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Bruno Lima, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Institute, will present, “The Untold Story of Abolitionism: Luiz Gama’s Freedom Claims in Brazil, 1850-1888.”
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesBlack poet and self-taught lawyer Luiz Gama (1830-1882) is arguably one of the most extraordinary abolitionists in the Americas' history. Born free in the city of Salvador, Brazil, son of a liberated African woman, Gama was sold by his father when he was ten years old. He lived enslaved until he was eighteen, when, in […]
Adnan Zulfiqar, Rutgers Law and Stanford Humanities Center, will present “The Caliph’s Jihad: Medieval Jurists, Duties and the Search for Political Cohesion”
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis draft chapter is from a forthcoming book that explores the premodern Islamic legal discourse on collective duties. The book argues that jurists expand the category of collective duties, between the mid-tenth and mid-thirteenth centuries, as a response to the fracturing of the Abbasid empire and with the hope of unifying society. This particular chapter […]
James Campbell, Stanford History Department, will present “Race and Voting in Mississippi: A Brief History”
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesNeshoba County, Mississippi, is chiefly remembered today as the site of the Klan-orchestrated murder of three voting rights activists, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, in June, 1964. This paper, which is drawn from a broader project on the history and memory of the Neshoba murders, examines a now-forgotten case from a decade before, […]
Yuhe Faye Wang, Stanford IDEAL Postdoc American Studies Department and Yale, will present "Making an Exception: Radicalizing the Merchant Status and the Chinese Exclusion Law"
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesEvent description to be added soon.
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas, Book Talk by the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford Center for Law and History, and Department of History in conversation with the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown, U.S. Court of […]
Faculty Book Talk with Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Friedman – Personal Identity in the Modern World
@ Stanford: Paul Brest Hall 555 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford, CA, United StatesWatch the event Please join Stanford Law School for an interactive panel discussing Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Friedman’s book Personal Identity in the Modern World (published by Rowman & Littlefield in August 2022).
SCLH Presents: Ada Kuskowski and “Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France”
OnlineThe Stanford Center for Law and History is excited to present Professor Ada Kuskowski, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Ada Kuskowski and her upcoming book, "Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France."
The Stanford Center for Law and History Presents “The Origins of Indigenous Constitutionalism: Choctaw Law and Governance” with Tanner Allread
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States“This Series of Strong Laws”: Choctaw Governance and the Rise of Indigenous Constitutionalism, 1826-1830 For two centuries, Native nations in the United States have written constitutions to govern their affairs and affirm their status as sovereigns. Exploring the origins of this tradition of Indigenous constitutionalism in the era of Indian Removal, this paper focuses on […]
SCLH Law & History Workshop presents: Judith Surkis
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford Center for Law & History presents: Judith Surkis and "The Intimate Life of International Law after Decolonization: Custody, Nationality, and Franco-Algerian Children" February 7, 2023 Crown Bldg Room 185 12:50-2:00pm In Person and Virtual
Stanford Center for Law & History presents: A Book Talk with Rowan Dorin
@ Stanford (TBD)Listen to the event The Stanford Center for Law and History is excited to announce an upcoming book talk featuring Professor Rowan Dorin (Stanford University Department of History) with Jessica Goldberg (UCLA) and Laurent Mayali (Berkeley Law) as commentators. The talk will be held on February 15, 2023 from 4:15-6:00pm PST at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and […]
SCLH Law & History Workshop presents: Doris Morgan Rueda
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford Center for Law & History presents: Doris Morgan Rueda February 21, 2023 Crown Bldg Room 185 12:45-2:00pm In Person and Virtual
SCLH Presents: A Book Talk with Ada Kuskowski & “Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval France”
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a book talk scheduled for January 20th featuring Professor Ada Kuskowski (University of Pennsylvania Department of History) on March 10, 2023 from 12:15-2pm PST. Kuskowski will be joining us virtually, but we will meet in person over lunch in Crown Building Room 320D. Vernacular Law: Writing and the Reinvention of Customary Law in Medieval […]
SCLH Law & History Workshop Presents: Gina Dent (UC Santa Cruz)
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLaw and History Workshop: Gina Dent, UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department, and Prison as a Border: Punishment, Visuality, History
SCLH Law & History Workshop Presents: Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto School of Law)
@ SLS Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesMohammad Fadel, University of Toronto Law, Khalil’s Restatement (mukhtaṣar), the Rule of Recognition, and the Consolidation of the Maliki School of Law in the 14th Century
Legal Histories of the Body and the State: Dobbs and the Legacies of Regulating Gender & Sex
@ Stanford: Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn June 24th, 2022, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court declared in Dobbs v. Jackson that “the right to abortion is not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and tradition.” In the aftermath of the ruling, millions of people find themselves with less reproductive autonomy and health-care providers are struggling to navigate a new legal playing […]
SCLH Law & History Workshop Presents: K-Sue Park (Georgetown Law)
@ Stanford Law School 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesK-Sue Park, Georgetown Law, and "Property and Sovereignty in America: A History of Title Registries and Jurisdictional Power"
Law & History Workshop Series Presents: Rachel St. John
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Center for Law and History presents the Law and History Workshop Series with Rachel St. John
Law & History Workshop Series Presents: Kevin Arlyck
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Center for Law and History presents the Law and History Workshop Series with Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown Law School, "The Nation at Sea: Federal Courts and American Sovereignty in the Age of Revolution"
Law & History Workshop Series Presents: Rabia Belt
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Center for Law and History presents the Law and History Workshop Series with Rabia Belt, Stanford Law School, “The Hidden History of the Insanity Defense”
Law & History Workshop Series Presents: Partha Pratim Shil
@ SLS: Room 85 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Center for Law and History presents the Law and History Workshop Series with Partha Pratim Shil, Stanford History Department, “The Story of a Socialist Constable: Ramanand Tiwari, Police Radicalism and Decolonization in India, 1942-1952"
Law & History Workshop Series Presents: Tom Johnson
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Center for Law and History presents the Law and History Workshop Series with Tom Johnson, University of York History Department, “Buried Treasure, Concealment, and the Medieval Archive"
First Time Publishing in Legal History
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Center for Law and History presents a discussion on first time publishing in legal history with Greg Ablavsky (Stanford Law School), Rowan Dorin (Stanford History Department), and Marcela Maxfield (Stanford University Press) to talk strategies, challenges, and successes in publishing your first academic book in the field of legal history.
Law & History Workshop Series Presents: Gabrielle Braxton
@ SLS: Room 320F Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Stanford Center for Law and History presents the Law and History Workshop Series with Gabrielle Braxton, Stanford Law School, "Guess Who’s Coming to Stanford: The Battle for the Desegregation of an Elite Law School" Rescheduled for March 5th, 2024
Legal Histories of American Governance: Institutions and the State
@ SLS: Room 270 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn April 5th 2024, the Stanford Center for Law and History will host its 6th annual conference, “Legal Histories of American Governance: Institutions and the State.” Operating through a mix of public and private institutions, including many at the local level, the sprawling American state exerts enormous power on the lives of ordinary people in […]
Law & History Workshop: Luigi Lacchè
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesLuigi Lacchè, University of Macerata Department of Law, Representing Justice: Aesthetics of Law & Visuals Arts in Italy during the Fascist Period