Event Details

End: February 15, 2016
Contact: ewatt@abfn.org
More Info: http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/research/Law_in_the_History_of_Capitalism__A_Conference.html

In recent years, there has been an explosion of new scholarship on the historical relationship between law and capitalism. This infusion of interdisciplinary scholarship creates an opportunity for new work that puts law, legal institutions, and legal processes at the center of capitalist transformations.

The aim of this conference is to provide junior scholars with a venue to share their unpublished research and to connect with senior scholars in this field. We thus invite junior scholars to submit proposals that offer original analyses of law in the history of capitalism. Our goal is to host a conference with a variety of papers that range chronologically, geographically, and across disciplines. The conference will be held at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, Illinois, from June 27-28, 2016.  It is sponsored by a consortium of law schools and history departments at the universities of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Chicago and the American Bar Foundation.

Please visit the conference website for further information and a link for receiving applications.  Due date is Feb. 15, 2016.