Draft Program
Thursday, November 10th
3:00-6:00 pm
Registration
3:00-7:00 pm
Book Exhibits
5:00-6:30 pm
Executive Committee dinner
6:30-8:45 pm
Board of Directors Meeting
9:00-11:00 pm
Reception sponsored by Dean Christopher Edley and Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, honoring the Society’s officers and our colleague Harry N. Scheiber at the completion of his term as president.
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Friday, November 11th
7:30-8:45 am
Continental Breakfast & Committee Breakfasts
8:00 am-3:00 pm
Registration
8:00 am-300 pm
Book Exhibits
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Session #1
8:30am - 10:15am
Party, Politics and Corrupt Practices: The Use of Campaign Finance Law in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
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; History, University of Kentucky; msumm2@pop.uky.edu
“Prosecuting ‘Excessive Spending’: The Peculiar Case of the Corrupt Practices Act”
Paula Baker; History, Ohio State University; pscbaker@ameritech.net
“‘The Best Purpose in the World’: The Liberty Bond Women as 1920 Campaign Fundraisers”
Kurt Hohenstein; History and Law, University of Virginia; hohenstein@virginia.edu
Discussant: Robert Mutch; rmutch@earthlink.net
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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; History and Law, University of Michigan; msjonz@umich.edu
“Grassroots Litigation: James R. Walker, Jr., and the Fight against North Carolina’s Literacy Test, 1956-1961”
John Wertheimer; History, Davidson College; jowertheimer@davidson.edu
“Before and after Loving v. Virginia: Marriage, Identity, and Law, from Interracial to Same-Sex”
Peter Wallenstein; History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; pwallens@vt.edu
Discussant: Risa Goluboff; Law, University of Virginia; goluboff@virginia.edu
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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; Law and History, Northwestern University; c-priest@law.northwestern.edu
“Abigail Adams, Bond Speculator: Gender, Class and Virtue in the Creation of the Constitution”
Woody Holton; History, University of Richmond; aholton@richmond.edu
“From Blood to Profit: Money and the Move Towards Capitalism”
Christine Desan, Law, Harvard Law School; desan@law.harvard.edu
Discussants:
Allan Kulikoff; History, University of Georgia; kulikoff@arches.uga.edu
Charles McCurdy; History and Law, University of Virginia; cwm@virginia.edu
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Children and the Courts in Latin America
Chair: Matthew C. Mirow; Law, Florida International University; mirowm@fiu.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; windler@msu.edu
“Patriarchalism, Law, and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Venezuela”
Arlene Diaz; History, Indiana University, Bloomington; ardiaz@indiana.edu
Discussant: Linda Lewin; History, University of California, Berkeley; llewin@berkeley.edu
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Wives and Mothers
Chair: Kristin Brandser; Law, University of Cincinnati; kristin.brandser@uc.edu
“The Myriad Roles of Women in Will-Making and Testamentary Litigation in Late Seventeenth Century England”
Lloyd Bonfield; Law, Tulane Law School; lbonfield@law.tulane.edu
“Interspousal Custody Battles and the Unfulfilled Promise of the 1858 Divorce Court”
Danaya Wright; Law, University of Florida; wrightdc@law.ufl.edu
“Racializing Motherhood: Black and White Women’s Experiences in Mississippi Chancery Courts, 1870-1920”
Kevin McCarthy; History, University of Mississippi; kevin@olemiss.edu
Discussant: Laura Edwards; History, Duke University; ledwards@duke.edu
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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; Law, Yale University; sarah.spinner@yale.edu
“History and Memory in Perpetrator Trials: Nuremberg, Eichmann, Milosevic”
Lawrence Douglas; Law, Amherst College; lrdouglas@amherst.edu
“The Eichmann Trial and the Legacy of Jurisdiction: Lessons for the ‘New Political Trial’”
Leora Bilsky; Law, Tel Aviv University; bilskyl@post.tau.ac.il
Discussants:
Robert O. Paxton; History, Columbia University; rop1@columbia.edu
Henry Rousso; History, Institut d’Histoire du Temps Present; rousso@ihtp.cnrs.fr
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Judicial Review, Public Opinion and Slavery
Chair: Ariela Gross; Law, University of Southern California; agross@law.usc.edu
“The Negro Seamen Affair”
Gary Rowe; Law, University of California, Los Angeles; rowe@law.ucla.edu
“The People’s Courts: Slavery and the Adoption of the Judicial Elections, 1846-1860”
Jed Shugerman; Law, Harvard University; jshugerman@law.harvard.edu
“Judicial Review’s Darkest Hour”
Barry Friedman; Law, New York University; barry.friedman@nyu.edu
Discussant: Renée Lerner; Law, George Washington University; rlerner@law.gwu.edu
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Public Authority and Private Matters in Early American Law
Chair: Elaine Crane; History, Fordham University; ecrane@fordham.edu
“Escaping the Hangman: Suicide in Legal Thought in the Early Republic”
Rick Bell; History, Harvard University; rjbell@fas.harvard.edu
“Cried Down and Published: Newspapers, Neighborhoods, and the Regulation of Early America”
Kirsten Sword; History, Indiana University, Bloomington; ksword@indiana.edu
“Republicanism, the Public/Private Divide, and the Truth-Plus Defense to Libel Law in Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts”
Lyndsay Campbell; Law, University of California, Berkeley; lyndsay@iii.ca
Discussant: Michael Grossberg; History, Indiana University, Bloomington; grossber@indiana.edu
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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; History, Brandeis University; willrich@brandeis.edu
“Objecting to the Wartime State: Conscientious Objectors in the United States, 1917-18”
Christopher Capozzola; History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; capozzol@mit.edu
“Through the Back Door: Illegal Chinese Border Crossings During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943”
Emily Ryo; Sociology, Stanford University; eryo@stanford.edu
Discussant: Ron Levi; Criminology, University of Toronto; ron.levi@utoronto.ca
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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; All Souls College, Oxford; paul.brand@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
“Widow and Warrantor: Tenure and the Land Law in Thirteenth Century England”
Sue Sheridan Walker; History, Northeastern Illinois University
“Deciding What a Widow Needs: Paraphernalia in the Courts”
Janet Loengard; History, Moravian College; j.loengard@verizon.net
Discussant: W. Hamilton Bryson; Law, University of Richmond; hbryson@richmond.edu
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12:30-1:45 pm
Committee lunches
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Session #3
1:45pm-3:30pm
“Matters of Definition”: Law and Meaning in Nineteenth Century America
Chair: Polly Price; Law, Emory University; pprice@law.emory.edu
“Judging ‘Freedom’ in Slave Transit Cases and Slave Narratives”
Edlie L. Wong; English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; edlie@rci.rutgers.edu
“‘A New Race Has Sprung Up’: ‘Bartleby’ and the Prudent Person Standard”
John Matteson; English, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; matteson151@earthlink.net
“Transgressing the Law: The Pursuit of Reparations in African American Literature”
Jesse J. Scott; American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park; jjscott@umd.edu
Discussant: Jon-Christian Suggs; English, City University of New York; jcsjj@sprintmail.com
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Author-Meets-Readers: From Jim Crow to Civil Rights
Chair: Judith K. Schafer; History and Law, Tulane University; jschafer@tulane.edu
Readers:
David E. Bernstein; Law, George Mason University; dbernste@gmu.edu
Paul Finkelman; Law, University of Tulsa; paul-finkelman@utulsa.edu
Thomas M. Keck; Political Science, Syracuse University; tmkeck@maxwell.syr.edu
Response: Michael Klarman; Law and History, University of Virginia; mjk6s@virginia.edu
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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; Law, Columbia University; bab@law.columbia.edu
“Republicanism and the United States Constitution”
Mortimer Sellers; Law, University of Baltimore; msellers@ubalt.edu
“The Common Law and the United States Constitution”
Stephen Sheppard; Law, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; sheppard@uark.edu
Discussant: Akiba J. Covitz; Political Science, University of Richmond; acovitz@richmond.edu
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American Legal Imperialism in Asia: How Law Disciplines the Colonized and the Colonizers
Chair: Lucy Salyer; History; University of New Hampshire; lucy.salyer@unh.edu
“Why Canton Is Not Boston: The Law of Nations and the American Discovery of Asia”
Teemu Ruskola; Law, American University; truskola@wcl.american.edu
“All Law Is Local: American Consular Courts in Late 19th-Century Asia”
Eileen Scully; Social Sciences, Bennington College; scullyep@earthlink.net
“The ‘Board of Control’ Cases in the Philippine Islands: Containing Colonial Conflict in Constitutional Categories”
Anna Leah Fidelis T. CastaZeda; Law, Harvard University; leiaca4768@aol.com
Discussant: William P. Alford; Law, Harvard University; alford@law.harvard.edu
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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; Law, Southern Methodist University; joshua.tate@aya.yale.edu
“Bills of Custody”
Susanne Jenks; susanne.jenks@spd-online.de
“The Trust Beneficiary’s Interest before R v. Holland (1648)”
Neil Jones; Law, University of Cambridge; ngj10@cam.ac.uk
Discussant: Joseph Biancalana; Law, University of Cincinnati; joseph.biancalana@uc.edu
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Session #4
4:00pm - 5:45pm
Presidential Plenary Session: Wartime Justice and Civil Liberties
Chair: Maeva Marcus; Documentary History of the Supreme Court; dochistsc@aol.com
Panelists:
“Military Justice, Non-accountability, and the Hawaiian Japanese-American Internees, 1943-45”
Jane L. Scheiber and Harry N. Scheiber; University of California, Berkeley; scheiber@berkeley.edu
“Loyalty Screening in Wartime: The Japanese American Joint Board, 1943-44”
Eric Muller; Law, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; emuller@email.unc.edu
“History as Evidence in the New Military Commission Cases”
Elizabeth Hillman; Law, Rutgers University, Camden; hillman@camden.rutgers.edu
Response: The Audience
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Saturday, November 12th
7:30-8:45 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - noon
Registration
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Book Display
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Session #5
8:30am - 10:15am
Biography and Constitutionalism at the Grassroots
Chair: Linda Przybyszewski; History, University of Cincinnati; linda.przybyszewski@uc.edu
Papers:
“Biography of a Litigator: An Inquiry into the Constitutional Principles of Dabney Marshall (1860-1928)”
Christopher Waldrep; History, San Francisco State University; cwaldrep@sfsu.edu
“The Institutional Entrepreneurs of the ‘Freedom-Based’ Public Interest Law Movement”
Ann Southworth; Law, Case Western Reserve University; axs76@case.edu
“Certainly No Judicial Heroes: The Heroes and Heroines in the Brownfield and Franklyn Cases”
W. Lewis Burke; Law, University of South Carolina; lewis@law.law.sc.edu
Discussant: Timothy S. Huebner; History, Rhodes College; huebner@rhodes.edu
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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; History, Washington State University; peabody@vancouver.wsu.edu
“Maintaining Slavery on Shifting Legal Grounds: Brazilian Government Policy Towards Illegally-Imported Slaves”
Beatriz Mamigonian; History, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina; bgmamigo@matrix.com.br
“Slavery, Manumission and the Law in Nineteenth Century Brazil: The ‘Free Soil’ Principle in the Southern Border of the Brazilian Empire”
Keila Greenberg; History, Universidade do Rio de Janeiro; keka@pobox.com
Discussant: Leslie Rowland; History, University of Maryland, College Park; lrowland@umd.edu
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Trusts, Corporations and Colonialism
Chair: Andrew Buck; Law, Macquarie University; andrew.buck@mq.edu.au
“Law, Trust, and Conquest: Cobell v. Norton and Colonialism in the United States”
Matthew Kelly; Anthropology, University of Chicago; mjkelly@uchicago.edu
“Entrusting the Faith: Zoroastrian Priests and the Udwada Fire Temple Case (1900)”
Mitra Sharafi; History, Princeton University; mitrasharafi@yahoo.com
“Companies Law and Colonization”
Robert McQueen; Law, Griffith University; r.mcqueen@griffith.edu.au
Discussant: Ritu Birla; History, University of Toronto; r.birla@utoronto.ca
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Roman Civil Law
Chair: Bruce W. Frier; Law and Classics, University of Michigan; bwfrier@umich.edu
“Roman Rhetoric and Early American Litigation”
Michael H. Hoeflich; Law, University of Kansas; hoeflich@ku.edu
“How the Romans Got Someone to Court”
Ernest Metzger; Law, University of Aberdeen; e.metzger@abdn.ac.uk
“Locatio Conductio and Virtual Reality”
Paul du Plessis; Law, University of Edinburgh; pduplessis@ed.ac.uk
Discussant: John Cairns; Law, University of Edinburgh; john.cairns@ed.ac.uk
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Session #6
10:30am - 12:15pm
Presidential Panel: The Scholarship of Lawrence Friedman
Chair: Harry N. Scheiber; Law and History; University of California, Berkeley; scheiber@berkeley.edu
“An Americanist’s Perspective”
Victoria Saker Woeste; American Bar Foundation; vswoeste@northwestern.edu
“A Political Scientist’s Perspective”
Robert A. Kagan; Political Science and Law, University of California, Berkeley; rak@uclink.berkeley.edu
“From the Perspective of Comparative Studies”
Thomas Ginsburg; Law and Political Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; tginsbur@law.uiuc.edu
“The Comparative Paradox of Church and State: America and France”
James Q. Whitman; Law, Yale University; james.whitman@yale.edu
Response: Lawrence M. Friedman; Law, Stanford University; lmf@stanford.edu
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Nineteenth Century Views of Congressional Power
Chair: Keith Whittington; Politics, Princeton University; kewhitt@princeton.edu
“Overruling M’Culloch”
Mark Graber; Government and Law, University of Maryland; mgraber@gvpt.umd.edu
“The Legal Tender Cases and M’Culloch’s Revival”
Gerard Magliocca; Law, Indiana University, Indianapolis; gnm2000@yahoo.com
“The Riddle of Hiram Levels”
Richard Primus; Law, University of Michigan; richard.primus@umich.edu
Discussant: Keith Whittington
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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; History, University of Cincinnati; geoffrey.plank@uc.edu
“Atlantic Maritime Legal Culture and the Law of Nations”
Lauren Benton; History, New York University; lauren.benton@nyu.edu
“States, Statelessness, and the Law of Nations in the British Atlantic, circa 1756”
Eliga H. Gould; History, University of New Hampshire; ehg@christa.unh.edu
Discussant: Leonard Sadosky; History, Iowa State University; lsadosky@iastate.edu
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The History of Intellectual Property Rights
Chair: Thomas Nachbar; Law, University of Virginia; tbn4n@virginia.edu
“The Free Ride of Paul Revere: The Moral Climate of IP in the Early Republic”
Doron Ben-Atar; History, Fordham University; benatar@fordham.edu
“Copyright in Transition”
Peter Jazsi; Law, American University; pjaszi@wcl.american.edu
“Who Cares What Thomas Jefferson Thought About Patents: Reconsidering the Historical Content of the Patent ‘Privilege’”
Adam Mossoff; Law, Michigan State University; amossoff@law.msu.edu
Discussant: Craig Joyce; Law, University of Houston; cjoyce@uh.edu
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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; Law, Harvard University
Kenneth Pennington; Law and Religious Studies, Catholic University; pennington@law.edu
Charles Radding; History, Michigan State University; radding@msu.edu
Response: Anders Winroth; History, Yale University; anders.winroth@yale.edu
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Annual Luncheon
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
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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; Law, Cleveland State University; kmparker@princeton.edu
“Legal History and the Domain of Archaeology”
Hilary Soderland; Archaeology, University of Cambridge; has32@cam.ac.uk
“Law and History in the U.S. Case: Toward a Structural History of National Legal Practices”
Christopher Tomlins; American Bar Foundation; clt@northwestern.edu
Discussant: Marianne Constable; Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley; constable@berkeley.edu
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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
“Confiscation and Emancipation in the 37th Congress”
Daniel W. Hamilton; Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law; dhamilton@kentlaw.edu
“A Tale of Two Departments: Debates in Congress Over Education and Justice During Reconstruction”
Williamjames Hull Hoffer; History, Seton Hall University; hofferwi@shu.edu
“The Posse Principle: Federal Policing in Antebellum America”
Gautham Rao; History, Wagner College; grao@midway.uchicago.edu
Discussant: Michael Vorenberg; History, Brown University; michael_vorenberg@brown.edu
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The Morality of Borders
Chair: Susanna Blumenthal; Law, University of Michigan; sblumen@umich.edu
“Chinese Culture Brokers, the INS, and the World’s Fairs, 1893-1904”
Mae M. Ngai; History, University of Chicago; maengai@uchicago.edu
“Borders and the Construction of Moral Sex”
Ariela R. Dubler; Law, Columbia University; aduble@law.columbia.edu
“Liberal and Illiberal Borders in the Law and Politics of the ‘New Immigration,’ 1884-1924”
William E. Forbath; Law, University of Texas, Austin; wforbath@mail.law.utexas.edu
Discussant: Mary L. Dudziak; Law and History, University of Southern California; mdudziak@law.usc.edu
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The 1950s at Home and Abroad
Chair: Kermit L. Hall; State University of New York, Albany; khall@albany.edu
“Eisenhower and the Brown Decision”
David Stebenne; History, Ohio State University; stebenne.1@osu.edu
“Braving Jim Crow to Save Willie McGee: Bella Abzug and the Fight for Civil Rights”
Leandra Zarnow; History, University of California, Santa Barbara; lean314@yahoo.com
“Law, Realism and Power: Dean Acheson and the Jurisprudence of Cold War Diplomacy”
Jonathan Zasloff; Law, University of California, Los Angeles; zasloff@law.ucla.edu
Discussant: Michael Parrish; History, University of California, San Diego; mparrish@ucsd.edu
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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; Law, University of Texas, Austin; kadens@alumni.uchicago.edu
“The Prehistory of Eminent Domain”
Susan Reynolds; smgreynolds@talk21.com
“Keech v. Sanford and the Birth of Fiduciary Law”
Joshua Getzler; Law, University of Oxford; joshua.getzler@law.ox.ac.uk
Discussant: James Oldham; Law, Georgetown University; oldham@law.georgetown.edu
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Session #8
4:15pm - 6:00pm
A Tribute to Kitty Preyer
Chair: Mary Sarah Bilder; Law, Boston College; bilder@bc.edu
Panel TBA
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Law and Regulation in the Progressive Era
Chair: Marc Steinberg; Sociology, Smith College; mwsteinb@email.smith.edu
“The Glass House Boys of Pittsburgh and the Limits of Progressive Era Child Labor Legislation”
James Flannery; Law, University of Pittsburgh; flannery@law.pitt.edu
“Law and Democracy in Progressive Era Ohio”
William Nancarrow; Politics and History, Curry College; wnancarr0904@post03.curry.edu
“Keeping Out of the ‘Grandma Class’: The Company Rule, Railroading Work Culture, and the Law of Workplace Accidents”
John Williams-Searle; History, University of Iowa; j.williamssearle@verizon.net
Discussant: John Witt; Law, Columbia University; jwitt@law.columbia.edu
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Internationalizing American Law and Legal Norms
Chair: Barbara Welke; History, University of Minnesota; welke004@tc.umn.edu
“Chinese and Japanese Exclusion in the Americas in Transnational and Comparative Perspectives, 1880s-1930s”
Erika Lee; History, University of Minnesota; erikalee@tc.umn.edu
“Global Detention: Relocating Immigrant Detention Internationally”
David Manuel Hernandez; University of California; hernandz@berkeley.edu
“From the ALI to the ILI: The Exporting of American Legal Culture”
Jayanth Krishnan; William Mitchell College of Law; jkrishnan@wmitchell.edu
Discussant: The Audience
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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; Law, University of Glasgow; l.farmer@law.gla.ac.uk
“Criminal Law in Fascist Italy: A Reassessment”
Paul Garfinkel; History, Simon Fraser University; paul_garfinkel@sfu.ca
“Rule of Law Without Due Process: Punishing Robbers and Bandits in Early Twentieth Century China”
Xiaoqun Xu; History, Christopher Newport University; xxu@cnu.edu
Discussant: Mark Stavsky; Law, Northern Kentucky University; stavsky@nku.edu
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Case Microhistories
Chair: Arthur McEvoy; Law and History, University of Wisconsin; amcevoy@wisc.edu
“To Undo What Has Been Done: Miscegenation and Inheritance in In Re Remley”
Kevin Maillard; Law, Syracuse University; kmaillar@alumni.law.upenn.edu
“Pierson v. Post and the Rules of Foxhunting”
Andrea McDowell; Law, Seton Hall University; mcdowean@shu.edu
“Shades of Red”
Victoria Sutton; Law, Texas Tech University; vickie.sutton@ttu.edu
Discussant: Rachel Godsil; Law, Seton Hall University; godsilra@shu.edu