Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Clark Legal History Series at Boston University School of Law: Spring 2026 Lineup

We have the following announcement:

This spring, the Clark Legal History Series at Boston University School of Law meets on Wednesdays at 4:20-6:20 in Room 410. 

Jan. 21: John Witt, Yale Law School

The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon & Schuster 2025)

(Focus on Prologue, Chapters 15 & 17, and Epilogue)

 

Jan. 28: Sherif Girgis, Notre Dame Law School (visiting Harvard)

Fixing "History and Tradition" and Levels of Generality

  

Feb. 11: Mary Bilder, Boston College Law School

Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution (2023)

 

Feb. 18: Emmanuel Arnaud, Boston University Law

“Colonial Remnants: Criminal Adjudication in the USVI”

 

Feb. 25: Beau Baumann, Yale Law/Utah Law (co-presenting with Jed Handelsman Shugerman)

“Quasi-Judicial: A History and Tradition”

 

March 4: Rephael Stern, Boston University Law

“We Have Invented a New International Legal Concept of 'Administered Territory'”: Making Israel's Legal Space, 1948-1950

 

March 18: Marco Basile, Boston College Law

"The Misunderstood History of the International Limits of Congressional Power"

 

March 25: Laura Weinrib, Harvard Law School

"Unveiling Influence: Lobbying and the First Amendment in Postwar America.”  

  

Tuesday, April 7, 4 pm: Dylan Penningroth (UC Berkeley Law)

Bacon Lecture at the BU History Department

-- Karen Tani