NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
LEGAL HISTORY COLLOQUIUM
SPRING 2006 SCHEDULE
| January 11 | Daniel Hulsebosch, Professor, NYU School of Law (1) “A Discrete and Cosmopolitan Minority: The Loyalists, the Atlantic World, and the Origins of Judicial Review” (2) “Nothing But Liberty: Somerset’s Case and the British Empire” |
| January 18 | Tamar Herzog, Professor, Stanford University, History Dept. “‘Us’ and ‘Them’ in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic World” |
| January 25 | Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law, NYU School of Law "Neither Force Nor Will: The Popular Foundations of Judicial Review" (selections) |
| February 1 | Claire Priest, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School
of Law “Creating an American Property Law: Alienability and its Limits in American History” |
| February 8 | Peter Charles Hoffer, Research Professor, University of Georgia “An Essential History of the United States Supreme Court” |
| February 15 | Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law
School “Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict, and Constitutional Change: The Case of the De Facto ERA” |
| February 22 | James Whitman, Professor, Yale Law School "The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Religious Roots of the Criminal Trial" |
| March 1 | Bernadette Meyler, Assistant Professor, Cornell Law School "Towards a Common Law Originalism” |
| March 8 | David Konig, Professor of Law & History, Washington University at St. Louis "Credit, Courts, and the Formation of a Property Regime in Seventeenth-Century Virginia" |
| March 15 | Spring Break - No Meeting |
| March 22 | Bernard Freamon, Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law
"Slavery and Abolition in Nineteenth-Century Egypt" |
| March 29 | Amalia Kessler, Assistant Professor, Stanford Law School “A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France” |
| April 5 | Chaim Saiman, Golieb Fellow, NYU School of Law “Legal Realism as American Exceptionalism” |
| April 12 | Alison LaCroix, Golieb Fellow, NYU School of Law “Drawing the Line: The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty” |
| April 19 | Rebecca Rix, Golieb Fellow, NYU School of Law “Policing the General Welfare in Post-World War I Progressive Reconstitution” |