Friday, February 29, 2008
Organized by: Bruce Smith, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) College of Law
Co-sponsored by the University of Illinois College of Law and the Newberry Library
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