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In the fall of 2007, the Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable started its sixth 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 informal, collegial atmosphere of informed discussion.
For the 2007-2008 academic year, Professor Mary Sarah Bilder, Professor Daniel R. Coquillette, Professor Frank Herrmann and Professor James S. Rogers are conveners.
The Roundtable meets on Thursday afternoons at 4:30 in the Faculty Lounge of the Boston College Law School (Stuart, Room 414). Refreshments are available at beginning at 4:15.
Please contact Ms. Marissa Vicario if you plan to attend the
roundtables. Ms. Vicario will then send you copies of the papers
(617-552-4125; vicariom@bc.edu). Please contact Prof. Mary Bilder for
further questions (617-552-0648; bilder@bc.edu ).
Fall 2007:
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Professor Adriaan Lanni, Harvard Law School
Social Norms in the Courts of Classical Athens
On September 27, the Boston College Legal History Roundtable convened the first colloquium of the 2007-2008 academic year. Professor Adriaan Lanni of Harvard Law School presented a fascinating paper on Social Norms in the Courts of Classical Athens. Professor Lanni is an expert on Athenian law and author of Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Nearly two dozen faculty members and graduate students from Boston College and neighboring law schools and universities engaged in a lively discussion about extralegal norms in the courtroom and the relationship of ancient law to modern jurisprudential questions.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Professor Gerald Leonard, Boston University Law School
Rethinking Dred Scott
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Karen Beck, Curator of Rare Books, Boston College Law School
The Nineteenth-Century American Lawyer's Private Library: A Look at the Evidence
Spring 2008:
Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Kif Augustine-Adams, Professor, J. Reuben Clark Law School, BYU
Making Mexico: Legal nationality, Chinese Race and the 1930 Population Census
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Professor Warren Billings, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of New Orleans History Department
Just Laws for the Happy Guiding and Governing of the People There Inhabiting: Laws in the Colonial South
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Professor Paul Halliday, University of Virginia History Department
Habeas Corpus, Writ Imperial: Berwick, Barbados, Bengal
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