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Go On! "Law & Memory" Posted: 26 Dec 2010 02:00 AM PST (Go On! is an occasional item on symposia and other events of interest) Law and Memory is the subject of a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the University of Southern California Center for Law, History and Culture, to be held February 25 and 26, 2011, at the USC Gould School of Law, 699 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. Organizers write: While scholarship on history and memory has exploded in recent years, and much of it has centered on the role of trials and other legal processes in shaping collective memory, only recently has work in the new field of law and humanities begun to explore the intersections of law and memory more self-consciously. Law as a means to remember or forget the past will be examined not only by jurists, but also by scholars of history, psychology, literature, communications and cultural studies. Keynote speaker will be Robert W. Gordon (Yale, Stanford), the keynote speaker. Among the many others taking part will be IntLawGrrls Elizabeth Hillman (Hastings) and guest/alumna Mary L. Dudziak (USC) (hat tip), as well as Elaine Scarry (Harvard), Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard), and Cheryl Harris (UCLA). There's a nominal fee for attendees; registration and program details here.

On December 26 Posted: 26 Dec 2010 12:04 AM PST On this day in ... ... 1933, delegates at the 7th International Conference of American States, held in the capital of Uruguay, signed the Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States. Notable among its provisions were these: ARTICLE 1 The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: a ) a permanent population; b ) a defined territory; c ) government; and d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states. .... ARTICLE 3 The political existence of the state is independent of recognition by the other states. ... The inter-American treaty thus embraced the declaratory theory of statehood, in contrast with the constitutive theory that makes other states' recognition the marker of statehood. The Montevideo Convention entered into force exactly 1 year later; the United States was a charter member state. Among the 6 listed members of the U.S. delegation at Montevideo was Dr. Sophonisba Breckinridge (photo credit), a political scientist and attorney profiled in an earlier IntLawGrrls post. (Prior December 26 posts are here, here, and here.)

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