The workshop "U.S. Colonial Rule & Constitutional Change: Case Studies from the Philippines and Puerto Rico" will be presented Friday, March 16, 2007, from noon to 2 p.m. in Godfrey & Kahn Hall (Room 2260) of the University of Wisconsin Law School.

The workshop is free and open to the public.

Featured will be talks by two guest speakers: "The Afterlife of Empire: Sovereignty and Revolution in the Philippines," by Professor Vicente Rafael of the University of Washington; and  "The Constitutionalization of the Subject: Citizens, Nationals, and American Empire," by Professor Christina Duffy Burnett of Princeton University.

The event will include an introduction by UW Law Professor Heinz Klug, Director of the Global Legal Studies Center. UW Law Professor John Ohnesorge, Assistant Director of the Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies Center, will serve as discussant.

Sponsors are the UW-Madison Center for Southeast Asian Studies; Latin American, Caribbean & Iberian Studies Program; Global Legal Studies Center (a joint initiative of the UW Law School & Division of International Studies); Center for the Humanities; International Institute and "Empires in Transition" Mellon Seminar Series.

Submitted by on March 15, 2007

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