Legal History Colloquium
Professor William Nelson
Fall 2012
Wednesday, 2:00-3:50 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall - Room 202
LW.11160.001
2 credits
The Legal History Colloquium is the oldest of NYU Law School's colloquia. The core of the Legal History Colloquium consists of the Samuel I. Golieb Fellows, a group of two or three young academics each year from schools around the United States. Golieb Fellows, who either have completed or are currently completing their graduate work in legal history, have come to NYU from doctoral programs at Cambridge, Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Princeton, Rice, Stanford, Virginia, Yale, and other universities. Other participants in the Colloquium have included J.D. students and graduate students at NYU, Fulbright Scholars from Europe, and faculty from NYU Law School and other law schools in the metropolitan region.
Fall 2012 -- Schedule of Presenters
August 29
Prof. Jed Shugerman, Harvard Law School
“The Creation of the Department of Justice: Professionalization Without Civil Rights or Civil Service”
September 12
Dr. Kaius Tuori, Visiting Research Scholar, NYU Department of Classics
“The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication 46 BC-228 AD”
September 19
Prof. Lisa Ford, University of New South Wales, School of Humanities
"Trans-Pacific Legal Histories"
September 26
William E. Nelson, Weinfeld Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
“The Persistence of Puritan Law: Massachusetts, 1660-1760"
October 3
William E. Forbath, Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law, Assoc. Dean of Research, School of Law, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
"Jews, Law and Identity Politics"
October 10
Maribel Morey, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow 2012-2013, NYU School of Law
"Through the Lens of An American Dilemma (1944): Uncovering the Carnegie Corporation’s Efforts to Make Public Policies on Whites and Blacks Across the Atlantic Reflect the Social Scientific Research It Funded"
October 17
Maribel Morey, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow 2012-2013, NYU School of Law
"The Carnegie Corporation, the Social Sciences, and Public Policymaking on Black Americans in the United States"
October 24
Prof. Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin School of Law
"The Real Progressive Constitutionalist"
November 7
Sir John Baker, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge (Emeritus)
"Why Should Undergraduates Study Legal History?" and "The Legal History Nobody Knows"
November 14
Sarah Spinner, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow 2012-2013, NYU School of Law
"Judging the Judges: The Special Section of the Paris Court of Appeals, 1941-1945" - Part 1
November 21
Sarah Spinner, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow 2012-2013, NYU School of Law
"Judging the Judges: The Special Section of the Paris Court of Appeals, 1941-1945" - Part 2
November 28
Sir John Baker, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge (Emeritus)
"Covenants and the Law of Proof 1290-1321" and "Dower of Personalty 1250-1450"
December 5
Prof. Gautham Rao, American University, History Department
“At the Water's Edge: Commerce, Governance, and the Early American State”
Fall 2011 Schedule
2010-2011 Schedule
2009-2010 Schedule
http://www.law.nyu.edu//academics/colloquia/legalhistory/index.htm