The nature of slavery / Antony Honoré
The law of slavery and the European Ius Commune / R.H. Helmholz
Definitions and conceptions of slave ownership in Islamic Law / Bernard K. Freamon
The definition of slavery in eighteenth-century thinking: not the true Roman slavery / John W. Cairns
From consensus to consensus: slavery in international law / Seymour Drescher
Slavery in the United States: persons or property? / Paul Finkelman
To indent oneself: ownership, contracts, and consent in antebellum lllinois / Allison Mileo Gorsuch
Under color of law: Siliadin v France and the dynamics of enslavement in historical perspective / Rebecca J. Scott
The rise, persistence and slow decline of legal slavery / Stanley L. Engerman
The abolition of slavery in the United States: historical context and its contemporary application / William M. Carter, Jr.
The legal definition of slavery into the twenty-first century / Jean Allain
Seeking to understand the definition of slavery / Robin Hickey
The concept of property and the concept of slavery / J.E. Penner
Defining slavery in all its forms: historical inquiry as contemporary instruction / Joel Quirk
Slavery in its contemporary manifestations / Kevin Bales
Contemporary international legal norms on slavery: problems of judicial interpretation and application / Holly Cullen
Trafficking, gender and slavery: past and present / Orlando Patterson
Professor Kevin Bales's response to Professor Orlando Patterson
Rejoinder: Professor Orlando Patterson's response to Professor Kevin Bales.