Table of Contents

Bellagio-Harvard Guidelines on the Legal Parameters of SlaveryIntroductionSection 1: Historical Readings of the Law of Slavery1. The Nature of Slavery, Antony Honore2. The Law of Slavery in European iius commune/i, Richard Helmholz3. Definition and Conceptions of Slave Ownership in Islamic Law, Bernard Freamon4. The Definition of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Thinking: Not the True Roman Slavery, John Cairns5. From Consensus to Consensus: Slavery in International Law, Seymour DrescherSection 2: The American Experience: Blurred Boundaries of Slavery6. Slavery in the United States: Persons or Property?,, Paul Finkelman7. To Indent Oneself: Ownership, Contracts, and Consent in Antebellum Illinois, Allison Mileo Gorsuch8. Under Color of Law: Siliadin v. France and the Dynamics of Enslavement in Historical Perspective, Rebecca Scott9. The Rise, Persistence, and Slow Decline of Legal Slavery, Stanley Engerman10 The Abolition of Slavery in the United States: Historical Context and its Contemporary Application, William M. Carter, Jr.Section 3: The 1926 Definition in Context11. The Definition of Slavery into the Twenty-First Century, Jean Allain12. Seeking to Understand the Definition of Slavery, Robin Hickey13. The Concept of Property and the Concept of Slavery, J. E. Penner14. Defining Slavery in all its Forms: Historical Inquiry as Contemporary Instruction, Joel QuirkSection 4: Contemporary Slavery15. Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations, Kevin Bales16. Contemporary International Legal Norms on Slavery: Problems of Judicial Interpretation and Application, Holly Cullen17. Trafficking, Gender, and Slavery: Past and Present, Orlando Patterson18. Professor Kevin Bales' Response to Professor Orlando Patterson19. Professor Patterson Rejoiner: A Response to Professor Kevin BalesAppendices1926 Slavery Convention1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery