New Issues, Unlikely Alliances: Law Politics and the American State in the 1970s
Jefferson Decker, Columbia University, <email>: “Goldwater v. Carter and the Problem of Conservative Legal Activism”
Deborah Dinner, Harvard Law School, <email>: “The Costs of Life: Feminism, Choice, and the Debate over Pregnancy Disability Benefits, 1974–1978”
Robert Self, Brown University, <email>: “The Right Turn’s Public-Private Controversy, 1975–1987”
Balancing Acts: Twentieth Century Democracies and Respect for the Rule of Law
John Cerullo, University of New Hampshire at Manchester, <email>: “Civilianizing Military Justice in ‘Belle Époque’ France”
Marion Girard, University of New Hampshire at Durham, <email>: “Just Pieces of Paper? International Legal Agreements and the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War Era Britain”
Stephanie Trombley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Prescott, <email>: “‘Our Boys’: The First Status of Forces Treaties and the Problem of Jurisdiction”
Colonial Encounters: English, Islamic, and Zoroastrian Law in the Later British Empire
Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin, <email>: “Managing Marriage: The Zoroastrian Jury in Colonial India”
Michael Birnhack, Tel Aviv University, <email>: “Hebrew Authors and English Copyright Law in Mandate Palestine”
Adam Hofri-Winogradow, Hebrew University, <email>: “Reception and Rejection of the Common Law Trust in Mandate Palestine”
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Princeton University, <email>: “British Colonial Law and the Establishment of Waqfs by Arabs in the Straits Settlements, 1860–1941”
Kathryn T. Preyer Prize Panel
(No abstracts are submitted for the Preyer Panel. The competition is based on the full paper. Anyone interested in a paper should contact the prize winners.)
Katherine Turk, University of Chicago, <email>: “‘Our Militancy is in Our Openness’: The Forgotten History of Gay Employment Activism and the Limits of Title VII”
Melissa Hayes, Northern Illinois University, <email>: “Sex in the Witness Stand: Intimate Storytelling and Legal Culture in Illinois during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century”
Historicizing Race in American Juvenile Justice
William S. Bush, Texas A&M University-San Antonio, <email>: “The Borders of Protected Childhood: Historicizing Race as a Defining Feature of American Juvenile Justice”
Geoff Ward, University of California, Irvine, <email>: “What Happened to Recognition? The Historical Incongruity of Federal Effort to Advance Racial Equality in American Juvenile Justice”
Saturday, Session A
Workplace Injury and the Legal Construction of Disability in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century United States
Nate Holdren, University of Minnesota, <email>: “Pain, Compensation, and Disability in Workplace Injury Lawsuits in the Early Twentieth Century United States”
Sarah Rose, University of Texas at Arlington, <email>: “‘Disabling’ Workers: Workmen’s Compensation Laws and the Creation of Disability, 1908–1933”
John Williams-Searle, The College of Saint Rose, <email>: “‘Libels on the Profession’: Railroaders, the Disability Debate, and its Influence on the Creation of the FELA”
The Rise of Substantive Due Process Outside the Federal Courts
Laura Inglis, University of Oxford, <email>: “Power to the Court: The New York Court of Appeals and the Development of Substantive Due Process, 1846–1885”
Robert Olender, University of Michigan, <email>: “An Intentionally Revolutionary Doctrine: Cooley, Constitutionalism, and the General Welfare”
Felice Batlan, Chicago-Kent College of Law, <email>: “Florence Kelley, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Making of Sociological Jurisprudence”
New Directions in the History of Citizenship and Immigration
Daniel Cohen, Rice University, <email>: “Statelessness in International Law in the Aftermath of World War Two”
Liav Orgad, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel, <email>: “Creating New Americans: The Essence of Americanism under the Citizenship Test”
Philippe Rygiel, University of Paris I, <email>: “An Impossible Task: The International Lawyers of the Institut de Droit International and the Regulation of Migrations (1873–1913)”
Patrick Weil, University of Paris I and Yale Law School, <email>: “The Law and Politics of Denaturalization in the 20th Century United States”
Families Inside and Outside the Law in the Americas, 1910–2010
Nara Milanich, Barnard College, <email>: “Family Law Reform in Twentieth-Century Chile and Latin America”
Laura Putnam, University of Pittsburgh, <email>: “The Ties Allowed to Bind: Kinship Legalities and Migration Restriction in the Interwar Greater Caribbean”
Sueann Caulfield, University of Michigan, <email>: “From the ‘Honest Concubine’ to the ‘Homosexual Stable Union’: Stretching the Boundaries of Legal Families in the Brazilian Courts, 1930–2010”
Adriana R. B. Vianna, National Museum and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, <email>: “Between ‘Homes’ and ‘Rights’: Paradoxes in the Management of Childhood in Democratic Brazil”
Slavery, Law, Religion, and Power in the Early Modern Atlantic
Michelle A. McKinley, University of Oregon, <email>: “The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Black): Legal and Cultural Constructions of Race and Nation in Colonial Latin America”
Rebecca Goetz, Rice University, <email>: “‘An Act Against Carnall Copullation between Christian & Heathen’: Race, Religion, and the Law in the English Atlantic”
Saturday, Session B
Uses and Abuses of the Ius Commune: The Learned Law in Medieval Customary Law Treatises
Ada-Maria Kuskowski, Cornell University, <email>: “A French ‘Common Law’ in the High Middle Ages? Comparing French droiz communs, English ley commune, and their Relationship to the Learned ius commune”
Elizabeth Kamali, University of Michigan, <email>: “The ‘Idea of Rome’ as a Key to Understanding Roman Law Influence in the Age of Glanvill and Bracton”
Thomas McSweeney, Cornell University, <email>: “England’s First Case Law: Constructing the Jurist-Judge in the Bracton Treatise”
Prostitution, Larceny, Murder: Criminal Law and Intimate Spaces in Post-Civil War America
Elizabeth Parish Smith, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, <email>: “‘Men Who Go Into Such Places Ought to Lose their Money’: Regulating Legal Prostitution in New Orleans, 1865–1877”
Andrew T. Urban, Emory University, <email>: “Thieves in the Home: Criminal Law, Domestic Servants, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries”
Felicity Turner, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney, <email>: “‘Some Said It Was a Black Child’: Constructing Race through Infanticide Investigations in the Reconstruction South”
New Perspectives on the New Deal State
Laura M. Weinrib, University of Chicago, <email>: “Free Speech or Fair Labor? The New Deal and the Modern Civil Liberties Movement”
Kelly Elizabeth Phipps, attorney, <email>: “The Justice Department Murals and New Deal Legal Thought”
Karen M. Tani, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: “Legal Rights and Human Needs in New Deal Welfare Administration”
Comparing the Chinese and English Legal Traditions: ‘Modernization,’ Development, and the State
Li Chen, University of Toronto, <email>: “Colonial Encounters and the Construction of a Hierarchy of Legal Cultures”
Zhiquiang Wang, Yale Law School and Fudan University, <email>: “Precedent, Legal Reasoning, and the Judiciary: The Traditions of China and England”
Taisu Zhang, Yale University, <email>: “Property Rights and the Scale of Agricultural Production in Early Modern Societies: Comparing China and England”
Law and History in Latin America, An Historiographical Balance: Slavery, Indian Subjecthood, Family, and Violent Crimes
Alejandro de la Fuente, University of Pittsburgh, <email>: “U. S. and Latin American Slavery and the Law: Impact of Comparative Work on the Historiography”
Brian Owensby, University of Virginia, <email>: “Of Law, Pacts, and Politics: The Underpinnings of Indian Subjecthood in Habsburg Spanish America”
Bianca Premo, Florida International University, <email>: “Litigants and the Leviathan in the Andes”
Keila Grinberg, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNRIO), <email>: “Slavery, Justice and the Law in Brazilian History (17th-19th Centuries)”
Saturday, Session C
New Approaches to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Criminal Legal History
Intisar Rabb, Boston College, <email>: “Moral Anxiety and Legal Doubt: The Development of the Islamic Rule of Lenity”
Kristen Stilt, Northwestern University, <email>: “Discretion and Criminal Law Enforcement in Medieval Egypt, 1250–1517”
Mairaj Syed, Bard College, <email>: “The Development of the Disparate Power Relationships Position in the Jurisprudence on Coercion in Medieval Islamic Law”
Women and the Law in the United States
Patricia L. Farless, University of Florida and University of Central Florida, <email>: “The Intersection of the Married Women’s Property Acts and Homestead Acts in Illinois 1860s-1870s: A Judicial Dilemma and Solution”
Kimberley A. Reilly, University of Baltimore, <email>: “Wronged in Her Dearest Rights: Marriage and the Transformation of Consortium, 1870–1920”
Kara W. Swanson, Northeastern University, <email>: “A Merry Widow: Egbert v. Lippman and the Corset as Patented Technology”
Race, Law, and Social Control in Comparative Perspective
Lior Ben David, Tel Aviv University, <email>: “‘Those Who Live in Another World’: The ‘Indian Problem’ in the Criminal Law of Mexico and Peru, 1920s-1950s”
Timothy L. Schroer, University of West Georgia, <email>: “The Birth of Codified Racial Segregation of Prisoners of War”
Fundamental Rights in the U.S. and Canada: A Comparison
Maryan Soliman, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: “The State Spurs Activism: Georgia’s Insurrection Statute and the Communist Party during the 1930s”
Keith A. Mayes, University of Minnesota, <email>: “‘Assembling’ in the Public and Speaking (Un)‘Freely”: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Limits of the First Amendment”
Blake Brown, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, <email>: “‘I Am Not A Gun Nut!’: Debates over Firearm Regulation in Canada, 1968– 1978”
The Problem of Imperial Sovereignty: Law and Lawlessness in the British Empire
Lauren Benton, New York University, <email>: “Abolition and Imperial Law: Prize Courts, Prize Slaves, and Criminal Law”
Nasser Hussain, Amherst College, <email>: “Legal Limbo: The Creation of the Northwest Frontier of British India”
Binyamin Blum, Stanford University, <email>: “Subversive Legalities: The Rule of Law in Mandate Palestine during the Arab Revolt, 1936–1939”
Saturday, Session D
The Legal Construction of an American Imperial Order, 1877–1913
Dan Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College, <email>: “Loose Space, Jurisdiction, and Sovereign Exception on the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1877–1898”
Robert McGreevey, The College of New Jersey, <email>: “Constructing Borders: Colonial Law and Migration in Puerto Rico and the Mainland United States, 1898–1904”
Benjamin Coates, Columbia University, <email>: “Investments, Intervention, and International Law in U. S. Foreign Relations, 1904–1913”
Jurisdiction: A Moving Target in Medieval and Early Modern Europe and the Mediterranean
Jessica Goldberg, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: “A Law Merchant? Contracts and Contract Enforcement in the Medieval Mediterranean”
Kelly De Luca, Algoma University, <email>: “Territorial Sovereignty and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Early Modern England”
Ellen Wurtzel, Oberlin College, <email>: “City Limits and State Formation: The Custom of Lille in the Early Sixteenth Century”
U. S.-Canadian Borderlands
Tony Freyer, University of Alabama, <email>: “African American Freedom Struggles and Contested Sovereignties in the Antebellum US/Canadian Borderlands”
Aviam Soifer, University of Hawaii, <email>: “Federalism and Freedom: Famous Judges and the Clash of First Principles”
Stephen Middleton, Mississippi State University, <email>: “Defining Whiteness in the Borderlands of the Old Northwest, 1803–1870”
Harvey Amani Whitfield, University of Vermont, <email>: “African Americans, Nova Scotia, and the British North American Border”
John Wertheimer, Davidson College, <email>: and Daphne Fruchtman, dafruchtman@davidson.edu “Willis v. Jolliffe: Love and Slavery on the South Carolina-Ohio Borderland”
The Ongoing ‘Resource Wars’: Legal, Environmental, and Cultural Implications of Indigenous Resource Extraction
Jaime Allison, University of Virginia, <email>: “Sovereign Spaces: Expanding Sovereignty, Shifting Governance, and Energy Development on the Crow Reservation”
Sidney Harring, CUNY Law School, <email>: “San Lands in Southern Africa: Foraging, Farms, Game Parks, and Diamonds”
Judith Kimerling, CUNY Law School/Queens College, <email>: “Huaorani Land Rights in Ecuador: Oil, Contact, and Conservation”
Lost Intersections: Labor, Civil Rights, and Feminism in Twentieth Century U. S. Legal Advocacy
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, University of Virginia, <email>: “‘The Only Woman in the Courtroom’: Constance Baker Motley and Twentieth-Century Struggles for Equality”
Sophia Z. Lee, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: “More than a Hamburger: The Labor Roots of the Sit-In Cases”
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: “Rethinking Legal Feminism, Race, and Civil Rights in the 1970s”
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