Governing Property | United States

Date: Thursday, January 13, 2022. 3:30 PM. Location: Building 360, Conference room/ Zoom Please join us on January 13 for our winter quarter Faculty Research Fellows Chautauqua. This book salon event will feature 2021-2022 fellow Gregory Ablavsky focusing on his new book, Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Elizabeth A. Reese (Law). Gregory Ablavsky is a Professsor of Law, Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar, and Professor of History, by courtesy. Federal Ground depicts the haphazard and unplanned growth of federal authority in the Northwest and Southwest Territories, the first U.S. territories established under the new territorial system. The nation’s foundational documents, particularly the U.S. Constitution and the Northwest Ordinance, placed these territories under sole federal jurisdiction and established federal officials to govern them. But, for all their paper authority, these officials rarely controlled events or di...

Date: Friday, December 10, 2021. 10:00 AM. Location: Online Please join the Stanford Law and Policy Review and Stanford Law School for an interactive panel discussing Stanford Law School Professor Greg Ablavsky’s new book Federal Ground: Governing Property and Violence in the First U.S. Territories (Oxford UP, 2021). Federal Ground explores how, in the first two federal territories, a minuscule and distrusted national government nonetheless gained authority by arbitrating disputes over property and violence. Professor Ablavsky will be joined by Professor Joseph Singer of Harvard Law School, Professor Matthew Fletcher of Michigan State University Law School, and Professor Alison LaCroix of the University of Chicago Law School on a panel moderated by new Stanford Law School Assistant Professor Elizabeth Reese. All those registered will be entered into a drawing for a copy of Federal Ground signed by Professor Ablavsky. His book can also be obtained at the Stanford Book Store, or from Oxford University Press or ...