鈥橝 Southern College Slipped from its Geographical Moorings鈥�: Slavery at Princeton
Le Laboratoire de recherche sur le droit du travail et le d茅veloppement accueille la professeure Lolita Buckner Inniss, de la Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, au Texas. Elle parlera d'esclavage 脿 l'Universit茅 de Princeton avant la guerre civile am茅ricaine.
Veuillez prendre note que cette conf茅rence aura lieu dans le cadre d'une pl茅ni猫re du cours de droit des biens. RSVP 脿 lldrl.law [at] mcgill.ca d'ici le 9 novembre.
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[En anglais seulement] While slave-owning students at Princeton, a college in the northern U.S. state of New Jersey, rarely constituted a majority of students, they were often a large plurality of the students in the period before the U.S. Civil War. Because of Princeton鈥檚 historic role in educating southerners, it has sometimes been referred to as the most southern of the Ivy League schools. So many students from the U.S. South enrolled at Princeton during the first several decades of the college that one observer wrote that one might take Princeton for a 鈥淪outhern college slipped from its geographical moorings.鈥�
This talk challenges the idea of 鈥渢he North鈥� as a place of black freedom in the antebellum years by discussing the extent to which and whether Princeton behaved like a southern institution in its speech and actions concerning slavery and emancipation.
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[En anglais seulement] Lolita Buckner Inniss is a Professor of Law and a Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas. Her research addresses geographic, historic and visual norms of law, especially in the context of comparative constitutionalism, gender and race.
Her current major research project is a book manuscript titled The Princeton Fugitive Slave: James Collins Johnson, an account of race, gender, slavery and the law at Princeton University.
She is the author of dozens of articles, essays and other writings, including her recent contribution to International Law's Objects (Oxford University Press), a volume addressing the legal and metaphoric aspects of various objects in international law.
Dr. Inniss received her undergraduate degree from Princeton University and her J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. She also holds an LL.M. with Distinction and a Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall, York University.
