The conveners of the 2011 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Interdisciplinary Writing Competition are pleased to announce the papers selected for this year's workshop. Each year we solicit papers from senior graduate students and untenured faculty on topics in law and the humanities. The submissions are then juried by two outside senior readers, and based on those reviews the conveners selected seven papers and two alternates for inclusion in a conference held in June, where the papers are workshopped by senior commentators in fields relevant to the papers.
Remaking Indians, Remaking Citizens: Peruvian and Mexican Perspectives on Criminal Law and National Integration
(abstract here)
- Lior Ben David
- Doctoral Candidate
- Department of History
- Tel Aviv University
Judging Genocide in Rwanda: Lay Judges and Mass Prosecutions in Local Courts
(abstract here)
- Anuradha Chakravarty
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Political Science
- University of South Carolina
What’s Mine: Involuntary Expressions and the Right to Privacy
(abstract here)
- Monica Huerta
- Doctoral Candidate
- Department of English
- University of California, Berkeley
Executing Whiteness: Fictional and Nonfictional Accounts of Capital Punishment in the United States, 1915-1940
(abstract here)
- Daniel LaChance
- Assistant Professor
- Department of History
- Emory University
Usable Traditions: Creating Sexual Autonomy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(abstract here)
- Xavier Livermon
- Assistant Professor
- African & African Diaspora Studies Department
- University of Texas at Austin
- Law and Fiction in Medieval Iceland: The Story in the Gragas Manuscripts
- Thomas J. McSweeney
- Assistant Professor
- William & Mary Law School
A Pre-History of Performing Rights in Anglo-American Copyright Law
(abstract here)
- Derek Miller
- Assistant Professor
- Department of English
- Harvard University
The Tower of Babel: Human Rights and the Paradox of Language
(abstract here)
- Moria Paz
- Law and Internatinoal Security Fellow
- Center for International Security an Cooperation
- Stanford University
Alternates:
Leroy Pitzer: Citizen, Voter, Lunatic?
(abstract here)
- Rabia Belt
- Research Fellow
- Georgetown University Law Center
“Willing Victims” and “Innocence Unguarded”?: Ambiguous Volition, Perishable Promises, and Disavowed Consent in Fielding’s Amelia
(abstract here)
- Nicole M. Wright
- Provost's Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar
- Department of English
- University of Chicago
Demanding the Angels’ Share: Intellectual Property and Spiritual Organization in the Urantia Foundation
(abstract here) (project description here)
- Andrew Ventimiglia
- Doctoral Candidate
- Cultural Studies Program
- University of California - Davis
Can Moving Pictures Speak? Silent Film, Free Speech, and Social Science in Early 20th Century Law
(abstract here) (project description here)
- Jennifer Petersen
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Media Studies
- University of Virginia
Responsible Shares and Shared Responsibility: In Defense of Responsible Corporate Officer Liability
(abstract here)
- Amy J. Sepinwall
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics
- The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Nature, Nurture, Narrative, Law: The Wellesley case, Oliver Twist, and the Victorian Anxiety about Parentage
(abstract here) (project description here)
- Sarah Abramowicz
- Assistant Professor
- Wayne State University Law School
The Administration of Genius: Expertise and the Patent Bargain
(abstract here)
- Kara W. Swanson
- Associate Professor
- Northeastern University School of Law
The Aesthetics of Affirmative Action
(abstract here)
- Brian Soucek
- Acting Professor
- University of California - Davis School of Law
Alternates:
“You Will See My Family Became So American”: Immigration, Racial Visibility, and Specular Citizenship
(abstract here)
- Sherally Munshi
- Doctoral Candidate
- Department of English and Comparative Literature
- Columbia University
The Power to Destroy: Discriminatory Property Assessments and the Struggle for Tax Justice
(abstract here)
- Andrew W. Kahrl
- Assistant Professor
- Department of History
- Marquette University
- Maria Patrice Amon
- Doctoral Candidate
- Joint Ph.D. program in Drama and Theatre
- University of California, Irvine
Tradition, Precedent, and Power in Roman Egypt
(Abstract/ Background Here)
- Ari Bryen
- Lecturer
- ACLS New Faculty Fellow
- Depts. of Rhetoric and Classics
- University of California, Berkeley
Home Rule: Equitable Justice in Progressive Chicago and the Philippines
(Abstract Here)
- Nancy Buenger
- Law & Society Postdoctoral Fellow
- Institute for Legal Studies
- University of Wisconsin Law School
The Fortas Film Festival
(Abstract Here)
- Brian Frye
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
- Hofstra Law School
Regret, Remorse and Accidents: Where the New Apology Laws Go Wrong
(Abstract Here)
- Jeffrey S. Helmreich
- Ph.D. Candidate
- Philosophy and Law
- UCLA Department of Philosophy
The Nation and Its Heretics: ‘Muslim Citizenship’, State Power and Minority Rights in Pakistan
(Abstract Here)
- Sadia Saeed
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Indiana University
- Maurer School of Law
“Corporation Law is Dead”: The Mystery of Corporation Law at the Height of the American Century
- Harwell Wells
- Associate Professor of Law
- Temple University Beasley School of Law
Alternates
Philosophical Controversies in Sovereign Debt
- Odette Lienau
- Assistant Professor of Law
- Cornell University
Poor Law Taxonomies and Realist Narrative Technique in Harriet Martineau's Didactic Fiction
- Mary Willenbring
- Lecturer
- English Department
- Marquette University
Missionaries, Moral Advocacy, and the Transformation of Police Court Procedure in London, 1876-1930
(abstract here)
- Sascha Auerbach
- Assistant Professor
- History Program
- University of Northern British Columbia
"Petitions Without Number": Women’s Petitions and the Early Nineteenth-Century Origins of Marriage-Based Entitlements
(abstract here)
- Kristin Collins
- Associate Professor
- Boston University School of Law
The Inequalities of Equity and the Search for an Ethical Professional in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House (1852-3)(abstract here)
- Katherine Gilbert
- Assistant Professor
- Department of English
- Drury University
Knowing, Not Knowing, and the Legal Management of Multidisciplinarity under the Israeli Transplant Directives
(abstract here)
- Marie-Andrée Jacob
- Lecturer
- Keele Law School and Research Institute for Law Politics and Justice
- Keele University
- Elizabeth Katz
- Law Clerk to the Honorable J. Frederick Motz,
- United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- Kurt Newman
- Graduate Student in History
- University of California Santa Barbara
Hobbes and Wolf-Man: Melancholy and Animality in Modern Sovereignty
(abstract here)
- Diego Rossello
- Ph.D. candidate in Political Science
- Northwestern University
Alternate:
The Invention of the “American National”: Filipinos and the Genealogy of Colonial Subjecthood
- Veta Schlimgen
- Ph.D. candidate in History
- University of Oregon
The Transformation of the Laws of War Into Humanitarian Law
(abstract here)
- Mark Antaki
- Professor of Law
- McGill University
Is Cyberprostitution Prostitution? New Paradigm, Old Crime
(abstract and annotated table of contents here)
- Brooke Campbell
- Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow
- Institute for Women’s Studies
- University of Georgia
From Privacy to Liberty: Sharing After Lawrence
(abstract here)
- Thomas P. Crocker
- Assistant Professor
- University of South Carolina School of Law
Fast-Fish, Loose-Fish: How Whalemen, Lawyers, and Judges Created the British Property Law of Whaling
(abstract here)
- Robert Deal
- Doctoral Candidate
- Temple University
- Michelle McKinley
- Assistant Professor
- University of Oregon School of Law
Impossible Voices: Human Rights, Bodily Remains, and the Injunction to Testify
- Sonali Thakkar
- Doctoral Candidate, Trudeau Scholar/SSHRC Doctoral Fellow
- Department of English and Comparative Literature
- Columbia University
Blackboard Jungle: Delinquency, Psychiatry, and the Bio-Politics of Brown
- Anders Walker
- Assistant Professor
- Saint Louis University School of Law
Alternates
Between Natural Law and Legal Positivism: Plato’s Minos and the Nature of Law
- Claire McCusker
- Coker Fellow, Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant
- Yale Law School
Law without the Law-Giver: Prospects for Legal Authority after a Crisis of Sovereignty
- Amy Swiffen
- Doctoral Candidate
- Department of Sociology
- University of Alberta
Critical Acts of Recognition: Reading Law Rhetorically
- Sarah Burgess
- Assistant Professor
- University of San Francisco
- Department of Communication Studies
Social Life and Civic Education in the Rio de Janeiro City Jail
(abstract here)
- Amy Chazkel
- Assistant Professor
- Department of History
- City University of New York, Queens College
A Woman’s Right to be Spanked: Testing the Limits of Tolerance of S/M in the Socio-Legal Imaginary
(abstract here)
- Ummni Khan
- Doctoral Candidate
- University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Respect and Resistance in Punishment Theory
- Alice Ristroph
- Associate Professor
- University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law
The Sit-ins and the Failed State Action Revolution
- Christopher W. Schmidt
- Visiting Scholar, American Bar Foundation; Visiting Associate Professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law (spring 2008)
Recording Artists, Work For Hire, Employment, and Appropriation
- Matt Stahl
- Assistant Professor
- Faculty of Information and Media Studies
- University of Western Ontario
Divorcing family law from the Nation
(abstract here)
- Philomila Tsoukala
- Visiting Assistant Professor
- Georgetown Law Center
Alternates
Blood Quantum and Equal Protection
- Rose Cuison Villazor
- Asst. Professor of Law
- SMU Dedman School of Law
Legal Development in Sudan:Myth-making and the Collision of Rights
- Mark F. Massoud
- Ph.D. Candidate
- University of California, Berkeley
- Ayanna Thompson -Interrogating Torture and Finding Race - Long Version - Short Version
- Christine Wilke - Recognizing Victimhood - Long Version
- Jennifer Anne Hamilton - Healing the Bishop: Consent and the Legal Erasure of Colonial History - Long Version - Short Version
- Jason Kaufman - Origins of the Asymmetric Society: Freedom of Incorporation in the Early United States and Canada - Long Version - Short Version
- Melissa Ganz - Binding the Will: George Eliot and the Practice of Promising - forthcoming in English Literary History
- Noya Rimalt - Equality with a Vengeance - Women Conscientious Objectors in Pursuit of a "Voice" and Substantive Gender Equality - Long Version - Short Version
- Susan Pearson – “The Inalienable Rights of the Beasts”: Organized Animal Protection and the Language of Rights in America, 1865-1900 - Long Version - Short Version
Alternates
- Kevin Olson - Paradoxes of Constitutional Democracy - Paper
- Micah Schwartzman - The Principle of Judicial Sincerity