The ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium will convene on April 5, 2025. Virtual participation remains an option for those who wish to attend. Register here. The schedule:
Registration/Welcome 09:45 - 10:05 AM
Paper #1: Social Movements & Litigation Strategy 10:05 - 11:00 AM
“In re Primus and the Rise of Reproductive Rights Impact Litigation”
Author: Christen Hammock Jones, University of Pennsylvania
Respondent: Mary Ziegler. Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
Paper #2: Legal History of Disability 11:05 - 12:00 PM
“Bargains & Bandages: Administrative Regulation of Occupational Safety and Care Labor During the HIV/AIDS Epidemic”
Author: Beck Boorstein, University of Chicago Law School/Yale University
Respondent: Laura Weinrib, Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law / Suzanne Young Murray Professor, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Afternoon Break (Lunch) 12:05 - 1:00 PM
Paper #3: Civil Rights and the Constitution 01:05 - 2:00 PM
“Due Process Decarceration: The ACLU’s National Prison Project, 1971-1977”
Author: Daniel Fernandez, University of Chicago
Respondent: Christopher W. Schmidt, Professor of Law & Co-Director, Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Paper #4: Legal History and the Welfare State 02:05 - 3:00 PM
“Policing Parenthood: Child Support Law and the Enforcement of Austerity in Late-Twentieth-Century America”
Author: Will Holub-Moorman, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School/Princeton University
Respondent: Joanna Grisinger, Associate Professor of Instruction & Director of Legal Studies, Northwestern University
-- Karen Tani
