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Welcome to the home page of H-LAW, a
Humanities Social Sciences Online
discussion network sponsored by the
American Society for Legal History.
H-LAW solicits discussion of issues
relating to teaching and research in the
history of all legal traditions:
common-law, civil-law, and all other
legal systems.
We now have the call for papers for the
2012 San Francisco Rights Conference::
Deadline February 15, 2012
Call for Papers and Proposals: The
Question of Rights
San Francisco State University hosts a
conference every year in September
exploring the question and place of
rights in history, politics, and society.
In 2012 the conference will be held on
September 13 and 14.
The year 2012 marks the sesquicentennial
of Abraham Lincoln's Preliminary
Emancipation Proclamation. To mark this
milestone, we welcome papers on the topic
of emancipation, reflections on the
legacy of the Civil War, question of the
role/nature of the state, the racialized
consequences of the war, but also
emancipation broadly defined, including
claims to freedom involving civil
liberties; disability rights; labor and
economic rights; feminism and antiracism;
immigration; environmental justice;
access to healthcare; the prison
industrial complex; sexual orientation;
the stateless; and human rights.
Our goal is to bring together a wide
variety of people from a range of
academic, activist, legal, and community
spaces to examine the place of rights in
American society and in the broader
global political community. To that end,
we welcome participation from historians,
both senior and junior scholars, graduate
students, community advocates,
archivists, and lawyers. We invite
panels, or round tables. Though we prefer
complete panels, we will consider
individual papers. We also welcome
workshops with pre-circulated papers, or
sessions in which panelists assess the
state of debate on a topic. All
submissions will be peer reviewed by our
program committee.
The deadline for submission of panels,
consisting of an abstract of 1000 words
for panel and workshop proposals and a
one-page CV for each participant, is
February 15, 2012. We must have an email
address for all participants. Send your
proposals to Christopher Waldrep,
Department of History, San Francisco
State University, San Francisco,
California 94132 or via email to
cwaldrep@sfsu.edu.
You can still check out
the 2011 conference program.
ASLH publishes
Law & History Review through the
Cambridge University Press. The journal
is available online via the History
Cooperative and JSTOR.
Preregistration for the 2011 ASLH meeting
is now open. To preregister on the
Society's secure website go to:
https://www.aslh.net/secure/reg/regform.pdf
For information about the program,
roomshare, discounted airlines, and much
more, go to:
http://www.aslh.net/conferences.shtml
The 2012 annual meeting
will be November 8-11 in the Four Seasons
Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri.
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