Wednesday, October 7, 2026

University of Pennsylvania Legal History Workshop: Fall 2026

The University of Pennsylvania Legal History Workshop has posted its fall schedule:

October 15: Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Harvard Law, appointed dean of Stanford Graduate School of Education), "Inheritance: A Portrait of Family, and Nationhood across Color Lines."

October 22: Samuel Moyn (Yale Law), "Does International Law Bring Peace? How a Jewish Family Debated the Vietnam War" (30th Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture in Judaic Studies) (cosponsored with the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies) 

November 19: Jessica Pliley (Texas State University, History): "The Call Girls: Cold War Consumerism, Psychoanalysis and the Business of Sex in the 1950s" (provisional title)

December 3: Tom McSweeney (William & Mary Law), TBD

-- Karen Tani