Professor David Golove
Professor Daniel Hulsebosch
Professor Noah Rosenblum
Fall 2023
Alternate Wednesdays 4:45-6:45 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 208
LAW-LW.11160.001
2 credits
The colloquium will alternate between public and private sessions. In the public sessions, the colloquium will discuss works-in-progress by historians or legal scholars. In the private sessions, the moderators and students will discuss reading materials that provide context for the upcoming public papers. Students will submit response papers before each public session.
Fall 2023 Schedule of Presenters
September 13
Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
September 27
Joshua Getzler, Professor of Law and Legal History, St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford; Global Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
"Equity, banking, and the seeds of crisis: Foley v Hill (1838-48)"
October 11
Brittany Farr, Assistant Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
"The Other Walker-Thomas: Reading Race in Contracts"
Please email Peter Freedberger (peter.freedberger@nyu.edu) for a copy of the paper.
October 25
Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Presidential Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
"Social Engineers on a Grand Scale?: Federally-Funded Legal Aid and the Civil Rights Movement"
November 8
Noam Maggor, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London; Visiting Fellow, Sciences Po Law School
"Law and Development: Railroad Regulation as American Industrial Policy"
November 22
Rachel Shelden, Director of the Richards Civil War Era Center; Associate Professor of History, Penn State University
"Justices, Politics, and the Union in Crisis"
November 29
Laura Savarese, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History, NYU School of Law