Legal History Colloquium
Fall 2008
All workshops are from 5:00-6:30 pm in Hauser Hall 105. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, September 11
Charles Donahue, Harvard Law School
Thursday, October 16.
Kara Swanson, Raul Berger Fellow, Harvard Law School
Thursday, November 6.
Sandy Levinson, University of Texas Law School
"Thomas Ruffin and the Politics of Public Honor: Political Change and the "Creative Destruction" of Public Space" and "Morton Horwitz and the Rule of Law"
Thursday, November 20.
Elizabeth Borgwardt, Washington University in St. Louis, History Department
"The Rise and Rise of the UN's 'Nuremberg Principles'"
Spring 2008
All workshops are from 5:00-6:30 pm in Hauser Hall 105. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, February 28
William Forbath, University of Texas Law School
Title: "Courting the State: Law and the Making of the Modern American State "
Thursday, March 13
Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University
Title: "Planning for Old Age "
Thursday, April 3
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell, George Washington University Law School
Title: "Corporate Directors: Trustees, Representatives, Agents"
Thursday, April 10
Cynthia Nicoletti, Berger Fellow, Harvard Law School
Title: "The American Civil War as a Trial by Battle"
Monday, April 14
Owen Williams, Berger Fellow, Harvard Law School
Title: "Lincoln's Justices: Democratic Politicians in Republican Robes"
Previous Lectures
Fall 2007
All workshops are from 5:00-6:30 pm in Hauser Hall 102. Refreshments will be served.
Thursday, September 20
Paul Halliday, History and G. Edward White, Law, University of Virginia
Title: "The Suspension Clause: English Text, Imperial Contexts, and American Implications"
Abstract
Thursday, October 18
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Law, University of Virginia
Title: "Seeking Redress in the Streets: The Student Movement's Challenge to Pragmatism and Legal Liberalism, 1960-1968"
Thursday, November 8
Sanford Levinson, University of Texas Law School
Title: "Three Types of Constitutional Crises"
Thursday, November 29
Dylan Penningroth, Northwestern University
Tentative Title: "African American Divorce in Virginia and Washington DC, 1865-1930"
Abstract
Fall 2006
Tuesday, September 19
Faculty Lounge, Second Floor, Hauser Hall
Mary Sarah Bilder, Boston College Law School
"The Corporate Origins of Judicial Review" (forthcoming, Yale Law Journal)
Abstract
Monday, October 9
Hauser 105
Claire Priest, Northwestern University Law School
"Creating an American Property Law: Alienability and its Limits in American History" (forthcoming, Harvard Law Review)
Abstract
Monday, October 16
Hauser 105
Wesley M. Oliver, Widener University School of Law
"Magistrates' Examinations, Police Interrogations and Miranda-Like Warnings in Nineteenth
Century New York" (forthcoming, Tulane Law Review)
Abstract
Monday, November 6
Hauser 105
James A. Brundage, University of Kansas
"Legal Ethics: A Medieval Ghost Story"
Abstract
Monday, December 4
Hauser 105
Diana Williams, Harvard University
"'Religion Law' vs. Civil Law: Interracial Marriage and Jurisdictional Conflicts in Pre-Civil War Louisiana."
Abstract
To request a copy of the paper, please e-mail dwilliams@law.harvard.edu.
Spring 2007
All sessions run from 4:40 to 6:00 p.m. in the Hauser Hall Faculty Lounge. Refreshments are served at 4:25 p.m.
Monday, February 5
Sally Hadden, Florida State University
"Joseph Bennett, a Legal Tourist in Boston, 1740"
Abstract
Monday, March 12
Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire
"The Reconstruction of American Citizenship: Fenians and the Expatriation Crisis of the 1860's"
Abstract
Mark Graber, University of Maryland
"The New Fiction: Dred Scott and the Language of Judicial Authority"; and "Politics Lost: The Road to Neutral Principles"
Abstract
Thursday, April 12
Jedediah Purdy, Duke University Law School
"Property and Empire: Rereading Johnson v. M'Intosh"
Abstract