CONFERENCE: Status and Justice in Law, Religion, and Society (Washington and Lee University, 1-3 November 2019)

(Source: Status and Justice 2019)

We learned of a conference “Status and Justice in Law, Religion, and Society” at Washington and Lee University which includes several presentations with a legal-historical angle.

List of presenters:

With topics or titles; more titles to come.

• Kameliya Atanasova (W&L), on status in Ottoman Turkey
• David Baluarte (W&L Law): “Family in the Balance: The Human Right to Family Life as a Limit on U.S. Immigration Authority”
• Carolyn Baugh (Gannon U.), on marriage and unfree status in Islamic legal opinions
• Linda Bosniak (Rutgers Law): “Who Is a Constitutional Subject?  Citizenship, Personhood, Territoriality”
• Kristin Collins  (Boston University Law), on personal status, domestic relations, and citizenship
• Robert Cottrol (George Washington U.), on race, ethnicity, slavery, and discrimination
• Kevin Crotty (W&L), “Citizenship as Status in Ancient Athens: the Case of Solon”
• Deepa Das Acevedo (U. Alabama Law): “Just Hindus: The Indian Supreme Court’s Sabarimala Decision”
• Donald R. Davis (U. Texas, Austin): “Master and Servant Law in Medieval India: What Slavery Might Teach Us about the Nature of Work”
• Mark Drumbl (W&L Law), on child v. adult status
• Katharine Gerbner (UMN), on Caribbean slavery, religion/conversion, and racism
• Sora Han (UC Irvine Law), on slavery, critical race theory, gender, criminality
• Tim Lubin (W&L): “Personal Status: A Typology in Historical Perspective”
• Elizabeth Meyer (U. Virginia), on civic statuses in ancient Greece
• Mona Oraby (Amherst): “Status Conversions: Administering Inequality and Freedom”
• Michael Satlow (Brown University): “Status or Contract?  The Case of Jewish Marriage”
• Melissa Vise (W&L): “Legal and Religious Concepts of Medieval persona: Blasphemy at the Limits”
• Adnan Zulfiqar (Rutgers Law), on status under codified Shariah

More information about the conference can be found here