Hartog to Deliver Inaugural Lecture at Oregon Law

Our friends at Oregon Law write that Hendrik Hartog, the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, professor of history, and director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University, will serve as the inaugural distinguished lecturer for the Law, Culture and Humanities Initiative. His visit will take place on September 28 and 29 and culminate in a presentation from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29, in the Knight Library Browsing Room, on his forthcoming book, Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age.

To attend or for further information, please contact risas@uoregon.edu or michelle@uoregon.edu.

Look for the complete schedule of Oregon's Law, Culture, and Humanities Initiative in the near future.  The initiative "provides opportunities for faculty to integrate humanistic-based studies with the study of law, and to explore the increasingly diverse and rich scholarships in areas that include (but are not limited to) legal history, law and political science, law and literature, law and anthropology, and law and philosophy."

FDR's Inner Circle: The Webcast

Tomorrow, from 2:00 on, you may listen live, via this link, to a webcast of a forum, "FDR's Inner Circle: Domestic Policy," at the Henry A. Wallace Center at FDR Presidential Library.

The program's panelists include Alan Chartock (moderator), President and CEO, WAMC, Northeast Public Radio; Adam Cohen, author of "Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days that Created Modern America"; Linda Lotridge Levin, author of "The Making of FDR: The Story of Stephen T. Early, America's First Modern Press Secretary"; Joseph E. Persico, Historian and Franklin D. Roosevelt biographer; Allida Black, Executive Editor, fdr4freedoms Digital Initiative and Board of Governors, Roosevelt Institute; and Ellen Chesler, Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute and former Director, Eleanor Roosevelt Initiative on Women and Public Policy, Hunter College.

DC Area Legal History Roundtable

The D.C. Area Legal History Roundtable is an informal gathering of scholars who live or work in and around Washington, D.C. It first met in 2006 at George Washington University Law School and later at the law schools of American University, Catholic University of America, George Mason, and Georgetown University, as well as at the Federal Judicial Center.  The George Mason University School of Law is hosting this semester's session, to be held Friday, October 14, from 12 noon to 4 pm.  We hear the following from Adam Mossoff, who is sharing the the organizational honors with Ross Davies and Joyce Malcolm:

"Among the confirmed speakers and commentators is Clare Cushman, editor of the Journal of Supreme Court History, who will be discussing her forthcoming book, Courtwatchers: Eyewitness Accounts in Supreme Court History (Rowman & Littlefield).  Lyle Denniston from SCOTUSBlog  and Todd Peppers (Roanoke College) will comment on Ms. Cushman's presentation.  In a law and war panel, Paul Halliday (University of Virginia) will be discussing his widely heralded research into how the writ of habeas corpus was employed in English cases from 1500-1800 and Jeffrey Morrison (Regent University) will be speaking on George Washington and warfare.  John Yoo (UC-Berkeley) may also come, schedule permitting, to speak on military commissions in the Reconstruction Era, a topic of which he has addressed in his scholarship.  Lastly, in the history of intellectual property panel, Tomas Gomez-Arostegui (Lewis & Clark Law School, visiting George Washington University) will be speaking on the development of copyright doctrines at common law and Joshua Miller, a recent LLM graduate from George Washington University, will present his research into the historical understanding of the Copyright and Patent Clause in the Constitution."

For more information, please contact Professor Mossoff at amossoff@gmu.edu

Q & A with Lawrence Friedman: on collaborating

Note to readers: This is a part of a series of questions and answers with Lawrence Friedman. If you have a question you've wanted to ask him, please post it in a comment, or email me. 

Question from Karen Tani:  I've noticed that in addition to writing his own major works, he has co-authored a fair amount over the years. This strikes me as unusual for a historian.  I'd like to know his view on when collaboration is fruitful for a historian, why he thinks more people don't do it, and what he enjoyed about writing with other scholars.

Answer from Lawrence:

     

On collaboration:  I've always enjoyed working with other people.  You have to distinguish between collaborating with students-- after all, you can tell them what to do, and you as the senior author have what Hollywood directors call "final cut-- and working with colleagues, where you have to treat your co-author as an equal (which he or she usually is). 

     

I've done both kinds of collaboration; and found them profitable.  Obviously, it depends on who you collaborate with.  Some people can be very difficult, and you have to choose carefully.  But I feel I learn a lot from my collaborators; and it really does make the work easier in some cases.

      

A lot of my work is mildly quantitative; and student help is extremely useful; they're good at numbers, and they can do the heavy lifting, so to speak. 

       

Why don't historians collaborate?  You know, I never thought about it; but I realize now that they don't, because I can't think of my books in our field that are collaborations (other than source-books).  I think historians might collaborate if they worked more (as some of course do) in the law and society tradition.  But there's also a general reluctance, which frankly I don't understand completely.  Law professors also shy away from collaboration.  Maybe they're afraid people will think the other guy had all the bright ideas.  There's no particular credit for collaborating in the legal academy.  Yet in the hard sciences, collaboration is the norm.

Catch Them Live!

News of upcoming public lectures by three legal historians have fallen into my virtual lap, as it were. 

First, William Wiecek will inaugurate Transylvania University’s John Marshall Harlan Series.  He will speak on Monday, September 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Carrick Theater in the Mitchell Fine Arts Center on the topic, John Marshall Harlan, Race, and the United States Supreme Court.  The lecture is free and open to the public.

Second, “on Thursday, September 29"--or so the Rockbridge Weekly informs me--the “distinguished legal historian Alfred Brophy will deliver the 2011 Hendricks Lecture in Law and History. The topic of Professor Brophy's talk is ‘The Jurisprudence of Slavery, Freedom, and Union at Washington College, 1831-1861.’  The lecture will begin at 3:00 p.m. in Stackhouse Theater, Elrod Commons on the campus of Washington and Lee University. The event is free and open to the public”

Third, on Thursday, November 17, at 4:30 PM, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional History and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, will speak in a lecture series sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.

University of Iowa Legal History Workshops

The Program in Law and History at the University of Iowa has announced its workshop schedule for the year:

Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago

Monday, September 19, 2011, Noon

Emily Kadens, University of Texas
Monday, October 10, 2011, Noon

Kristen Stilt, Northwestern University
Monday, April 2, 2012, Noon

William Novak, University of Michigan
Monday, April 26, 2012, Noon

In addition, this year's Donald W. Sutherland Memorial Lecture in Legal History  will be given by Professor Linda Colley CBE, who holds the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professorship in the Department of History at Princeton University.  Professor Colley will deliver the lecture on Friday, October 5, 2012. The Lecture honors the memory of Donald W. Sutherland, the late Carver Professor of History and Law at the University of Iowa.

Thomas P. Gallanis's inaugural Sutherland Lecture, The Evolution of the Common Law, can be viewed via podcast here.

Law, Society and Culture at Indiana Law

 The line-up for the fall 2011 colloquium of Indiana Law's Center for Law, Society and Culture is out.  The series includes several sessions of interest to legal historians, including two by this year's Jerome Hall Postdoctoral Fellows, Leila Kawar and Katherine Turk.  Most sessions are held at 4:00 in the law school's faculty conference room.

Sep. 15    
The Death Penalty: Judge versus Jury
Valerie Hans
Cornell Law School

Sep. 29    
Democracy or Discipline? Economic Globalization and the Architecture of Government
Alasdair Roberts
Suffolk University Law School

Oct. 6
Room 213
Legal Liberalism and the Juridical Construction of Immigrant Rights in the United States and France, 1973-1983
Leila Kawar
Bowling Green State University

Nov. 10    
'Our Militancy is in Our Openness': Gay Employment Rights Activism and the Question of Sexual Orientation Under Title VII, 1964-1990
Katherine Turk
University of Texas at Dallas

Nov. 17    
The Few, the Proud, the Gays: Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the Trap of Tolerance
Suzanna Walters
Indiana University

Dec. 1, noon
Sally Merry
New York University

New Evidence on New Zealand's First Contact Violence

Georgetown University’s Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies invites the public to “Lost in Transition: New Research into Iconic, First-Contact Violence between Europeans and Indigenous New Zealanders,” with Dr. Ian Barber, University of Otago, New Zealand. The session will be held on Tuesday, October 4, 2011 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm in the Intercultural Center, Room  450.  Lunch will be available.  RSVP to to canz@georgetown.edu

Here is the Center’s description of the event.

The first recorded encounters between Europeans and indigenous Maori and Moriori of the New Zealand islands were characterized by violent outcomes. In the first case, the 1642 contact events involving Dutch Europeans and local Maori in Golden Bay, northern South Island, have been reinterpreted and incorporated into the national collective memory. Recent historic and archaeological research is reported on, and compared between, the 1642 Dutch-Maori encounter and the first 1791 contact with Chathams Island Moriori. This research considers new explanations for these events in their original cultural landscape settings. It also challenges the cultural logic by which indigenous contact violence has become an iconic, foundation theme of the New Zealand nation.

Ian Barber is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Otago. He was formerly Senior Archaeologist with the NZ Historic Places Trust. He has directed archaeological survey and excavation projects in northern, central and southern New Zealand and undertaken research visits to Easter Island/Rapa Nui, Hawaii and the North American continent.

Q & A with Lawrence Friedman: on PhDs

Note to readers: This is a part of a series of questions and answers with Lawrence Friedman. If you have a question you've wanted to ask him, please post it in a comment, or email me.

Question from Lael Weinberger, attorney and history graduate student: 

Professor Friedman began writing legal history without professional training as a historian. How does he feel that this impacted his career as a legal historian?

Answer from Lawrence:

You're right, I have no professional training in legal history; or in history itself for that matter.  One course in college.  So I'm definitely an amateur. Sometimes I think this is an advantage.  I'm on the outside looking in.  Also, I don't have to write "history;" and a lot of my work isn't properly historical at all.  If I had a position in a history department, that would be considered (quite rightly) peculiar. 

     

But mostly lack of training is a disadvantage.  The new legal historians have studied history, they know the literature, they think hard about methodology, they know the lingo, and they have a sharp historical sense.  The younger scholars with joint degrees are doing wonderful work.   I hope I've made a contribution; but perhaps it would have been more of a contribution if I knew more about what I was doing and why.  It's hard not to feel sometimes like an impostor.

Cushman on Headline Kidnappings and the Origins of the Lindbergh Law

Headline Kidnappings and the Origins of the Lindbergh Law has just been posted by Barry Cushman, University of Virginia School of Law.  It appeared in the St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 55, No. 4.  Here's the abstract:

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The federal kidnapping statute of 1932 -- which prohibits the transportation of a kidnapped person across state lines -- is commonly known as the Lindbergh Law due to its enactment in the immediate wake of the abduction of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s child in March of that year. Indeed, but for the commission of that crime the statute probably would not have been enacted. But the Lindbergh affair alone cannot explain the form that the congressional reaction took. For the Lindbergh baby was found murdered fewer than four miles from his home, and there was no evidence that he had been transported across a state line. Had the Lindbergh Law been in effect when young Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, it would not have applied to the offense. In fact, the bill that ultimately became the Lindbergh law was not introduced in the wake of that sensational crime, nor was it introduced by members of the New Jersey delegation that represented the Lindbergh family and the state in which the crime had been committed. Instead it had been introduced three months before the Lindbergh abduction by Senator Roscoe Conkling Patterson of Missouri and Representative John Joseph Cochrane of St. Louis.

The congressional hearing on the bill, which took place a week before the Lindbergh kidnapping, was dominated by testimony of officials from St. Louis. Owing to its strategic location on the state border with Illinois, that city had become a center of profitable activity for the organized criminals running the midwestern "snatch racket." This essay, prepared as a comment on Professor Lawrence Friedman’s Childress Lecture on "headline trials" at St. Louis University School of Law, explores the high-profile abductions of the early 1930s that spurred St. Louis leaders to seek federal legislation to address the scourge. These included kidnappings of scions of the Anheuser-Busch and International Shoe fortunes; but the story that dominated headlines and riveted the attention of the community for much of the decade involved the 1931 interstate abduction of the city’s leading otolaryngologist by a group of mobsters and ex-convicts led by a prominent St. Louis socialite named Nellie Muench. Nellie, whose underworld nickname was "Goldie" due to her exceptional interest in lucre, was married to a local physician, was the daughter of a well-known Baptist minister, and was the sister of a judge on the Missouri Supreme Court. The saga of Nellie and her partners in crime involved a parade of colorful figures participating in multiple criminal trials; the drive-by machine-gunning of a key witness; a near-fatal attack on the chief prosecutor; a faked pregnancy and two illegal adoptions (one of which resulted in an infant’s death) in order to curry favor with her criminal jury; an unsuccessful attempt to retain custody of the surviving child in a hearing before Special Commissioner Rush Limbaugh, Sr.; and ultimately a mail fraud conviction for seeking to extort $250,000 from the bachelor with whom she had initiated an affair and had told that he was the father of her child.

Religion, Morality, and the Constitutional Order

Just out in the pamphlet series New Essays on American Constitutional History, co-produced by the American Historical Association and the Institute for Constitutional History, is Religion, Morality, and the Constitutional Order, by Linda Przybyszewski, Notre Dame History.  The AHA's website explains:

Historically, debates over the meaning of religious liberty in the United States have taken place largely at the local level. Linda Przybyszewski examines the origins of this sociopolitical custom and how it changed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the Supreme Court opened the door to federal challenges to local religious interpretations of the First Amendment.

NYU's Legal History Colloquium

The schedule is out for NYU’s Legal History Colloquium:

September 13
Daniel Hulsebosch, Charles Seligson Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
"Being Seen Like a State: The Constitution and Its International Audiences at the Founding"

September 27
Robert Reinstein, Clifford Scott Green Professor of Law, Temple Law School
"Executive Power and the Law of Nations in the Washington Administration"

October 11
Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor, University of Virginia, Department of History
"Imperialism and Nationalism in the Early American Republic"

October 25
Eliga Gould, Associate Professor of History, University of New Hampshire, Department of History
"Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire"

November 8
John Parry, Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School
"What is the Grotian Tradition in International Law"

November 22
David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University, Department of History
"`Ticklish Work': Francis Lieber and the Laws of Civil War"

December 6
Brian Richardson, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow, NYU School of Law
"Foreign Law at the Founding: the non-Vattelian Origins of America's Engagement with Public International Law"

Announcement: Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowship Competition

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in Charlottesville, Va., offers residential fellowships to scholars in the humanities. The foundation's announcement of its 2012-13 fellowship competition follows. 

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities seeks proposals for projects that are intellectually stimulating, imaginative, and accessible to the public. We welcome proposals on subjects of public interest in any area of the humanities and currently encourage proposals on literature, religious studies, and the history and culture of the South Atlantic region. We invite proposals on subjects that complement VFH programs on violence; folklife; and African American, Virginia Indian, and other cultures and communities.

Fellows have private offices with free parking at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, located on a scenic property several miles from the University of Virginia. They hold visiting faculty privileges at the University of Virginia and have access to all UVa research and recreational facilities. UVa library books are delivered directly to the VFH. Although housing is not provided, there are many reasonably priced options available in and around Charlottesville.

We offer stipends up to $15,000 per semester; summer Fellows receive travel or housing funds only. Residencies may be for a semester, an academic year, or a summer term. Applicants need not have advanced degrees, but we do not support work toward a degree, nor do we typically support dissertation revisions. Former VFH Fellows must wait three years before applying for another fellowship.

The application deadline for 2012-13 is Dec. 1, 2011. Applications are accepted online.

For more information, visit VirginiaHumanities.org or email Ann White Spencer, VFH Fellowship Program, at aspencer@virginia.edu.

Legal History as American Intellectual History

Sophia Z. Lee, Penn Law, has reviewed Daniel T. Rodgers's Age of Fracture in Jotwell.  Lee writes that "Legal historians should take particular interest in the book. It places in historical context a number of trends in legal thought, from law and economics to originalism."

Congressman Price on History, Politics, and Constitutionalism

Credit: Daily Tar-Heel

Betsy O'Donovan, a reporter at the Durham Herald-Sun, has published Q&A: Who Cares about the Founders' Intent? It consists of excerpts from her interview of David Price, "who represents North Carolina’s Fourth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, also holds a doctorate in political science at Yale University and is a professor of public policy and political science at Duke University."

Journal of Supreme Court History

The Journal of Supreme Court History, volume 36, issue 2 (July 2011) is out or, at least, available from Wiley on-line. Here are the articles:

An Assault on Justice: John McKinley and the Affair at Jackson by Steven P. Brown.

Because of “His Spotless Integrity of Character”: The Story of Salmon P. Chase: Cabinets, Courts, and Currencies, by Emily Kendall

Lochner and Constitutional Continuity, by David E. Bernstein

“Spreading the Wealth”: Justice Tom C. Clark's Wide-ranging Efforts to Open the Doors of the Law Clerk Ranks, by Craig Alan Smith

Associate Justice Tom C. Clark retired from the Supreme Court at the conclusion of its 1966 term to avoid even the appearance of impropriety when his son, Ramsey, became the U.S. Attorney General. “I believe it would be best for me to retire,” Clark wrote one well-wisher, “Litigants have enough problems without having a father-son psychology to face. And while there is no actual conflict the potential is there and the appearance of justice is as important and effective as the real thing.” Clark had served on the Court eighteen years, and he began his retirement with a three-month, state-sponsored goodwill trip around the world, which was cut short when he contracted hepatitis in Thailand.

"How a Book Can Change the World": This Week in the Book Reviews

Ralph Richard Banks

"Is Marriage for White People?" In the New York Times Sunday Book Review Imani Perry takes up Stanford law professor Ralph Richard Banks's provocatively titled new book. Here's a taste:

Banks doesn’t offer a jeremiad about the decline of black family values in the way of so many others who do little more than regurgitate Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s 1965 report . . . .  Refreshingly, Banks offers a well-researched and probing discussion of why marriage rates are so low among black Americans.

In clean and efficient prose, Banks presents a lucid picture of romantic life in black America. Moreover, he disposes of the mythology that the failure to marry is primarily an underclass phenomenon, turning his attention especially to the lives of middle-class black women. He has set out to answer the question: Why are black women “half as likely as white women to be married, and more than three times as likely as white women never to marry”? 

Perry's "primary criticism" of the book is its "prescriptive measure," which in Perry's words amounts to the suggestion that "[b]lack women . . . be more open to marrying outside their race." Earlier coverage by Feminist Law Prof blogger Bridget Crawford is here; lots more at the book's website, here.

Also in the NYT, American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (Knopf), by historian and longtime editor of Dissent magazine Michael Kazin.  According to Beverly Gage (here), the book is an earnest analysis of the left's failures and successes, and a "bid to reclaim the left’s utopian spirit for an age of diminished expectations."
 
"As the obsolescence and even the demise of the book are widely foretold, it is all the more important—and comforting—to recognize how a book can change the world."  So begins Drew Gilpin Faust's review of Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America (W. W. Norton), by David Reynolds. Read on here, at the New Republic.

TNR also offers reviews of The Bear: History of a Fallen King (Harvard/Belknap), by French medievalist Michel Pastoureau (an "odd study," "permeate[d]" with "bitterness" on behalf of the dethroned beast), and Alcibiades (Casement Publishing), by P.J. Rhodes (praised for delivering a "just, and damning" verdict of the "Athenian playboy, general and traitor").

The Wall Street Journal covers four books on Columbus, all by authors without formal training in history ("Faulty Navigators"). Reviewer Felipe Fernández-Armesto is not impressed.  "Columbus, like Napoleon and Hitler," he writes, "is an object of fascination among readers. Something of a crank himself, he notoriously attracts cranky authors, as crag calls forth to crag."  After providing a glimpse of "the dispiriting litany of errors" he discovered in the texts under review, Fernández-Armesto contemplates "what drives these writers to parade their inadequacies in the marketplace."  He urges academic historians to be less welcoming to non-specialists who don't "bother[] to do the basic work."


Also reviewed in the WSJ: Michael C. Toth's Founding Federalist: The Life of Oliver Ellsworth, the latest installment of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's series of "forgotten founders" biographies (here); and David Stevenson's With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918 (Harvard/Belknap), a "masterly study" of how World War I came to an end (here).

"I'm bitextual," announces Lawrence Douglas over at the Chronicle Review (a section of the Chronicle of Higher Ed). A professor of law, jurisprudence, and social thought at Amherst and a regular contributor to scholarly conversations, Douglas also just completed his second novel, The Vices (Other Press). Read on here.

This week a reader introduced me to the UK monthly "History Today." The articles are "popular" in style; the book reviews cover the popular and the more academic.  This month's issue includes an article on nineteenth-century efforts to "photograph madness," and short reviews of Sanctuary and Crime in the Middle Ages (Fordham University Press), by Karl Shoemaker (here); Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949 (Viking), by Virginia Nicholson (here); and Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime (Random House), by Jonathon Green (here).

A new issue of the London Review of Books is out. Not much jumped out at me, but you may want to peruse the TOC, here.

Weekend Round-Up

• The fellows who participated in the 2011 Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History comment on their experiences here.

• A review of David Bernstein’s Rehabilitating Lochner, from the on-line edition of Reason, is here.

• Marshall Poe interviews Charles McKinney, Jr., about his book “Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina” (2000) here.

• Around the colloquia (courtesy of Legal Scholarship Blog): Justice Eliezer Rivlin, Israeli Supreme Court, presented “Law and Economics in the Israeli Legal System: Why Learned Hand Never Made it to Jerusalem” at Berkeley Law on September 12. Sheldon Gelman, Cleveland-Marshall Law, presented “The Historiography of the New Deal: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow” at Cleveland-Marshall Law on September 14. Mary Ziegler, St. Louis Law, presented “Responding to Roe v. Wade: Should Social Issues Be Resolved in the Courts?“ at Illinois Law on September 16. 

The Weekend Roundup is a weekly feature compiled by all the Legal History bloggers.

Jackson at Buffalo, 1946

[The University at Buffalo Law School announces "From Nuremberg to Buffalo, October 4, 1946: Justice Robert H. Jackson's Enduring Lessons of Morality and Law in a World at War," to be held Tuesday Oct. 4, 2011, from 2:00 to 4:00 in Room 106, John Lord O'Brian Hall. Here's the announcement:]

The 2011 edition of the James McCormick Mitchell Lecture, the University at Buffalo Law School's highest-profile lecture series, revisits a significant historical moment for UB and the world - one that has been largely overlooked. The event on Tuesday, Oct. 4, is an occasion to examine a major address by United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, given at the University of Buffalo centennial exactly 65 years before. Jackson, who had taken a leave of absence from the high court to serve as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trial in occupied Germany, spoke at UB immediately after he returned from that historic trial in 1946. His speech touched on timeless themes: how a "warlike spirit" can overcome a nation; the quest for nations to work cooperatively in the cause of peace; the interrelationship of war and dictatorship; and the supremacy of law over the lawless forces of war and persecution.

Three legal scholars will discuss aspects of Jackson's 1946 address, placing the speech in historical context and discussing its enduring implications. The Mitchell Lecturers will be:

John Q. Barrett, professor of law at St. John's University in New York City and a board member at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, N.Y., who will discuss "Bringing Nuremberg Home: Justice Jackson's Path Back to Buffalo, Oct. 4, 1946." Barrett is writing a biography of Justice Jackson.

Eric L. Muller, professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law and a legal historian with special interest in the Japanese internment cases during the World War II era, who will discuss "Nazis, Americans and the Law as a `Peace Profession.'"

Mary L. Dudziak, the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science at the University of Southern California, and currently the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Duke University Law School, speaking on "Rumors of War."

Hat tip: H-Law