[We have the schedule for the first meeting this academic year of the Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium on September 26, 2026, 10 AM - 3 PM (CST) at the Notre Dame Law School at Chicago. You may register for the event here. DRE]
09:45 - 10:05 AM. Registration/Welcome
Coffee & Morning Refreshments
10:05 - 11:00 AM. Paper #1: Originalism and the New Deal
"Refounding the New Deal"
Author: Keshav Raghavan, Harvard Law School
Respondent: Joanna Grisinger, Associate Professor of Instruction in Legal Studies, Northwestern University
11:05 - 12:00 PM. Paper #2: Emergency Powers: From Exception to Expectation
"The Court of History: Executive Power and the Patient Constitution"
Author: Christian Ketter, University of Illinois at Chicago
Respondent: Beau Baumann, Associate Professor, University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law
12:05 - 1:00 PM. Afternoon Break (Lunch)
01:05 - 2:00 PM. Paper #3: The Imperial Executive
"Empire and the Making of the Managerial Presidency"
Author: Elliott Setzer, Yale University
Respondent: Christine Chabot, Associate Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School
02:05 - 3:00 PM, Paper #4: The Executive and Judiciary in Perspective
"The Protective Power: Judicial Self-Defense and the Origins of a Presidential Prerogative"
Author: Tim Vanable, Columbia University
Respondent: Harold J. Krent, Professor of Law & Interim Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law