Legal History Colloquium

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Spring 2009

All workshops are from 5:00-6:30 pm in Hauser Hall 105.

Thursday, February 5
Christopher Schmidt, Chicago-Kent


Thursday, February 19
Kristin Collins, Boston University
"Administering Marriage:  Marriage-Based Entitlements, Bureaucracy, and the Legal Construction of the Family"

Thursday, February 26
Keith Whittington, Princeton


Friday, March 6 (lunch)
Bernie Jones, Suffolk
"Fathers of Conscience"

Thursday, March 19
Mike Klarman

Thursday, April 23

Fall 2008

All workshops are from 5:00-6:30 p.m. in Hauser Hall 105.  Refreshments will be served.

• Thursday, September 11
      Charles Donahue, Harvard Law School
      "Law, Marriage, and Society in the Later Middles Ages"
• Thursday, October 16
      Kara Swanson, Harvard Law School
      "The Bureaucracy of Genius: Private Rights and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. Patent System"
• Thursday, November 6
        Sanford Levinson, University of Texas School of Law
      "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 the Rise of the 1948 'Nuremberg Principles'"
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  Previous Lectures

  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"

  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"
  • 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"

   

  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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Monday, November 6
    Hauser 105
    James A. Brundage, University of Kansas
    "Legal Ethics: A Medieval Ghost Story"
  • Monday, December 4
    Hauser 105
    Diana Williams, Harvard University
    "'Religion Law' vs. Civil Law: Interracial Marriage and Jurisdictional Conflicts in Pre-Civil War Louisiana."
    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"
  • Monday, March 12
    Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire
    "The Reconstruction of American Citizenship: Fenians and the Expatriation Crisis of the 1860's"
  • Thursday, April 5
    Mark Graber, University of Maryland
    "The New Fiction: Dred Scott and the Language of Judicial Authority"; and "Politics Lost: The Road to Neutral Principles"
  • Thursday, April 12
    Jedediah Purdy, Duke University Law School
    "Property and Empire: Rereading Johnson v. M'Intosh"