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”