Missed Opportunity in the Master Narrative of US Law: How Did American Workers Lose Legal Ground?
The Faculty of Law Legal Theory Workshop and the LLDRL Speaker Series are pleased to welcome Josephine R Witte听Chair听Professor Lea VanderVelde, whose talk will provide a听compelling and timely perspective on Slavery, Labour Law and Constitutional Law in the United States.听
Abstract
La pr茅sentation de la professeure VanderVelde portera sur la dimension historique du rapport maitre-serviteur et maitre-esclave pour mieux nous permettre de comprendre le mod猫le contemporain du droit du travail.
Bien que la pr茅sentation porte un regard particulier aux relations maitre-esclave aux 脡tats-Unis, 茅tant donn茅 que le syst猫me qu茅b茅cois du droit du travail est bas茅 sur le Wagner Act 茅tats-unisien cette pr茅sentation sera non seulement accessible, mais 茅galement particuli猫rement int茅ressante et d'actualit茅 pour les avocats et 茅tudiants d'ici. De plus, Professeure VanderVelde, qui est 茅galement historienne du droit de l鈥檈sclavage, int猫gre souvent la Nouvelle France dans ces analyses.
Les 茅crits et la recherche de la Professeure VanderVelde l'ont port茅e 脿 mener une importante analyse historique des origines des notions fondamentales gouvernant les rapports individuels et collectifs du travail.
About the speaker
Lea VanderVelde is a Professor听at the Faculty of Law of the University of Iowa who writes in the fields of work law, property law, slavery and the law,听American legal history, and constitutionallaw. She听is also the principal investigator for The Law of the Antebellum Frontier project at the Stanford Spatial History Lab, where she is currently conducting a digital research of American national expansion in the critical years before the Civil War. To learn more about this project, click .
Her recent books include Redemption Songs: Suing for Freedom before Dred Scott (2014) and听Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's Frontier (2009), which students in Professor Blackett's听Slavery and听the Law course at the Faculty of Law had the opportunity to read, analyze听and even discuss with the author herself in the fall semester.听
A light lunch will be served at 12h30, in advance of the talk at 13h00. Please RSVP for the lunch by March 22 at听julie.fontaine2 [at] mcgill.ca
A request for accreditation for 1.5h of continuing legal education for jurists has been made to an recognized provider.
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