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23 Dec 2019, 9:30 pm
This Article focuses on a feature of American colonial life that reappeared with striking continuity for three generations after Independence—the vindication of unwritten constitutional rights by mob action, and specifically, the tradition of mobs turning to Indian costume to express a specific series of constitutional grievances. [read post]
3 May 2017, 5:48 am
Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. [read post]
25 Mar 2023, 8:35 am
Its ideology and practices are entwined with the histories and legacies of colonialism and imperialism, as well as the entrenched operations and politics of capitalism across time and space. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 9:30 pm
From Time's "Made by History" section: Hardeep Dhillon (University of Pennsylvania), "What Was Revealed When British Officials Calculated How Much a Colonial Subject’s Life Was Worth. [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 4:16 am
There is an enormous literature on just how colonial Virginia transitioned into slavery for life -- and a lot of this relates to a very exciting (though now decades old debate) about racism and economics. [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 10:00 am
February 19, 2014: Douglas Harris, University of British Columbia: "Property and Sovereignty: An Indian Reserve in a Canadian City"March 5, 2014: David Rabban, University of Texas: chapters 5 & 11 from Law's History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History.March 12, 2014: Michael Birnhack, Tel-Aviv University: The Melting Pot of Copyright Law: Urheberrecht in Jerusalem.March 26, 2014: Geetanjali Srikantan, Tel-Aviv University: "Islamisation or Secularisation: The Trajectory… [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 7:46 am
Colonial Hong Kong was characterized by diglossia: the use of Cantonese for the ‘low’ functions of daily life and the use of English for the ‘high’ functions of law and government. [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 8:13 am
A lecture in honour of Mireille Delmas-Marty (1941-2022)Alain Wijffels (KU Leuven) April 25thHomesteading and the American DreamK-Sue Park (Georgetown University) May 30th The English ‘Law of Succession’ as an expression of European Legal Culture: The Story of its DevelopmentReinhard Zimmermann (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) September 26th Transnational Legal Transfers: the extraordinary life of JP Benjamin QC… [read post]
8 Nov 2019, 2:04 pm
Hasselbalch, Framing brain drain: between solidarity and skills in European labor mobility Felix Mantz, Decolonizing the IPE syllabus: Eurocentrism and the coloniality of knowledge in International Political Economy [read post]
24 Jan 2024, 6:30 am
DRE]All talks are on Thursdays, 4:20–6:20pm, in room 410, unless otherwise indicated.Thursday, January 18Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown Law, “The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789-1825” Thursday, February 1Ashraf Ahmed, Columbia Law, & Noah Rosenblum, NYU Law, “Building Presidential Administration” Thursday, February 8Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard Law, & Peter Onuf, UVA HistoryThursday, February 15Aziz Rana, BC Law, “The… [read post]
28 May 2015, 12:10 pm
The words that appear at the end of the short video sum it up -- "No text is worth a life. [read post]
10 Sep 2022, 6:15 am
As a direct recipient of her governance and as the child of colonial subjects, I reserve the right to say what this woman’s life and monarchy and the history of the British monarchy as a whole means to me. [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 8:45 am
The 'social life' of vulnerability, migration governance and protection at the Zimbabwe-South Africa border (PROTECT Project, Jan. 2023) [text]Creating digital toolkits tailored to regional contexts to promote the mobilization and engagement of communities affected by forced displacement (UNHCR, Feb. 2023) [text]- See also French version.Culture, context and mental health and psychosocial well-being of refugees and internally displaced persons from South Sudan (UNHCR, 2023)… [read post]
29 Jun 2021, 9:30 pm
’ Wednesday November 24 - Daniel Murchison, York University: ‘Alice Payette's Piano and Fur Coat: Views of Métis Life from the Manitoba Surrogate Court, 1870 to 1930".Wednesday December 1 – Wayne Sumner, University of Toronto: ‘Cognitive Deficiency and the Insanity Defence: The Case of Mike Hack. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 7:46 am
Colonial Hong Kong was characterized by diglossia: the use of Cantonese for the ‘low’ functions of daily life and the use of English for the ‘high’ functions of law and government. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 11:01 am
If convicted he faces life in prison. [read post]
4 Jan 2019, 6:34 am
” Justiça e alteridade em três documentários de Maria Augusta RamosPaula HalperinBook Review EssaysThe Historian’s Craft: Creating the Past in Colonial Latin AmericaMark ChristensenPeru since Independence, a Tortured HistoryPeter KlarénChanging Landscapes of Faith: Latin American Religions in the Twenty-First CenturyBrendan Jamal ThorntonAn Institutional Perspective on Brazil’s Political EconomyJoseph L. [read post]
30 Dec 2020, 10:52 am
A legal regime that seemed unremarkable in the home country often seemed a poor fit for the conditions of other, far-off lands, leading to friction between the law and the lived life of the colony and its natural environment.The article explores some of the areas of water law in which courts around the common law world departed from the established rules of the common law in order to make the legal rules more appropriate, as they saw it, to the local environment. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 9:38 am
Since Colonial times, Quakers have been exempted from oath-taking and military service. [read post]
17 Jan 2022, 7:15 am
Blog posts & press:From Foreigners Tribunal to Tablighi Jamaat: Elusive Bail in India’s Colonial Crimmigration Regime (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2022) [text]Hundreds of asylum seekers detained in Libyan prison (InfoMigrants, Jan. 2022) [text]- See also related IDC timeline.ICE Detains 22,000 Immigrants at Start of 2022, Monitors 157,000 on Alternatives to Detention Program (TRAC, Jan. 2022) [text]“The Novak Djokovic saga in Australia highlights a far greater… [read post]
