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9 Nov 2015, 9:30 pm
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
: 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]
17 Mar 2014, 7:30 am
Mitra J. [read post]
23 Feb 2014, 5:53 pm
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]
10 Feb 2014, 10:00 am
Sharafi will respond. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 6:30 am
This collective consideration of law’s role in society has the potential to transcend the divide between law and norms conventionally considered extra-legal, between legal history and other historical sub-fields, and between the study of law as text and law as cultural practice.Keynote speaker Rebecca Scott (University of Michigan), guest commentator Mitra Sharafi (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and other faculty commentators will join graduate student presenters for… [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 11:23 am
Substantive questions should be directed to Joanna Grisinger (joanna.grisinger@northwestern.edu) or Mitra Sharafi (sharafi@wisc.edu). [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 6:30 am
On Thursday, October 10, Mitra Sharafi, an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, will present a chapter from her forthcoming book, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947 (Cambridge University Press, 2014). [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 2:26 am
The website, hosted by the Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge is developing a directory of scholars, has a growing database of digital resources, a section on reading legal sources and a set of interviews with legal historians.Of particular interests to scholars working on India, will be the section on digital archives and interviews with authors of recent works on South Asian legal history, including Ritu Birla, Rachel Sturman and Mitra Sharafi. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 9:30 pm
One focuses on ways of reading primary legal sources; the other consists of conversations with legal historians whose books have recently been published: Rachel Sturman, Mitra Sharafi, and Issa Husin. [read post]
27 Apr 2013, 7:59 am
Over at Mitra Sharafi’s South Asian Legal History Resources, Professor Sharafi, Wisconsin Law, has posted a pointer to an audiorecording of her presentation in the spring of 2011 to the University of Wisconsin’s Center for South Asia on her forthcoming book, Law and Identity in Colonial South Asia: Parsi Legal Culture, 1772-1947. [read post]
15 Sep 2011, 9:08 pm
In 2010-11, it held workshops on legal history and religion (organized by Mitra Sharafi) and colonial/postcolonial law in Asia and the Pacific (organized by Nancy Buenger). [read post]
