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9 Jul 2016, 10:26 pm by Brooke
Crabtree on Talitha LeFlouria's Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, Ellen Pearson on Ted Maris-Wolf's Family Bonds, Brittany Gilmer on Emily Burrill's States of Marriage, and Amrita Shodhan on (LHB blogger) Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial India.This month's The Federal Lawyer includes a brief review of Susanna Blumenthal's Law and the… [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 2:25 pm by Bridget Crawford
Room: 3rd Floor, Salon E Discussants: Sally Engle Merry, Anthropology, New York University Amy Cohen, Ohio State University Law School Clare Huntington, Fordham Law School Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School Saptarshi Mandal, Jindal Global Law School     Thursday, June 2, 10:15 am to 12:00 pm [Roundtable 1328] Critical Perspectives on Reproductive Justice:  From Activism to the Academy Room: 2nd Floor, Studio 9 Chair: Rachel Rebouché, Temple Law… [read post]
1 May 2016, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
  Last but not least, Professor Sharafi is the creator of South Asian Legal History Resources, which includes research guides and other tools for scholars interested in the history of law in South Asia.Welcome aboard, Mitra Sharafi! [read post]
6 Mar 2016, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
Perry, who talks over her new book, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship, and the Politics of Race (Oxford University Press).Our previous guest blogger, Mitra Sharafi, also speaks with New Books this week about her recent book, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947 (Cambridge University Press).David Cole reviews The Fight to Vote by Michael Waldman (Simon and Schuster) for The Washington Post. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
”We’re afraid there’s no ungated draft of the actual paper, but we note anyway that former guest blogger Mitra J. [read post]
9 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
[We are very grateful to Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, for this very full report on a panel at the recently concluded annual meeting of the American Society for Legal History.]On Friday October 30th 2015, the ASLH convened the Author-Meets-Reader panel featuring Mitra Sharafi’s (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947, published by Cambridge… [read post]
31 Oct 2015, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
The roundtable participants were Sam Erman (University of Southern California), Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin), and Daniel Sharfstein (Vanderbilt), all of whom have relied on or collaborated with living descendants of their historical research subjects.Professor Welke structured the conversation around a pre-distributed set of questions. [read post]
3 Oct 2015, 6:30 am by Karen Tani
Recent guest blogger Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin) recently spoke to the BBC News about Parsi matrimonial courts. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 6:30 am by Karen Tani
A description from the Press:Legal Life-Writing provides the first sustained treatment of the implications of life-writing on legal biography, autobiography and the visual history of law in society through a focus on neglected sources, and on those usually marginalized or ignored in legal biography and legal history, such as women and minorities.Draws on a range of sources and disciplinary approaches including legal history, life-writing, sociology, history, art history, feminism and… [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 3:00 pm by Karen Tani
We're excited to see that recent guest blogger Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin) picked up the J. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 6:00 am by Emily Prifogle
Please join the Legal History Blog team in thanking Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin-Madison) for her fantastic guest blogging during the month of March.This month she has brought our attention to valuable historical sources and web resources, and discussed her current research in South Asian legal history.In praise of small archivesIn praise of private papersIn praise of memoirsEugenics in South Asian Legal HistoryFirst Book WorkshopsDigital Asian Legal HistoryFor more… [read post]
28 Feb 2015, 9:30 am by Karen Tani
She is the author, most recently, of Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947 (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and is currently working on a second book project, on medical jurisprudence in colonial India.No stranger to legal history on the web, Professor Sharafi is the creator of South Asian Legal History Resources, which includes research guides and other tools for scholars interested in the history of law in South Asia.Welcome, Mitra… [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
Mann (2013) (Immediate Past President) (Harvard University)Reuel Schiller (2012) (University of California, Hastings) Mitra Sharafi (2012) (University of Wisconsin)David S. [read post]
1 May 2014, 6:59 am by Dan Ernst
Mitra SharafiCemeteries as Historical EvidenceIn Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia, Mitra Sharafi argues that rather than trying to maintain collective autonomy and integrity by avoiding interaction with the state, the Parsis sank deep into the colonial legal system itself. [read post]
8 Apr 2014, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
: Rabbinical Divorces and Trials for Bigamy in New York at the Turn of the Twentieth Century"Commentator: Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin-Madison) [read post]
23 Feb 2014, 5:53 pm by Dan Ernst
  Substantive questions should be directed to Joanna Grisinger (joanna.grisinger@northwestern.edu) or Mitra Sharafi (sharafi@wisc.edu).Student Research Colloquium (to be held Nov. 5-6)In 2014, the ASLH will host its inaugural Student Research Colloquium (SRC) in conjunction with its annual meeting. [read post]