Siegelberg in the Washington History Seminar

The next Washington History Seminar Panel is with Mira Siegelberg, Cambridge University, on her book Statelessness: A Modern History, with a comment by LHB Founder Mary L. Dudziak, Emory University.  It takes place Monday, December 7 at 4:00 pm ET.  Register here.  It may be viewed on...

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Hopkins's "Ruling the Savage Periphery" at WHS

The next meeting of the Washington History Seminar, on Monday, November 23 at 4:00 pm ET, will be devoted to Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State (Harvard University Press, 2020), by Benjamin Hopkins, George Washington University.  Elisabeth Leake,...

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Weekend Roundup

Rowan Williams on “Saving our Order: Thomas Becket, Henry II and the Law of Church and State,” 10 December 2020, 17:30 - 19:00.  H/t: LPK The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation announces the webinar series, Black Inventors and Innovators: New Perspectives. ...

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Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]Call for Abstracts: Fourteenth International Junior Faculty ForumSponsored by Stanford Law School, the International Junior Faculty Forum (IJFF) was established to stimulate the exchange of ideas and research among younger legal scholars from around the...

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Hirsch's "Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg" at WHS

The next meeting of the Washington History Seminar will be devoted to Francine Hirsch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her book, Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II.  It will be held on Thursday, November 12 at 4:00 pm ET. ...

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Tolson on Voting Rights in BC Legal History Roundtable

The Legal History Roundtable at the Boston College Law School announces its next session, In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era, a webinar with Franita Tolson, on Friday, November 13, 2020, 12:00PM-12:55PM:Registration is required. Zoom link will be sent...

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Insider Trading: A Symposium on Chiarella v. United States

[We have the following announcement.  DRE.]Insider Trading: Honoring the Past.  A Program Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Chiarella v. United States.  Thursday, November 5th, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Eastern TimeSponsored by the NYU Pollack Center for Law & Business; Indiana University...

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African History and Legal History

 [We have the following announcement on an online event, sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.  DRE]On November 5th, the "Global Legal History on the Ground" project will host an online event on court cases in the writing of African History and Legal History.Time:...

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Crenshaw, Foner and Gates Discuss Reconstruction

From the Columbia News:On October 20, 2020, leading scholars examined the intersections of 19th-century history with contemporary politics, and offered visions for America’s future, during “Why Reconstruction Matters.” The online event was moderated by Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger and introduced by Vice Provost and University Librarian Ann Thornton. Nearly 700 people viewed the panel, which...

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Columbia Legal History Workshop

[We have the following schedule for the Columbia Law School’s Legal History Workshop.  DRE]Fall 2020October 8 at 6:30-7:30pm EST • "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: A Talk by Ariela Gross with Kellen Heniford," sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.October...

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De and Evans in Legal Histories of Empire

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE]Legal Histories of Empire Symposium: Rohit De and Catherine EvansPlease join us for the first of several planned symposia in 2020 and 2021 for Legal Histories of Empire and for the celebration of a special birthday of the founder of the Legal Histories of Empire Conferences.Our speakers:Rohit De: "Brown Lawyers, Black Robes: Decolonization, Diasporic...

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Kerber to Deliver Haskins Prize Lecture

[We are very please to note the following announcement from the American Council of Learned Societies.  DRE]Linda K. Kerber to Deliver the 2020 Charles Homer Haskins Prize LectureACLS is pleased to announce that historian Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor...

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INHIDE: Legal History in Argentina

We have news of the Instituto de Investigaciones de Historia del Derecho, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Founded in 1973, the Instituto is, deputy director Viviana Kluger tells us, “is the most important institution regarding legal history research in Argentina.”  It publishes Revista de Historia del...

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NHC Briefing: Federal Responses to Economic Crisis

[We have the following announcement.  DRE]The National History Center of the American Historical Association invites you to attend our briefing, Federal Responses to Economic Crisis, Monday, October 5, 2020, 11:00 am EST.  Register here.The Coronavirus pandemic has killed vast numbers of people across the world, transformed the work and home lives of many millions, and has sent many of the...

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A Symposium on Race, Citizenship and Women's Right to Vote

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE]The symposium Citizenship and Suffrage: Race, Citizenship, and Women’s Right to Vote on the Nineteenth Amendment’s Centennial, sponsored by the Washington College of Law, American University, will take place online via Zoom on Tuesday, October 6,...

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Tel Aviv University Law and History Workshop

 [We have the following announcement.  DRE]Tel Aviv University Law and History Workshop, Fall 2020, Thursdays, 14:15 - 15:45.  Organized by Rachel Friedman, Ron Harris & Assaf Likhovski.Nov. 5, 2020, Jedidiah Kroncke, University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, The Harvard Model as Domestic...

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