Legal History Workshop: Seminar
Fall/Spring term, Block H
M 4:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Assistant Professor Jed Shugerman
2 classroom credits LAW-96772A Fall/Spring
(1 credit Fall + 1 credit Spring)
The legal history workshop gives students an opportunity to read major works in legal history, discuss works-in-progress with the authors, and to venture into their own legal history research, for those who choose the paper-writing option. Each semester, students will participate in four meetings of the Legal History Colloquium and write short responses to those papers. In the first semester, we will meet an additional four times to critique the Colloquium papers, to discuss some important books in American legal history, and to discuss research projects. In the second semester, with Professor Bruce Mann joining, the four additional sessions beyond the colloquium will be discussions of drafts and workshops of student papers. Each semester is one credit, and those who choose to write a research paper will receive additional credit. Those who do not write research papers will write short papers/memos on the Colloquium workshops and the student papers. The Colloquium is open to legal history of any region and period, but research papers should be in American legal history. Enrollment is by short application (a simple statement of interest and background to Professors Mann and Shugerman (jshugerman@law.harvard.edu)).