Center for the Study of Law and Society Spring '21 Speaker Schedule

The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, has posted the lineup for its Spring 2021 speaker series. Readers may be particularly interested in the following:

March 1. Paul Gutierrez, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida, “The Division of an Empire: The Settler Colonial and Revolutionary Entanglements of Dartmouth v. Woodward." 

April 12. Christopher Tomlins (University of California, Berkeley), In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History (Princeton University Press, 2020), with comments from Dylan Penningroth and Stephanie Jones-Rogers.

April 19. Armando Lara-Millán (University of California, Berkeley), Redistributing the Poor: The Transformation of Jails and Hospitals in the Era of Urban Austerity and Progressive Law (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2021).

-- Karen Tani

New York University Legal History Colloquium: Spring 2020

The Legal History Colloquium at the New York University School of Law has announced its Spring 2020 lineup of presenters.

January 27: The Radicals' Fund: Experimenting with Democracy in America's First Age of Propaganda, John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law School

February 10: The Taft Court: Social and Economic Legislation, Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School

February 24: The Specter of Compensation: Mexican Claims Against the United States, 1923-1941, Allison Powers Useche, Clements Fellow, Southern Methodist University (2019-2020); Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University

March 9: The Democracy of Petitions: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870, Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; Director, Social Sciences Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

April 13: International Arbitration and the Rise of an International Law Bar in Turn-of-the-Century America, Lael Weinberger, Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow, Harvard Law School

April 27: Cherokee Nation v. Georgia v. United States, Alison LaCroix, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

The colloquium is run by Professors David Golove and Daniel Hulsebosch. Sessions run from 4:10 to 6:00 p.m. in Vanderbilt Hall, Room 202.

-- Karen Tani

Boston College Legal History Roundtable in fall 2018

[We share the following announcement.]

In the fall of 2018, the Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable started its 17th successful year. The Roundtable draws on Boston College Law School’s and Boston College’s strength and interest in legal history. It offers an opportunity for Boston College faculty and faculty from other area institutions, students, and members of the Boston College community to meet and discuss a pre-circulated paper in legal history. Meeting several times each semester, the Roundtable seeks to promote an informal, collegial atmosphere of informed discussion.

For the 2018-2019 academic year, Professor Mary Sarah Bilder, Professor Daniel R. Coquillette, Professor Frank Herrmann and Professor Daniel Farbman are conveners.

The Roundtable usually meets several times during the semester in the afternoon at 4:30 pm in the Library Conference Room of the Boston College Law School Library. Refreshments are available beginning at 4:15 pm.*

In 2018-2019, our first Roundtable will be jointly sponsored with the BC Law School Tax Policy Workshop and therefore meet at noon. 

Papers will be available when appropriate before each presentation.

For more information, please contact: 

Joan Manna (617) 552-4344

For assistance with parking passes for non-BC faculty, please also contact Joan.

THIS YEAR'S SCHEDULE after the jump.