Monday, September 1, 2014

NYU Legal History Colloquium: Fall 2014 Lineup

New York University School of Law has posted the fall lineup for its Legal History Colloquium:
September 8
Wars and State-Making Reconsidered: The Rise of the Interventionist State
Steven Pincus, Bradford Durfee Professor of History, Yale University, Department of History
(paper coauthored with James Robinson, David Florence Professor of Government, Harvard University)
September 22
The Process Acts, the Cause of Action, and the Alien Tort Statute
Anthony Bellia, Professor of Law, Concurrent Professor of Political Science, and Notre Dame Presidential Fellow, University of Notre Dame Law School
Bradford Clark, William Cranch Research Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
October 6
Writing Constitutions and Writing Global History
Linda Colley, Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University, Department of History
October 20
Republican Government, Federalist State: The Crisis of Maritime Regulation in the Era of the Napoleonic Wars
Gautham Rao, Assistant Professor, American University, Department of History
November 3
Equal Footing and a Constitution for Continental Expansion
Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
November 17
The World According to Grotius
Scott Shapiro, Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Yale Law School
December 1
The Invention of Peace: The Idea of Europe and the International Legal Order on the Eve of World War I
Anthony Pagden, Distinguished Professor, UCLA Departments of Political Science and History