[We have the lineup for the Legal History Workshop at the University of Minnesota Law School for the Spring 2025 semester. It meets Thursdays, 3:35-5:35 p.m. For information contact Susanna Blumenthal (blume047@umn.edu). DRE]
February 6
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
"I love a man in uniform": Military Roleplay and the American Uniform Association, 1968-2001
February 13
Alison LaCroix, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Arsenals, 1861
February 20
Adriana Chara, Associate Professor of Atlantic World History, Emory University
Beyond the Chattel Principle: Vulnerability, Intimacy, and the Laws of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
February 27
Myisha S. Eatmon, Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and of History
Kinfolk: Jim Crow and Tort Law Come of Age
March 6
Aaron Hall, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Affiliated Faculty, Law School, University of Minnesota
The Founding as Ideology
March 20
Justene Hill Edwards, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia
Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank
March 27
Maggie Blackhawk, Professor of Law, NYU Law School
American Colonialism
April 3
Anna Lvovsky, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Undercover on the Western Frontier
April 10
Kara Swanson, Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History
Telling Stories of Native American Inventor-Patentees: Invention and Sovereignty in Indian Country (draft chapter from book-in-progress, Inventing Citizens: A Surprising History of US Inventors, Patents, and Civil Rights)
April 17
Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Yale University
The Baseless History of the Foreshore