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 |