Events at Stanford
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16:56 Dec 13, 2021
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...