PROGRAM
Friday, March 6
10:00-10:30 am Registration & Continental Welcome Breakfast – Hart Lobby
10:30 am-12:15 pm Concurrent Sessions:
A. Four Cultural Heritage Case Studies–McDonough 588
Chair: Alexander Nagel – The Last of the Qataban: Preserving Ancient cemeteries and antiquities laws in the Yemen
Panelists:
Paolo Farah – Conflict between Intellectual Property Rights and Human Rights:A Case Study on Intangible Cultural Heritage
Xiaoqian Hu – The Law and Politics of State Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage: From UNESCO to China
Keon Pettiway – Narrating the Constitutive Rhetoric of Law and Cultural Property
B. Critical Theory and Law: Butler, Derrida, Lacan–McDonough 437
Chair/Discussant: Andrew Poe
Panelists:
Robert Herian – The Semblant Equity
William Conklin – Space and Time before the Castle of Legal Consciousness
Tristana Martin Rubio – Derrida contra Rawls: “Reasonableness,” Sovereignty, Democracy
C. Other Responses to Terrorism–McDonough 201
Chair: Luis Plascencia
Panelists:
Sital Dhillon – Human Rights and Counter Terrorism
John Strawson – Fighting ISIS: Demotic International Law in Print.
Adam Thurschwell
Eugene Garver
D. Law, Markets, Dispossession, Degradation: Narratives of Economic Violence–McDonough 337
Chair/Discussant: Vincent Mosley
Panelists:
Teresa Park
Julia Dehm – A climate for market construction
Jean-Alexandre De Bousquet – The Evolution of the Reinstatement Remedy by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario
E. Wasting Away: Law, Biopolitics and Dissent –McDonough 109
Chair/Discussant: Leif Dahlberg
Panelists:
Sarah Burgess – Scenes of Responsibility: The Limits of Human Rights Discourses in the Ashley Smith Case
Justin Iverson – Developing The Waste Land: Depreciation as a Function of Society Building
Michael-Anthony Lutfy – Unmasking Dissent: The Criminalization of Masks at Protests
Stuart Murray – The Human Right to Die
F. Logic of Contradictions –McDonough 164
Panelists:
Daniel Farbman –Localism National
Corinne Blalock – “Government Small Enough to Fit in Your Bedroom”: Regulation of the Family under Neoliberalism
KB Burnside –An American Police
Ben Levin –Guns and Drugs
G. Narrative Constructions of Legal Reality–McDonough 203
Chair/Discussant: Peter Brooks
Panelists:
Matthew Birkhold – Narrating the limits of fair use and the public domain
Tal Kastner – Telling stories of and in law in Alfred Hitchcock’s I Confess
Anna Offit – When Certainty Enters the Story: Managing Narrative Logic in the Prosecution of Parents
H. Author meets Readers: Marianne Constable’s “Our Word is Our Bond” – McDonough 206
Chair: James Martel
Author: Marianne Constable
Panelists:
Stacy Douglas
Julem Etxabe
George Pavlich
Martha Umphrey
12:15-1:45 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:45-3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions:
A. Pop Culture, Street Art, Cultural Memory–McDonough 201
Chair/Discussant: Richard Sherwin
Panelists:
Jesse Centrella – Beautiful Justice:Legal Protection of Deviant Aesthetic
Jothie Rajah – Law and the Visual in a Post-9/11 World
Jeremy Pilcher
B. Accusation and Punishment –McDonough 202
Panelists:
Elisabeth Anker – Manderlay, Emancipation, and the Problem of Black Freedom
Amy Swiffen – Death Alternatives of the State
George Pavich – Avowal and Criminal Accusation
C. All True, All Fiction: Conspiracy Theory at the Contours of Legality–McDonough 200
Chair: Başak Ertür
Discussant: Senem Kaptan – Scripts of Law: The Production and Maintenance of Conspiracy Theories in Turkey’s Treason Trials
Panelists:
Michael E. Allen – Suspended in Time, Suspended in Secrecy: Conspiracy Theories in the Search for Missing US Military Personnel
Philip Kadish –Miscegenation Conspiracies, Race Science, and American Law
Evan Edward Laine – Modernity, Fear and 9/11 Conspiracy Theories: A Rational Attempt to Explain the Irrational
Senem Kaptan –
D. Race in 19th Century America–McDonough 347
Chair/Discussant: Teresa Park
Panelists:
Courtney Marshall – Ain’t I A Lady: Black Women And The Racial Railroad
Budrunnisa Khan – Race, Space, and Legal Liminality in Charles Chestnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
Andrew Porwancher – The Devil Himself: Honor, Insanity, and the Birth of Modern America
Faith Barter – “Dead! Dead! Dead!”:Unnatural Law from The Confessions of Nat Turner and David Walker’s Appeal
E. Fables of Authority – McDonough 203
Chair: Barry Wimpfheimer
Panelists:
Ravit Reichman – Self and Selfie: Identity Theft and the Crisis of Agency
Susanna Lee – Nineteenth-century French juries and the violence of authorship
Patricio Boyer – The Affects of History: Judgment and Historical Consciousness in the Hispanic Sixteenth Century
Kathleen Fitzpatrick – “Like good modern art”: Legal Form in Catch 22
F. Rights Talk’, Migration and Civil Liberties: Beyond Legal and Narrative Discourse–McDonough 588
Chair: Annette Houlihan – Migrating (Ill)legalities: HIV Criminalisation
Panelists:
Christine Corcos – Human Rights narratives in science fiction films and television series from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s
Audrey Golden – Languages of the Khmer Rouge: Literature, Translation, and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
G. Past the Façade of the Marble Columns?–McDonough 164
Chair: Caprice Roberts
Panelists:
Michael Allen
Andrew Seigel
Eric Segall
Stephen Vladeck
H. Analysing law from critical linguistic perspectives: Views from two disciplines–McDonough 141
Chair: Lawrence Solan
Discussants: Anne Lise Kjaer &Amanda Potts (co-presenter)- The Discursive Construction of Law, Fact, and Legitimacy: A Corpus-Linguistic Study of the Discourse of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Panelists:
Siobhan Weare – Mad, bad or victims? Linguistically Legal: An Exploration of Law’s Semantic Constructions of Women Who Kill
Davide Mazzi – “By partially renouncing their sovereignty…”: corpus perspectives on Irish legal discourse in EU-related disputes
I. War and Culture: Cultural Icons, Cultural Identities, and the Islamic State–McDonough 206
Chair: Anne-Marie Carstens – War and Culture: Cultural Icons, Cultural Identities, and the Islamic State
Panelists:
Aiyaz Husain
Jennifer Gordon
J. The Power and Prerogatives of the Sovereign in 16th and 17th Century England and Scotland –McDonough 109
Chair: Roger Fisher – A Taciturn Silence: the Historical Origins of Thomas More’s “Right to Silence”
Panelists:
Anne Sappington – The Law, the Sovereign, and the Sacrificial Daughter in Sixteenth-Century Britain
Sarah Higinbotham – A Traitorous Imagination: Elizabeth and Symbols of the Law’s Violence
Claire Landis – “Lest He May, Prevent”: Neo-Roman Liberty in Julius Caesar
K. Author Meets Readers: Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty by Austin Sarat–McDonough 437
Chair: Karl Shoemaker
Panelists:
Daniel LaChance
Naomi Mezey
Austin Sarat
3:30-3:45 pm Afternoon Break
3:45-5:30 pm Concurrent Sessions:
A. The Neoliberal State and Urban Space–McDonough 201
Chair: Paul Passavant – Beyond Crime: Order Maintenance, Post-Fordist, Neoliberal Policing and the State
Panelists:
Lester Spence – Race and the Neo-Liberal City Christopher Forester-Smith – Neoliberalism in Michigan Cities: Governmentality, Racism, and Emergency Management
Christopher Forester-Smith – Neoliberalism in Michigan Cities: Governmentality, Racism, and Emergency Management
B. In the Garden of Interdisciplinarity: Serpents, Music, Law–McDonough 202
Chair: Sara Ramshaw – ‘Translating Improvisation Across Disciplines: Music and Law’
Panelists: Paul Stapleton & Adnan Marquez-Borbon – ‘John Zorn’s Cobra: Background, Analysis and Demonstration’
Kathryn McNeilly – ‘The Creation of Hydra: Translation in Action’
Michael Malanik – Law and music – the comparative analysis
C. Colonialism and Its “Subjects”–McDonough 156
Chair/Discussant: Debjani Bhattacharyya
Panelists:
Jean-Philippe Crete – Colonial Anxiety and Sovereign Accusation at the Birth of the Criminal Code of Canada (1877-1893)
Pavithra Tantrigoda – ‘Green Imperialism’ in Law: The Place of Colonized Populations in the Natural Rights Discourses of Francisco de Vitoria and Immanuel Kant
D. Jurisdiction Otherwise –McDonough 164
Chair: Daniel Matthews –Jurisdiction of the Common
Panelists: Basak Ertur – Performativity and Jurisdiction
Tara Mulqueen – The Laws of Ordering and the Constitution of the Political
Adam Knowles – Questioning Miranda: What is the Right to Remain Silent a Right To?
E. Law’s Response to Social Change: The Case of Sexual Orientation –McDonough 200
Chair: Sarah Burgess
Panelists:
Carlo Pedrioli – Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court As Critical Social Movement Ally
Luke Boso – Sexual Orientation Stereotyping
Meagan Rafferty – Diversifying Jurisprudence: An Argument For An All-Minority Supreme Court
F. The Roles of Age, Race, Gender, and Doctrine in Judicial Decision-Making–McDonough 141
Chair: Anne Dailey
Panelists:
Jessie Allen – Doctrine, Ritual and Impartiality
Amanda Fisher – Gendered Judicial Empathy Helene Love – Ageism and the Language of Judgments
G. James Martel, “The One and Only Law: Walter Benjamin and the Second Commandment”–McDonough 109
Chair: Robyn Marasco
Panelists:
Panu Minkkinen
Jill Stauffer
Adam Thurscwell
Mark Antaki
H Black Religion, Black Critique, and the Limits of Law–McDonough 205
Chair: Vincent Lloyd – God’s Law for Black Women: Anna Julia Cooper on Natural Law and Social Justice
Panelists:
Terence Johnson – Derrick Bell and the Gospel of Race and Narrative in American Politics
Ian Ward – Philosophers, Prophets and Social Critics: Democratic Visions of Higher Law
I. Truth, Fiction, Law –McDonough 437
Chair/Discussant: Steve Winter – Why Truth Is Stranger than Fiction?
Panelists:
Ralph Grunewald – “The court is attracted by the guilt”: Representations of Literal and Literary Innocence
Julia Simon-Kerr – Against Credibility Proxies
Marc Roark – Robert Penn Warren’s Southern Exceptionalism
J. Policing Borders of Self and Nation – McDonough 206
Chair: Daniel LaChance – Mental Illness, Law, and Ideology in the 1950s: The Case of Lucille Miller
Panelists:
Keramet Reiter – California’s Determinate Sentencing Law and Its Unintended Effects on Indeterminate Solitary Confinement, 1976-2011
Chair: Luis Plascencia – Where is the Border?: The Fourth Amendment and the Production of a Mexican Zone of Surveillance
Ana Henderson – Discerning Citizenship: from Race to Verification
Combined from the previous panels of: Borders, Citizenship and Rights and Disabling Institutions
K. Citizenship Talk: Speech, Power, and Community Yesterday and Today–McDonough 220
Chair: Kristin Collins
Panelists:
Bethany Berger – Citizenship in Red and Yellow:Elk v. Wilkins and United States v. Wong Kim Ark.
Daniel Morales –When Aliens Speak
Matthew Lindsay – Preserving the Exceptional Republic:Political Economy, Race, and the Origins of the Modern Federal Immigration Power
5:30-7:00 pm Reception – Hotung 2nd Floor Lobby
Saturday, March 7
8:30-9:00 am Breakfast –Hart Lobby
9:00-10:30 am Concurrent Sessions:
A. Law, Life and Exclusion–McDonough 164
Chair: Michaela Brangan – Contracting Capture: Hailsham’s “Decent Lives”
Panelist: Christopher Seeds – Perpetual Punishment and the Politics of Life
Paul Gowder –The Rule of Law, Democracy, Equality
Noya Rimalt –Multicultural Challenges
B. Jurispolitics: Law, Legitimacy, Power–McDonough 492
Chair: Eric Sapp – The Ruse of Law
Discussant: Mathilde Cohen
Panelists:
Aisha Ghani – Terrorist Subjectivities: Sentencing Hearings As Spaces of Self- Making and Ideological Contestation
Anna Krakus – Constitutional Amendments and Historical Rewriting in the Polish 1970s
Alina Neculae – The Legal Force of the Fundamental Rights Charter in the European Union’s Legal Order
C. Love and Loss in the Legal Archive–McDonough 437
Chair: Alecia Simmonds – Gay Lotharios and Hoary Adonises: colonial masculinities, child maintenance and the action for breach of promise of marriage in the Australasian colonies: 1825-1901
Panelists:
Julia Bowes – Corrupting Your Flesh and Blood: Anti-Vaccinationists and American Anti-Statism 1880-1920
Gian-Marco Vidor – Concepts of love in understanding and defining “crimes of passion” in Italian legal debates (1880-1930)
D. “Colonial Incursions, Immigrant/Refugee Assimilation, and Access to Justice” –McDonough 200
Chair/Discussant: Sara Ross
Panelists:
Leif Dahlberg – Forms and conditions of court interpretation in Stockholm lower level courts: Implications for access to fair trial (ECHR, article 6.3e)
Sylvia Schafer – Reciprocity, Equivalence, and Difference: Law, Illness, and Outsiders in Late Nineteenth-Century France
Laura Lehua Yim – Effacing Law with Chaos: Contesting Jurisdiction in the Hawaiian Islands
Veronica Hendrick – “Chinese Immigrant Labor: Water Ghosts and the Consequences of the Chinese Exclusion Act”
E. Legal Consciousness, Rhetoric, and Dissent: China Past and Present–McDonough 141
Chair/Discussant: Paolo Farah
Panelists:
Marco Wan – The ‘Umbrella Revolution’, Hong Kong and the Rule of Law
Hsiao-tan Wang – Self-other relationship and law in everyday life: in the context of Chinese culture
Yan Sun – Literature and Law: Examined from the Interactions between Judicial Opinions and Gong An Novels in Ming China
F. Religion, Ritual and the Law–McDonough 109
Chair: Dana Lloyd
Panelists:
Danielle Boaz – Obeah, Witchcraft, and the “Pretended” Use of “Supernatural Powers”: Evaluating the Meaning of Freedom of Religion in the Anglophone Caribbean
Shimelis Kene – Legal Rituals
Nomi Stolzenberg – Political Theology With a Difference
Matthew Scherer – The Politics of Religious Freedom in Hosanna-Tabor and Hobby Lobby
G. Thresholds of Legibility in Post-Conflict Resolution –McDonough 140
Chair: Sangina Patnaik – Telling Truths in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Panelists:
Aaron Bady – ‘It Continues Not To End’: Time, Poetry, and the ICC Witness Project
Barbara Harlow – “…alleged crimes committed in Palestine”: The Case of Palestine In International Law and Before the Courts of World Opinion
Catherine Scott – Conceptions of property &social justice in claims for restitution against former socialist states at the European Court of Human Rights
H. Juries –McDonough 202
Chair: Linda Meyer
Panelists:
Nancy Marder – Juror Bias, Voir Dire, and the Judge-Jury Relationship
Sonali Chakravarti – Jurors and Subversive Democracy
Kathleen Shapely – A Trollopian Vision of Community Justice: The Three Clerks and Orley Farm
I. The Meaning of Death for the Meaning of Law –McDonough 205
Chair: Simon Stow
Panelists:
Thomas Dumm – Real Estate and the Law of Death
Steven Jonston – Democracy and the Redistribution of Violence
J. The Limits of State Power –McDonough 156
Chair: Katherine Franke
Panelists:
Lisa Kelly – Who May Correct the Child?
Rana Jaleel – Gambling on Federalism
Zeina Jallad – Negotiating Space: the Case of the Samaritan Jews in the occupied Palestinian territory
K. Theorizing the Enduring Nature of Racial Cultural Politics–McDonough 347
Chair/Discussant: Courtney Marshall
Panelists:
Charlton Copeland – A Tree Meant for Healing: Lynching, Racial Spectacle, Federalism and the Promise of the “New” South
Leila Brannstrom – Race and Ethnicity in Swedish Anti-Discrimination Law
Vinay Harpalani – DesiCrit: Theorizing the Racial Ambiguity of South Asian Americans
L. Sex and Gender in Legal, Feminist, and Socio-Historical Perspective–McDonough 337
Chair: Jill Hasday – Intimate Lies: How does and How Should the Law Regulate Deception Within Our Closest Relationships
Discussant: Naomi Mezey
Panelists:
Shari Motro – Scholarship Against Desire
Robin West – Hobby Lobby, Freedom of the Church, and Our Ongoing Cultural Wars
M. Regulating Economic Life: Intellectual Property, Tax and Corporate Law – McDonough 206
Chair: Paul Berman
Panelists:
Bernardo Piciche – Beauty: A Legally Preserved Common Good in Italy
Jorge Contreras – Narratives of Gene Patenting
Stefanie Mueller – Charity Incorporated in Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man
Benjamin McDaniel – At Odds With Progress: Minnesota Property Tax Policy, the Twin Cities and the Great Recession (2003-2012)
Comprised originally of: Regulating Economic Life: Narratives of Tax of Corporate Law and Intellectual Property Narratives: France, Italy, U.S.
10:30-10:45 am Coffee –Hart Lobby
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Concurrent Sessions:
A. Property and Punishment: Discourses on Legal Subjecthood in Antebellum Era–McDonough 437
Chair: Birte Christ – Inverted Racial Disparities: The Absence of the Black Convict in Antebellum Anti-Gallows Poetry
Panelists:
Simone Knewitz – Debating Property and Personhood: Slavery and the Rhetoric of Ownership in Antebellum America
John Cyril Barton – Antebellum Prison Discipline and the Court of Public Opinion
B. Ethics and Aesthetics in Cinematic and Theatrical Responses to Atrocity and Poverty –McDonough 201
Chair/Discussant: Richard Sherwin
Panelists:
Caroline Joan Picart – Toward a Poethics in Film and Law: Documenting Real/Reel Representations of the Holocaust and Holocaust Trials
Ruth Buchanan – Global Justice and the Cinematic Slum: Ethics and Aesthetics”
Alex Feldman – The Perpetrators’ Theatre: Forensic Sobriety and Subordinate Villainy in Recent Verbatim Plays
C. A Feminist Perspective on How the Criminal Justice System Treats People. From Street Pat-Downs to Prisons –McDonough 156
Chair: Sarah Jane Forman
Panelists:
Josephine Ross – The Fragmentation of Personhood and the Invisibility of the Legal Subject in the Confinement and Treatment of Prison Inmates in the U.S.
Susan Tanner – Representing Silence: Agency and Influence in the Legal Aid Setting
Reginald Robinson – Searching for the parental causes of the school to prison pipeline.
D. Law, Economy and Political Action –McDonough 109
Chair: Daniel McLoughlin – Agamben on Glory, Spectacle and Immaterial Labour
Panelists:
James Martel – Agamben, Benjamin and the Sovereignty of the Subject.
Steven DeCaroli – Law¹s Other Exception: Giorgio Agamben and Equity
Kathryn Heard – The Post-Secular Subject? Habermas and the “Remainders” of Public Reason
E. Fictional and Non-Fictional Narratives of Criminal Law and Prison Life–McDonough 164
Chair: Melissa Ganz
Panelists:
Emily Hainze – “‘My Future Is To Be Better Now’: Reading Case Files from the Bedford Hills Reformatory”
Laura Appleman –Gothic Stories, Legal Treatises and 19th Century American Criminal Law
Mai-Linh Hong – Freestyle Poetic Justice: Japanese-American Internment and the Kaiko Haiku Movement
F. Parenthood and Law –McDonough 206
Chair/Discussant: Anne Dailey
Panelists: Sarah Abramowicz – Parenthood by Contract
Susan Ayres – Paternity Fraud and Family Secrets
G. Colonial and Post-Colonial Legality in India –McDonough 141
Chair/Discussant: Teresa Park
Panelists:
Debjani Bhattacharyya – Legal Heterotopia: Unstable Ecologies and Property Law in Colonial India
Padmapriya Srivathsa – Creation of Legal Subject in Modern Hindu Law
Mohsin Bhat – From Insular to Redemptive Constitutionalism: Roads to a Constitutional Culture in India
H. The Voice of the Judge –McDonough 202
Chair: Linda Meyer
Panelists:
Allen Mendenhall – Holmes’s Dissents and Emersonian Superfluity
Shelby Bell – Do Per Curiam Opinions Enact the Rule of law?: A Case-Study of Bush v. Gore
Joseph D’Agostino –Law as the Premiere Anti-Science
Susan Schmeiser – Judge David Bazelon and the Possibility of a Psychoanalytic Jurisprudence
Katy Razzano – In light of this demonstration of crisis in our Nation”: Paternity, Responsibility and Welfare
I. Intellectual Property and Visual/Digital Culture –McDonough 588
Panelists:
Amy Adler – The Meaning of “Transformative” and the Transformation of Meaning
Karen Petroski – The Intelligibility of Images in U.S. Patent Law
Alexandra Perloff-Giles- Prince v. Cariou: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Digital Age
Lauren van Haaften-Schnick – Contract as Form and Concept: The Siegelaub- Projansky Agreement in Art and Law
J. Assisted Suicide and Death Rituals–McDonough 203
Chair: William MacNeil
Panelists:
Heather Young – Assisted Suicide and Constructs of The Body
Jennifer Hardes – Legal Fictions, Inviolability of Persons and the Governance of Assisted Dying
K. International Law’s Narratives –McDonough 200
Chair: Sara Kendall –Humanitarian Complicity
Panelists:
Karl Shoemaker – International Law and non-Christian Nations in the Nineteenth Century
Jill Stauffer – Evidence of Repair: Hope, Fact and Recovery in International Criminal Proceedings
Mark Antaki – Humanity and Legal Personality
12:15-1:30 pm Box Lunch Distribution – Hart 2nd Floor Atrium
12:30-1:30 pm Optional Discussion Group on the Podcast “Serial” –McDonough 203
Led by Anne Dailey and Linda Ross Meyer
1:30-3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
A. The Relationship Between Literary and Legal Argument –McDonough 140
Chair: Daniel McLoughlin
Panelists:
Colleen Kropp – Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders and the Language of Obligation and Promise
Marketa Klusoňová – Argumentation by Literary Fiction in the Czech Republic
Jakub Misek – Legal Kitsch and its Appearance in Everyday Praxis
Kate Sutherland – Law and Literary Reputation: Edgar Allan Poe, L.M. Montgomery, and Theodore Dreiser in Court
Alejandra Rodriguez Galan – Reflections on literature, law and democracy
B. Rape, Sexual Assault and the Law –McDonough 141
Chair: Susan Schmesier
Panelists:
Vincent Mosley – Body Mongers: Search for Sexual Autonomy and the Presumption of Harm in Rape Prosecution
Erin Sheley – Narrative Subjectivity and the Legal Truth of Rape
Larissa Brian – At the Thresholds of Contract and Fantasy: The Ambiguity of Speech in California’s Affirmative Consent Law
C. Legal Rhetorics of the Everyday –McDonough 164
Chair: Elizabeth Britt – “‘Just a Piece of Paper’: The Mundane Rhetoric of Abuse Prevention Orders”
Panelists:
Jennifer Andrus – “‘Why does she stay?’: Policing the Victim of Domestic Violence”
Jessie Richards – “Your Trauma is Our Trauma: Separating Collective and Private Memories of War”
Erin Leigh Frymire – “Mundane Torture: The CIA’s Manuals for Interrogation”
D. What is a “Legal Lag”? The co-production of Weapons and Law –McDonough 437
Panelists:
Ioannis Kalpouzos – The co-production of technology and asymmetry: describing and prescribing change in the legal regulation of war
Gearoid O’Cuinn – Legal technicalities and the enrollment of new weapons of war
Itamar Mann
E. Meta-Aesthetics of Law and Justice –McDonough 205
Chair: Kathryn Temple
Discussant: Richard Sherwin
Panelists:
Jack Sammons –The Art of Law
Jenny Scott – “Aesthetics of the trial—a play on words”
Hanna Musiol –Aesthetic Justice
Simon Stern – Effect and Technique in Legal Aesthetics
F. Regulating the Body –McDonough 202
Chair: Sara Burgess
Panelists:
Natalia Reyes – Hospitals as Conscientious Objectors: Attempts to Claim Institutional Right of Conscience to Refuse Abortion Care in Colombia
Lynn Eckert – Pornography’s Discursive Effects: A Theory of Harm
Alisa Sanchez – Hospitals as Conscientious Objectors: Attempts to Claim Institutional Right of Conscience to Refuse Abortion Care in Colombia
Sheryl Hamilton – Regulating Dirty Hand(shakes) in Pandemic Culture
Laura Collins – The Frontiers of Choice: the Decaying Female Body and Infertility Insurance Mandates
Mathilde Cohen – Is Breast Milk the New Raw Milk?
G. Theorizing Under-Recognized Dilemmas for Equality in Relationships and the Family –McDonough 156
Chair: Daniel Hornal
Panelists:
Michael Boucai – Is Assisted Procreation an LGBT Right?
Hadar Aviram – The Future of Polyamorous Marriage: Lessons From the Marriage Equality Struggle
Samantha Godwin – The Place of Autonomy and Dignity Interests in Child Law
H. The Cultural Politics and Legal Demarcation of Space–McDonough 206
Chair: Paul Passavant
Panelists:
Gian Giacomo Fusco – Ghetto: a biopolitical reading
Sara Ross – The Commodification of True Grit: The Artistic Essence of Cultural Enclaves, Displacement, and Gentrification
Emma Patchett – Squatting, property law and possession in dystopian Fiction
I. Criminology, Prisons, Prosecutors –McDonough 201
Chair/Discussant: Linda Meyer
Panelists:
Gil Rothschild – Governing Demeanor: Towards a New Legal Governmentality
Johann Koehler – Felon disenfranchisement and the jurisprudence of degradation
Eisha Jain – Prosecutors and the Peacekeeping Function
Melissa Ganz – William Godwin, Jack Sheppard, and Criminal Biography: Re- reading _Caleb Williams_
Joana Aguiar – ‘The criminal in us’: criminology between law, fiction and narrative
J. Law’s Role in Constructing Collective Memory–McDonough 220
Chair: Paul Schiff Berman
Panelists:
Peter Leman – African Oral Culture, Post-Conflict Memoirs, and the Crisis of International Law
Laura Ricciardi – Legislating Memory: Accommodating Contestations of Public Monuments
Pok Yin Chow – Memory and International Law: In Search of a Right to Memory
K. Thinking “the Political” Beyond Cognition –McDonough 200
Chair: Glenn Mackin – Who is interrupting whom? A critique of sensation as the ontological ground of politics
Panelists:
Claire Rasmussen – The Dog That Didn’t Bark:Thinking Agency Inside the Anthropological Machine
Gregg Miller – The status of the image.
L. Democratizing Dignity –McDonough 109
Chair: Dana Lloyd – Gendering Dignity in the “Secular” State
Panelists:
Vincent Lloyd – The Dignity of Paul Robeson: Black Performance, Black Critique, and International Law
Elliot Ratzman – Human Rights: A Jewish Melancholy Science
Moria Paz – Legal Framing of Political Demands: The Role of International Law in Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Rights
3:30-3:45 pm Coffee – Hart Lobby
3:45-5:15 pm Concurrent Sessions:
A. Aesthetics of Narratives of Justice–McDonough 203
Chair: Stacy Douglas – Kafka’s Liberalism? The Aesthetics of Law’s Violence
Panelists:
Samantha Hogg – Beyond ‘the Development Project’ and Towards a Visualization of ‘Slow Violence’
Morgan Thomas – Double time, double space: The aesthetics of justice and illegality in Sidney Lumet’s Dog Day Afternoon and Pierre Huyghe’s Third Memory
Temma Pinkofsky – China’s Greatest Dissident: The Politics and Aesthetics of Ai Weiwei’s “Straight”
Kathryn Heard – The Post-Secular Subject? Habermas and the “Remainders” of Public Reason
B. Nigeria as a Case Study for Seeing Law in Cultural Context–McDonough 156
Chair/Discussant: Peter Leman
Panelists:
Olanrewaju Adeojo –The Interface between Law and Culture Under Nigerian Law of Inheritance
Oladayo Koleola –At the Confluence of Law and Lore: The Richness and Reaches of a Nigerian Literary Jurisprudence
C. Race, Space and Policing– McDonough 200
Chair:Paul Passavant
Discussant: Lester Spence
Panelists:
Tommy J. Curry – Executions are Justifiable Homicides?: The Genocidal Logics of a “Just” Theory of a Militarized Police State Violence towards Black Males.
Justin Rose – Ferguson: Exception or Expectation?
D. Author meets readers: Maria Aristodemou’s “Law, Psychoanalysis, Society”–McDonough 202
Chair: James Martel
Panelists:
Maria Aristodemou
Jodi Dean
William McNeil
Richard Sherwin
E. Permutations of Property: The Codification of Cultural Production and Entitlement–McDonough 347
Chair: Peter Schneck – The Hermeneutics of Property: Francis Lieber on Copyright, Labor and Interpretation
Panelists:
Martin Zellinger – Film Trailers &Issues of Cultural Ownership.”
Maciej Jakubowiak –Old New Media
Jens Bonk – “It’s All Fun and Games — Playing in the Gray Areas of Intellectual Copyright Law.”
F. Legal Culture, Legal Training, and the Politics of the Legal Profession–McDonough 164
Chair: Linda Meyer
Panelists:
Robert Fox – Law School Dropouts: What Can We Learn About Non-Learners at the Early Modern Inns of Court
John Bliss – Deconstructing Drift
G. Defining and Delegating to the Public–McDonough 201
Chair: Allison Tait – Publicity Rules for Public Trusts
Panelists:
Scott Enderle – Public Domains, Fast and Slow
Sarah Swan – Bystander Interventions
George Wright – The Public in Arendt and Agamben
H. Legal Images and Popular Discourse–McDonough 206
Chair: John Strawson
Panelists:
Barry Collins – Humanitarianism and Mythology in the Popular Imagination
Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne – The Australian media, the Australian state and misrepresenting the post-war scene in Sri Lanka
Edel Hughes – Terrorists, Rapists, and Paedophiles: Portrayals of Human Rights in the UK Med
Jeremie Gilbert – Indigenous Peoples and the media: between ‘brutal primitives’ and ‘eco-warriors’
I. Iconography of Justice –McDonough 205
Chair: Jessie Allen
Panelists:
David Fisher – Imaging/Imagining Justice
Peter Robson – The Iconography of Scottish Justice –some preliminary thoughts
Sara Murphy – “The old Gothic castle” and “the modern inhabitant:” a metaphor and its vic
5:15 pm Adjournment
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