LEGAL HISTORY COLLOQUIUM
New York University School of Law
Spring 2008 - Tentative Schedule
2:00-4:00 PM – Vanderbilt Hall Room 202
| January 16 | James Oldham, St. Thomas More Professor
of Law and Legal History, Georgetown University Law Center Introductory Memorandum re Session on InsuringBritish Slave Ships “Insurance Litigation Involving the Zong and Other British Slave Ships, 1780-1807” Report of Trial Judge John Heath on Hartley v. Buggin Hartley v. Buggin, 99 Eng. Rep. 527(1378-1865); 3 Dougl. 38 (1781). |
| January 23 | Peter Hoffer, Research Professor, University
of Georgia Department of History “The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr: A Law Story from the Early Republic” |
| January 30 | William E. Nelson, Weinfeld Professor of Law, NYU
School of Law Law and Religion in Massachusetts and Virginia: An Historical Comparison Summary Judgment and the Progressive Constitution |
| February 6 | Lauren
Benton, Professor, NYU History Department “Island Chains: Military Law and Convict Transportation, 1780-1840” |
| February 13 | Dr.
Laura Edwards, Professor, Duke University Department of History “The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the State in the New Nation” Introduction and Chapter One |
| February 20 | Gautham Rao, Samuel I Golieb Fellow 2007-2008, NYU
School of Law |
| February 27 | Richard B. Bernstein, Distinguished Adjunct Professor,
New York Law School “The Founding Fathers Reconsidered” |
| March 5 | Lloyd Bonfield, Visiting Professor, New York Law
School "Lord Chief Justice King's Reports - 1714-22: 'Commercial Law' " |
| March 12 | Christopher Beauchamp, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow 2007-2008, NYU School of Law "Technology's Trials: Patent Litigation in the United States Courts, 1860-1910" |
| March 19 | NO SESSION – SPRING BREAK |
| March 26 | Lauren Benton, Professor, New York University History
Department Benjamin Straumann, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow, NYU School of Law “Acquiring Sovereignty Under the Law of Nations: Roman Origins and Atlantic Interpretations” |
| April 2 | Bernard
Freamon, Professor, Seton Hall University Law School “The Abolition of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade and the Vicissitudes of Empire” |
| April 9 | Sophia Lee, Samuel I Golieb Fellow 2007-2008, NYU
School of Law "Hotspots in a Cold War: The NAACP's Postwar Workplace Constitutionalism, 1948-1964" and "Chapter 4 - Almost Revolutionary: Administrative Constitutionalism, Labor Politics" and "Workplace Civil Rights, 1935-1978" |
| April 16 | Michael Hoeflich, Distinguished Professor, University
of Kansas Law School "Selling the Law in Antebellum America: The Sale & Distribution of Law Books, 1780-1870" |
| April 23 | James
Whitman, Professor, Yale Law School "The Verdict of Battle" |