Violence | 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 ...

Date: Thursday, November 11, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Virtual Webinar (Pacific Time) Capability and Incorporation: Pathways to Redress in the Aftermath of Violence | Poulami Roychowdhury Gender-based violence is a heavily politicized issue in India with diverse organizations supporting women’s legal claims. Meanwhile, law enforcement personnel are both sexist and have limited abilities to enforce the law. How do women claim rights within these conditions? How do rights negotiations impact gender inequality, legality, and state authority? Using participant observation and in-depth interview data, Roychowdhury shows how women are compelled to demonstrate “capability” when they claim rights against violence. Law enforcement personnel respond favorably to women who mobilize collective threats and do the work of the state themselves, while ignoring women who are meek and docile. They incorporate “capable” women into regulatory functions, urging them to complete case processing duties, negotiate extra-legal settle...

Date: Friday, October 15, 2021. 1:30 PM. Location: Livestream link her Title: “Me gustaría que este libro no existiera”: Negotiating Alternative Narratives of Violence in Contemporary Mexico Book Presentation Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Samuelson will explore some conceptual and artistic responses to the spectaclization, commercialization and politicization of violence in Mexico since 2006. Works such as Cristina Rivera Garza’s essays and fiction, Balam Rodrigo’s Libro centroamericano de los muertos, and Sara Uribe’s Antígona González offer alternative modes of engagement with the most difficult of contemporary realities. Thinking alongside these works can help us understand how writers are attempting to respond both ethically and aesthetically to the horror, grief and impunity occasioned by the ongoing narco-war in Mexico, as well as offering the opportunity to think through larger questions about the role of contemporary literature in the context of atrocity. Biography: Dr. Cheyla Samuelson writes on the na...