Friday, February 29, 2008
8:45 am Continental Breakfast
8:55 am Introductory Remarks
Bruce Smith (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Law)
9:00 -10:15 am Author-Meets Readers Session I
Andrea McKenzie, Tyburn’s Martyrs: Execution in England, 1675-1775 (Hambledon, 2007)
Discussants: Randall McGowen (University of Oregon, History)
Michael Meranze (UCLA, History)
Response: Andrea McKenzie (University of Victoria, History)
10:15 – 10:30 am Break
10:30 – 11:45 pm Panel I: Capital Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England and America
Simon Devereaux (University of Victoria, History)
“Recasting the Theatre of Execution: The Abolition of the Tyburn Ritual”
Gabriele Gottlieb (Grand Valley State University, History)
“Class and Capital Punishment in Early Urban America”
11:45 am - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30-2:45 pm Panel II: Adversary Criminal Trial and its Alternatives
Tom Gallanis (University of Minnesota, Law and History)
“Why Not Defence Counsel?”
Bruce Smith (University of Illinois College of Law)
“Explaining Summary Jurisdiction”
2:45-3:00 pm Break
3:00-4:15 pm Author-Meets-Readers Session II
Donald Fyson, Magistrates, Police, and People: Everyday Criminal Justice in Quebec and Lower Canada, 1764- 1837 (University of Toronto Press, 2006)
Discussants: Paul Craven (York University, History)
Greg Smith (University of Manitoba, History)
Response: Donald Fyson (Université Laval, History)
4:15 pm Adjourn
The papers for the symposium will be pre-circulated for discussion. To register, see the instructions below (at the bottom of this page.) The papers will be sent to you electronically when they become available.
The Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History is sponsored by the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and organized by Bruce Smith. The Symposium will gather yearly under the auspices of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago in order to explore a particular topic in the comparative legal history of the Atlantic world in the period c.1492-1815. Funding has been provided by the University of Illinois College of Law. Last fall, the Symposium presented a conference on "Law, Religion, and Social Discipline in the Early Modern Atlantic World ."
While there is no fee to attend this event, participants should register in advance. To register please call the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or send an e-mail to renaissance@newberry.org.
Funds may be available for graduate students and faculty of Consortium institutions to travel to the Newberry Library to attend the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies.