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::  DRAFT PROGRAM  ::
ASLH 2002 Annual Meeting
San Diego, California  ::  November 7-9, 2002
 


 

 

::  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  :: 

 

 

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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