LEGAL HISTORY COLLOQUIUM

New York University School of Law

Fall 2007 Schedule
2:00-4:00 PM – Vanderbilt Hall Room 202

August 29 Daniel Hulsebosch, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Crafting Authority: James Kent and the Development of American Law
   
September 5 NO SESSION - LEGISLATIVE MONDAY
   
September 12 Geoffrey Stone, Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law
(University of Chicago)

Sexing the Constitution: Chapter III - The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment
   
September 19 Gautham Rao, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow, NYU School of Law
Visible Hands: Customhouses, Law, Capitalism, and the Mercantile State of the Early Republic
   
September 26 Roderick Hills, Jr., William T. Comfort, III Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Federalism and Fear: Sorting and Democratizing in Federal Regimes
   
October 3 Christopher Beauchamp, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow, NYU School of Law
Who Invented the Telephone? The Business and Politics of Patent Litigation in the Late Nineteenth Century
   
October 10 Renee Lettow Lerner, Assoc. Professor, George Washington University Law School
The Ideal of the Nonpolitical Judge: Debates About Judicial Elections and the Judicial Role in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
   
October 17 Geoffrey Miller, Stuyvesant P. Comfort Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Meinhard v. Salmon
   
October 24 Susanna Blumenthal, Assoc. Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
"Death by His Own Hand":  Accounting for Suicide in Nineteenth-Century Life Insurance Litigation
   
October 31 William LaPiana, Professor of Law, New York Law School
"An Overview of Codification in the U.S: The New York Experience"
   
November 7 Sophia Lee, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow, NYU School of Law
"Race, Sex and Rulemaking, 1964-1977: Revising Equal Protection History, Recovering Administrative Constitutionalism" and "Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism,Labor Politics, and Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978."
   
November 14 David Golove, Hiller Family Foundation Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
The Independence of the Admiralty Courts in British and American Law, 1700-1815.
   
November 21 Arianne R. Barzilay, NYU School of Law, JSD Scholar
Women at Work: Towards an Inclusive Narrative of the Rise of the Regulatory State
   
November 28 Jane Burbank, Professor, New York University History Department
The Middle Ground of Law: Litigation, Supervision, and Governance in Late Imperial Russia
   
December 5 Sarah Barringer Gordon, Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law
(University of Pennsylvania)

"The Spirit of the Law" - (1) Religious Freedom: The Crossroads of Belief and Law
(2)Under God: War and Apocalypse, 1935-1955
(3)The Devil:The Nation of Islam and Religoin in Prison