Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Harvard Law School Legal History Colloquium, Fall Schedule

The Harvard Law School Legal History Colloquium is pleased to announce its Fall 2007 schedule.

All meetings are Thursdays, 5-6:30, in Hauser 101, Harvard Law School

Thursday, September 20

Paul Halliday and G. Edward White, University of Virginia
"The Suspension Clause: English Text, Imperial Contexts, and American Implications."

Thursday, October 18

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, University of Virginia
“Seeking Redress in the Streets: The Student Movement’s Challenge to Pragmatism and Legal Liberalism, 1960-61.”

Thursday, November 29

Dylan Penningroth, Northwestern University
“African American Divorce in Virginia and Washington, DC, 1865-1930.”

For additional information, please contact the chair of the colloquium, Jed Shugerman at jshugerman@law.harvard.edu), or the two Raoul Berger/Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellows, Cynthia Nicoletti (Harvard Law JD, History PhD candidate at Virginia) at cnicolet@law.harvard.edu, and Owen Williams (Yale Law MSL, History PhD candidate at Yale) at r.owen.williams@yale.edu.

Note: you should contact them before attending. That's the way to get a copy of the paper, which should be read in advance.

Harvard Law School is at 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. Directions are here.