Professor David Golove
Professor Daniel Hulsebosch
Spring 2020
Alternate Mondays 4:10-6:00 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Room 202
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.
Spring 2020 Schedule of Presenters
January 27
The Radicals' Fund: Experimenting with Democracy in America's First Age of Propaganda
John Fabian Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law School
February 10
The Taft Court: Social and Economic Legislation
Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School
February 24
The Specter of Compensation: Mexican Claims Against the United States, 1923-1941
Allison Powers Useche, Clements Fellow, Southern Methodist University (2019-2020); Assistant Professor of History, Texas Tech University
March 9
The Democracy of Petitions: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870
Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University; Director, Social Sciences Program, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
April 13
International Arbitration and the Rise of an International Law Bar in Turn-of-the-Century America
Lael Weinberger, Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow, Harvard Law School
April 27
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia v. United States
Alison LaCroix, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School