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2004 Law & Humanities Workshop

2004 LAW & HUMANITIES JUNIOR SCHOLAR INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP- FINAL PAPERS


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The conveners of the 2004 Interdisciplinary Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop are delighted to announce the final papers that have been selected for inclusion in the Law & Humanities Workshop in June, 2004 at UCLA Law School.

We received over 70 submissions in this year's juried competition, and each paper submitted received two anonymous outside reviews before being read by the conveners. Our selections, after much deliberation given the impressive number of outstanding papers we received, are:

Joanna Demers, Assistant Professor of Music History & Literature, University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music

Musical Appropriation, Musical Meaning, and the Law  short version  long version

 

   Commentators: Paul Saint-Amour, Pomona College, English

                            Anupam Chander, UC Davis, Law

 

Deborah Dinner, Ph. D. Candidate, History Department , Yale University

Transforming Family and State: Women's Vision for Universal Childcare, 1966-71  short version  long version

 

   Commentators: Cheryl Harris, UCLA, Law

                            Kathryn Abrams, UC Berkeley, Law

 

Reginald Oh, Assistant Professor of Law, Appalachian School of Law

Remapping Equal Protection Jurisprudence: A Legal Geography of Richmond v. Croson  short version  long version

 

   Commentators: Richard Banks, Stanford, Law

                            Stephen Best, UC Berkeley, English

 

Naomi Reed, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

The Wagers of Whiteness, The Wagers of Blackness: Gambling and Race in Pudd'nhead Wilson  short version  long version

 

   Commentators: Nan Goodman, U of Colorado, English

                            Judith Jackson Fossett, USC, English, American Studies &

                            African American Studies

                        

Gary Rowe, Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

The Founders, Federalism, and Farce: A Litigious Sailor and the Conflict Over Constitutionalism in the Early Republic  short version  long version

 

   Commentators: Sarah Barringer Gordon, U of Pennsylvania, Law & History

                            Martin Flaherty, Fordham, Law

 

Bruce Smith, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Illinois

The Presumption of Guilt and the English Law of Theft, 1750-1850  short version  long version

 

   Commentators: Robert Weisberg, Stanford, Law

                            Barbara Shapiro, UC Berkeley, Rhetoric

 

Joseph Slaughter, Assistant Professor of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University

The Textuality of Human Rights: Founding Narratives of Human Personality  short version  long version

 

   Commentators: Kirstie McClure, UCLA, Politics & English

                            Brenda Cossman, U of Toronto, Law

 

Alternates

Erika Bsumek, Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas, Austin
Making 'Indian-Made': Congress, the Courts, and the Commodification of Navajo Identity, 1914-1935


Adriaan Lanni, Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard
Verdict Most Just: The Modes of Classical Athenian Justice

Ben Golder, Associate Lecturer & Research Associate, Center for Public Law, University of South Wales
The Homosexual Advance Defence and the Law/Body Nexus: Towards a Poetics of Law Reform