Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Center for the Study of Law and Society Speaker Series: Fall 2014 Lineup

The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley has posted the fall lineup for its speaker series. A number of legal historians are scheduled to present:
Monday, September 8 – Christopher Tomlins
Professor of Law, Berkeley Law 
"Revulsions of Capital: The Political Law of Slavery in the Epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia, 1829-1832” 

Monday, September 29Mary Dudziak
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law, Emory Law
"Going to War: An American History" 

Monday, October 20Rebecca McLennan
Associate Professor of History, UC Berkeley
"Circuit Justice: Law, Legitimacy, and the Federal Courts in the Early Republic" 
 
Monday, October 27William Forbath
Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
"Diaspora and Rights: Jews, Law and Identity Politics"
(co-sponsored with Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Studies)