The Yale Legal History Forum has announced its 2019-20 speaker lineup [updated to include logistical information]:
FALL
Tuesday, October 15: Marcus Folch, Columbia University (Classics), “Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens”
Tuesday, November 19: Maeve Glass, Columbia Law School, “Founding Properties”
Thursday, December 5, at 4:10 PM: Nikolas Bowie, Harvard Law School, “The Constitutional Right to Local Self-Government”
SPRING
Tuesday, February 4: Coel Kirkby, Sydney Law School, “Bullets over Brexit: A Genealogy of Leavers’ Lawfare”
Tuesday, February 25: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), “Land Markets, Property Rights, and Corporate Organizations in Late Imperial China: Preliminary Reflections on Recently Discovered Materials from Fujian”
Tuesday, March 24: Thomas J. McSweeney, William & Mary Law School, “Teaching the Common Law in Latin in the Late Thirteenth Century”
Tuesday, April 7: Ariela J. Gross, USC Gould School of Law, “Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana”
The Forum will meet from 12:10 to 1:30 PM in the Calabresi Faculty Lounge of the Sterling Law Building, except on December 5. Lunch will be provided. Papers will be pre-circulated to Forum participants. For more information, please contact the 2019-2020 Legal History Fellows, Gabe Levine (gabriel.levine@yale.edu) and Kate Redburn (kate.redburn@yale.edu).Do you have a legal history workshop or speaker series you'd like us to publicize? Please feel free to email us!
-- Karen Tani
