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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
