Law and the French Atlantic Organized by Allan Greer, McGill University, and Richard J. Ross, University of Illinois The French Atlantic has not yet received the sustained attention given to the British and Spanish Atlantic, particularly where the topic of law is concerned. This conference will explore the legal dimension (broadly conceived) of the French […]
Author: Krista Gaedtke
2014-15 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History
Meanings of Justice in New World Empires: Settler and Indigenous Law as Counterpoints Understandings of justice differed among New World empires and among the settlers, imperial officials, and indigenous peoples within each one. This conference will focus on the array of meanings of justice, their emergence and transformation, and the implications of adopting one or […]
2015-16 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History
Anglicization of Law and through Law: Early Modern British North America, India, and Ireland Compared Scholars have long asked whether and how English settlements in North America, India, and Ireland converged towards metropolitan models, or anglicized, over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This question has commonly been asked about each region separately. Our conference poses […]