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| Friday 2/4/11 |
Jill Hasday University of Minnesota (Law) "Family Law Reimagined: Recasting the Canon of Family Law"
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| Friday 2/18/11 |
Yonglin Jiang Bryn Mawr College "Constructing Han Legal Identity in Yuan, Ming, and Qing China" NOTE: This event is co-sponsored with the Center for Early Modern History and the workshop will be held at 12:15 in 1210 Heller Hall.
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| Friday 2/25/11 |
Barbara Welke University of Minnesota (History & Law) "No One Thought Children Might Die: Owning Hazard in the Twentieth Century U.S. Consumer Economy"
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MARCH
| Friday 3/4/11 |
Xiangyu Hu University of Minnesota (History) "Reinstatement of the Five Punishments and Retreat of the Manchu Penalties"
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| Friday 3/7/11 |
Nicole Frisone and Chantel Rodriguez University of Minnesota Alumni
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| Friday 3/25/11 |
Evan Roberts University of Minnesota (History) "Women’s Rights and Women’s Labor: The Effects of Married Women’s Property Law Reform, 1870-1900"
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| Wednesday 3/30/11 |
Michael Grossberg Sally M. Reahard Professor of History, Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Center on Law, Society, and Culture at Indiana University "The Politics of Childhood: Law and Child Protection in Modern America" 2011 Erickson Distinguished Lecture in Legal History NOTE: This event will be held from 3:30-5:00 p.m. in Room 50 of Mondale Hall and will be followed by a reception in the Lindquist & Vennum Conference Room.
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APRIL
| Monday 4/4/11 |
Susanna Blumenthal University of Minnesota (Law) "Of Mandarins, Legal Consciousness, and the Cultural Turn in American Legal History" Please note that this workshop will take place from 12:15-1:15 p.m. in room 475
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| Friday 4/15/11 |
Katherine Lemon Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies "Moral Strategies and Women's Agency: Dispute and Divorce in Delhi's Shari'a Courts"
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| Friday 4/22/11 |
Elizabeth Beaumont University of Minnesota (Political Science) "Rethinking Revolutionaries and Recognizing Founders: 18th Century Popular Constitutionalism and the U.S. Constitution"
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MAY
| Friday 5/6/11 |
Keith Mayes University of Minnesota (African American & African Studies) "Civil Rights and Black Power on Trial: The Black Freedom Struggle, the Law of Public Order, and the U.S. Constitution"
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Fall 2010 Legal History Workshop
Seminar Guest Schedule
Seminar Guest Schedule
SEPTEMBER
| Thursday 9/23/10 |
Manfred Berg Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History, University of Heidelberg, Germany "Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, and the Decline of Lynching in the Southern United States"
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| Thursday 9/30/10 |
Christina Duffy Burnett Associate Professor of Law, Columbia University "The Monroe Doctrine Rightly Understood: Empire and Law in the Americas on the Eve of World War I"
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OCTOBER
| Thursday 10/7/10 |
William Novak Professor of Law, University of Michigan "Law and the Social Control of American Capitalism, 1877-1932"
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| Thursday 10/28/10 |
Laura Edwards Professor of History, Duke University "The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South"
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NOVEMBER
| Thursday 11/4/10 |
Steven Wilf Joel Barlow Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, University of Connecticut Law School
"Law, Storytelling, & Popular Politics in Revolutionary America"
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| Thursday 11/11/10 |
Jonathan Levy Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University "The Perils of the Seas’: The Case of the Creole and the Maritime Origins of Assumption of Risk"
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DECEMBER
| Thursday 12/2/10 |
Tomiko Brown-Nagin Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law & Professor of History, University of Virginia
"Forgotten and Unsung: Movement Lawyers and Social Change"
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Spring 2010 Legal History Workshop
Seminar Guest Schedule
Seminar Guest Schedule
JANUARY
| Friday 1/22/10 |
Nancy Buenger
"The Metropolis of the West: Chancery in Nineteenth-Century Chicago" |
FEBRUARY
| Friday 2/5/10 |
Herbert Kritzer, University of Minnesota
"The (Nearly) Forgotton Early Empirical Legal Research" |
MARCH
| Friday 3/05/10 |
Alex Wisnoski "Breaking Marriage: Divorce and Separation in Colonial Lima" |
| Wednesday 3/10/10 |
The Ronald A. and Kristine S. Erickson Distinguished Lecture in Legal History Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania "The Spirit of the Law: Religion and the Constitution in Modern America" A new constitutional world burst into American life in the mid-twentieth century. For the first time, the national constitution's religion clauses were extended by the United States Supreme Court to all state and local governments. As energized religious individuals and groups probed the new boundaries between religion and government and claimed their sacred rights in court, a complex and evolving landscape of religion and law emerged. Passionate believers turned to the law and the courts to facilitate a dazzling diversity of spiritual practice. Legal decisions revealed the exquisite difficulty of gauging where religion ends and government begins. Controversies over school prayer, public funding, religion in prison, and same-sex marriage roiled long-standing assumptions about religion in public life. * This lecture is held in Room 50. |
| Friday 3/26/10 |
Nate Holdren "'The Compensation Law Put Us Out Of Work': Workplace Injury Law, Pre-Employment Physicals and Discriminatory Hiring in the Early 20th Century United States" |
APRIL
| Friday 4/23/10 |
Heather Hawkins "Parentless Children: Child Welfare and Unfree Labor at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, 1886-1936" |
| Friday 4/30/10 Note Time Change: 2:00-3:15 p.m. |
Carol Chomsky "Breaking the Gender Barrier at the Bar: Stories from the Women of Minnesota" |
MAY
| Friday 5/07/10 |
MJ Maynes "Constructing Consent in Marriage Contracts in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Eras, Germany, 1750-1830" |
Fall 2009 Legal History Workshop
Seminar Guest Schedule
Seminar Guest Schedule
Professor Barbara Y. Welke
SEPTEMBER
| Friday 9/25/09 |
Tamar Herzog, Professor of Latin American and Spanish History, Stanford University, "Defining Empires: Spain and Portugal in the Americas (17th-18th century)." |
OCTOBER
| Friday 10/2/09 |
Margot Canaday, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 2009. View Full Description
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| Friday 10/16/09 |
Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor of History, MIT, "A Tale of Two Treasons: Adjudicating War Crimes and Collaboration in Manila, 1945." View Full Description
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| Friday 10/23/09 |
Karl Shoemaker, Professor of Law and Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Sanctuary for Crimes in the Western Legal Tradition: How to Get Away with Murder." View Full Description
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NOVEMBER
| Friday 11/6/09 |
Rebecca M. McLennan, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley, The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 (Cambridge University Press, 2008)(Winner of the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society of the American Historical Association (2008)), Intro., Ch. 1-4, 8. View Full Description
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| Friday 11/20/09 |
Peggy Pascoe, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford University Press, 2009) (Winner of the Ellis W. Hawley Prize of the Organization of American Historians (2009), and the Lawrence W. Levine Award of the Organization of American Historians (2009)) (via Video Teleconference) View Full Description
* NOTE: This lecture will be held in Room 262. |
Spring 2009 Workshops
Schedule of Speakers
FEBRUARY
| Friday 2/20/09 1:30 PM |
Danny LaChance, 2008 Erickson Graduate Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, American Studies, University of Minnesota "State of Confusion: Social Engineering, Vigilante Distrust, and Capital Punishment in the Contemporary United States." |
| Friday 2/27/09 10:30- 11:30 AM |
Kirsten Nussbaumer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Minnesota "'A Fundamental Article of Republican Government': Fixity of Suffrage Law in the U.S. Constitution of 1787-88." |
MARCH
| Friday 3/6/09 12:15- 1:15 PM |
Eva Van Dassow, Associate Professor, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota "Freedom in the Ancient Near East." |
| Friday 3/13/09 12:15- 1:15 PM |
Mary Lou Fellows, Everett Fraser Professor of Law, University of Minnesota "Æthelgifu's Will as Hagiography." Note: This session will be held in Room 475 of the Law School. |
APRIL
| Friday 4/3/09 10:30- 11:30 AM |
Andy Urban, 2008-09 Alumni Fund Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota "Thieves in the Home: Criminal Law, Domestic Servants, and the Maintenance of Social Boundaries." |
| Friday 4/10/09 1:30- 2:30 PM |
Xiangyu Hu, PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota "The Emperor's Men or the Manchu Lords' Slaves? The Bannerman, the Emperor, and the Manchu Banner Lord." |
| Friday 4/17/09 12:15- 1:15 PM |
Masako Nakamura, 2008-09 Alumni Fund Fellow, Program in Law and History/PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota "Prostitutes and Illegitimate Mixed-Heritage Children in the U.S. Occupation of Japan and the Law" Note: This session will be held in Room 475 of the Law School. |
| Monday 4/20/09 4:00 PM Room 50 |
2009 Erickson Distinguished Lecture Richard Helmholz, Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago "Individual Conscience in European Legal History, 1200-1650" Reception: 5 PM, Lindquist & Vennum Conference Room |
| Friday 4/24/09 12:15- 1:15 PM |
Jeff Manuel, PhD candidate, History, University of Minnesota "Taconite's Life in the Law: A Non-Modern History." |
MAY
| Friday 5/1/09 12:15- 1:15 PM |
Erika Lee, Fesler-Lampert Professor in the Public Humanities Associate, Professor Department of History and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota "The 'Yellow Peril' and Immigration Restriction in North and South America in the 1920s and 1930s." |
Fall 2008 Workshops
Schedule of Speakers
SEPTEMBER
| Thursday 9/18/08 |
Douglas Baynton, History, University of Iowa
"Defectives in the Land: Disability and American Immigration Law, 1882-1924" |
| Thursday 9/25/08 |
Amalia D. Kessler, Law, Stanford University
"Deciding Against Conciliation: The Nineteenth-Century Rejection of a European Transplant and the Rise of a Distinctively American Ideal of Adversarial Adjudication" |
OCTOBER
| Thursday 10/2/08 |
Jennifer Mnookin, Law, UCLA
"Machineries of Truth: X-Rays and Experts in the American Courtroom." |
| Thursday 10/16/08 |
Adriaan Lanni, Law, Harvard University
"Social Norms in the Ancient Athenian Courts" |
| Thursday 10/30/08 |
Daniel Smail, History, Harvard University
"Goods and Debts in Late Medieval Mediterranean Europe" |
NOVEMBER
| Thursday 11/6/08 |
Rebecca J. Scott, History and Law, University of Michigan
"Rosalie of the Poulard Nation" (co-authored with Jean Hebrard) |
| Thursday 11/20/08 |
Deborah Malamud, Law, New York University
"Letting in the Company: White-Collar Unionization in the Long New Deal" |
DECEMBER
| Thursday 12/4/08 |
Nicholas Parrillo, Law, Yale University
"The Rise of Non-Profit Government in America: The Case of Tax Collection" |
SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE
| Feb. 5 | Susanna Blumenthal "'Death by His Own Hand:' Accounting for Suicide in Nineteenth-Century Life Insurance Litigation" |
| Feb. 19 | Masako Nakamura "Families Precede Nation and Race?: The 1947 Amendment of the War Brides Act and the American Family" |
| Feb. 26 | Sarah Chambers "A Legal Right to Support: Holding the State Responsible for Family Welfare in 19th-Century Chile" |
| March 4 | Yaffa Epstein "From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890–1910" |
| April 8 | Tom Romero II "Creating and Containing the Multiracial Heterotopia: Kelo, Parents and the Spatialization of Color(blindness) in the Berman-Brown Postmetropolis" |
| April 22 | Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History, University of Iowa Distinguished Lecture in Law and History: "Stateless in America" Law School Room 25 at 7 p.m. |
| April 29 | David Stras "Justice Pierce Butler: Undistinguished or Unappreciated?" |
| May 6 | Ruth Mazo Karras "Telling the Truth About Sex in Late Medieval Paris" |
FALL 2007 SCHEDULE
| Sept. 21 | Stephen R. Porter, Ph.D. candidate in history, University of Chicago "Human Rights and the Problem of Formal Equality: American Policies of Refugee Relief at Home and Abroad in the Early Cold War" |
| Sept. 28 | Didier Lett, Maître de Conférences en Histoire Médiévale, Université de Paris "Women, Testes Inhabiles but Talkative Witnesses. The Testimony of Women in the Canonization Process During the XIVth Century: Between Legal Mistrust and Social and Probatory Need" |
| Oct. 5 | Michael Willrich, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University "The Politics of Pox: Epidemic Disease and the Making of the Modern American State" |
| Oct. 12 | Risa Goluboff, Professor of Law and History, University of Virginia "The Lost Promise of Civil Rights" (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007) |
| Oct. 19 | Ariela Gross, Professor of Law and History, USC "Racial Science, Immigration, and 'The White Races,'" (From book manuscript What Blood Won't Tell: Racial Identity on Trial in America) |
| Nov. 2 | Julietta Hua, University of Minnesota 2007-08 Race, Gender, and Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, San Francisco State University "Women's Human Rights and the Politics of Representation" |
| Nov. 9 | Matthew Sommer, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University "The Adjudication of Illegal Wife Sales in Qing Dynasty China" |
| Nov. 16 | Ed Balleisen, Associate Professor of History, Duke University "Fixing the Boundaries of Fraud: Commercial Innovation and Legal Contingency in the Progressive Era" |
| Nov. 30 | Sueann Caulfield, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan "The Right to a Proper Name: Paternity Suits and Changing Notions of Responsibility in Twentieth-Century Brazil" |
| Nov. 30 | Sarah C. Chambers, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota "Paternal Rights and Responsibilities: Legal Disputes over Child Support and Custody in Santiago, Chile, 1790-1860" |
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