February 5. Session 3. Naomi Lamoreaux & Rebecca Eisenberg, University of Michigan Law School
What Administrative Agencies Can Do that Courts Cannot: Lessons from the Patent Office’s Handling of Interferences, 1836-1940
February 12. Session 4. Heather Menefee, Northwestern University, Department of History
From “Loyal” to “Legitimate”: Racial Definitions of Political Identity during Dakota Tribal Reorganization, 1886-1999
February 19. Session 5. Sanne Ravensbergen, University of Michigan, Department of History
The Hybrid Uniform of the Jaksa: Prosecutors in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Indonesia
February 26. Session 6. Aaron Hall, University of Minnesota, Department of History
The First Constitutional Lesson: Learning to Follow the Founding in Antebellum America
March 12. Session 7. Beth Lew-Williams, Princeton University, Department of History
“John Doe Chinaman:” Law and Race in the American West
March 19. Session 8. Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, University of Southern California, Department of History
Maritime Prize Law and the Making and Unmaking of Empires, ca. 1689-1916
March 26. Session 9. Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington, Department of Political Science
The Price of Civil Rights: Philanthropy and Legal Mobilization
April 2. Session 10. Justene Hill Edwards, University of Virginia, Department of History
Finances of the Freedmen: The Expansion and Plunder of the Freedman’s Bank, 1866-1867
April 9. Session 11. Ivón Padilla-Rodriguez, University of Illinois, Chicago, Department of History
"In Consideration of Humanity:" Policing Mexican Child Refugees in the Early Twentieth Century United States
April 16. Session 12. Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt University, Law School
“Drug Money” in Legal, Political, and Cultural History
