Legal History Forum

Fall 2008 | Spring 2009
2008-2009 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 Daniel Reid or Marco Duranti.

FALL 2008:

Tuesday, September 23 – Jay M. Winter, Yale University
“From War Talk to Rights Talk: René Cassin, Human Rights, and the Two World Wars”

Tuesday, October 28 – Christopher W. Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law
“Explaining Massive Resistance: The Debate over Law and Social Change, 1954-1964”
 
Tuesday, November 18 – Jed Shugerman, Harvard University
“The People's Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Power in America”

SPRING 2009:

Tuesday, February 24 – Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University
“Law, Finance, and the First Corporations”
 
Tuesday, March 24 – Samuel Moyn, Columbia University
“Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights”
 
Tuesday, April 7 – Risa Goluboff, University of Virginia
“People out of Place: The Sixties, the Supreme Court, and Vagrancy Law”