Next week the University of Dayton will host their annual Porter Wright Symposium on Law, Religion, and Ethics. This year the topic is "Property and Subordination." The symposium, which is organized by Eleanor Brown of GW Law, is centered around Orlando Patterson's book Slavery and Social Death. Patterson will deliver the keynote address and then there will be related work by a number of property scholars. The speakers and their topics are:
Keynote speaker: Orlando Patterson, John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, speaking on “Slavery, Property and Social Death”
Speakers in Order of Presentation:
Eduardo Peñalver, Allen Tessler Dean and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, speaking on “Slavery, Exclusion and the ‘Essence’ of Ownership”
Eric Claeys, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, speaking on “Slavery and Property: A Comment on Conceptual Methods and Slavery and Social Death”
Claire Priest, Baldwin Professor of Law, Yale Law School, speaking on “The Centrality of Slaves as Collateral in Colonial Credit Markets”
Adrienne Davis, Vice Provost, William Van Cleve Professor of Law, Washington University, speaking on “Slavery, Caste and Conceptions of Justice”
Bernadette Atuahene, Professor of Law, Chicago Kent College of Law, speaking on “Dignity Takings and Dignity Restoration”
Al Brophy, Judge John Parker Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, speaking on “Property and Proslavery Thought in the American Judiciary and Academy”
June Carbone, Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology, University of Minnesota, speaking on “Race and the Meaning of an Ownership Interest in American Life”
Eleanor Brown, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Dayton, Professor of Law, George Washington University, speaking on “From Furs to Farmers Who Were Enslaved: What Can Demsetz Tell Us About Slave Property Ownership?”
On a personal note, as a few of you know, I've been dealing with some family health issues for a little more than a year now, which explains why I've been so quiet -- and also why I've had to back out of a bunch of commitments over the past couple of semesters. This will be one of the first weekends in months that I have been able to think about things other than family or teaching and I'm super excited and honored to be a part of what I know will be a vibrant discussion of slavery, property, and subordination.
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