Tuesday, February 4, 2020

New York University Legal History Colloquium: Spring 2020

The Legal History Colloquium at the New York University School of Law has announced its Spring 2020 lineup of presenters.
January 27: The Radicals' Fund: Experimenting with Democracy in America's First Age of Propaganda, John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law School
February 10: The Taft Court: Social and Economic Legislation, Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School
February 24: The Specter of Compensation: Mexican Claims Against the United States, 1923-1941, Allison Powers Useche, Clements Fellow, Southern Methodist University (2019-2020); Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University
March 9: The Democracy of Petitions: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870, Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; Director, Social Sciences Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
April 13: International Arbitration and the Rise of an International Law Bar in Turn-of-the-Century America, Lael Weinberger, Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow, Harvard Law School
April 27: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia v. United States, Alison LaCroix, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
The colloquium is run by Professors David Golove and Daniel Hulsebosch. Sessions run from 4:10 to 6:00 p.m. in Vanderbilt Hall, Room 202.

-- Karen Tani