Legal History Colloquium

Professor David Golove
Professor Noah Rosenblum

Fall 2024
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 2024 Schedule of Presenters

 

September 11

Jonathan Gienapp, Associate Professor of History and Associate Professor of Law, Stanford University

“Against Constitutional Originalism”

We will be covering Chapters 4 and 5. For the reading materials, please email Professor Noah Rosenblum at nr2267@nyu.edu and myself at dg4480@nyu.edu.

September 25

Mary Ziegler, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law

Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It

October 9

Sarah Seo, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, Columbia Law School & Visiting Professor of Law, NYU School of Law 

“"Kindred to Treason": Conspiracy laws in the United States”

October 23

Anna O. Law, Associate Professor of Political Science & Herbert Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College

November 6

Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

November 20

Jane Manners, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

November 27

Caitlin B. Tully, Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History, NYU School of Law