Christopher Tomlins
American Bar Foundation, Chicago
clt@abfn.org. Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation, Chicago. Earlier versions of this essay were presented at the International Conference on Writing Legal History organized by the Cegla Center, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University (June 2002); at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies Conference, New World Orders: Violence, Sanction and Authority in the Early Modem Americas, 1500-1825, Philadelphia (2001); and to seminars at UCLA Law School, The Charles Warren Center at Harvard University, SUNY-Buffalo Law School, and the American Bar Foundation. I am particularly grateful for the comments of John Comaroff, Tali Margalit, and Mechal Sobel.
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