CONFERENCE: Legal Histories of Disease: Stanford Center for Law and History Fourth Annual Conference (Stanford, Stanford University - ONLINE, April 29 2022)

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The Stanford Center for Law and History organized its Center's fourth annual conference, which will be held on April 29, 2022 as a hybrid event in-person at the Stanford Humanities Center and online via Zoom. The conference theme is Legal Histories of Disease.

The conference will explore how the law has historically responded to health crises and what contemporary insights can be drawn from this history. The one-day conference will be held on Friday, April 29, 2022, and is cosponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center; Program in History & Philosophy of Science, Stanford University; and Medical Humanities and the Arts Program (Medicine & the Muse).

The conference will include three panels followed by a keynote session featuring Professor John Witt of Yale Law School who will take part in a discussion of his recently published book, American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19 with Professor Deirdre Cooper Owens of the University of Nebraska. 

The complete schedule and panel abstracts are available here. 

Register here to reserve your in-person space at the Stanford Humanities Center or to receive the Zoom link details which will be sent about a week before the event.  All are welcome to attend every session or particular sessions of interest. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be served for those who attend in-person. Note: in-person registration is on a first-come, first-served basis and seating is limited. We also ask all those who attend in-person to comply with current Stanford event guidelines regarding COVID which can be found here.

This event is open to the general public, as well as the Stanford community, both in-person and online. For further information, please contact sclh@law.stanford.edu.