The program for the U.S. Intellectual History Conference is out. The conference will take place as the CUNY Graduate Center on November 1-2, 2012. Two sessions are of particular interest to legal historians:
Transatlantic Communities of Legal Scholars, 1870-1914
David M. Rabban, University of Texas
“The Historical School of American Jurisprudence”
Mark S. Weiner, Rutgers University-Newark
“Lewis Henry Morgan and the Rule of the Clan”
Benjamin Coates, Wake Forest University
“Exceptionalism and Internationalism in the Professionalization of International Law in the United States, 1898-1914”
Chair and Commentator: Nadav Shoked, Northwestern University
Roundtable: Speech Rights: Legal History as Intellectual History
Chair: Allison Perlman, University of California, Irvine
Jack Balkin, Yale University
Vincent Blasi, Columbia University
Ronald Collins, University of Washington
Catherine Ross, George Washington University