Program in Law and HistoryThe 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.
Seminar Guest Schedule |
| Wednesday 2/1/12 |
Ari Bryen ACLS Faculty Fellow in Rhetoric and Classics, University of California, Berkeley "Martyrdom, Rhetoric, and the Politics of Procedure"
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| Friday 2/10/12 12:15-2:10 p.m. |
Adam Kosto Professor of History, Columbia University "Medieval Hostages, Contract Theory, and the History of International Law"
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| Friday 2/24/12 12:15-2:10 p.m. |
Samuel Moyn Professor of History, Columbia University "From Antiwar Politics to Antitorture Politics"
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| Wednesday 2/29/12 |
Oren Gross Irving Younger Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School "Words as Power: The Rhetoric of War in Historical Perspective"
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MARCH
| Wednesday 3/7/12 3:30 p.m. Room 50 |
Erickson Legal History Lecture Lauren Benton Professor of History and Affiliate Professor of Law, New York State University "The Trial of Arthur Hodge: Petty Despots and the Making of an Imperial Legal World"
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| Wednesday 3/21/12 |
Rebecca Rix Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University "'We, the People'? Redefining Representation and 'the Public' in the Progressive Era"
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| Wednesday 3/28/12 |
Sophia Lee Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School "The Workplace Constitution: Race, Labor, and Conservative Politics from the New Deal to the New Right"
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APRIL
| Wednesday 4/4/12 |
Hendrik Hartog Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Professor of History, Princeton University "Someday All This Will Be Yours: A History of Inheritance and Old Age"
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| Wednesday 4/11/12 |
Paul Halliday Professor of History and Law, University of Virginia "The Courtroom, the Clerk’s Archive, and the Judge’s Voice: Technologies of Judicial Authority in Eighteenth-Century England"
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| Wednesday 4/18/12 |
Bernadette Meyler Professor of Law and English, Cornell University "Seventh Amendment Common Law: British or American?"
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Fall 2011 Legal History Workshop
Seminar Guest Schedule
Seminar Guest Schedule
Professor Susanna Blumenthal
All sessions, unless noted otherwise below, will be held over the lunch hour, from 12-1:15 p.m. in Room 471 of Mondale Hall. Papers will be circulated one week in advance. To receive a copy, contact Meghan Schwartz, schwa859@umn.edu.
SEPTEMBER
| Friday 9/23/11 |
Jill Hasday Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School "Progress Narratives for Adults" (a chapter from her book project, Family Law Reimagined: Recasting the Canon)
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| Friday 9/30/11 |
Sarah Chambers Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota "Family, Loyalty and Property Confiscation during Chile's Independence from Spain"
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OCTOBER
| Friday 10/7/11 |
Heidi Kitrosser Julius E. Davis Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School "Reclaiming Accountability: Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution"
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| Friday 10/14/11 |
Erika Lee Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota "Wong Kim Ark v. US, Birthright Citizenship, and the Current Debate over Immigration"
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| Friday 10/21/11 |
Keith Mayes Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, University of Minnesota "Revolutionaries Under a Written Constitution: Black Power's First and Second Amendment"
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| Friday 10/28/11 |
Erik Redix Department of History, University of Minnesota "An Imperative Necessity: The Murder of Joe White and the Culmination of Removal"
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NOVEMBER
| Friday 11/4/11 |
Chantel Rodriguez Graduate School Fellow, Department of History, University of Minnesota "Nascent Ties: The Pullman Company as a Transnational Legal Actor in the development of Mexican Railroad Workers' Health Rights, 1920s-1930s"
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DECEMBER
| Friday 12/2/11 |
Heather Hawkins Research Assistant, Department of History, University of Minnesota "Not Without Their Voluntary Consent: Parental Rights and Federal Law in late 19th and Early 20th Century American Indian Boarding Schools"
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| Friday 12/9/11 |
Myron Orfield Professor of Law and Executive Director of the Institute on Race & Poverty, University of Minnesota Law School "Milliken, Meredith and Metropolitan Segregation"
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Director
Susanna Blumenthal
Associate Professor of Law
and History
American Legal History
Faculty Steering Committee
Barbara Welke
Professor of Law, Associate Professor of History
American Legal and Constitutional History
Assistant
Meghan Schwartz
schwa859@umn.edu
612-625-6181