Tuesday, Sep. 19 STEVEN TELES, Yale Law School
"Creating the Organizational Infrastructure of Law and Economics: 1945-1983"
Tuesday, October 10 - KAREN MERRILL, Williams College
“Texas Metropole: An Oilman Encounters the Postwar World”
Tuesday November 7- BARRY CUSHMAN, Univeristy of Virginia School of Law
“Painful Duties”
Tuesday December 5 - PATRICK POLDEN, Brunel University, School of Social Sciences and Law
"A Great Office in Decline: the Lord Chief Justice of England, 1818 to 1940"
SPRING 2007:
Tuesday, February 13 - MOLLY GREENE, Princeton University
"Was it Legal? The Framework of Trade in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
Tuesday, February 27 - BARRY FRIEDMAN, New York University School of Law
"Strict Constructionists and Original Intent: The Counter-revolution that Wasn't"
Prof. Dennis will present a paper from her dissertation research on the relationship between early public policies and legal discourse concerning "obscenity" and the organization of sexual culture in the antebellum United States.
Tuesday, April 17 - KENNETH MACK, Harvard Law School
"Practice, Performance and Professionalism: Civil Rights Lawyering in the Era Before Brown"
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES AND RECENT WORKS
Jonathan Holloway is professor of African American studies, history, and American studies at Yale University. He completed his undergraduate degree in American studies at Stanford University in 1989. He pursued graduate degrees in history at Yale, receiving his PhD in 1995. Holloway began teaching in the department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and returned to Yale in 1999.
Holloway is the author of Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris, E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (UNC Press, 2002) and the editor of Ralph Bunche's A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership (NYU Press, 2005). He is the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought, 1895-1975 (under contract with Notre Dame Press). Holloway spent the 2004-2005 academic year on sabbatical at the Stanford Humanities Center working on his new monograph, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory, Identity, and Politics in Black America, 1941-2000 (under contract with UNC Press).
Bruce Smith received his B.A. in History from Williams College, as well as B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from the University of Cambridge, which he attended as a Herchel Smith Fellow. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his Ph.D. in History from Yale Graduate School, with a dissertation entitled "Circumventing the Jury: Petty Crime and Summary Jurisdiction in London and New York City, 1790-1855." Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois College of Law in 2001, he practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., in the areas of intellectual property litigation, employment law, and sports law.
A historian of Anglo-American criminal justice administration, Professor Smith teaches and researches in the fields of legal history, intellectual property law, Internet law, and property law. "The Presumption of Guilt and the English Law of Theft, 1750-1850," was the subject of a scholarly forum in Law and History Review. Prof. Smith is currently revising his dissertation for publication as a book, tentatively entitled Summary Justice: Magistrates and Criminal Procedure in London, 1760-1860. He is also at work on a study of habitual offender laws in 19th- and early 20th-century America.
Katherine Morrissey received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 1990. Her research on the North American West focuses on the region's environmental, social, cultural, and intellectual history. Prof. Morrissey's recent works include Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997); Women in the West: A Guide to Manuscript Sources, with Susan Armitage, Helen Bannan, and Vicki Ruiz (New York: Garland, 1991); "Miss Spokane and the Inland Northwest: Representations of Regions and Gender," Frontiers XXII (no. 3, 2001); "Mining, Environment and Historical Change in the Inland Northwest," in Northwest Lands and Peoples, ed. Paul Hirt and Dale Goble (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999); "The Realization of the American West: A Response to Patricia Nelson Limerick," The New Regionalism, ed. Charles Wilson Reagan (Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 1998).
Henry Rousso is a world-renowned French historian, Director of the 'Institut d'histoire du temps présent', Director of Research at the 'Centre national de la recherche scientifique' in Paris, and a Professor at the University of Paris-X Nanterre. He has written prolifically on the subject of French history and justice during and after the Second World War, including The Vichy Syndrome : History and Memory in France since 1944 (1987), Justice, répression et persécution en France (1993), and Haunting past: History, Memory, and Justice in Contemporary France (2002).
James Q. Whitman is Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale University. His recent publications include Harsh Justice: Criminal Punishment and the Widening Divide Between Europe and America (Oxford, 2003); and "The Two Western Cultures of Privacy: Liberty versus Dignity," Yale Law Journal (2004). His book The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Religious Roots of the Criminal Trial will appear with Yale University Press in 2006.
Emmanuele Conte graduated from La Sapienza in Rome in 1983. He was Professor at the University of Catania and the University of Macerata before assuming his current post as Full Professor (Ordinario) at the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the University of Rome III. He has also been visiting professor at numerous European universities, as well as a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt and at the University of California at Berkeley. A leading figure in Europe today, Conte is the author of prize-winning books and articles, notably on the history of Italian legal thought and on medieval serfdom, including his study of the impact of the law on the social history of rural servitude in the Middle Ages, Servi medievali. Dinamiche del diritto comune [Medieval Serfs: Dynamics of the Ius Commune] (Ius Nostrum - Studi e testi pubblicati dall'Istituto di Storia del Diritto Italiano dell'Università di Roma La Sapienza, 21), Roma, 1996.
Donna Dennis teaches Business Associations, American Legal History, and Securities and Market Regulation at Rutgers School of Law. She earned a B.A. from Yale College, an M.A. in history from Yale University, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. After graduating from law school, Professor Dennis practiced in New York at Debevoise & Plimpton, with the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York Attorney General's Office, and as a partner at Richard Spears Kibbe & Orbe, where she specialized in corporate governance and securities litigation and enforcement. She then enrolled in graduate school, earning her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2005. Professor Dennis has published several articles in the area of American legal history; law, gender, and sexuality; and corporate law. She is currently at work on a book entitled Obscenity Regulation, New York City, and the Creation of American Erotica, 1820-1880.
Professor Ernst joined the Georgetown faculty in the 1988-89 academic year. He is the author of Lawyers Against Labor (1995), for which he received the Littleton Griswold Award of the American Historical Association and co-editor of Total War and the Law (2003). In 1996, he was a Fulbright Research Scholar at the National Library of New Zealand, and in 1998 he was the Jack and Margaret Sweet Visiting Professor of History at Michigan State University. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow during the 2003-04 academic year. He is co-editor of "Studies in Legal History," a book series sponsored by the American Society for Legal History and the University of North Carolina Press. He teaches courses in American Legal History and Property.
Mary Bilder earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and her J.D., A.M., and Ph.D. from Harvard University. She teaches Property; American Legal History; Cases in Context; and Property and Society. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Francis Murnaghan, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals. Her book, The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire was published by Harvard University Press in 2004. Her earlier articles include "The Origin of the Appeal in America" in the Hastings Law Journal (1997), and "The Lost Lawyers: Early American Legal Literates and Transatlantic Legal Culture" in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities (1999).
Michael Klarman is the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and his D. Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. After law school, Professor Klarman clerked for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He joined the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1987 and has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, which are primarily in the areas of Constitutional Law and Constitutional History. Klarman has also served as the Distinguished Visiting Lee Professor of Law at the Marshall Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary and as Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School. In 2005-06 he will be a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. His book, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, was published by Oxford University Press in 2004 and received the 2005 Bancroft Prize.