The egalitarian free labor promise of the 13th amendment to the US Constitution
As part of Black History Month, a Slavery and the Law Seminar with Rebecca Zietlow, Charles W. Fornoff Professor of Law and Values at the University of Toledo College of Law, on the , which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the US Constitution.
Prof. Zietlow is the author of The Forgotten Emancipator: James Mitchell Ashley and the Ideological Origins of Reconstruction (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution and the Protection of Individual Rights (New York University Press 2006)
This conference will be taking place as part of a Constitutional Law plenary (Profs. Sheppard, Poirier, and Walters). For this reason, registration is required for anyone not enrolled in that course. RSVP at lldrl.law [at] mcgill.ca.
Organized by the Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law and Development, and the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory.
