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