The papers for the Legal History Conference are restricted to conference participants. If you are a paticipant, please contact Anna Gavin at agavin@law.upenn.edu to request access.
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Risa Goluboff, University of Virginia
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"Equality in Theory” or “Equality in Fact”?: Reviving the Equal Rights Amendment in the Reagan Era
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School
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The Battle Over Welfare Rights: Poverty and Politics in Modern America
Felicia Kornbluh, Duke University
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View Chapter 3: "Legal Civil Disobedience: The Freedom Movement in New York’s Administrative Courtrooms” (PDF)
Transnational Legal History: The Case of Asian Exclusion in the Americas, 1850-1945
Erika Lee, University of Minnesota
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View Selected Chronology of Anti-Asian Policies and Violence in America (PDF)
The Constitutionalization of the Subject: Citizen, Nationals, and American Empire
Christina Duffy Burnett, Princeton University
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The Case of Jean Baptiste, Créole de Saint-Domingue: Law and Slavery in the Currents of the Atlantic World
Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan
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Race, Marriage, and Civil Rights
Jane Dailey, University of Chicago
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