The D.C. Area Legal History Roundtable is an informal gathering of scholars who live or work in and around Washington, D.C. It first met in 2006 at George Washington University Law School and later at the law schools of American University and the Catholic University of America. It will reconvene on Friday, September 19, 2008, at the Georgetown University Law Center. The two-panel program appears below; abstracts, papers, and information on registration and other matters are here.
STATE-BUILDING AND CITIZENSHIP IN AMERICA, 1763-1920
Friday, September 19, 2008
Noon-4:00
Georgetown University Law Center
600 New Jersey Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20001-2075
Customs and Commerce in Antebellum America
Alexander Hamilton and the Problem of Revenue in the Age of the American Revolution
Gautham Rao, University of Chicago
Policy Entrepreneurship and the Warehousing Act of 1846
Phillip W. Magness, George Mason University
Comments:
Lawrence Peskin, Morgan State University
James May, Washington College of Law, American University
Moderator: Adam Mossoff, George Mason University Law School
Citizenship and Protest: Puerto Rican Workers and American Suffragettes
A Rightless Status for Puerto Ricans: The Twilight of U.S. Citizenship, 1909-1917
Sam Erman, University of Michigan
Parades, Pickets, and Prison: Alice Paul and the Virtues of Unruly Constitutional Citizenship
Lynda G. Dodd, Washington College of Law, American University
Comments:
Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center
Robyn Muncy, University of Maryland
Moderator: Tanya Hernandez, George Washington University Law School
