Via our friends at
Boston University, we have the following announcement, of the
Fall 2024 lineup for the
Clark Legal History Series.
All workshops are Monday 10:40-12:40 in room 203, except for the first week's guest:
THURSDAY, Sept. 19, 4:20:
Jill Lepore, Harvard History/Law
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (book excerpts) (forthcoming 2025)
Sept 23: Rory Van Loo, BU
“The New Consumer Law” (or: Digitally Intermediated Consumer Law)
Sept 30: Richard Re, U. of Virginia Law
“Legal Realignment” (forthcoming U. Chicago L. Rev)
Oct. 7: Martha Minow, Harvard Law
“The Unraveling: What Dobbs May Mean for Contraception, Liberty, and Constitutionalism”
Oct. 28: Jack Balkin, Yale Law (by Zoom)
Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation
Nov. 4: Stephen Sachs, Harvard Law
“The Twelfth Amendment and the ERA.”
Nov. 11: Emmanuel Arnaud, Cardozo Law School
On the development of the local criminal legal systems in Puerto Rico & American Samoa
Nov. 18: Shaun Ossei-Owusu, U. Penn. Law
The People’s Champ: Legal Aid from Slavery to Mass Incarceration (Harvard University Press)
Or Renegade at Law: How Our Legal Industry Creates, Justifies, and Compounds Inequality
Website. Readers are welcome to contact Jed Shugerman with questions, jshug@bu.edu.
