LEGAL HISTORY COLLOQUIUM
Schedule for Spring Semester 2002

Attached is the spring schedule for the Legal History Colloquium, which meets every Wednesday from 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in D'Agostino Hall's seminar room (mezzanine level). Papers are distributed the week before they are discussed (and are also available in Room 308) and need to be read in advance of any session, since there is never any presentation.

January 9 Becky Roiphe, Golieb Fellow, NYU, "Law and the Modern Soul, 1870-1932"
   
January 16 Liz Borgwardt, Golieb Fellow, NYU, "New Approaches to the Nuremberg Trials"
   
January 23 Gerald Leonard, Professor of Law, Boston University, "The Invention of Party Politics: Federalism, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Development in Jacksonian Illinois"
   
January 30 Dennis Ventry, Golieb Fellow, NYU, "Liberalism, Tax Policy, and Gender Norms in Postwar America"
   
February 6 Danaya Wright, Professor of Law, University of Florida, "Domestic Relations in Mid-Century: A History of the First Nine Years of the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Court in England, 1858-1866"
   
February 13 Mark Weiner, Professor of Law, Rutgers University, "Black Trials: The Legal Drama of Race and Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste"
   
February 20 Williamjames Hoffer, Golieb Fellow, NYU, "Bringing the Courts Back In: The Evarts (Circuit Courts of Appeals) Act and Judicial State-Building"
   
February 27 Mark McGarvie, Golieb Fellow, NYU, "Religion and Law in Colonial America: The Influence of Religious Establishment"
   
March 6 William Forbath, Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University, "Undesirable Aliens/Unfree Labor: Race, Class and National Identity in Immigration Law and Policy, 1885-1924"
   
March 20 Deborah Malamud, Visiting Professor of Law, NYU, "Who They Are - Or Were: The White-Collar Unemployed in New Deal Welfare Policy, 1933-1935"
   
March 27 John Reid, Professor of Law, NYU, "Legislating the Courts: William Plumer, Jeremiah Smith, and Judicial Politics in the Early Republic---New Hampshire, 1790 to 1818"
   
April 3 Todd Stevens, Golieb Fellow, NYU, "Brokers between Worlds: Chinese Merchants and Elite Attorneys in the Pacific Northwest, 1870-1925"
   
April 10 John Witt, Professor of Law, Columbia University, "The Constitution of American Accident Law: Ives v. South Buffalo Railway and The First Employers' Liability Cases"
   
April 17 Liz Borgwardt, Golieb Fellow, NYU, "Postwar Transformations in American Multilateralism: the United Nations Charter and the Bretton Woods Agreements"
   
April 24 Diana Hyman, 2L, NYU, "Give Me Some Space - Justice Douglas, the Preservation of the Wilderness, and the Right to Be Let Alone"
   
May 1 Ariela Dubler, Professor of Law, Columbia University, "A New Charter of Rights for Women: Marriage, Equality, and the Demise of Dower"