ASLH 2004 Annual Meeting: Program Schedule


Austin, Texas
Stephen F. Austin Intercontinental & the Driskill Hotels
  October 28 - 31, 2004

Visit the ASLH Conference Page for information on the Austin meeting.

Check out the ASLH 2004 Local Arrangements Committee page, too.

Program Committee

  • Barry Cushman, University of Virginia
  • Laura Edwards, Duke University
  • Norma Landau, University of California at Davis
  • Laurent Mayali, University of California at Berkeley
  • Martha Umphrey, Amherst College
  • Jim Whitman, Yale University
  • Vicky Saker Woeste, American Bar Foundation (chair) (vswoeste@abfn.org)

Click on panel title to view participants and links to abstracts.

Friday, October 29, 2004
8:30-10:15 Law at Sea Race, Citizenship, and Liberty Marriage, Sexuality, and Women's Rights in American History Rights, Entitlements, and Regulation in the Progressive Era  
10:30-12:15 Perspectives on Latin American Legal History Legal Bonds and Broken Homes Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century England Crime, Prosecution, and Politics in
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
New York City		 Social Science and Legal Pragmatism
in the New Deal and World War II
12:15-1:30 luncheon meetings        
1:45-3:30 Federal Tax Policy in the Great Depression Comparative Perspectives on the Evolution of Corporate Governance Presidential Panel I: Herbert Johnson and the Writing of American Constitutional History Race, Land, and Citizenship in Hawaii and the Mainland U.S.  
4:30-6:00

Plenary Session: Law and Religious Pluralism
     
Saturday, October 30, 2004
8:30-10:15 Adaptations to Romano-canonical
Procedure in the Middle Ages:
Customary Law, Inquisitio,
and Lombard Law		 Naming Needs, Redefining Rights: Reform,
Reaction, and the Politics of Work and Family in the Twentieth-Century U.S. 		Texas Supreme Court Historical Society:
The Texas Supreme Court History Project		 New Meanings of Property in Legal History Roundtable: Ethical Problems and Legal Rules Surrounding the Use of Lawyers' Papers as Historical Sources
10:30-12:15 Law and Revolution in
Comparative Contexts		 The Making of Civil Rights Revisited Defining Gender, Judging Sex: Legal Rules
and Popular Judgment in Early Twentieth-
Century America		 The Moral Judiciary in the Gilded Age English Justice and Its Problems
in the Fifteenth Century
12:45-2:00 annual luncheon        
2:15-4:00 Legal and Social Order in Early Modern France Law, Politics, and Reform in U.S.
Legal History: Authors Meet Readers		 The Bloody Code: Its Relation to Reform
of the Criminal Law and Reformers		 Defining and Redefining State Protection
of Children in Twentieth-Century U.S. Law		  
4:15-6:00 Texts and Evidence in Medieval Contexts Still Embarrassing After All These Years? The Future of Second Amendment Scholarship Regulation and Political Economy
in the Telephone Industry		 Presidential Panel II: Scandinavian
Perspectives in Legal History		  

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