The ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium will convene on November 23, 2024. Virtual participation remains an option for those who want to attend. Register here. The schedule:
ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium
November 23, 2024 | 10 AM - 3 PM (EST)
Notre Dame Law School | South Bend, IN
Registration/Welcome 09:45 - 10:05 AM
Paper #1: Legal History of State Court Jurisdiction 10:05 - 11:00 AM
“Grounding Pennsylvania's King's Bench Jurisdiction”
Author: Benjamin Pontz, Harvard Law School
Respondent: Samuel L. Bray, John N. Matthews Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Paper #2: Criminal Law in the British Atlantic 11:05 - 12:00 PM
“Slave Courts, Compensation, and the Politics of Petitioning in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic”
Author: Geneva Smith, Yale Law School/Princeton University
Respondent: Lee B. Wilson, Associate Professor of History, Clemson University
Afternoon Break (Lunch) 12:05 - 1:00 PM
Paper #3: Legal History of Arbitration & Investment Treaties 01:05 - 2:00 PM
“State Counterstrategies Against Investor-State Dispute Settlement”
Author: Daniel Loebell, Northwestern University
Respondent: Roger P. Alford, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Paper #4: Early American Legal History 02:05 - 3:00 PM
“John Dickinson at the Middle Temple: Bridging Worlds of Law in the British Atlantic”
Author: Sophie Rizzieri, University of Notre Dame
Respondent: Samuel K. Fisher, Assistant Professor of History, The Catholic University of America
More information about the colloquium, from a May 2024 announcement:
With the financial support of the American Society for Legal History, Notre Dame Law School and the University of Notre Dame Graduate School will host the ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium during the 2024-2025 academic year.Dennis Wieboldt, a joint J.D./Ph.D. student in history, is spearheading the forum. Associate Dean Randy Kozel and Professor Christian Burset have worked with Wieboldt to launch the colloquium at Notre Dame next year.
. . . The forum will provide budding legal scholars and practitioners with feedback on works-in-progress—an important step in fine-tuning research to a point where it can be submitted for publication. “As the federal judiciary increasingly turns its attention to ‘history and tradition,’” Wieboldt noted, “it is crucial for future leaders in the legal profession to develop the skills necessary to employ historical methodologies and make historically informed claims about the meaning of legal texts.”
“Notre Dame is an excellent place to think seriously about the role of history in contemporary legal practice,” Wieboldt added. “I am excited to welcome students and faculty from other institutions to engage in conversation with members of the Notre Dame community.”
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For further information about the Colloquium, please visit here. If you have any questions, please contact Dennis Wieboldt at dwiebold@nd.edu.-- Karen Tani
