Vanderbilt Legal History Colloquium
Vanderbilt Legal History Colloquium 2018-19
The Vanderbilt Legal History Colloquium series is sponsored by the Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science.
Discussions are based on pre-circulated papers.
To sign up for the announcement list, please contact this year's Director Ari Bryen.
Sept. 10, 2018
Professor Tamer el-Leithy, Johns Hopkins University
Title: The Deep Grammar of Cultural Transformation: Coptic Law and Muslim Courts in Medieval Egypt
12:00 - 2:00 pm, Buttrick Hall room 123
Sept. 24, 2018
Professor Nianshen Song, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title: Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Demarcation of the China-Korea Tumen River Border, 1881-1919
Co-sponsored with the Dept. of History and the Program in Asian Studies
4:10-5:30 pm, Buttrick Hall room 123
(This event is a lecture, no paper will be pre-circulated. Please also note non-canonical time)
Oct. 22, 2018
Professor Karl Shoemaker, University of Wisconsin
Title: The Devil's Justice: Process, Pedagogy, and the Rule of Law in the Late Middle Ages
Link to paper here (VU ID required)
12:00 -2:00 pm, Buttrick Hall room 123
Nov. 12, 2018
Professor Noam Maggor, Queen Mary, University of London (with Stefan Link, Dartmouth)
Title:The United States as a Developing Nation: Revisiting the Peculiarities of American History
Link to paper here (VU ID required)
Co-sponsored with the Vanderbilt Law School
12:00 - 2:00 pm, Buttrick 123
Nov. 26, 2018
Professor Melissa Murray, New York University (cancelled)
12:00 - 2:00 pm, Buttrick Hall room 123
Jan. 7, 2019
Professor John Witt, Yale University
Title: To Save the Country: Reason and Necessity in Constitutional Emergencies
Link to paper here (VU ID required)
12:00 -2:00 pm, Buttrick Hall room 123
Feb. 4, 2019
Professor Laura Edwards, Duke University
Title: James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons: Textiles, Commerce, and Law in the New Republic
Link to paper here (VU ID required)
12:00 -2:00 pm, Buttrick Hall room 123
Feb. 18, 2019
Professor Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University
Title TBA
12:00 -2:00 pm, Buttrick Hall room 123
March 11, 2019
Professor Georgy Kantor, Oxford University
Title TBA
12:00 - 2:00 pm, Buttrick Hall room 123
April 1, 2019
Professor Natasha Wheatley, Princeton University
Title TBA
12:00 - 2:00 pm, Buttrick Hall room 123