Book Celebration with Michelle McKinley: Fractional Freedoms

Knight Law Center
1515 Agate St.
UO campus

On May 25, the Center for the Study of Women in Society and the Knight School of Law will celebrate the release of CSWS director Michelle McKinley’s book, Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Intimacy, and Legal Mobilization in Colonial Lima, 1600-1700 (Cambridge University Press, October 2016). This event includes a panel discussion starting at 10 a.m., with a roundtable at 2 p.m., and lunch in between. The book explores domestic slavery and what Professor McKinley terms “fractional freedoms” in the context of colonial Peru.

Professor McKinley, in addition to running CSWS, is a CLLAS faculty affiliate and the Bernard B. Kliks Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. She received the Surrency Prize in 2011 for her article of the same title and completed this book while a fellow in residence at Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs.

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