Atlantic Legalities

April 16, 2005

Morning Session

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
Introduction

Lauren Benton, New York University
"The Legalities of Distant Sovereignty in the Atlantic World"

Richard Ross, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Legal Communications in the Early Modern Atlantic World"

Linda Lewin, University of California at Berkeley
"Family, Inheritance, and Social Change in a Luso-Brazilian Legal Tradition: A Trans-Atlantic Perspective on the Late Colonial Regime, 1750-1831"

Sue Peabody, Washington State University Vancouver
"Slave Law in the Atlantic World: Beyond Tannenbaum"

Afternoon Session

Jeremy Mumford, Brandeis University
"Native Litigation in Early Modern Atlantic Empires"

Katherine Hermes, Central Connecticut State University
"Councils and Courts: 'Jurispractice' among Native Americans and European Colonizers in the Colonial Atlantic World"

Claire Priest, Northwestern University
"Law, Property, and Commerce in British North America"

Panel: Legal Sources for Atlantic History
Emma Rothschild, University of Cambridge, chair