Columbia Law's Legal History Workshop

[We have the following schedule for the Columbia Law School’s Legal History Workshop.  DRE.]

Columbia Law School Legal History Workshop, 2026–2027

Wednesdays, 4:10–6:00 p.m., Jerome Greene Hall, Li Lu Law Library 215.  Convenors: Kellen R. Funk, Columbia Law School; Amy Chazkel and Kalyani Ramnath, Department of History.  RSVP: kprada@law.columbia.edu

September 16, 2026
Alexander Arnold, UCLA School of Law
“Ye Shall Know the Truth”: Truth-Seeking, Judicial Economics, and the
Transformation of Civil Procedure

October 14, 2026
Róisín Costello, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University
Transatlantic Exchanges: The Development of Privacy in the Common Law World

November 4, 2026
Kalyani Ramnath, Department of History, Columbia University
Law, Science, and the Making of Maritime Boundaries in the Indian Ocean,
1950–1990

December 2, 2026
Samantha Barbas, University of Iowa College of Law
Into the Vortex: Public Figures, Libel Law, and the Making of the Free Press

February 3, 2027
Marie-Amélie George, Wake Forest School of Law
Criminal Instruments: Needle Exchange, the Necessity Defense, and the Fight
Against AIDS in New York City

March 10, 2027
José Argueta Funes, UC Berkeley School of Law
Tribal Law and Legal Landscapes: A Marriage Story

March 31, 2027
Juan Arboleda, SNF Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University
A Constitution of Many Constitutions: Translation, Participation and
Colombia’s Constitutional Imagination

April 21, 2027
Adriana Chira, Department of History, Emory University
Legal Tender: Slavery, Credit, and Legal Personhood in Seventeenth-Century
Havana