Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium

[We have the schedule for the first meeting this academic year of the Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium on September 26, 2026, 10 AM - 3 PM (CST) at the Notre Dame Law School at Chicago.  You may register for the event here.  DRE]

09:45 - 10:05 AM.  Registration/Welcome
Coffee & Morning Refreshments

10:05 - 11:00 AM.  Paper #1: Originalism and the New Deal    

"Refounding the New Deal"
Author: Keshav Raghavan, Harvard Law School
Respondent: Joanna Grisinger, Associate Professor of Instruction in Legal Studies, Northwestern University

11:05 - 12:00 PM.  Paper #2: Emergency Powers: From Exception to Expectation

"The Court of History: Executive Power and the Patient Constitution"
Author: Christian Ketter, University of Illinois at Chicago
Respondent: Beau Baumann, Associate Professor, University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law

12:05 - 1:00 PM.  Afternoon Break (Lunch)

01:05 - 2:00 PM.  Paper #3: The Imperial Executive

"Empire and the Making of the Managerial Presidency"
Author: Elliott Setzer, Yale University 
Respondent: Christine Chabot, Associate Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School

02:05 - 3:00 PM,  Paper #4: The Executive and Judiciary in Perspective

"The Protective Power: Judicial Self-Defense and the Origins of a Presidential Prerogative" 
Author: Tim Vanable, Columbia University
Respondent: Harold J. Krent, Professor of Law & Interim Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law