Making Connections: New Works in Legal History, 2024-25

All sessions will be on Zoom Wednesdays from 6:00-7:00 pm (Central Time)

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ASLH Members can watch videos of previous events on our members page

September 18th

Hendrik Hartog, Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic (University of Chicago Press, 2024) with interlocutor Susanna Blumenthal

November 20th

Giuliana Perrone, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023)(Studies in Legal History) with interlocutor Cynthia Nicoletti

December 11th

Chloë Kennedy, Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024) with interlocutor Catherine Evans

January 22nd

Gender & History, Special Issue, Engendering Carcerality (July 2024)
Authors in Conversation:

  • Rachel Klein, “Surviving Domestic and State Violence: Women’s Prison Organizing and the Gendered Politics of Solidarity”
    Anne Gray Fischer, “Bad, Mad or Both: A Legal History of Battered Woman Syndrome”
  • April Haynes, “The Other Women’s Rights Movement: ‘Streetwalkers’, Habeas Corpus and Anti-Carceral Activism in New York City, 1830-1860”

February 26th

Allison Powers, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law (Oxford University Press 2024) with interlocutor Sam Erman

March 26th

Joint event with the Immigration & Ethnic History Society
Brianna Nofil, The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Migrant Incarceration (Princeton University Press, 2024) with interlocutor Lucy Salyer

April 16th

Joint event with the Business History Conference
Xaq Frohlich, From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age (University of California Press, 2023) &
Sean Vanatta, Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control (Yale University Press, 2024)

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