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June 2, 2022

Children and the Law: A Conference in Honor of Michael Grossberg:

A Conference in Honor of Michael Grossberg

Those attending the upcoming ASLH conference should consider attending the pre-conference, “Children and the Law: A Conference in Honor of Michael Grossberg” at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and the American Bar Foundation on November 10 from 9:30am to 6pm. We will celebrate the important contributions of former ASLH President, Michael Grossberg, with three panels of pathbreaking scholarship on the field of children and the law.
We are requesting those that plan to attend register by October 1 [at this link: https://bit.ly/3NEQFK9]. This is a separate registration from the ASLH Conference registration that will enable the conveners to ensure there is adequate space for attendees at the panel and end-of-day reception.
The pre-conference is made possible by the generous support of the American Bar Foundation, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law, Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law, Princeton University, Department of History, and the University of Minnesota, Department of History.
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(All panels will take place at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Room LM 101 – Lincoln Hall, receptions will take place in the Faculty Commons)
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9:30am “Saving Our Kids”

Opening Remarks by Laura Edwards & Dirk Hartog

10-11:30am “Who Gets the Child?”

Comment by Steven Mintz
Chelsea Chamberlain, “Perpetual Children”: Mental Disability, Institutional Commitment, and the Intimate State
Naama Maor, “We Cannot be Hoodwinked into Making Paroles”: Delinquent Children, State Institutions, and the Boundaries of Juvenile Justice
Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez, The Double Removal of Migrant Youth: Late-Twentieth Century Data Collection and Education Law as U.S. Immigration Deterrence
Nathan Stenberg, “A Peculiar Case”: Disability, Performance, and the Legal (De)Construction of Institutionalized Children’s Personhood at the Pennhurst State School & Hospital

11:45-12:30 Break (Lunch Provided for Panel Participants Only)

12:45-2:15pm “A Protected Childhood”

Comment by Barbara Welke
Wangui Muigai, The Tenth Crusade: Baby-Saving, Racial Violence, and the NAACP
Yukako Otori, Esther Kaplan’s Saga: From an Undesirable Immigrant to an Undeportable “Child”
Shani Roper, Sitting at Intersections: Institutionalized Children and the Law in Colonial Jamaica 1904 to 1950
Doris Morgan Rueda, “The Boy is Large for His Age”: Making Age in Arizona’s Early Juvenile Court, 1907-1920

2:30-4pm “Legal Rights for Children?”

Comment by David Tanenhaus
Tera Agyepong, Constructing Race and Gendered Delinquency in the Juvenile Justice System
Juandrea Bates, Bringing Child Protection Home: Juveniles as Initiators of Child Protection Suits in Buenos Aires 1890-1930
Emily Prifogle, Rural Students and a “Right” to Local Schools
Kathryn Schumaker, Desegregating Discipline: Corporal Punishment and Children’s Rights in the Classroom in the 1970s

4:15pm Afterward

Introduction of Michael Grossberg by Ajay Mehrotra & Bengt Sandin Closing Remarks by Michael Grossberg

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