Legal History Colloquium

 

Professor Daniel J. Hulsebosch
Professor David Golove

Fall 2026
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 2026 Schedule of Presenters

 

September 2

Noah Rosenblum, Associate Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

"Officer Removal in the Early Republic"

 

September 23

Ron Harris, Kalman Lubowsky Professor of Law and History, Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University; Global Professor of Law (Fall 2026), NYU School of Law

presenting a chapter from his forthcoming book "Empire Ltd.: Law and the Rise of Transnational Companies in the First Era of Globalization (1844-1914)"

 

October 21

Joseph Blocher, Lanty L. Smith ’67 Distinguished Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

Brandon L. Garrett, David W. Ichel Distinguished Professor of Law; Director, Wilson Center for Science and Justice, Duke University School of Law

presenting chapters from "Constitutional Facts" (forthcoming, Harvard University Press)

 

November 4

Cynthia Nicoletti, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

 

November 18

Kellen Funk, Michael E. Patterson Professor of Law, Columbia Law 

"Fraud and Fusion: One Origin Story of the Public Law Injunction"

 

November 25

Matthew Hersch,  Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History, NYU School of Law

"Disability, Discharge, and the 'Previctory' Veterans of World War II"