Monday, August 27, 2012

Triangle Legal History Seminar Schedule

Following up on our call for legal history workshop schedules, here is the line-up for the Triangle Legal History Seminar:
David Gilmartin (image credit)
Sept. 21, 2012: Daniel Bessner, History Graduate Student, Duke University

"'We Shall Repeal the Twentieth Century': Murray Rothbard and the Making of Radical Libertarianism"

Oct. 19, 2012: David Gilmartin, Professor of History, North Carolina State University

"The Paradox of Patronage:  Influence, Dealing, and Moral Character in mid-20th century Indian Election Law" 

Nov. 16, 2012: Emiliano Corral, Graduate of UNC Law School and recent Ph.D. recipient, University of Chicago

"Legal Culture as Impetus to Action: The Gary Code and Progressive-Era Capitalism."

Dec. 7, 2012: Linda Rupert, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

“'Henceforth al slaves who seek refuge in my domains shall be free': Spanish Royal Decrees regarding Inter-imperial Marronage in the Eighteenth-Century Caribbean." (jointly sponsored with the Triangle Early American History Seminar)

Verena Kasper-Marienberg (image credit)
Jan. 18, 2012: Cynthia Greenlee, History Graduate Student, Duke University

"'A Most Offensive Outrage against One So Young': Defining Childhood and Sexual Harm in South Carolina's Criminal Courts, 1885-1905."
Feb. 15 , 2013: Verena Kasper-Marienberg, Institut fuer Geschichte, Karl Franzens Universitaet Graz
"Jewish Cases at an Early Modern Supreme Court: A Source for Legal and Gender History" (jointly sponsored with the Triangle Jewish Studies Seminar)

April 5, 2013: Steven Usselman, Professor, School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Tech University
"Antitrust as Technology Policy:  The Case of Computing."

April 19, 2013: Madeline Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University
“The Contested Role of Law in China’s First Commercial Law Regime” 
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Hat tip: The Faculty Lounge