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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]
9 Jul 2016, 10:26 pm
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
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
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
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]
18 Nov 2015, 7:26 am
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