"Law, Family, and State Organization in the Early Modern Atlantic World," an interdisciplinary conference that is free and open to students, faculty and the community, will be held Saturday, November 2 at the University of Wisconsin Law School, in Room 7200 (Lubar Commons), from 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.

The conference is the inaugural offering of the Wisconsin Symposium on Legal History, a program of the Institute for Legal Studies at the UW Law School. Every two years, the Symposium plans to present a conference bringing together historians, law professors, and social scientists to explore an issue in legal history.

Saturday's conference will feature a keynote address by Professor Julia Adams, University of Michigan Department of Sociology ("The Rule of the Father: Family and State in the Early Modern World); a panel of historians discussing the recent book by Rachel Weil, Political Passions: Gender, the Family, and Political Argument in England, 1680-1714,; and panels focusing on early American history and French history. For details and schedules, see the conference Web site at http://www.law.wisc.edu/ils/LawFamilyState.htm.

For information about the conference, contact Professor Richard Ross at rjross@facstaff.wisc.edu. Transportation, accommodations and logistics are under the direction of Pam Hollenhorst of the Institute for Legal Studies, pshollen@facstaff.wisc.edu.

Submitted by on October 25, 2002

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