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