[We have the following announcement from our friends at the University of Minnesota. Barbara Welke is leading this year's workshop.]
LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP
FALL 2017
Mondale Hall 473, Thursday, 4:05 – 6:00 pm
As in past years, we
will circulate papers one week in advance of the workshop/ seminar. The culture of the workshop is one of
reading in advance. We ask our guests to
take only a few minutes as the outset to contextualize the paper for us.
Th. Sept. 21 Sarah
Seo, Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa (sarah-seo@uiowa.edu) “From the Foot
Patrolman to the Motor-Mounted Policeman”
(from book manuscript
in progress Policing Everyman: How Cars
Transformed American Freedom)
Th. Sept. 28 Laura
Edwards, Peabody Family Professor of History in Trinity College of Arts and
Sciences, Duke University (ledwards@duke.edu),
Only the Clothes on Her Back:
Textiles, Law, and Governance in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Th. Oct. 5 Nathaniel
(Nate) Holdren, Assistant Professor, Program in Law, Politics, and Society,
Drake University (nate.holdren@drake.edu),
“The Value of Injury: Workplace
Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era” (from book
manuscript in progress Blood Money: Law,
Commodification, and the Human Truths of Injury in the Long Gilded Age (under contract with Cambridge
University Press)
Th. Oct. 12 Amy
Dru Stanley, Associate Professor of History and Law, University of Chicago (adstanley@uchicago.edu), “The Sovereign Market and Sex
Difference: Human Rights in America” (final chapter in book manuscript
in progress From Slave Emancipation to
the Commerce Power: An American History of Human Rights (Harvard University
Press), and in essay form for Chris Desan and Sven Beckert, eds., New
Histories of Capitalism (Columbia University Press))
Th. Oct. 19 Rohit
De, Associate Research Scholar Yale Law School and Assistant Professor of
History, Yale University (rohit.de@yale.edu),
"The Kenyatta Trial as an International Legal Event: Decolonization,
Civil Liberties and a Global History of Rebellious Lawyering" (from book
manuscript in progress titled Rights from
the Left: Decolonization, Civil Liberties and a Global History of Rebellious
Lawyering )
Th. Nov. 2 Will
Hanley, Associate Professor of History, Florida State University (whanley@fsu.edu), Identifying with Nationality: Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians
(Columbia University Press, 2017)(Introduction, Part I (ch. 1-2), Part II (ch.
3 and 6))
Th. Nov. 9 Margot
Canaday, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University (mcanaday@princeton.edu), “‘The Ones
Who Had Nothing to Lose’: Days and
Nights in the Queer Work World”
Th. Nov. 16 Richard
J. Ross, Professor of Law and History, Co-Director, Program in Legal History,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law (rjross@illinois.edu), “The Rule of Law and
the Estado de Derecho in British and Spanish America”
Th. Nov. 30 Rowan
Dorin, Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University (dorin@stanford.edu), “Scribes, Synods, and Sermons: Legal Diffusion and the Rise of
Mass Expulsion in Late Medieval Europe”
T. Dec. 5 Susanna Blumenthal, Julius E.
Davis Professor of Law and Professor of History, University of Minnesota, “Accounting
for Insanity: The Paper Economy of the Bloomingdale Asylum”
