Legal History Forum
2012-2013 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 junior and senior scholars to present works-in-progress, as well as for faculty and students to engage in informal discussion of their papers.
For more information, contact Jed Gross (jed.gross@yale.edu) or Jeremy Kessler (jeremy.kessler@yale.edu).
Fall 2012
Monday, Sept. 24, 2012
Steven Pincus, Yale University, Dept. of History, "The Interventionist State in 17th and 18th Century Britain"
Thursday, November 1, 2012
William Forbath, University of Texas School of Law, "Jews, Law, and Identity Politics"
(joint session with Legal Theory Workshop)
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Jed Shugerman, Harvard Law School, "The Creation of the Department of Justice: Professionalization without Civil Rights or Civil Service"
Spring 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania, “State v. Church: Limits on Church Power and Property from Disestablishment to the Civil War”
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Laura Weinrib, University of Chicago Law School, "From Left to Rights: Civil Liberties, Labor, and the Early ACLU"
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
David Armitage and Jo Guldi, Harvard University, Title TBA












