Thursday, November 10
Registration and Book
Exhibits Times TBA
Executive Committee
Meeting Time TBA
Board of Directors
Meeting Time
TBA
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Friday, November 11
Registration and Book
Exhibits Times TBA
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Session #1
8:30am - 10:15am
Party, Politics
and Corrupt Practices: Campaign Finance Law in the Gilded Age
Chair: Adam
Winkler; Law, University of California, Los Angeles; winkler@law.ucla.edu
“Wings Over
Washington: Public Policy and Party Angels in Gilded Age America”
Mark Wahlgren
Summers
“Prosecuting
‘Excessive Spending’: The Peculiar Case of the Corrupt Practices
Act”
Paula Baker
“‘The Best Purpose
in the World’: The Liberty Bond Women as 1920 Campaign Fundraisers”
Kurt Hohenstein
Discussant: Adam
Winkler
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New Perspectives
on Civil Rights History
Chair: Annette
Gordon-Reed; Law, New York Law School; agordon@nyls.edu
“Leave of Court: African-American Claims-Making in
the Era of Dred Scott v. Sanford”
Martha S. Jones
“Grassroots Litigation: James R. Walker, Jr., and
the Fight against North Carolina’s Literacy Test, 1956-1961”
John Wertheimer
“Before and after Loving v. Virginia: Marriage,
Identity, and Law, from Interracial to Same-Sex” Peter Wallenstein
Discussant: Risa Goluboff
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Political
Economy as a Legal Form in Early America
Chair: Charlotte
Crane; Law, Northwestern University; ccrane@law.northwestern.edu
“Creating an American Property Law:
The Political Economy of Property Regulation from the Colonial
Period through Jackson”
Claire Priest
“Abigail
Adams, Bond Speculator: Gender, Class and Virtue in the Creation of
the Constitution”
Woody Holton
“From Blood to Profit: Money and the Move Towards
Capitalism”
Christine Desan
Discussants:
Allan Kulikoff
Charles McCurdy
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Children and the
Courts in Latin America
Chair: Linda Lewin;
History, University of California, Berkeley; llewin@berkeley.edu
“The Kindness of Strangers in the Shadow of the Law:
Informality, Extralegality and Child Circulation in Chile,
1857-1930”
Nara Milanich;
History, Barnard College; nmilanic@barnard.edu
“Negotiating
Patriarchy: Boys, Girls, Family and State in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
1850-1889”
Erica M. Windler; History, Michigan State University;
ewindler1@mac.com
One paper TBA
Discussant: Linda Lewin
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Wives and
Mothers
Chair: Thomas P.
Gallanis; Law and History, Washington & Lee University; gallanist@wlu.edu
“The Myriad Roles
of Women in Will-Making and Testamentary Litigation in Late
Seventeenth Century England”
Lloyd Bonfield
“Interspousal
Custody Battles and the Unfulfilled Promise of the 1858 Divorce
Court”
Danaya Wright
“Racializing
Motherhood: Black and White Women’s Experiences in Mississippi
Chancery Courts, 1870-1920”
Kevin McCarthy
Discussant: Thomas
P. Gallanis
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Session #2
10:30am - 12:15pm
History, Memory,
Justice in the Trials of World War II
Chair: Michael
Marrus; History, University of Toronto; michael.marrus@utoronto.ca
“Judges on Trial:
History, Memory and Justice in Post-War France”
Sarah Spinner
“History and Memory
in Perpetrator Trials: Nuremberg, Eichmann, Milosevic”
Lawrence Douglas
“The Eichmann Trial
and the Legacy of Jurisdiction: Lessons for the ‘New Political
Trial’”
Leora Bilsky
Discussants:
Robert O. Paxton
Henry Rousso
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Judicial Review,
Public Opinion and Slavery
Chair: Renée
Lerner; Law, George Washington University; rlerner@law.gwu.edu
“The Negro Seamen
Affair”
Gary Rowe
“The People’s
Courts: Slavery and the Adoption of the Judicial Elections,
1846-1860”
Jed Shugerman
“Judicial Review’s
Darkest Hour”
Barry Friedman
Discussant: Renée
Lerner
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Law in the Early
Republic
Chair: TBA
“Escaping the
Hangman: Suicide in Legal Thought in the Early Republic”
Rick Bell
“Cried Down and
Published: Newspapers, Neighborhoods, and the Regulation of Early
America”
Kirsten Sword
“Republicanism, the
Public/Private Divide, and the Truth-Plus Defense to Libel Law in
Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts”
Lyndsay Campbell
Discussant: TBA
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Outliers,
Objectors, and the Modern American State
Chair: Michele
Landis Dauber; Law, Stanford University; mldauber@law.stanford.edu
“The World
According to Thorpe”
Michael Willrich
“Objecting to the
Wartime State: Conscientious Objectors in the United States,
1917-18”
Christopher
Capozzola
“Through the Back
Door: Illegal Chinese Border Crossings During the Exclusion Era,
1882-1943”
Emily Ryo
Discussant: Ron
Levi
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Widows and the
Law
Chair: Bruce Smith;
Law, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; smithb@law.uiuc.edu
“Taking Thirteenth-Century Statutes Seriously: The
Strange History of Remedies Based on Chapter Seven of the Statute of
Gloucester (1278)”
Paul Brand
“Widow and Warrantor: Tenure and the Land Law in
Thirteenth Century England”
Sue Sheridan Walker
“Deciding What a Widow Needs: Paraphernalia in the
Courts”
Janet Loengard
Discussant: Bruce Smith
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Session #3
1:45pm-3:30pm
“Matters of
Definition”: Law and Meaning in Nineteenth Century America
Chair:
Jon-Christian Suggs; English, City University of New York; jcsjj@sprintmail.com
“Judging ‘Freedom’
in Slave Transit Cases and Slave Narratives”
Edlie L. Wong
“‘A New Race Has
Sprung Up’: ‘Bartleby’ and the Prudent Person Standard”
John Matteson
“Transgressing the
Law: The Pursuit of Reparations in African American Literature”
Jesse J. Scott
Discussant:
Jon-Christian Suggs
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Author-Meets-Readers: From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
Chair: Judith K. Schafer; Political
Economy, Tulane University; jschafer@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
Readers:
David E. Bernstein
Paul Finkelman
Thomas M. Keck
Response: Michael
Klarman
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Intellectual
Origins of the U.S. Constitution
Chair: John P.
Reid; Law, New York University; john.reid@nyu.edu
“Constitutionalism
and the United States Constitution”
Barbara A. Black
“Republicanism and
the United States Constitution”
Mortimer Sellers
“The Common Law and
the United States Constitution
Stephen Sheppard
Discussant: John P.
Reid
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American Legal
Imperialism in Asia: How Law Disciplines the Colonized and the
Colonizers
Chair: TBA
“Why
Canton Is Not Boston: The Law of Nations and the American Discovery
of Asia”
Teemu Ruskola
“All
Law Is Local: American Consular Courts in Late 19th-Century Asia”
Eileen Scully
“The
‘Board of Control’ Cases in the Philippine Islands: Containing
Colonial Conflict in Constitutional Categories”
Anna Leah Fidelis
T. Casteñeda
Discussant: TBA
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Actions and
Interests in English Law
Chair: Daniel
Klerman; Law and History, University of Southern California;
dklerman@law.usc.edu
“Ownership and
Possession in the Early Common Law: The Advowson Writs”
Joshua Tate
“Bills of Custody”
Susanne Jenks
“The Trust
Beneficiary_s
Interest before R v. Holland (1648)”
Neil Jones
Discussant: Daniel
Klerman
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Session #4
4:00pm - 5:45pm
Presidential
Plenary Session: Wartime Justice and Civil Liberties
Chair: Maeva
Marcus; Supreme Court Historical Society
Panelists:
Paper TBA
Eric Muller
Paper TBA
Harry Scheiber
“Seeking Historical
Legitimacy in the New Military Commission Cases”
Beth Hillman
Response: The
Audience
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Saturday, November 12
Session #5
8:30am - 10:15am
Constitutionalism at the Grassroots
Chair: Linda
Przybyszewski; History, University of Cincinnati;
linda.przybyszewski@uc.edu
Papers TBA
Discussant: Linda
Przybyszewski
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Grounds for
Freedom: Slaves’ Lawsuits in the Atlantic World
Chair: Melanie
Newton; History, University of Toronto; melanie.newton@utoronto.ca
“Free Soil:
Emergence and Development of an Atlantic Principle”
Sue Peabody
“Maintaining Slavery on Shifting Legal Grounds:
Brazilian Government Policy Towards Illegally-Imported Slaves”
Beatriz Mamigonian
“Slavery, Manumission and the Law in Nineteenth
Century Brazil: The ‘Free Soil’ Principle in the Southern Border of
the Brazilian Empire”
Keila Greenberg
Discussant: Leslie
Rowland
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Trusts,
Corporations and Colonialism
Chair: Peter Hall;
Kennedy School of Government; pd_hall@harvard.edu
“Law, Trust, and Conquest: Cobell v. Norton and
Colonialism in the United States”
Matthew Kelly
“Entrusting the Faith: Zoroastrian Priests and the
Udwada Fire Temple Case (1900)”
Mitra Sharafi
“Companies Law and
Colonization”
Robert McQueen
Discussant: Peter
Hall
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Roman Civil Law
Chair: John Cairns;
Law, University of Edinburgh; john.cairns@ed.ac.uk
“Roman Rhetoric and
Early American Litigation”
Michael H. Hoeflich
“How the Romans Got
Someone to Court”
Ernest Metzger
“Locatio Conductio
and Virtual Reality”
Paul du Plessis
Discussant: John
Cairns
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Session #6
10:30am - 12:15pm
Presidential
Panel: The Scholarship of Lawrence Friedman
Chair: Harry
Scheiber; Law and History; University of California, Berkeley;
scheiber@law.berkeley.edu
“An Americanist’s
Perspective”
Victoria Saker
Woeste
“A Political
Scientist’s Perspective”
Robert Kagan
“From the
Perspective of Comparative Studies”
Thomas Ginsburg
Title TBA
James Whitman
Response: Lawrence
Friedman
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Nineteenth
Century Views of Congressional Power
Chair: Sanford
Levinson; Law and Government; University of Texas, Austin; slevinson@law.utexas.edu
“Overruling
M’Culloch”
Mark Graber
“The Legal Tender
Cases and M’Culloch’s Revival”
Gerard Magliocca
“The Riddle of
Hiram Levels”
Richard Primus
Discussant: Sanford
Levinson
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The Law of
Nations in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic
Chair:
David Armitage;
History, Harvard University; armitage@fas.harvard.edu
“Rebellion, Criminal Law, and the Rules of War in
Britain and Colonial North America, 1745-1757”
Geoffrey Plank
“Atlantic Maritime Legal Culture and the Law of
Nations”
Lauren Benton
“States, Statelessness, and the Law of Nations in the
British Atlantic, circa 1756”
Eliga H. Gould
Discussant: Leonard Sadosky
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The History of
Intellectual Property Rights
Chair: Craig Joyce;
Law, University of Houston; cjoyce@uh.edu
“The Free Ride of
Paul Revere: The Moral Climate of IP in the Early Republic”
Doron Ben-Atar
“Copyright in
Transition”
Peter Jazsi
“Who Cares What
Thomas Jefferson Thought About Patents: Reconsidering the Historical
Content of the Patent ‘Privilege’”
Adam Mossoff
Discussant: Craig
Joyce
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Author-Meets-Readers: The Making of Gratian’s Decretum
Chair: Richard
Helmholz; Law, University of Chicago; dick_helmholz@law.uchicago.edu
Readers:
Charles Donahue
Kenneth Pennington
Richard Radding
Response: Anders
Winroth
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Annual Luncheon
12:30pm - 2:00pm
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Session #7
2:15pm - 4:00pm
Futures for U.S.
Legal History
Chair: Robert W.
Gordon; Law and History, Yale University; robert.w.gordon@yale.edu
“Context in History
and Law: The Late Nineteenth Century Jurisprudence of Custom”
Kunal Parker
“Legal History and
the Domain of Archaeology”
Hilary Soderland
“Law and History in
the U.S. Case: Toward a Structural History of National Legal
Practices”
Christopher Tomlins
Discussant:
Marianne Constable
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The Bureaucracy
of Slavery and Emancipation: Federal Power and State Building,
1800-1870
Chair: Alfred
Brophy; Law, University of Alabama; abrophy@law.ua.edu
“Codification and
Emancipation in the 37th Congress”
Daniel W. Hamilton
“A Tale of Two Departments: Debates in Congress Over
Education and Justice During Reconstruction”
Williamjames Hull
Hoffer
“The Posse
Principle: Federal Policing in Antebellum America”
Gautham Rao
Discussant: Alfred
Brophy
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The Morality of
Borders
Chair: Mary Dudziak;
Law and History, University of Southern California; mdudziak@law.usc.edu
“Chinese Culture
Brokers, the INS, and the World’s Fairs, 1893-1904”
Mae M. Ngai
“Borders and the
Construction of Moral Sex”
Ariela R. Dubler
“Liberal and Illiberal Borders in the Law and
Politics of the ‘New Immigration,’ 1884-1924”
William E. Forbath
Discussant: Mary
Dudziak
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The 1950s at
Home and Abroad
Chair: Michael
Parrish; History, University of California, San Diego; mparrish@ucsd.edu
“Eisenhower and the
Brown Decision”
David Stebenne
“Braving Jim Crow
to Save Willie McGee: Bella Abzug and the Fight for Civil Rights”
Leandra Zarnow
“Law, Realism and
Power: Dean Acheson and the Jurisprudence of Cold War Diplomacy”
Jonathan Zasloff
Discussant: Michael
Parrish
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Episodes in
Early Modern Law
Chair: David Seipp;
Law, Boston University; dseipp@bu.edu
“The Relationship between Code and Custom in Early
Modern Commercial Law”
Emily Kadens
“The Prehistory of Eminent Domain”
Susan Reynolds
“Keech v. Sanford and the Birth of Fiduciary Law”
Joshua Getzler
Discussant: David
Seipp
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Session #8
4:15pm - 6:00pm
A Tribute to
Kitty Preyer
Panel TBA
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Law and
Regulation in the Progressive Era
Chair: John Witt;
Law, Columbia University; jwitt@law.columbia.edu
“The Glass House
Boys of Pittsburgh and the Limits of Progressive Era Child Labor
Legislation”
James Flannery
“Law and Democracy
in Progressive Era Ohio”
William Nancarrow
“Keeping Out of the
‘Grandma Class’: The Company Rule, Railroading Work Culture, and the
Law of Workplace Accidents”
John
Williams-Searle
Discussant: John
Witt
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U.S. Influence on
Other Nations
Panel TBA
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Criminal Law in
the Twentieth Century
Chair: Albert
Alschuler; Law, University of Chicago; awaa@midway.uchicago.edu
“The Age of the
Trial: Responsibility, the Proof of Guilt, and the Criminal Process,
1890-1930”
Lindsay Farmer
“Prevention,
Prophylaxis, and Paternalism: The Liberal Roots of Fascist Criminal
Law in Italy, 1910-1934”
Paul Garfinkel
“Rule of Law Without
Due Process: Punishing Robbers and Bandits in Early Twentieth Century
China”
Xiaoqun Xu
Discussant: Albert
Alschuler
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Case
Microhistories
Chair: Michael
Grossberg; History and Law; Indiana University, Bloomington; grossber@indiana.edu
“To Undo What Has
Been Done: Miscegenation and Inheritance in In Re Remley”
Kevin Maillard
“Pierson v. Post and
the Rule of Capture”
Andrea McDowell
“Shades of Red”
Victoria Sutton
Discussant: TBA