The University of Virginia School of Law announces the participants in our legal history workshop this academic year. Here are the presenters and the titles of their workshop papers:
Fall:
October 10: Allison Tirres, DePaul Law School
Title: “Contested Terrain: Citizenship in the Borderlands during Civil War and Reconstruction”
November 14: Ed Larson, Pepperdine Law School
Title: “The Constitutionality of Lame-Duck Lawmaking: The History, Intent, and Meaning of the Twentieth Amendment”
November 28: Cynthia Nicolletti: Mississippi College of Law
Title: "International Law and the American Civil War"
Spring:
February 13: Mitra Sharafi, University of Wisconsin Law School
Title TBA
March 12: Kara Swanson, Northeastern University Law School
Title: “Reproductive Medicine in the Legal Shadows: Artificial Insemination, 1890-1950”
April 9: Al Brophy, University of North Carolina Law School
Title: “The Jurisprudence of Slavery and Freedom at the University of Virginia – History, Natural Law, and Utility, 1831-1861”
April 23: Deborah Dinner, Washington University in St. Louis Law School
Title: “Costs of Life: Maternal Employment, Reproductive Choice, & the Debate over Pregnancy Disability Benefits”
