JOURNAL: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales LXXVII (2023), nr. 4 (Dec)

 

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The journal Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales published several issues of interest to legal historians

Articles

Enfermement et graffiti Des palimpsestes de prison aux archives murales (note critique) (Guillaume Calafat)
DOI  10.1017/ahss.2024.4

Abstract:

In the early 2000s, restoration work on the building that housed Palermo’s Inquisition prisons during the early modern period revealed an impressive series of graffiti and prompted their historical study. In Del Santo Uffizio in Sicilia e delle sue carceri, Giovanna Fiume offers a rich synthesis of the individual and collaborative work she has devoted to these “mural archives” of the Palermo court. Bringing together the procedural and material history of incarceration, she succeeds in identifying the possible authors of the inscriptions and drawings that line the cell walls. In so doing, she sheds light on the trajectories of prisoners and their experiences of imprisonment, often passed over in silence by legal sources. These graffiti thus offer a new layer of documentation that broadens our understanding of the Inquisition’s judicial, penal, and carceral systems. More broadly, Fiume’s work is part of a flourishing strand of recent research dedicated to prisons and graffiti, at the confluence of literary studies, anthropology, and art history, which is interested in both the patrimonial and scholarly dimensions of these graphic marks and their aesthetic and ethnographic aspects. In offering a brief overview of the field, this review article aims to suggest some methodological and historiographical avenues for documenting social and intellectual life inside prisons.

« Dans les rues, on ne voit que des musulmans ! » Esclavage délié et appartenance urbaine en Méditerranée espagnole aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Thomas Glesener & Daniel Hershenzon) 
DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.3
Abstract:

In 1717, an anonymous petition to the King of Spain expressed concern about the excessive number of Muslims living in Cartagena (Murcia). This complaint prompted the Council of Castile to launch a survey of the Muslim population with the aim of clarifying their status. In addition to galley slaves, the inquiry focused in particular on libertinos, a little-known category of slaves who lived and worked freely in the city but were heavily indebted to their masters because of the sums owed for their ransom. This article reconstructs the condition of these unbound slaves, who lived apart from their masters’ households, and the tensions this provoked between competing systems of norms. On the one hand, the right of slaves to work to finance their own redemption, and that of their masters to live off the rents imposed on them, were deeply rooted in local custom. On the other, rising insecurity along the coast prompted local authorities and the Crown to restrict these overlapping rights by forcing masters to keep their slaves at home. At stake in this conflict between different slavery regimes, the one based on local law and the other on royal jurisdiction, were slaves’ access to the labor market and their right to free residency and the protections afforded by contract law. Finally, by placing the inquiry itself at the heart of the study, the article investigates the meaning of a procedure that was less a demographic enumeration of slaves than a redistribution of rights to the city among its Muslim inhabitants.

 Book reviews

• Sinclair Bell et Teresa Ramsby (dir.) Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire Londres, Bristol Classical Press, 2012, 212 p. (by Marianne Beraud)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.5
  
• Craig Perry et al. (dir.) The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 2, AD 500-AD 1420, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 708 p. (by Jean-Claude Hoquet)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.6
• Hannah Barker That Most Precious Merchandise: The Mediterranean Trade in Black Sea Slaves, 1260-1500 Philadelphie, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, 328 p. (by Jean-Claude Hoquet)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.7
• Meredith Martin et Gillian Weiss Le Roi-Soleil en mer. Art maritime et galériens dans la France de Louis XIV, Paris, Éd. de l’EHESS, trad. par É. Trogrlic, 2022, 403 p. (by M'hamed Oualdi)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.8
• Fabienne P. Guillén et Roser Salicrú i Lluch Ser y vivir esclavo. Identidad, aculturación y agency (mundos mediterráneos y atlánticos, siglos XIII-XVIII), Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2021, 290 p. (by José Antonio Martínez Torres)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.9
• Jean-Frédéric Schaub et Silvia Sebastiani Race et histoire dans les sociétés occidentales, XVe-XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Albin Michel, 2021, 504 p. (by Domitille de Gavriloff)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.10
• Daniel Nemser Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico Austin, University of Texas Press, 2017, 221 p. (by Guillaume Gaudin)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.11
• Jennifer L. Palmer Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic Philadelphie, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016, 280 p. (by Olivier Caudron)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.13
• Christine Walker Jamaica Ladies: Female Slaveholders and the Creation of Britain’s Atlantic Empire Williamsburg/Chapel Hill, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/University of North Carolina Press, 2020, 317 p. (by Cécile Vidal)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.15
• Manuel Covo Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance New York, Oxford University Press, 2022, XI + 304 p. (by Éric Roulet)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.16
• Hebe Mattos Les couleurs du silence. Esclavage et liberté dans le Brésil du XIXe siècle trad. par A. Fléchet, Paris/Aubervilliers, Khartala/CIRESC, [1995] 2019, 359 p. (by Aurélia Michel) DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.21
• Tyler Stovall White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2021, 436 p. (by Jean-Luc Bonniol)
  DOI 10.1017/ahss.2024.22

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JOURNAL: Droit & Société n° 109 (2021/3) [Penser la race en juriste: lectures critiques]

 

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Editorial (Pierre Brunet, Laurence Dumoulin, Camille Noûs)

Les juristes et la race. Analyse critique à partir de quelques textes (1880-1930). Présentation du dossier (Silvia Falconieri, Laetitia Guerlain, Lionel Zevounou)
DOI 10.3917/drs1.109.0557

Refonder le droit sur la race: la philosophie juridique d'Edmond Picard (Laetitia Guerlain)
DOI 10.3917/drs1.109.0571

Une culture d’imprégnation. Genèse et apories de la notion de « droit racial » chez Edmond Picard (Claude Blanckaert)

DOI 10.3917/drs1.109.0583

Systématiser la différenciation raciale à travers le régime juridique de l’indigène : la contribution d’Henry Solus (Isabelle Merle & Lionel Zevounou)
DOI 10.3917/drs1.109.0593

« Race », santé et « génie français » Un commentaire de Paul Esmein du Code de la famille de 1939 (Silvia Falconieri)
DOI 10.3917/drs1.109.0607

La race, quelle race ? Significations et performativité de la « protection de la race » dans le Code de la famille de 1939 (Paul-André Rosental)

DOI 10.3917/drs1.109.0617

Roger Bonnard et la race en droit nazi (Guillaume Richard)
DOI 10.3917/drs1.109.0631

Entre lecture empathique et stratégie de distinction Le racisme national-socialiste selon Roger Bonnard (Guillaume Mouralis)
DOI 10.3917/drs1.109.0643

Read the articles and small biographies of the main lawyers presented on cairn.

ONLINE COLLOQUIUM: Sous le feu de la critique (Centre de Théorie et d'Analyse du Droit, Université Paris Nanterre/ENS/CNRS, 1 APR 2021)

 

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Abstract:

A l'heure où de nombreux outils théoriques et conceptuels des sciences sociales sont mis en cause, le Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit (UMR 7074 Université Paris Nanterre, ENS, CNRS) revient sur leur utilité, avec une journée d’étude autour de 4 axes :
- Discriminations, genre, intersectionnalité
- Race et Droit
- Histoire du droit et post-colonialisme
- La production des savoirs et les démarches critiques en droit

Programme:

9h30 : Introduction

 

Discriminations, Genre, intersectionnalité

10h00 : Décrire la dimension d'exclusion de l'universalisme républicain : une démarche scientifique
Elsa Fondimare, MCF, UPN

Déconstruire la naturalisation des inégalités avec le concept de genre. L'exemple du champ de la bioéthique
Laurie Marguet, MCF, UPEC

Le traitement de l'hermaphrodite dans la littérature juridique de l'Ancien Régime : droit, société et idéologie
Arnaud Paturet, CR, CNRS

 

Race et Droit

12h00 : Les effets préjudiciables du rejet du concept de race : le point de vue du droit comparé de l'égalité et de la non-discrimination (vidéo)
Tanya Hernandez, Prof Fordham Law School - USA

Laïcité et colorblindness : que peut nous enseigner la critique développée par la Critical Race Theoryaméricaine en matière d'égalité raciale ?
Stéphanie Hennette-Vauchez, PU, UPN, IUF

Raisonner à partir d’un concept de “race” en droit français
Lionel Zevounou, MCF, UPN, IUF

 

13h30 : Pause déjeuner

 

Histoire du droit et post-colonialisme

14h30 : Genèse d'un projet : pourquoi revisiter les liens entre l'Ecole de Salamanque et la traite négrière ?
Anne-Charlotte Martineau, CR, CNRS

La remise en cause des statuts personnels en Inde dans une perspective post-coloniale
Jean-Louis Halpérin

Droit et Race : une perspective brésilienne
Antonio Pele, Prof. PUC-Rio, Brésil

Perspective du Sud : la discipline du droit international face à la critique TWAIL
Laura Betancur, Assistant Professor, Universidad de los Andes (Colombie)

 

Production des savoirs et démarches critiques en droit

16h30 : Réflexions sur les présupposés d'une étude sur droit et écriture inclusive
Véronique Champeil-Desplats, PU, UPN

De la critique à la clinique et vice versa. Pour un enseignement universitaire adapté
Charlotte Girard, MCF HDR, UPN

Quelques observations sur la question du pluralisme épistémologique
Manon Altwegg-Boussac, PU, UPEC

18h00 : Fin

Practical:

En salle F. 352 (Bât Simone Veil) et sur Zoom
Inscription obligatoire tant pour assister en présence qu’à distance auprès de Mme Mbalou Diallo : mbalou.diallo@parisnanterre.fr - pour vérification de la jauge et/ou obtention du lien Zoom

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BOOK: Hoang TRAN, Race, Law, and Higher Education in the Colorblind Era Critical Investigations into Race-Related Supreme Court Disputes (London: Routledge, 2019). ISBN 9780815361237, £115.00

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Routledge is publishing a new book providing a detailed analysis of US Supreme Court judgments which have impacted the rights of minorities in relation to higher education

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book provides detailed analysis of Supreme Court judgments which have impacted the rights of minorities in relation to higher education, and so illustrates ongoing issues of racial discrimination throughout the American education sector.

Race, Law, and Higher Education in the Colorblind Era brings together the many racial disputes that have been adjudicated by the Supreme Court to investigate the politics of colorblindness in the post-civil rights era. Through a reading of these various cases as a form of continuing racial discourse, this book focuses on the ways in which racial disputes operate within a clearly entwined colorblind narrative that invalidates racial justice for minorities. By investigating how the Supreme Court has understood racism and the concept of race across its history, this volume demonstrates how colleges and universities must navigate the often contradictory and perilous landscape of ‘diversity’ in attempts to integrate historically disadvantaged minorities.

This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of sociology of education, multicultural education, and legal education.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hoang Vu Tran is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum, Culture, and Educational Inquiry in the College of Education at Florida Atlantic University, USA.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Preface

• Introduction

Section I: Foundations of Colorblindness, Whiteness, and Racial Subordination

• Chapter 1 - Judicial Colorblindness and the Problem of Racism

• Chapter 2 - Commitments: Of Methods and Interpretation

• Chapter 3 - A Historical Synergy: Law, Whiteness, and the Hegemony of Racial Subordination

Section II: Revisiting and Revising 'Settled' History

• Chapter 4 - The Politics and Whiteness of Brown v. Board of Education

• Chapter 5 - (Un)Equal Protection and Disproportionate Harm to Minorities

• Chapter 6 - Affirmative Action = Discrimination (to whites) in the Colorblind Era

Section III: Critical Contemporary Perspectives

• Chapter 7 - After Fisher v. University of Texas: Racial Justice or Whiteness Rising?

• Chapter 8 - Diversity Trending Up, Affirmative Action on Life Support, and the Perilous Status of Asian Americans

• Chapter 9 - Future Directions

Selected bibliography

More info here

BOOK: Steve LUXENBERG, Separate : The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2019). ISBN 978-0-393-23937-9, $35.00

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W.W. Norton has published a new book about the case of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

ABOUT THE BOOK

A myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences.

Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with “separate but equal,” created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first.

Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours—race and equality. Wending its way through a half-century of American history, the narrative begins at the dawn of the railroad age, in the North, home to the nation’s first separate railroad car, then moves briskly through slavery and the Civil War to Reconstruction and its aftermath, as separation took root in nearly every aspect of American life.

Award-winning author Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries, and archival collections to tell the story of Plessy v. Ferguson through the eyes of the people caught up in the case. Separate depicts indelible figures such as the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans, led by Louis Martinet, a lawyer and crusading newspaper editor; Homer Plessy’s lawyer, Albion Tourgée, a best-selling author and the country’s best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling endorsed separation; and Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice.

Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate provides a fresh and urgently-needed exploration of our nation’s most devastating divide.

More information here

POSITION: One-year Lecturer in Gender, Race, and Identity (Reno,Nevada, fall 2015)

WHAT one-year Lecturer in Gender, Race, and Identity, position

WHEN fall 2015 (with the possibility of renewal for up to two additional years)

WHERE University of Nevada, Reno, 1664 N Virginia St, Reno, NV 89503, USA

The Gender, Race, and Identity (GRI) Program at the University of Nevada, Reno invites applications for a one-year lecturer position to begin Fall 2015 with the possibility of renewal for up to two additional years. The GRI program offers a major in Women’s Studies, minors in Women’s Studies, Ethnic Studies, Religious Studies, and Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies, and a graduate certificate in Gender, Race and Identity Studies. Area of study and discipline are open, but the successful candidate will have a background in feminist approaches and teaching interests in intersections of gender, race, class, ethnicity, and/or sexuality. The position includes a teaching load of 4-4 and some service commitments. The successful candidate should expect to teach introductory and advanced undergraduate courses, such as introduction to women’s/gender studies and courses in feminist theory and methods. The lecturer will also have the opportunity to develop courses in an area of expertise. Ability to teach courses in Ethnic Studies or other GRI programs is highly desirable. Applicants must have completed the Ph.D. and be eligible to work in the United States prior to the start of appointment on July 1, 2015.

The University of Nevada, Reno, requires that applications be submitted athttps://www.unrsearch.com/postings/17565. To apply, complete the brief form and submit a letter of application that outlines teaching excellence, CV with reference contact information, and two sample syllabi. All applications must be submitted electronically no later than May 18, 2015. Additional materials such as letters of recommendation may be requested later.

AA/EEO Women and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. The University of Nevada is the state’s historic land-grant institution; it serves approximately 20,000 students. The university is ranked as a Tier 1 institution by “U.S. News and World Report” and offers an array of degree programs at all levels. Reno is located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, a 30-minute drive from Lake Tahoe. Reno/Tahoe is recognized as a world-class outdoor recreation area. Additional areas of interest in the proximity include: The Black Rock Desert, Sacramento, Yosemite National Park, Napa/Sonoma, the Bay Area, and San Francisco. University of Nevada homepage: http://www.unr.edu 

JOURNAL: "American Journal of Legal History" (Issue 54:4, October 2014)

American Journal of Legal History Issue 54:4, October 2014

Contents

Alison W. Conner, “The Lawyer Who Haunts Us: Yin Zhaoshi and the Bright Day”

Charles J. Sheehan, “Solicitor General Charles Fahy and Honorable Defense of the Japanese-American Exclusion Cases”

REVIEW ESSAY: "Towards a New Legal History of Capitalism and Unfree Labor: Law, Slavery, and Emancipation in the American Marketplace" , by Matthew Axtell (2013)

Matthew Axtell (Judicial Fellow, US Supreme Court), on the Walter Johnson’s book "River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom", forthcoming in Law & Social Inquiry, 40 (Winter 2015)

Abstract: 

New work on the "history of capitalism" reveals how the personal freedom enjoyed by people living within the liberal capitalist mainstream is often purchased by coerced labor at the social margins. Walter Johnson’s book River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom (2013) makes this argument with force, utilizing the concept of "slave racial capitalism" to suggest how race-based slavery constituted a necessary component of early American economic expansion. Using Johnson’s framework as a starting point, this essay argues that the legal institutions of property and contract, institutions underwriting a genuinely "slave racial capitalist" regime, also contained certain subversive possibilities within themselves, eventually challenging unfree labor as a modality of rule within the modernizing United States.