Justice: Europe in America, 1500-1830
Justice: Europe in America
Tuesday, August 3
Session 1: Constitutions and Nationality Laws
Chair: Malick Ghachem, University of Maine Law School
Lorelle Semley, Wesleyan University, “‘Here, all men are born, live and die free and French:’ Race, Gender, and Empire in the Revolutionary Constitutions of France and Haiti”
Vanessa Mongey, University of Pennsylvania, “Serving with Danger: The Napoleonic Code and Military Service in the Americas”
Session 2: Córdoba del Tucumán
Chair: John Womack, Harvard University
Alejandro Agüero, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, “On Justice and ‘Home Rule’ Tradition in the Spanish Colonial Order”
Sonia Tell, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, “Persistence of Indigenous Peoples and Struggles for Land Rights: Cordoba Between the Bourbons and the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata”
Wednesday, August 4
Session 3: Piracy and Maritime Law
Chair: Victor Enthoven, Royal Netherlands Naval College
Christopher Curry, University of Connecticut, “‘In whose possession they are now:’ Black Loyalists and Their Quest for Freedom in the Bahamas”
Amanda Snyder, Florida International University, “Towards an International Maritime Law: Piracy and the Expansion of English Admiralty Court Jurisdiction from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I”
Giovanni Venegoni, Università di Bologna, “Piracy and Justice in Saint-Domingue French Colony (1664-1720)”
Thursday, August 5
Session 4: Transfer of Status, Caciques
Chair: John Womack, Harvard University
Mark Lentz, University of Louisiana, “The Fuero de los Indios: Castilian Legal Traditions in an American Context”
Antonio Terassa Lozano, Universidade de Evora, Portugal, “From Sons of the Sun to Catholic Nobility: The Legal Conquest of the Inca Royalty (16th and 17th Centuries)”
Session 5: Creating Law; Polyphony
Chair: Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School
Matthew Crow, University of California, Los Angeles, “‘The Growth of Ages:’ Records, Rhetoric, and British Legal Memory in Colonial Virginia”
Renzo Honores, High Point University, North Carolina, “Colonial Legal Polyphony: Caciques and the Construction of Legal Arguments in the Andes, 1550-1640"
Friday, August 6
Session 6: The Law and Subject Peoples
Chair: Sally Hadden, Western Michigan University
Heidi Giusto, Duke University, “Regulating Slavery: Custom and Statutory Law in South Carolina, 1670-1748”
Michael Schoeppner, University of Florida, “Subject to Quarantine: Afro-British Subjecthood in the United States in the Era of Emancipation”
Session 7: French Administrative Law and Commerce
Chair: Lauren Benton, New York University
Helen Dewar, University of Toronto, “Litigating Empire: The Role of French Courts in Establishing Colonial Sovereignties”
Alexander Dubé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, “Judging Colonial Scandals”
Saturday, August 7
Session 8: Implementing the Law
Chair: Lauren Benton, New York University
Christopher Albi, Trinity University, San Antonio, “Francisco Xavier Gamboa and the Basque Atlantic: Law and Patronage in Late Colonial Mexico”
Carmen Alveal, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, “Difficulties of Legal Implementation of Sesmarias in Colonial Brazil: The Gap Between Practice and Law”
Monday, August 9
Session 9: Metropolitan Political Authorities and Colonial Law
Chair: Tony Freyer, University of Alabama School of Law
Aaron Palmer, Wisconsin Lutheran College, “An Extension of Power: Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, and Elite Rule in South Carolina on the Eve of the American Revolution”
Albane Forestier, McGill University, Montreal, “The Practice of Civil Law in the British Caribbean at the End of the Eighteenth Century”
Lyndsay Campbell, University of Calgary, “Truth and Privilege: Libel Treatises and the Transmission of Legal Norms in the Early Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American World”
Tuesday, August 10
Session 11: The Conceptual World of Bartolomé de las Casas
Chair: Bernard Bailyn
Harikrishnan Gopinadhan Nair, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, “The Sovereign and the Subjects”
Session 12: Issues and Conclusions