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.

Fall 2009 Legal History Workshop
Seminar Guest Schedule

Select Fridays, 10:10 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Mondale Hall, Room 55

Barbara Y. Welke, Professor of Law and Associate Professor of History, welke004@umn.edu or 612-624-7017

Introduction: Six guest scholars will be joining us for the Legal History Workshop/Seminar this fall. Faculty and students are welcome to join us for these sessions. This fall we will be reading a mix of recently published books and work-in-progress. The books are all available at Barnes&Noble.com and Amazon.com. I will circulate the w-i-p a week in advance. Please contact Kristen Gandrow (kgandrow@umn.edu) if you are not already on the Legal History Workshop email list, so that you get announcements and papers. Below is the "Guest Schedule at a Glance."

Guest Schedule At A Glance

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)."
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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.
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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)
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