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Program in Law and History

The Program in Law and History was established in 2007. The program's mission is to support the study of law in its historical context. The program brings together scholars and students from the University of Minnesota and around the world to foster teaching and research in all areas and periods of legal history.

 

The Program in Law and History announces the Alumni Law and History Fellowship, made possible by generous gifts from alumni of the Law School. For information about the 2009-2010 competition and application process, click here.


Fall 2008 Workshops

Room 45, Law School
Thursdays, 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Papers pre-circulated electronically a week in advance. For questions or to be added to the mailing list, contact Susanna Blumenthal, blume047@umn.edu.

For abstracts and further details on the presentations, click here.

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"
 
 

Director

Susanna Blumenthal
Associate Professor of Law
and History
American Legal History

Faculty Steering Committee

Thomas P. Gallanis
Professor of Law
English and European Legal History

Barbara Welke
Professor of Law, Associate Professor of History
American Legal and Constitutional History

Assistant

Laurie Newbauer
newba001@umn.edu