Monday, September 21, 2026

Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium: October 2026

The Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium has released the schedule for its next convening, on October 17, 2026, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. CST, at Notre Dame Law School at Chicago. You may register for the event here (in person or virtual).

Registration/Welcome    09:45 - 10:05 AM

Paper #1: Crime and Disability in Chinese History    10:05 - 11:00 AM

“Governing Infirmity: Disability, Clemency, and Capital Punishment in Eighteenth-Century Qing China”

Author: Shu Wan, University of Buffalo

Respondent: Johanna Ransmeier, Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago

Paper #2: Decolonization and International Law    11:05 - 12:00 PM

“Constitutional Self-determination and the (Re)Making of International Law: Lessons from British Nigeria after the Second World War”

Author: Emmanuel U. Osayande, Harvard University

Respondent: Muna B. Ndulo, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International and Comparative Law, Cornell Law School

Afternoon Break (Lunch)    12:05 - 1:00 PM

Paper #3: International Finance and Global Governance    01:05 - 2:00 PM

“The Short Leash: Sovereign Debt and Governing by Crisis, 1973-1988”

Author: Kaya Colakoglu, University of Chicago

Respondent: James Thuo Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair of International Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law

Paper #4: General Law and the Legislature    02:05 - 3:00 PM

“The Law of Legislative Power”

Author: Elias Neibart, Harvard Law School

Respondent: Will Kamin, Associate Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School

-- Karen Tani