American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting in Ottawa

The American Society for Legal History is holding its next annual conference in Ottawa, Nov 13-16, 2008, at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier Hotel.

Among the topics:

• Censoring Justice: Silence and Exposure in Twentieth-Century U.S. Military History
• Medieval Canon Law in Practice
• Codification and Nationalism in Europe
• The Making of the Cambridge History of Law in America
• Administrative Law and the Reconstruction of States in the U.S., Europe and Japan
• Roman Law in Rule and Practice
• Assessing Canadian Feminist Legal History: a panel in honour of Constance Backhouse
• Sexuality and Civil Rights at Century’s End
• What Were They Thinking?: Judges and the Operation of the Criminal Law in Eighteenth-Century England
• and lots more!