Clark Legal History Workshop
The Elizabeth Battelle Clark Legal History Series brings several distinguished historians of law to campus each year to lecture and talk with students and faculty. The BU community and the general public are all welcome to attend. For more information, please contact any of the following: Kris Collins, collinsk@bu.edu Gerry Leonard, gleonard@bu.edu David Seipp, dseipp@bu.edu |
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Fall 2011 Speakers
Unless otherwise noted, meetings of the Clark Legal History Series are held in Room 920B of the law school, from 4:30-6:00. Refreshments will be served.
Wednesday, September 28th: Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire History Department, “Exits: Forming International Rules on Expatriation”
Wednesday, October 12th: Laura Kalman, University of California Santa Barbara History Department, “The Last Days of the Warren Court”
Friday, October 28th at 1pm: Stuart Banner, UCLA School of Law, “The Baseball Trust: Baseball’s First Antitrust Crisis, 1912-1916”
Wednesday, November 16th: Michael Vorenberg, Brown University History Department, “Birth, Belief, and Blood: Allegiance during the American Civil War”
Wednesday, November 30th: Kara Swanson, Northeastern University Law School, “Reproductive Medicine in the Legal Shadows: Artificial Insemination, 1890-1945”
Past Speakers
Fall 2010 Speakers
Wednesday, September 22nd: Norman Spaulding, Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, "The Enclosure of Justice: Courtroom Architecture, Due Process, and the Dead Metaphor of Trial."
Wednesday, October 6th: Jed Shugerman, Harvard Law School, selections from The People's Courts: The Rise of Judicial elections and judicial Power in America (forthcoming 2011)
Wednesday, October 20th: Jill Hasday, Univ. Minnesota Law School, “Recasting the Canon of Family Law”
Wednesday, October 27th:Michele Landis Dauber, Stanford Law School, "’The Bomb-Proof Power’”
Wednesday, November 17th: Tommy Crocker, Univ. of South Carolina School of Law, “Can ‘Necessitous Men’ Ever be Free? Exigency, Security, and the American Political Constitution”