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9 Mar 2018, 11:21 am
The book talk discussion will include: Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law; Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs, Harvard University; Mitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin School of Law; and Vasujith Ram, LLM student, Harvard Law School. [read post]
5 Mar 2018, 4:00 am
We've learned that the American Council of Learned Societies has awarded residential fellowships to two legal historians: Malick Ghachem (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and our own Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin).Ghachem will be in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study during academic year 2018-2019, working on a project titled "In the Name of the Colony: The Revolt against the Indies Company in Haiti, 1720-1725. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 2:00 am
Emory University School of LawMitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School, presents today her paper entitled: Forensic Experts in Colonial India: Handwriting Analysis as a Suspect Science. [read post]
15 Dec 2017, 4:00 am
(If a title is short-listed, six further copies will be requested from the publisher.)Please contact the committee chair, Mitra Sharafi, with any questions: mitra.sharafi@wisc.edu [read post]
20 Nov 2017, 4:00 am
Of particular interest: a symposium on LHB blogger Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2014):Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia (pages 1210–1214)Bhavani Raman Women's Rights Issues Among Bombay Parsis: A Legal Anthropologist's Thoughts on Mitra Sharafi's Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia (pages 1215–1223)Sylvia Vatuk Loyal Opposition: Minorities and State Law… [read post]
2 Nov 2017, 10:30 am
Honorable mentions: went to Jessica Marglin for Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco (Yale University Press, 2016), and to Chen Li for Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics (Columbia University Press, 2016).The members of the Committee on the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award were Mitra Sharafi, chair, University of Wisconsin; Sally Gordon, University of Pennsylvania; Paul du Plessis, University of Edinburgh; Michael… [read post]
29 Sep 2017, 9:30 pm
Also on the history of the personal law system in India: LHB blogger Mitra Sharafi's op-ed in the Times of India.Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers. [read post]
18 Aug 2017, 6:30 am
The last couple of years I have switched to the first episode of the BBC drama Garrow's Law, which does a good job of showing the transition to adversarial trial with counsel and some of its historical causes (the full episode's on Vimeo).Mitra Sharafi: When I taught my undergrad Legal Studies course, “Law and Colonialism,” I used Gandhi on the role of colonized lawyers leading independence movements in the British Empire (opening assassination and funerary… [read post]
17 Aug 2017, 5:38 am
[This is the first of two posts on film & pedagogy. [read post]
16 Jun 2017, 12:50 pm
Regulating rishvat in early colonial India”· Elizabeth Lhost, University of Chicago, “Philatelic Fraud and the Materiality of Law: Policing stamped paper in British India”· Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Corruption and Forensic Experts in late colonial India· Simanti Dasgupta,… [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 7:27 pm
I still remember Sophia Lee’s post about the ground-staking chapters of her book, Karen Tani’s description of working on her cover design, Ajay Mehotra’s meditations on intellectual history and the fiscal state, Mitra Sharafi’s delightful entries on undiscovered archives, among other memorable posts over the years. [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 5:00 am
(If a title is short-listed, six further copies will be requested from the publisher.)Please contact the committee chair, Mitra Sharafi, with any questions:mitra.sharafi@wisc.edu.The announcement on the ASLH website is available here. [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 4:00 am
Tomiko-Brown Nagin, Karen Tani, and more recently Mitra Sharafi also joined the LHB blogging team. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 5:44 pm
The Hurst Institute assists scholars from law, history, and other disciplines in pursuing research on the legal history of any part of the world.The 2017 Hurst Institute will be led by Mitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law and Legal Studies (with History affiliation) at University of Wisconsin-Madison. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 7:45 am
The 2017 Hurst Institute will be led by Mitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law and Legal Studies (with History affiliation) at University of Wisconsin-Madison. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 8:24 am
The 2017 Hurst Institute will be led by Mitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law and Legal Studies (with History affiliation) at University of Wisconsin-Madison. [read post]
11 Nov 2016, 9:30 pm
"At South Asian Legal History Resources, our own Mitra Sharafi shares news of "Bhopal: Law, Accidents, and Disasters in India. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 6:00 am
In the meantime, I want to give a heartfelt thanks to the editors of the LHB—Dan Ernst, Mitra Sharafi, and Karen Tani—for inviting me to share my work with you. [read post]
15 Sep 2016, 9:30 pm
The 2017 Hurst Institute will be led by Mitra Sharafi, Associate Professor of Law and Legal Studies (with History affiliation) at University of Wisconsin-Madison. [read post]
1 Sep 2016, 10:05 am
Worth a read: an interesting post on Parsi legal history in film and fiction from the website of University of Wisconsin law prof and legal historian Mitra Sharafi, South Asian Legal History Resources. [read post]
