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In the fall of 2008, the Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable started its seventh successful year. The Roundtable draws on Boston College Law School’s and Boston College’s strength and interest in legal history. The Roundtable offers an opportunity for Boston College faculty and faculty from other area institutions to meet and discuss a pre-circulated paper in legal history. Meeting several times each semester, the Roundtable seeks to promote an informal, collegial atmosphere of informed discussion.
For the 2008-2009 academic year, Professor Mary Sarah Bilder, Professor Daniel R. Coquillette, Professor Frank Herrmann and Professor James S. Rogers are conveners.
The Roundtable meets on Monday afternoons at 4:30 in the Rare Book Room of the Boston College Law School Library. Refreshments are available at beginning at 4:15 pm.
Please contact Mr. Jonathan Hixon if you plan to attend the roundtables. Mr. Hixon will send you copies of the papers and help arrange for a parking permit for non-Boston College attendees (617-552-4125; hixon@bc.edu). Please contact Prof. Mary Bilder for further questions (617-552-0648; bilder@bc.edu).
Fall 2008:
Monday, September 15, 2008
Professor Bernie D. Jones, Suffolk University Law School
Monday, October 20, 2008
Mr. Anthony Taussig, London
“English Legal Manuscripts - Building a Collection”
Monday, November 24, 2008
Professor Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Realism Reconsidered: Rethinking Legal Realism"
Spring 2009:
Monday, January 26, 2009
Professor Ken Kersch, Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College
“Reacting to Civil Rights: The Conservative Constitutionalist Reaction to Brown and its Progeny”
Monday, February 23, 2009
Professor James Rogers. Boston College Law School
“The Curious History and Puzzling Persistence of Negotiable Instruments Law”
Monday, March 23, 2009
Professor Mary Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science, University of Southern California
“Law, War, and the History of Time”
Previous presenters include:
Professor Barbara Black, Columbia Law School
Professor David Seipp, Boston University Law School
Professor Linda Kerber, University of Iowa History Department
Dr. Maeva Marcus, Editor of the Documentary History of the Supreme Court
Professor Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School
Professor William B. Gould IV, Stanford University Law School
Professor Russell Versteeg, New England School of Law
Professor Ariela Gross, University of Southern California Law School
Professor William Nancarrow, Curry College History Department (former Ph.D.
candidate at Boston College)
Professor Robert Williams, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
Professor Jennifer Mnookin, University of Virginia Law School
Professor Carolyn Jones, University of Iowa Law School
Professor Susanna Blumenthal, University of Michigan Law School
Professor Joyce Malcolm, Bentley College History Department
Professor Pnina Lahav, Boston University Law School
Professor Charles Donahue, Harvard Law School
Professor Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School
Professor Francis R. Herrmann, S.J., Boston College Law School
Professor Ileana Porras, Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School
Professor Marilynn Johnson, Boston College History Department
Professor Michael Willrich, Brandeis University History Department
Professor James Oldham, Georgetown University Law Center
Professor Christine Desan, Harvard Law School
Dean William Treanor, Fordham University Law School
Professor Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut History Department
Professor Emeritus Morris Cohen, Yale University Law School
Professor Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School
Professor Gerald Leonard, Boston University Law School
Karen Beck, Curator of Rare Books, Boston College Law School
Kif Augustine-Adams, Professor, J. Reuben Clark Law School, BYU
Professor Warren Billings, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University
of New Orleans History Department
Professor Paul Halliday, University of Virginia History Department