Legal History Colloquium
Professor Daniel J. Hulsebosch
Professor David Golove
Professor Noah Rosenblum
Fall 2025
Alternate Wednesdays 4:45-6:45 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208
LAW-LW.11160.001
2 credits
The colloquium will alternate between public and private sessions. In the public sessions, the colloquium will discuss works-in-progress by historians or legal scholars. In the private sessions, the moderators and students will discuss reading materials that provide context for the upcoming public papers. Students will submit response papers before each public session.
Fall 2025 Schedule of Presenters
August 27
Nathaniel Donahue, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History, NYU School of Law
September 17
Joanna Grisinger, Associate Professor of Instruction & Director of Legal Studies, Northwestern University
“My magic carpet ride”: Discount Air Fares, Youth Culture, and Bureaucratic Expertise
October 1
Mark Peterson, Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History, Yale University
The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution (tentative title)
October 15
Jud Campbell, Professor of Law, Helen L. Crocker Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School; Visiting Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
The Myth of American Constitutional Exceptionalism (tentative title)
October 29
Hannah Farber, Associate Professor of History, Columbia University
Title TBA
November 12
Greg Conti, Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Title TBA
November 26
Lauren Benton, Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law, Yale University
“Piracy as Political Prism: Becoming International in the Counterrevolutionary Atlantic”