:: Abstracts of Papers Atlanta, 2011 ::

These abstracts vary in length, and no effort was made normalize the formatting. They are hyperlinked to the panel title. They were submitted before the conference, though some of them have been, and more may be, changed to reflect more accurately what the panelist actually said. We post them here, however, because they allow one to get a quite good idea of what was said at the conference and far more quickly than was possible in the former system of publishing a summary by the chair in a newsletter that appeared, if at all, some months later.

Thursday, Afternoon

Presidential Panel: In Honor of Philip Girard [Abstracts not provided.]

  • Jim Phillips, University of Toronto, <email>: "The British North American Judiciary, 1754-1867: Independence, Politics, and the Emergence of an Indigenous Elite"
  • Jean-Philippe Garneau, Université du Québec à Montréal, <email>: "Lawyers and Legal Culture Across Borders: A Quebec Perspective"
  • Mary Stokes, Osgoode Hall Law School, <email>: "'Municipal Law is my Speciality': How Robert A. Harrison did not become Ontario's Beamish Murdoch"
  • Roundtable on Teaching American Legal History [Abstracts not provided.]

  • Barry Cushman, University of Virginia, <email>
  • Elizabeth Dale, University of Florida, <email>
  • Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University, <email>
  • Peter Karsten, University of Pittsburgh, <email>
  • David Tanenhaus, UNLV, <email>
  • Friday, Session A

    Authors Meet Readers: David Rabban, Law's Histories & Kunal Parker, Common Law, History, and Democracy [Abstracts not provided.]

  • David Rabban, University of Texas - Austin, <email>: Law's Histories
  • Kunal Parker, University of Miami, <email>: Common Law, History, and Democracy
  • D. J. Ibbetson, University of Cambridge, <email>
  • Stephen Siegel, DePaul University, <email>
  • Steven Wilf, University of Connecticut, <email>

  • Civil Rights Era & Its Legacy

  • Susan Carle, American University, <email>: "Late Nineteenth Century Civil Rights Organizations and their role in the Founding of the NAACP and the National Urban League"
  • Jeffrey Gonda, Yale University, <email>: "The Business of Civil Rights: Black Realtors and Shelley v. Kraemer"
  • Keith Mayes, University of Minnesota, <email>: "Of Deacons, Panthers, and Liberation Armies: Civil Rights, Black Power and the Second Amendment"
  • Camille Walsh, Indiana University, <email>: "'Taxpayer Citizenship' and the Right to Education: 1929-1959"
  • Belonging and the Imperial Republic: Hawai'i, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico in the Shadow of Washington

  • Rachel St. John, Harvard University, <email>: "Dueling Nations: The Hawaiian Kingdom, the Republic of Hawai'i, and Competition over National Identity and Authority in the Hawaiian Islands"
  • Anna Leah Fidelis T. Castañeda, <email>: "Inventing the Filipino People: Race, Rights, Representation and the Creation of an Elite Democracy in the Philippine Islands"
  • Sam Erman, Harvard University, <email>: "Puerto Rican Reconstruction: Race, Self-Government, and Rhetoric, 1898-1917"
  • Theory & Practice of Judging in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

  • Charles F. Hobson, William and Mary, <email>: "St. George Tucker: Virginia Judge and Law Reporter"
  • David T. Konig, Washington University--St. Louis, <email>: "Thomas Jefferson on Judicial Independence: The Early Years"
  • Renée Lettow Lerner, George Washington University, <email>: "Directed Verdict and the Search for Efficient Jury Control in the United States"
  • James C. Oldham, Georgetown University, <email>: "Only Thirteen Shillings: Abusing the English System of Public Justice in the Late Eighteenth Century"
  • Children, Parents, and the Law of Child Protection in the Twentieth-Century United States

  • Nicholas L. Syrett, University of Northern Colorado, <email>: "Protecting Children, Policing Marriage: Reformers and the Law of Child Marriage in the 1920s and 1930s"
  • Kristin Celello, Queens College, CUNY, <email>: "Motherhood on Trial: Child Custody, Red-Baiting, and the Eaton Case"
  • Ethan G. Sribnick, Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness, <email>: "Child Welfare Policy and Legal Innovation" [An abstract of this paper was not received.]
  • Tera Agyepong, Northwestern University, <email>: "The Limits of the Rehabilitative Ideal: African American Girls at the Illinois State Industrial School for Girls"
  • Friday, Session B

    Alliances Auld and New: Scotland and the Early Republic

  • William B. Ewald, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, <email>: "James Wilson: The Scottish Enlightenment and British North America"
  • Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago Law School, lacroix@uchicago.edu"Letters from Edinburgh and Scottish Texts: Building an American Literary and Legal Culture"
  • James E. Pfander, Northwestern University School of Law, <email>: "Non-Contentious Judicial Power: Scotland, Civil Law, and the Limits of Article III"
  • Roundtable on Rediscovering the Asylum [Abstracts not provided.]

  • Cornelia H. Dayton, University of Connecticut, <email>
  • Angela Keysor, University of Iowa, Dept. of History, <email>
  • Rebecca McLennan, University of California, Berkeley, <email>
  • Michael Meranze, University of California, Los Angeles, <email>
  • David J. Rothman, Columbia University, <email>:

    Law & Politics in Colonial Latin America

  • Alcira Dueñas, The Ohio State University-Newark, <email>: "Finely Weaving and Unweaving: Andean Networks in the Construction of the Colonial Judicial Order"
  • Marcela Echeverri, The College of Staten Island/CUNY, <email>: "Liberalism, the Protector de Naturales, and Indian Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century New Granada"
  • Mark Lentz, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, <email>: "Mayas and the Law: Bourbon Politics at the Pueblo Level"
  • Renzo Honores, High Point University, <email>: "Colonial Legal Imagination: The Making of Customary Law in the Andes, 1550-1600"
  • Religious Law and Secular Law in Early Medieval Europe

  • Abigail Firey, University of Kentucky, <email>: "Appropriation, Obliteration, Adaptation?: Ecclesiastical Responses to Secular Law in the Early Middle Ages"
  • Michael W. Heil, Columbia University, <email>: "Canon Law and the Courts in Early Medieval Italy"
  • Greta Austin, University of Puget Sound, <email>: "Roman Law in the Eleventh-Century Catholic Legal Collections"
  • Aniceto Masferrer, University of Valencia, <email>: "The Pursuit of Peace and Security in the Iberian Peninsula (10th - 11th Centuries): A Contribution to the Interaction between Religious Law and Secular Law in the European Early Middle Ages"
  • Private Rights, Public Values, and Modernity in Colonial & Post-Colonial Water Law

  • Jamie Benidickson, University of Ottawa, <email>: "Evolution of Canadian Water Law: From Abundance to Sustainability"
  • Denise Holladay Damico, Saint Francis University, <email>: "Community, Commodity, and Corporation: Local Use of and Response to Changing Water Law in Albuquerque, New Mexico"
  • David Schorr, Tel Aviv University, <email>: "The Odd American Influence on Water Law in Mandate Palestine and Early Israel"
  • Friday, Session C

    Morris Cohen Memorial Panel [Abstracts not provided.]

  • James Raven, University of Essex, <email>: "Booksellers in Court in Eighteenth-Century London"
  • Wilfrid Prest, University of Adelaide, <email>: "Blackstone and Bibliography"
  • Mike Widener, Yale Law School, <email>: "Morris Cohen and the Art of Book Collecting"
  • Robert Berring, University of California—Berkeley, <email>: "Bibliographic Integrity and the Bibliography of Early American Law"
  • Sharon Hamby O'Connor, Boston College Law School, <email>: "Morris Cohen as a Mentor for Books and People"
  • Author Meets Readers, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Courage to Dissent

  • Tomiko Brown-Nagin, University of Virginia, <email>: Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement "
  • Laura Kalman, University of California—Santa Barbara, <email>
  • Matthew Jon Countryman, University of Michigan, <email>
  • Chana Kai Lee, University of Georgia, <email>
  • Kenneth W. Mack, Harvard Law School, <email>
  • Evidence, Expertise, and Legal Thought in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century United States

  • Kathryn Burns-Howard, Northwestern University, <email>: "'Wasting His Substance': Property and Personal Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century United States"
  • Justin Clark, University of Southern California, <email>: "Terrible Dishonesty: Pathological Lying and Progressive Expertise, 1880-1920"
  • Noga Morag-Levine, Michigan State University, <email>: "Formalism, Facts, and the Brandeis Brief: The Making of a Myth"
  • Andrew Porwancher, University of Oklahoma, <email>: "American Legal Thought and the Law of Evidence, 1904-1940"
  • Regulating (Extra-) Marital Relations in Romano-Canon Law

  • Matthew Perry, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), <email>: "The Criminalization of Adultery in Roman Law"
  • Sara McDougall, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), <email>: "Regulating the Sex Lives of Married Persons in Medieval Europe"
  • Rev. Dr. Patrick Viscuso, Independent Scholar, <email>: "Late Byzantine Views on Marital Relations and Ordination"
  • Nicolas Laurent-Bonne, Paris II Panthéon Assas, <email>: "Why Prohibit Donations Between Husband and Wife in Medieval Europe?"
  • The Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society Panel: Reconfiguring Law in Frontier Societies: Property Rights, Economic Development and Indigenous Claims

  • Jacinta Ruru, University of Otago, <email>: "The Freshwater Challenge"
  • Guy Charlton, Auckland University of Technology. <email>: and Barry Brunette, Auckland University of Technology, barry.brunette@aut.ac.nz, "Economic Development, Logging and Riparian Rights: The Definition of a Navigable Waterway in Nineteenth-Century Ontario, Wisconsin and New Zealand"
  • Grant Morris, Victoria University of Wellington, <email>: "The Construction of a Colonial Racist: James Prendergast and the New Zealand Wars, 1865-1881"
  • Saturday, Session A

    Crimes of Passion: Intimate Violence and the Law in Nineteenth-Century America

  • Robin Sager, Rice University, <email>: "Excesses and Outrages: Sexual Cruelty and Marriage in Antebellum America"
  • Melissa Hayes, Northern Illinois University, <email>: ""Partially with Her Consent': Seduction in Popular Culture and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest"
  • D. Jeannine Cole, Duke University, <email>: "Regulating Sex and Consent in New Orleans, 1890-1917"
  • Insurrections & Infections: Rethinking the Legal History of Atlanta, 1920-1940

  • Polly Price, Emory University, <email>: "Federalization of the Mosquito: Malaria and Public Health In the Southern United States, 1900-1945"
  • Maryan Soliman, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: "Racial Equality on Trial in Atlanta during the 1930s"
  • Anders Walker, Saint Louis University, <email>: "Scarlett's Rainbow: Margaret Mitchell, Anti-Catholicism, & the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta, 1920-1940"
  • The Relevance of the Common Law in a Colonial & Post-Colonial Setting

  • Andrew Buck, Macquarie University, <email>: "The Relevance of English Law in a Colonial Setting"
  • Christopher Curtis, Claflin University, <email>: "St. George Tucker and the Reception of the Common Law in Post-Colonial Virginia"
  • John V. Orth, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, <email>: "The Common Law and the Constitution: The Judicial Amendment"
  • Joseph L. Hyde, Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge James Wynn, U.S. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit), <email>: "The Common Law & Slavery in Post-Colonial North Carolina"
  • Human Rights and Political Dissent -- Eastern Europe Revisited

  • Jaroslaw Kuisz, Warsaw University, <email>: "'Playing the Law': Polish Dissidents and the Mechanics of the 'Helsinki Effect'"
  • Michal Kopecek, Czech Academy of Sciences, <email>: "Human Rights Facing National History. Dissidents, Nationalism and the Democratic Revolutions of 1989 in East Central Europe"
  • Kacper Szulecki, University of Constance, <email>: "Human Rights, Domestic Dissent and Culture: The Case of Human Rights Localization in Poland and Czechoslovakia"
  • Katherine T. Preyer Prize Panel [Abstracts not provided.]

  • Anne Fleming, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: "The Borrower's Tale: A History of Poor Debtors in Lochner Era New York City"
  • Michael Schoeppner, University of Florida, <email>: "Atlantic Emancipations and Originalism: An Atlantic Genealogy of Dred Scott"
  • Kevin Arlyck, New York University, <email>: "Plaintiffs v. Privateers: Litigation and Foreign Affairs in the Federal Courts, 1816-1825"
  • Saturday, Session B

    Transforming Legal Treatises in the Early United States: Law Books in Action

  • Roman Hoyos, Southwestern Law School, <email>: "For 'the Love of Liberty and the Love of Law': James Wilson's Manifesto for an American Jurisprudence"
  • Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto, <email>: "Tapping Reeve and James Kent: Two Fading Federalists on Marital Unity"
  • Kevin Butterfield, University of Oklahoma, <email>: "Authority and the Individual in Angell and Ames's Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations, Aggregate"
  • Law as Sentry: Conditions of Inclusion in the Nineteenth-Century United States

  • Kerry Abrams, University of Virginia School of Law, <email>: "Immigrant Sponsorship"
  • Kristin Collins, Boston University School of Law, <email>: "Guyer v. Smith, Personal Status Laws, and the Practice of Citizenship"
  • Matthew J. Lindsay, University of Baltimore School of Law, <email>: "The 'Immigration Crisis' in U.S. History and the Making of Modern Immigration Law"
  • New Rights and New Legal Subjects in the Post-World War Two United States

  • Felicia Kornbluh, University of Vermont, <email>: "Disability (and) Civil Rights: Jacobus tenBroek, Howard Jay Graham, and the Fourteenth Amendment" [An abstract of this paper was not received.]
  • Josie Rodberg, Harvard University, <email>: "The Creation and Evolution of a 'Right to Choose' in the 1960s and 1970s"
  • Elisa Alvarez Minoff, Harvard University, <email>: "Migrating Citizens, Migrating Rights: The World that Shapiro v. Thompson (1969) Made."
  • Currency and Exchange Regulation: Causes and Consequences in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Eras

  • Dror Goldberg, Bar-Ilan University, <email>: "Transplanting Crisis Legislation: The Case of Forced Money"
  • Farley Grubb, University of Delaware, <email>: "Creating Maryland's Paper Money Economy, 1720-1739: Politics, Law, Markets, and the Media"
  • Adam Hofri-Winogradow, Hebrew University, <email>: "Israeli Currency Regulation, 1948-1998 and Practitioner Use of Private Trusts"
  • Constitutionalism in the Revolutionary Era and Nineteenth Century

  • Howard Pashman, Northwestern University, <email>: ""A Bonanza of Tory Goods: Property Confiscation in Revolutionary New York"
  • Jeannine DeLombard, University of Toronto, <email>: "Constituting Law and Literature Through Slavery"
  • Lea VanderVelde, University of Iowa, <email>: "How the Antebellum West sheds light on the Reconstruction Amendments"
  • Saturday, Session C

    New Directions in the History of Property

  • Maureen E. Boyle, Yale Law School, <email>: "The Failure of America's First City Plan: Why New Haven, the Colonies' First Planned City, Would Have Been Better Left Unplanned"
  • Claire Priest, Yale Law School, <email>: "Imperial Property"
  • Daniel Sharfstein, Vanderbilt Law School, <email>: "Atrocity, Entitlement, and Personhood in the American Property Tradition"
  • Constructing Sex Equality

  • Cary Franklin, University of Texas—Austin, <email>: "The 'Traditional' Understanding of Sex Discrimination: How Title VII's Sex Provision Got Its Meaning"
  • Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania, <email>: "Marriage as the Foundation of Constitutional Sex Equality Law"
  • Deborah Dinner, Washington University—St. Loius, <email>: "The Neo-Maternalist Turn: The Legal Feminist Crisis in the Reagan Era"
  • Conventional Morality and the Rule of Law: Policing the Boundaries of Status, Responsibility and Punishment—A Panel in Honor of Thomas A. Green [Abstracts not provided.]

  • Dana Rabin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, <email>: "'In a Country of Liberty?': Slavery, Villeinage and the Making of Whiteness in the Somerset Case (1772)"
  • James Donovan, Pennsylvania State University at Mont Alto, <email>: "Public Opinion and the French Capital Punishment Debate of 1908"
  • Warren Rosenblum, Webster University, <email>: "Criminal Procedure and the Fate of Democracy in Germany Before the Nazis"
  • Martha Umphrey, Amherst College, <email>: "Bending Rules, Upending Norms: Trials and the Production of Legal Meaning"
  • William Novak, University of Michigan, <email>: "Policing the Social in the Modern American State"
  • New Paradigms of Practice: Black Women Lawyers Advancing Justice in the Long Civil Rights Movement

  • Jacqueline A. McLeod, Metropolitan State College of Denver, <email>: "The Professionalization and Politicization of Black Women Lawyers and the Trajectory of their Practice: The Case of Jane Matilda Bolin"
  • Gwen Jordan, University of Illinois Springfield, <email>: "'Courage, Persistence and Faith': The Career of Edith Sampson, 1927-1978"
  • Mary Ellen Curtin, American University, <email>: "Outside Influences: The Making of Barbara Jordan"
  • Sherie M. Randolph, University of Michigan, <email>: "Florynce 'Flo' Kennedy and the Struggle to Legalize Abortion"
  • Early Twentieth-Century International Law

  • Stephen Wertheim, Columbia University, <email>: "The Rise and Fall of Public Opinion as the Linchpin of International Order, 1870-1940: A Genealogy of the Concept"
  • Ananda Burra, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, <email>: "Contested to the End: Colonial and Anti-Colonial Anxieties in the Late League of Nations"
  • Hussein D. Alkhazragi, Université de Genève (UNIGE), <email>: "The British Mandate in Iraq or Squaring the Circle: How to Reconcile British Interests with the Nationalists' while Adhering to its International Obligations?"
  • Natasha Wheatley, Columbia University, <email>: "On the Meaning of the Palestine Mandate: Legal Hermeneutics and the New International Order in Arab and Jewish Petitions to the League of Nations"
  • Saturday, Session D

    New Histories of the Taney Court

  • Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School, <email>: "Hardly an Aberration: Taney, Dred Scott, and Slavery"
  • Rachel Shelden, Georgia College, <email>: "The Taney Court and the Problem of Judicial Ethics in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"
  • Matthew Axtell, Princeton University, <email>: "Down the River with Roger Taney: Steamboats, Slaves, and the Judicial Management of an Interstate Commons in Strader v. Graham"
  • A Comparative Look at Commercial Courts and the Law Merchant

  • Cristina Ciancio, University of Sannio, <email>: "Justice Without Judges: Commercial Courts Between Law and Market in Nineteenth-Century Europe"
  • Jérôme Sgard, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), <email>: and Eric Brousseau, University of Paris Ouest, eric@brousseau.info, "From the Law Merchant to Trade Regulation: The French Eighteenth-Century Experience and the Députés du Commerce"
  • Zülâl Muslu, University of Paris X-Nanterre and Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History, <email>: "Conflicts of Jurisdiction and the Sovereignty Principle: The Example of the Ottoman Mixed Commercial courts in the Late Nineteenth Century."

    Law and Politics of U.S. Foreign Relations

  • Chimène Keitner, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, <email>: "Between Law and Diplomacy: The 'Suability' of Foreign Officials in U.S. Courts"
  • Katherine Unterman, Texas A&M University, <email>: "The Politics of Defining 'The Political': The Political Offense Exception in International Extradition"
  • Lewis Yelin, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, <email>, "Head of State Immunity as Sole Executive Lawmaking"
  • Joel Paul, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, <email>:"Extravagant Pretense: How John Marshall Invented International Law in the United States"
  • Daniel Margolies, Virginia Wesleyan College, <email>: Controlling the 'Arabs of Arizona,' and Other Aspects of Extraterritoriality and Sovereign Exception in Late Nineteenth-Century U.S. Foreign Relations"
  • Chinese Ritual, Clan Codes and Family Litigation

  • Mary Szto, Hamline Law School, <email>: "Strengthening the Rule of Virtue and Finding Chinese Law in 'Other' Places: Gods, Kin, Guilds, and Gifts"
  • Dong Jiang, Renmin University of China Law School, <email>: "Seeking Harmony among Family Members: Family Dispute Resolution under the Doctrine of Li in Ancient China"
  • Shan Chun, China University of Political Science and Law, <email>: "Family Law and Confucian Ethics in the Qing Dynasty"
  • Tahirih Lee, Florida State University, <email>: "Family Lawsuits in the Late Qing Dynasty"
  • Marriage, Legitimacy and Citizenship in Nineteenth Century Britain and the Empire

  • Ginger Frost, Samford University, <email>: "'Not by Law a British Subject': Illegitimacy and Nationality in Imperial Britain, 1860-1930"
  • Charlotte Frew, Australian Catholic University, and Macquarie Law School, <email>: "'Legitimate in the Colony and Bastard at Home': The Recognition of Colonial Marriage Law in Britain"
  • Elizabeth Thornberry, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, <email>: "Customary Marriage and Claims to Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony"
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