ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium
September 27, 2025 | 10 AM - 3 PM (CST)
Notre Dame Law School | Chicago, IL
Registration/Welcome, 09:45 - 10:05 AM
Coffee & Morning Refreshments
Paper #1: Property Law and Indian Removal, 10:05 - 11:00 AM
"Indigenous Incendiaries: Forest Fires, Arson Law, and Ute Removal in 1870s Colorado"
Author: Jacquelyn M. Davila, Yale University
Respondent: M. Todd Henderson, University of Chicago Law School
Paper #2: Colonization and Property Law, 11:05 - 12:00 PM
"Property Law as Colonial Forerunner"
Author: Nathan Lee, New York University
Respondent: Nadav Shoked, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Afternoon Break (Lunch), 12:05 - 1:00 PM
Paper #3: International Taxation, 01:05 - 2:00 PM
"Southern African Mining and the Modern Formation of Offshore Finance, 1860 - 1925"
Author: Simon Rakei, University of Michigan
Respondent: Ajay K. Mehrotra, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Paper #4: The Common Law and the Fourth Amendment, 02:05 - 3:00 PM
"What is a House? Investigating the Meaning of Curtilage at Common Law"
Author: Mitchell Del Bianco, University of Virginia
Respondent: R. H. Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School
