2007-2008 LEGAL HISTORY FORUM SCHEDULE
ALL SESSIONS RUN FROM 4:30 TO 6:00 PM
IN THE YALE LAW SCHOOL FACULTY LOUNGE
REFRESHMENTS SERVED AT 4:15
The Forum provides an opportunity for both eminent academics and junior scholars to present works-in-progress, as well as for faculty and students to engage in informal discussion of their papers. The following topics and titles are provisional.
For more information contact Owen Williams or
Jeremy Golubcow-Teglasi.
FALL 2007:
Tuesday, October 2 – Sarah Gordon, University of Pennsylvania
“The Devil: The Nation of Islam and Religion in Prison, 1945-1970” Tuesday, October 16 – Marjorie Spruill, University of South Carolina
“Women’s Rights, Family Values, and the Polarization of American Political Culture”
Tuesday, November 6 – David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania
“The Unbearable Lightness of Christian Legal Scholarship”
SPRING 2008:
Tuesday, February 12 – Joshua Getzler, Oxford University
“Changing Attitudes to Finance in English Law and Equity c. 1860-1920”
Tuesday, February 19 – Cynthia Herrup, University of Southern California
“Uncertain Forgiveness: Pardons, Bureaucracy, and Confusion in the Seventeenth Century”
Tuesday, March 4 – Mark Graber, University of Maryland
“Maintaining Judicial Review: The Debate Over Section 25 Revisited”
Tuesday, March 25 – Kenneth Mack, Harvard University
“A Cultural History of Civil Rights Lawyering” Speaker Biographies