Friday, January 10, 2025

ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium: February 2025 Session

The ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium will convene on February 8, 2025. Virtual participation remains an option for those who wish to attend. Register here

The schedule:

 

ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium

February 8, 2025 | 10 AM - 3 PM (EST)

Notre Dame Law School | South Bend, IN


Registration/Welcome    09:45 - 10:05 AM

    Coffee & Morning Refreshments


Paper #1: Legal History of Church & State    10:05 - 11:00 AM

“The French Origins of Americanism: Brownson, French Liberalism, and the Separation of Church and State”


Author: Michael Gioia, Columbia University

Respondent: Sarah Shortall, Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame


Paper #2: International Law in the 20th Century    11:05 - 12:00 PM

“Aggression in International Law: A Conundrum for Anticolonial Thought?”

Author: Ibrahim Khan, University of Chicago

Respondent: Samuel Moyn, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and History, Yale University


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


Paper #3: Chinese Legal History    01:05 - 2:00 PM

“Confrontational Activities in Linxiang County & Administrative Structure in the Eastern Han Dynasty”

Author: Qiziwei Wu, Hunan University

Respondent: Liang Cai, Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame


Paper #4: Law and the Second World War    02:05 - 3:00 PM

"A Defender of Nazis: Robert Servatius, the State of Israel and the Eichmann Trial"

Author: Shachar Gannot, Princeton University

Respondent: Devin Pendas, Professor of History, Boston College

 

-- Karen Tani