ASLH 2004 Annual Meeing: 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)

 

Friday, 8:30 a.m.

        
Law at Sea chair / discussant David Bederman Law, Emory University lawdjb@law.emory.edu 
Objection! The International Whaling Commission and the Preservation of Sovereignty (and Whales?)
Kurk Dorsey History, University of New Hampshire kd@cisunix.unh.edu
Abstention Granted! Science, Doctrinal Innovation, and the "Abstention Principle" in Modern Ocean Law Reform Harry N. Scheiber Jurisprudence and Social Policy, University of California at Berkeley scheiber@uclink.berkeleu.edu
discussant Elizabeth Bogwardt Law, University of Utah lizborg@uclink.berkeley.edu
Friday, 8:30 a.m.        
Race, Citizenship, and Liberty in Global Contexts chair Christopher Waldrep History, San Francisco State University cwaldrep@sfsu.edu
“La decision de casarse con un chino . . .”:  Contesting Citizenship, Race, and Gender in Mexico, 1900-1940 Kif Augustine-Adams Law, Brigham Young University adamsk@lawgate.byu.edu
In Pursuit of the Other Freedom: Gandhi and the Discourse of Law in Modern India Mithi Mukherjee History, University of Colorado at Boulder mithi.mukherjee@colorado.edu
Legislating People into Existence: The Idea of Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Chilean Legal and Political Thought (1812-1925) Hugo A. Maureira History, Georgetown University ham6@georgetown.edu
discussant Thomas J. Davis History, Arizona State University tjdavis@asu.edu

Friday, 8:30 a.m.

        
Marriage, Sexuality, and Women's Rights in American History  chair Norma Basch History, Rutgers University nbasch@mindspring.com
"Immoral Purposes": Prostitution, Concubinage, and Legal Definitions of Morality Ariela Dubler Law, Columbia University  aduble@law.columbia.edu
Bentham in America (At Last):  Married Women's Property Rights and Reform of the Common Law Kathleen Sullivan Political Science, Ohio University sullivak@ohio.edu
Marriage and the American Constitutional Order, 1900-1950 Gretchen Ritter Government, University of Texas at Austin ritter@mail.utexas.edu
discussant Julie Novkov Political Science, University of Oregon novkov@oregon.uoregon.edu
Friday, 8:30 a.m.        
Rights, Entitlements, and Regulation in the Progressive Era chair/discussant Thomas Haskell History, Rice University thaskell@rice.edu
Crystal Eastman and the Internationalist Beginnings of American Civil Liberties John Witt Law, Columbia University jwitt@law.columbia.edu
Helping Ourselves: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State Michele Landis Dauber Law, Stanford University mldauber@law.stanford.edu
discussant Ajay Mehrotra Law, Indiana University amehrotr@indiana.edu
Friday, 10:30 a.m.        
Perspectives on Latin American Legal History chair Charles Venator-Santiago Politics, Ithaca College csantiago@ithaca.edu
Case Decisions as Sources in Mexican Legal History Matthew C. Mirrow Law, Florida International University mirowm@fiu.edu
Iglesia me llamo: Church Asylum, Crime, Law, and Daily Life in Colonial Latin America, 1500s-1700s. Victor Uribe-Uran History and Law, Florida International University Uribev@fiu.edu
Brazil and the United States: Civil Rights Law at the Half-Century Mark Robert Cottrol Law, George Washington University bcottrol@law.gwu.edu 
discussant Peter Reich Law, Whittier Law School preich@law.whittier.edu
Friday, 10:30 a.m.        
Legal Bonds and Broken Homes chair Michael Grossberg History and Law, Indiana University grossber@indiana.edu
Breaking Promises:  Legislative Divorce, Marital Contracts, and Constitutional Limitation in Nineteenth-Century America Sandra F. VanBurkleo History, Wayne State University svanbur@earthlink.net
Legal and Extra-Legal Aspects of Family Violence in Colonial New England Elaine Crane History, Fordham University ecrane@fordham.edu
discussant Sharon Block History, University of California, Irvine sblock@uci.edu
discussant David Langum Law, Samford University djlangum@samford.edu
Friday, 10:30 a.m.        
Law Reform in Nineteenth-Century England chair Barbara  Shapiro Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley bshapiro@socrates.berkeley.edu
Exploring the Borderline between Criminal and Civil Law Reform, 1830-1850 Michael Lobban Law, University of London m.j.lobban@qmul.ac.uk
The Bank of England and the Reform of the English Criminal Law, 1800-1835 Randall McGowen History, University of Oregon rmcgowen@oregon.uoregon.edu
The Transformation of the Preliminary Inquiry in England, 1800-1850 Bruce Smith Law, University of Illinois smithb@law.uiuc.edu
discussant James Oldham Law, Georgetown University oldham@law.georgetown.edu
Friday, 10:30 a.m.        
Crime, Prosecution, and Politics in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century New York City chair Michael Willrich History, Brandeis University willrich@brandeis.edu
Gender, Civility, and Crime Control: Public Responses to Intimate Homicide in the Metropolis, 1880-1920 Carolyn Ramsey Law, University of Colorado Carolyn.Ramsey@colorado.edu
Anthony Comstock and Moral Reconstruction:  Obscenity Prosecutions in 1870s New York Donna Dennis Law, Rutgers University ddennis@kinoy.rutgers.edu
The Politics of Criminal Justice Reform and the Origins of the Penal State in Progressive New York City Allen Steinberg History, University of Iowa allen-steinberg@uiowa.edu
discussant Lawrence Friedman Law, Stanford University lmf@stanford.edu
Friday, 10:30 a.m.        
Social Science and Legal Pragmatism in the New Deal and World War II chair Sally Clarke History, University of Texas, Austin sclarke@mail.utexas.edu
Knowledge and Policy: Pragmatism, Law, and Social Science in New Deal America Jessica Wang History, University of California, Los Angeles jwang@ssc.ucla.edu

The Politics of Merit: The Campaign for a Federal Legal Service, 1938-43

 Daniel Ernst Law, Georgetown University ernst@law.georgetown.edu 
Legally Yours: Morris Ernst, Birth Control, and the Role of the Lawyer in a Social Movement John Balz American Studies, University of Texas, Austin jpbalz@hotmail.com
discussant John Henry Schlegel Law, State University of New York at Buffalo schlegel@acsu.buffalo.edu
discussant Bartholomew Sparrow Government, University of Texas, Austin bhs@mail.la.utexas.edu
Friday, 2:00 p.m.        
Federal Tax Policy in the Great Depression   chair Joseph Thorndike Tax Analysts, Arlington, Virginia joe_thorndike@tax.org
The Rise and Fall of Publicity of Income Tax Information in the 1930s Marjorie Kornhauser Law, Tulane University mkornhause@law.tulane.edu
Tax, Corporate Governance, and Norms:  Lessons from the New Deal Steven Bank Law, University of California, Los Angeles bank@law.ucla.edu
Tax Justice New Deal Style: FDR, the Treasury Department, and Family Taxation in the 1930s Dennis Ventry O'Melveny & Myers LLP dv327@nyu.edu
discussant Reuvan Avi-Yonah Law, University of Michigan aviyonah@umich.edu
Friday, 2:00 p.m.        
Comparative Perspectives on the Evolution of Corporate Governance chair David Abraham Law, University of Miami  dabraham@law.miami.edu
Dividends and Politics Brian Cheffins Law, University of Cambridge brc21@cam.ac.uk
Corporate Finance and Governance in the Heyday of the German Industrialization:  New Evidence and New Perspectives Caroline Fohlin Economics, Johns Hopkins University fohlin@jhu.edu
The Icarus Effect David Skeel Law, University of Pennsylvania  dskeel@law.upenn.edu
discussant Adam Winkler Law, UCLA  winkler@law.ucla.edu
Friday, 2:00 p.m.        
Presidential Panel:  Herbert Johnson and the Writing of American Constitutional History chair Harry N.  Scheiber Law, University of California at Berkeley scheiber@law.berkeley.edu
Some Thoughs on Herb Johnson's Favorite Court Kent Newmyer Law, University of Connecticut knewmyer@law.uconn.edu
Herbert Johnson: A Legal Historian's
Work and Times		 Tony Freyer Law, University of Alabama tfreyer@law.ua.edu
Herbert Johnson as Editor Hamilton Bryson Law, University of Richmond bryson@uofrlaw.richmond.edu
discussant Herbert  Johnson History, University of South Carolina janeherb@dnet.net
Friday, 2:00 p.m.        
Race, Land, and Citizenship in Hawaii and the Mainland U.S. chair/discussant William Forbath Law, University of Texas wforbath@mail.law.utexas.edu
Native Identity, Citizenship
and Land Allotment in the Early Twentieth Century U.S.		 Ariela Gross Law, University of Southern California agross@law.usc.edu
Preparing to be Colonized:
Land Tenure and Legal Strategy in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii		 Stuart Banner Law, UCLA banner@law.ucla.edu
The Boundaries of Citizenship:
 Asian Americans and U.S. Citizenship Policy, 1868-1935		 Lucy Salyer History, University of New Hampshire Lucy.Salyer@unh.edu
discussant Sarah Gordon Law and History, University of Pennsylvania  sgordon@law.upenn.edu
Friday, 4:30-6:00 p.m.        
Plenary Session:  Law and Religious Pluralism moderator Douglas Laycock University of Texas Law School dlaycock@mail.law.utexas.edu
Law and Religious Tolerance: Islamic normativity as a constitutional principle Baber Johansen Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

johansen@ehess.fr

Historical Facts and Fictions of the Separation of Church and State John Witte Emory University School of Law jwitte@law.emory.edu
Toleration, Pluralism and Research on Religion in America Carol Weisbrod University of Connecticut Law School cweisbro@law.uconn.edu
Saturday, 8:30 a.m.        
Adaptations to Romano-canonical Procedure in the Middle Ages: Customary law, Inquisitio and Lombard law chair James Brundage History, University of Kansas jabrun@ku.edu
Local Knowledge and the Rise of Customary Law in Champagne, 1150-1300 Richard Keyser History, Western Kentucky University rick.keyser@wku.edu
Inquisitorial Procedure and the Testimony of Children in the Middle Ages: The Case of Ermessenda Sabater Marie Kelleher History, California State University, Long Beach mkellehe@csulb.edu
Ut feratur definitiva sententia: Judicial Duel, Lombard Law and Truth in a Fourteenth Century Legal Treatise Jasonne Grabher O'Brien History, Fairleigh Dickinson University jgobrien@fdu.edu
discussant Richard Helmholz Law, University of Chicago dick_helmholz@law.uchicago.edu
Saturday, 8:30 a.m.        
Naming Needs, Redefining Rights: Reform, Reaction, and the Politics of Work and Family in the Twentieth-Century U.S.  chair Christopher Tomlins History, American Bar Foundation clt@abfn.org
Transforming Family and State: Women’s Vision for Universal Childcare, 1966-1971 Deborah Dinner Law and History, Yale University deborah.dinner@yale.edu
The Invisible Woman: Gender, Race, and the Family in the Affirmative Action Debates, 1964-1980 Serena Mayeri Law and History, Yale University serena.mayeri@yale.edu
Routing Progressive Constitutionalism? Family-Based Republicanism in 1920s American Policy and Law Rebecca Rix History, Yale University rebecca.rix@yale.edu
discussant Laura Kalman History, University of California, Santa Barbara kalman@history.ucsb.edu
Saturday, 8:30 a.m.        
Texas Supreme Court Historical Society: Texas Supreme Court History Project chair Joseph McKnight Law, Southern Methodist University  jmcknigh@mail.smu.edu
Constitutional Issues in Reconstruction Texas, 1866-1882 Hans Baade Law, University of Texas hbaade@mail.law.utexas.edu
Review of State Regulations in the Progressive Era, 1900-1911 Mark Steiner South Texas College of Law msteiner@stcl.edu
discussant Gordon Bakken History, California State University at Fullerton gbakken@fullerton.edu
Saturday, 8:30 a.m.        
New Meanings of Property in Legal History chair/discussant R. Ben Brown Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California at Berkeley  rbbrown@uclink.berkeley.edu
Property, Marriage, and Emancipation in Ghana, 1860-1920 Dylan Penningroth History, Northwestern University dcp@northwestern.edu
Squatters or settlers?: British colonial land settlement and peri-urban development in Africa and the Caribbean Robert Home Law, Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford, UK r.home@apu.ac.uk
discussant Adrienne Davis Law, University of Alabama davisad@email.unc.edu
Saturday, 8:30 a.m.      
Roundtable: Ethical Problems and Legal Rules Surrounding the Use of Lawyers' Papers as Historical Sources chair Victoria Saker Woeste History, American Bar Foundation vswoeste@abfn.org
participant David Kirsch Business, University of Maryland

dkirsch@rhsmith.umd.edu
  participant Rayman Solomon Law, Rutgers University-Camden raysol@camlaw.rutgers.edu
participant Michael Widener
Law Library, University of Texas
 mwidener@mail.law.utexas.edu
  participant Susan Carle Law, American University scarle@wcl.american.edu
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.        
Law and Revolution in Comparative Context chair Charles Donahue Law, Harvard University scohen@law.harvard.edu
Separating Powers in the English Revolution: Judicial Discretion and Parliamentary Reform Bernadette Meyler Law, Cornell University bameyler@yahoo.com
A Revolution in Commerce: French Absolutism and the Rise of “le Commerce” as Social Function Amalia Kessler Law, Stanford University aAKESSLER@LAW.STANFORD.EDU
The Making of the Haitian Constitution of 1801 Malick Ghachem Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit mwghachem@hotmail.com
discussant Harold Berman Law, Emory University hberman@law.emory.edu
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.      
The Making of Civil Rights Law Revisited  chair Davison Douglas Law, William and Mary dmdoug@wm.edu
Transformations in Civil Rights Lawyering and Politics, 1920-40 Kenneth Mack Law, Harvard University kmack@law.harvard.edu
The Work of Civil Rights in the 1940s Risa Goluboff Law, University of Virginia  rlg3t@virginia.edu
discussant Martha Biondi History, Northwestern University m-biondi@northwestern.edu
discussant Mark Tushnet Law, Georgetown University tushnet@law.georgetown.edu
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.        
Defining Gender, Judging Sex:  Legal Rules and Popular Judgment in Early Twentieth-Century America chair/discussant Karen Engle Law, University of Texas, Austin KEngle@mail.law.utexas.edu
The "'New' Unwritten Law":   Chicago Husband-Killers 1900-1930 Marianne Constable Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley mc@socrates.berkeley.edu
“Dementia Americana”:  Insanity and the Unwritten Law in the Trials of Harry Thaw Martha Umphrey Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, Amherst College mmumphrey@amherst.edu
discussant Susan Heinzelman English, University of Texas, Austin sheinz@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.        
Moral Judiciary in the Gilded Age chair Felice Batlan Law and History, Tulane University Law School fbatlan@law.tulane.edu
The Tastes and Habits of an Aristocracy: The New York Bar and the Elected Judiciary in the Gilded Age Renee Lettow Lerner Law, George Washington University rlerner@law.gwu.edu
The Moral Common Law of the Gilded Age Anticodifiers Lewis Grossman Law, American University lewisg@wcl.american.edu
Lochner Era Revisionism, Revised David Bernstein Law, George Mason University dbernste@gmu.edu
discussant Robert Gordon Law, Yale University robert.w.gordon@yale.edu
Saturday, 10:30 a.m.        
English Justice and Its Problems in the Fifteenth Century chair Victoria List History, Washington and Jefferson College vlist@washjeff.edu 
Patterns and Problems in Fifteenth-Century Litigation:
A View from the Year Books		 David Seipp Law, Boston University dseipp@bu.edu
Greasing Justice in Fifteenth Century England:
Sir John Fastolf’s Litigation and Will Contest		 Jonathan Rose Law, Arizona State University Jonathan.Rose@ASU.edu
discussant David Millon Law, Washington and Lee University millond@wlu.edu
Saturday, 12:30 -1:45 p.m.        
Annual Luncheon          
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.        
Legal and Social Order in Early Modern France chair/discussant Julie Hardwick History, University of Texas, Austin jhardwick@mail.utexas.edu
The Judicial Terror in the Criminal Courts of Provincial France, 1793 – 94 Robert  Allen History, Stephen F. Austin State University rballen@sfasu.edu
Sharing the Wealth:  Marriage and Inheritance in Early Modern Paris Janine Lanza History, Wayne State University jmlanza@wayne.edu
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.        
Law, Politics, and Reform in U.S. Legal History:  Authors Meet Readers chair Barry Cushman Law and History, University of Virginia bjc2r@virginia.edu
author Edward Purcell Law, New York Law School epurcell@nyls.edu
author Charles McCurdy History, University of Virginia cwm@virginia.edu
reader Clyde Spillenger Law, University of California, Los Angeles spilleng@law.ucla.edu
reader Alfred Brophy Law, University of Alabama abrophy@law.ua.edu
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.        
The Bloody Code: Its Relation to Reform of the Criminal Law and Reformers chair David Lieberman Law and JSP, University of California at Berkeley dlieb@law.berkeley.edu
Reforming the English Judicial System from Beneath 1750-1850 Peter King History, University College Northampton pete.king@northampton.ac.uk
Policing and Prosecution in London: the Bow Street Magistrates' Court, 1770-1790 John Beattie History and Criminology, University of Toronto j.beattie@sympatico.ca
The Condemned of the Old Bailey, 1714-1837: Statistical
Perspectives		 Simon Deveraux History, University of Victoria simon_devereaux@yahoo.com
discussant Norma Landau History, University of California, Davis nblandau@ucdavis.edu
Saturday, 2:00 p.m.        
Defining and Redefining State Protection of Children in Twentieth-Century U.S. Law chair  Charles McClain
 Legal Studies, University of California at Berkeley;
cmcclain@law.berkeley.edu
The American Family, the State, and the Rise of Compulsory Attendance Laws, 1890-1940 Tracy Steffes History, University of Chicago tlsteffe@midway.uchicago.edu
Can the Nation be a Parent?
Delinquency, Federalism, and the Limits of Progressive Juvenile Justice
 David Tanenhaus History and Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas tanenhaus@ccmail.nevada.edu
Legal Thought on the Child and the State: 1967-1980 Ethan Sribnick History, University of Virginia egs6e@virginia.edu
discussant E. Wayne Carp History, Pacific Lutheran University carpw@plu.edu
Saturday, 4:00 p.m.        
Texts and Evidence in Medieval Contexts chair Daniel Klerman Law, University of Southern California dklerman@law.usc.edu
Torture and the Medieval City: Evidence from the Law Code of Toulouse Christopher K. Gardner History, George Mason University cgardne4@ gmu.edu
Summa est: Analysis of Glosses on Legal Procedure and Terminology in a Cambridge Manuscript of Ivo of Chartres' Panormia (Cambridge, UL Ff iv 41)  Bruce C. Brasington History and Political Science, West Texas A&M University bbrasington@mail.wtamu.edu
Of the Worshipful Warrior: Criminal Sanctuary in the Central Middle Ages Tricia Olson Law and History, Emory University Filpriros@aol.com
discussant Geoffrey Koizol History, University of California at Berkeley gkoz@uclink4.berkeley.edu
Saturday, 4:00 p.m.        
Still Embarrassing After All These Years? The Future of Second Amendment Scholarship chair David Thomas  Konig History, Washington University dtkonig@artsci.wustl.edu
Embarrassing Interpretations of the Second Amendment:  Beyond the Myth of Constitutional Consensus Saul Cornell History, Ohio State University Cornell.14@osu.edu
Whose is the Embarrassment?: The Framers and their Historians confront the Right of Revolution Robert Churchill Humanities, University of Hartford churchill@hartford.edu
The Embarrassment of Reconstruction: The Second Amendment and State Formation After the Civil War Carole Emberton History, Northwestern University c-emberton@northwestern.edu
discussant Sanford Levinson Law, University of Texas slevinson@mail.law.utexas.edu
Saturday, 4:00 p.m.        
Regulation and Political Economy in the Telephone Industry chair Catherine Fisk Law, University of Southern California fisk@law.duke.edu
Nickel-in-the-Slot: The Political Economy of Urban Telephony, 1894-1907
 Richard John University of Illinois at Chicago rjohn@uic.edu
The Second Industrial Revolution in court: building and attacking national patent monopolies in the telephone industry, 1876-1897 Christopher Beauchamp History, Cambridge University, England crb27@cam.ac.uk

discussant

 George Priest Law, Yale University george.priest@yale.edu
discussant Milton Mueller School of Information Studies, Syracuse University mueller@syr.edu
Saturday, 4:00 p.m.        
Presidential Panel:  Scandinavian Perspectives in Legal History  chair Gregory Alexander Law, Cornell University greg-alexander@postoffice.law.cornell.edu

“An American Dilemma” and the Scandinavian Dream: The Citizen meets Modernity and the Strong Nation State – A Study in Comparative Legal Cultures

Kjell Modeer Law, Lund University, Sweden Kjell_A.Modeer@jur.lu.se

Vilhelm Lundstedt – a biographical sketch

Jan-Olof Sundell Law, Stockholm University, Sweden jan-olof.sundell@juridicum.su.se
discussant Martin  Shapiro Law, University of California at Berkeley shapirom@law.berkeley.edu
discussant Rolf Nygren Law, Uppsala University, Sweden RNY@jur.uu.se

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