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The conveners of the 2005 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, 2005 at Georgetown University Law Center.
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 below. Also included are the papers' commentators for our June 2005 workshop conference.
Brenna Bhandar, Birbeck Law School, University of London, Recovering the Limits of Recognition: The Politics of Difference and Decolonization in John Borrow's Recovering Canada: The Resurgence of Indigenous Law short version long version
- Commentators: Sarah Harding (Law, Chicago-Kent) & Ayelet Shachar (Law, Univ of Toronto)
Donna Dennis, Rutgers Law School, Obscenity Regulation and Its Consequences in Mid 19th C America short version long version
- Commentators: David Rabban (Law, Texas) & Reva Siegel (Law, Yale)
Tal Kastner, English, Princeton, What is a Contract? short version long version
- Commentators: Robin West (Law, Georgetown) & Austin Sarat (Law, Jurispr & Social Thought, Amherst)
Carmela Murdocca, Sociology & Equity Studies, University of Toronto, National Responsibility and Systemic Racism in Criminal Sentencing: The Case of R.V. Hamilton short version long version
- Commentators: Rick Banks (Law, Stanford) & Martha Umphrey (Law, Jurispr & Social Thought, Amherst)
John Savage, History, Lehigh University, Black Magic and White Terror: Slave Poisoning and the Provostial Court in Restoration Era Martinique short version long version
- Commentators: Sue Peabody (History Washington State Univ, Vancouver) & Adrienne Davis (Law, Univ of North Carolina)
Adam Sitze, English, Syracuse University Treating Life Literally short version long version
- Commentators: David Eng (English, Rutgers) & Anne Dailey (Law, Univ of Connecticut)
Barry Wimpfheimer, Religion, Columbia University, Love and Law: The Dialogical Nature of Talmudic Legal Narrative short version long version
- Commentators: Robert Post (Law, Yale) & Nan Goodman (English, Univ of Colorrado)
Alternates:
Sophia Lee, Law & History, Yale University, Hotspots in a Cold War: The NAACP's Postwar Labor Constitutionalism, 1948-1964 long version
Robert Yelle, Religion & Law, University of Toronto, Poetry on Trial: Law Versus Literature, Or Two Chapters in the History of Legal Literalism
