Friday, 1 November 2019
| 12:00–1:20 | lunch catered in Law Faculty Lounge / welcome |
| 1:20–2:00 | By Way of an Introduction to the Theme Timothy Lubin (W&L), “Asymmetries of Status in Civil and Ecclesiastical Polities: Lessons from Religious Exemptions in Ancient India” |
| 2:00–3:00 | Citizenship and Moral Community Kevin Crotty (W&L): “Citizenship as Status in Ancient Athens: The Case of Solon” David Baluarte (W&L Law): “Family in the Balance: The Human Right to Family Life as a Limit on U.S. Immigration Authority” |
| 15 min. break | |
| 3:15–4:15 | Citizenship and Territory Linda Bosniak (Rutgers Univ. Law): “Presence Matters: Territoriality and Legal Status” Kristin Collins (Boston Univ. Law): “Status Without Borders” |
| 15 min. break | |
| 4:30–5:00 | general discussion |
| 30 min. break/refreshments | |
| 5:30–7:00 | KEYNOTE LECTURE I — Clifford Ando (Univ. Chicago): “Empire, Status and the Law” Millhiser Moot Court Room, Sydney Lewis Hall |
| 7:30–9:00 | dinner catered by the Southern Inn |
Saturday, 2 November 2019
| 8:30–9:00 | continental breakfast in the Law Faculty Lounge |
| 9:00–10:30 | Race, Slavery, and Conscription of Children Robert Cottrol (George Washington Univ. Law): “Beyond 1619: Looking at Slavery, Race and Justice from a Hemispheric Perspective” Sora Han (UC Irvine Law): “A Language Which Is Not One” Mark Drumbl (W&L Law): “Coming of Age in War: Child and Adult” |
| 15 min. break | |
| 10:45–11:45 | Minority Religious Status in the Polity Kameliya Atanasova and Matthew Chalmers (W&L): “Taxes and Turbans: The Status of Samaritans in Early Ottoman Palestine” Rachel Scott (Virginia Tech): “Personal Status Law and Religious Exemptions: Egypt’s Coptic Community and the Question of Inheritance” |
| 15 min. break | |
| 12:00–1:30 | lunch catered in Law Faculty Lounge |
| 1:30–3:00 | State Classifications and Manipulations of Religious Status Katharine Gerbner (Univ. Minnesota): “The Laws of Conversion: Religion, Race, and Slavery in the Protestant Caribbean and Lower South” Mona Oraby (Amherst): “Status Conversions: Administering Inequality and Freedom” Deepa Das Acevedo (Univ. Alabama Law): “Just Hindus: The Indian Supreme Court’s Sabarimala Decision” |
| 15 min. break | |
| 3:15–4:15 | Marriage and Family Status Michael Satlow (Brown Univ.): “Status or Contract? The Case of Jewish Marriage” Carolyn Baugh (Gannon Univ.): “Of Slave Wives and Concubines: Legal Interpretation and Women’s Shifting Status in Early Islam” |
| 15 min. break | |
| 4:30–5:00 | general discussion |
| 30 min. break/refreshments | |
| 5:30–7:00 | KEYNOTE LECTURE II — Winnifred Fallers Sullivan (Indiana Univ.): “The Church, the State and the Corporation” Millhiser Moot Court Room, Sydney Lewis Hall |
| 7:30–9:00 | dinner catered by the Southern Inn |
Sunday, 3 November 2019
| 8:30–9:00 | continental breakfast in the Law Faculty Lounge |
| 9:00–10:00 | Blasphemy and Sacred Duty Melissa Vise (W&L): “Legal and Religious Concepts of Medieval persona: Blasphemy at the Limits” Adnan Zulfiqar (Rutgers Univ. Law): “Belief as Status: Legal Obligation, Blasphemy and the Boundaries of Moral Community” |
| 15 min. break | |
| 10:15–11:15 | Ambiguous Statuses Elizabeth Meyer (Univ. Virginia): “Greek Metics and Freedmen: Can We Tell the Difference, and Did Any Differences Matter?” Donald R. Davis (Univ. Texas, Austin): “Master and Servant Law in Medieval India: What Slavery Might Teach Us about the Nature of Work” |
| 15 min. break | |
| 11:30–12:30 | closing general discussion |
| lunch catered in Law Faculty Lounge / farewell departures to airports |