Species of Sovereignty

“Species of Sovereignty:
 Native Claims-Making and the Early American State in Comparative Perspective”

Guest lecture by Gregory Ablavsky, Sharswood Fellow in Law and History.

Ablavsky has a JD from the Penn Law School and is a PhD candidate in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies early American legal history, focusing particularly on issues of sovereignty, territory, and property in the early American West and is finishing his dissertation, “Federal Ground: Sovereignty, Property, and the Law in the U.S. Territories, 1783-1803.” His recent publications include, “Beyond the Indian Commerce Clause,” 124 Yale Law Journal (forthcoming 2015); “The Savage Constitution,” 63 Duke Law Journal 999 (2014); and “Making Indians ‘White’: The Judicial Abolition of Native Slavery in Revolutionary Virginia and Its Racial Legacy,” 159 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1457 (2011). 

This lecture, part of the 

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic Studies, meets in the 

Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room at the McNeil Center for Early American History. A free buffet supper follows at 6 pm.

For more information, see Interdisciplinary Seminar in Atlantic History.