University
of Minnesota Program in Law & History
Legal
History Workshop/Seminar
Professor
Susanna Blumenthal
Fall
2013 Schedule
September
30
Naomi
Lamoreaux, Stanley B.
Resor Professor of Economics and History, Chair, Department of History, Yale
University
Title: “Contractual Freedom and the Evolution of
Corporate Governance in Britain, 1862 to 1929” (co-authors: Timothy W. Guinnane
and Ron Harris)
October
7
Daniel
Ernst, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Title: “Chief
Justice Hughes and Administrative Law, 1930-1941” (the third chapter of his
book manuscript, Tocqueville’s Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges
in America, 1900-1940)
October 14
Bianca Premo, Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, Department
of History, Florida International University
Title: “Agents and Powers: The Art of Suing” (the first
chapter of her book manuscript, The
Enlightenment on Trial: Ordinary Litigants, Colonialism, and Modernity in the
Spanish Empire)
October
21
Laura
Weinrib, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Title:
“From Left to Rights” (the final chapter of her
book manuscript, The Taming of Free
Speech)
October 28
Kristin A. Collins, Peter Paul
Development Professor, Boston University School of Law, Visiting Professor,
Yale Law School
Title: “‘Illegitimate Half-Castes’ and the Citizen Family”
(forthcoming, 123 Yale Law Journal
(2014))
November
4
Sam
Erman, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California Law School
Title: “Santiago Iglesias’s Imperial Citizenship: The Value of
a Status with Few Rights, 1890-1930”
November
11
Jeannine
DeLombard, Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto
Title: “Writing Civil
Wrongs: Law in Late 19th-Century American Literature”
November
18
Daniel
LaChance, Assistant Professor of History Emory University, Visiting Fellow,
Program in Law and Public Affairs, 2013-14, Princeton University
Title:
“The Old West
and the New American Death Penalty: Capital Punishment in Harris and Oklahoma
Counties, 1980-2000”
November
25
Barbara
Young Welke, Professor of History and Professor of Law, Distinguished McKnight
University Professor, University of Minnesota
Title: “Owning Hazard:
Genre, Law, and History”
