University of Minnesota
Program in Law and History
Legal History Workshop
Fall 2008 Schedule of Speakers
September 18
Douglas Baynton, History, University of Iowa
Title: Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Law, 1882-1924.
September 25
Amalia D. Kessler, Law, Stanford University
Title: Deciding Against Conciliation: The Nineteenth-Century Rejection of a European Transplant and the Rise of a Distinctively American Ideal of Adversarial Adjudication
October 2
Jennifer Mnookin, Law, UCLA
Title: Machineries of Truth: X-Rays and Experts in the American Courtroom.
October 16
Adriaan Lanni, Law, Harvard University
Title: Social Norms in the Ancient Athenian Courts
October 30
Daniel Smail, History, Harvard University
Title: Goods and Debts in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe
November 6
Rebecca J. Scott, History and Law, University of Michigan
Title: Rosalie of the Poulard nation (co-authored with Jean Hebrard)
November 20
Deborah Malamud, Law, New York University
Title: Letting in the Company: White-Collar Unionization in the Long New Deal
December 4
Nicholas Parrillo, Law, Yale University
Title: The Rise of Non-Profit Government in America: The Case of Tax Collection
If you would like to be added to the email list for announcements, please contact Susanna Blumenthal at blume047@umn.edu. More information about workshops and the program in Law and History at Minnesota is here.
