Legal History Roundtable

Legal History Roundtable

In the fall of 2024, the Boston College Law School Legal History Roundtable begins its 23rd successful year. The Roundtable draws on Boston College Law School’s and Boston College’s strength and interest in legal history. It offers an opportunity for Boston College faculty and faculty from other area institutions, students, and members of the Boston College community 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 2024-2025 academic year, Professors Mary Sarah Bilder, Daniel Farbman, Aziz Rana, Felipe Cole, and Professors Emeritus Daniel R. Coquillette and Frank R. Herrmann, S.J. as well as Librarian and Lecturer Laurel Davis are conveners.

The Roundtable has typically met several times during the semester in the afternoon at 4:30 pm in the Boston College Law School Library, with refreshments available beginning at 4:15 pm.

If you are interested in a copy of the draft paper to be discussed before each presentation, please contact Professor Aziz Rana.


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For more information about attending the Roundtable, including assistance with parking passes for non-BC faculty, please contact: 

lawevent@bc.edu


 

2024-25 Academic Year

  • Professor Malick Ghachem, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Professor Idriss Fofana, Harvard University
  • Professor Myisha Eatmon, Harvard University
  • Professor Laura Weinrib, Harvard University
  • Andrew Lanham, Climenko Fellow, Harvard University
  • Professor Jose Carlos Fernandez Salas, Harvard University
  • Professor Elizabeth Katz, Washington University in St. Louis
  • Professor Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown Law School
  • Professor Karen Tani, Penn Law School
  • Professor Jed Shugerman, Fordham Law School
  • Professor Nicholas Parrillo, Yale Law School
  • Professor Bethany Berger, Wallace Stevens Professor at University of Connecticut School of Law and the 2022 Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School
  • Ariela J. Gross, John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California, Co-Director of the USC Center for Law, History, and Culture, and the 2021-22 Joy Foundation Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute
  • Allison Tirres, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, Associate Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
  • Jamie Grischkan, Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History Fellow, Harvard Law School
  • Franita Tolson, Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, USC Gould School of Law
  • Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History, The Johns Hopkins University
  • Julie Chi-hye Suk, Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Liberal Studies and Dean for Master’s Programs, City University of New York
  • Professor Katharine Young, Boston College Law School
  • Lael Weinberger, Harvard Law School, Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow 2019-20
  • Erin Braatz, Suffolk Law School
  • Kunal Parker, Professor and Dean's Distinguished Scholar, University of Miami Law School
  • Martha Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
  • Bryan Garner, Law Prose, Inc.
  • Logan Sawyer, Professor of Law, University of Georgia
  • Jane Manners, Bernard and Irene Schwartz Fellow, New-York Historical Society
  • William Sullivan, Professor of Law and Executive Director, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University Law School
  • Mitra Sharafi, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Ajay K. Mehrota, Professor of Law and Executive Director, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University Law School
  • Professor Daniel Ernst, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Professor Anna Lvovsky, Harvard Law School
  • Nikolas Bowie, Reginald Lewis Law Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School
  • Professor James Whitman, Yale University, Law School
  • Professor Malick Ghachem, MIT History Department
  • Professor Eric Muller, Moore Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina Law School
  • Professor Michael Vorenberg, Brown University, History Department
  • Hannah Farber, Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College History Department
  • Professor Mary Beth Basile Chopas, UNC Law School
  • Professor Samantha Barbas, SUNY-Buffalo Law School
  • Professor John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School
  • Professor Daniel J. Sharfstein, Vanderbilt Law School
  • Professor Stewart Jay, University of Washington School of Law
  • Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School Ph.D. candidate
  • Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard Law School
  • Brad Snyder, Professor of Law at University of WisconsinRobert Gordon, Professor, Stanford Law School
  • Peter Pihos, dissertation completion fellow at Penn's School of Arts and Sciences
  • Daniel Klerman, Professor of Law at USC Law School
  • Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University
  • Emily Kadens, Baker and Botts Professor in Law at the University of Texas Austin
  • Sir John Baker, St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge
  • Anne Fleming, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
  • Michael Hoeflich, John H. & John M. Kane Professor of Law, University of Kansas
  • Pauline R. Maier, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History, MIT
  • Jack Rakove, William Robertson Co Professor of History and American Studies, Stanford Law School
  • Gerard N. Magliocca, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law—Indianapolis
  • Hon. Margaret H. Marshall, MA Supreme Judicial Court
  • Aniceto Masferrer, Professor of Legal History, University of Valencia and President, the Society for Comparative Legal History' (ESCLH)
  • Kristen Stilt, Northwestern University Law School
  • Abigail Chandler, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
  • Hendrick Hartog, Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor of the History of American Law and Liberty of Princeton University
  • Jedidiah Kroncke, Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Fellow, Harvard Law School
  • Intisar Rabb, Professor, Boston College Law School
  • Professor Kif Augustine-Adams, J. Reuben Clark Law School, BYU
  • Professor Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
  • Karen Beck, Curator of Rare Books, Boston College Law School
  • Professor Warren Billings, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of New Orleans History Department
  • Professor Barbara Black, Columbia Law School
  • Professor Susanna Blumenthal, University of Michigan Law School
  • Professor Emeritus Morris Cohen, Yale University Law School
  • Professor Kristin Collins, Boston University Law School
  • Professor Cornelia Dayton, University of Connecticut History Department
  • Professor Christine Desan, Harvard Law School
  • Professor Charles Donahue, Harvard Law School
  • Professor Mary Dudziak, Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science, University of Southern California
  • Professor William B. Gould IV, Stanford University Law School
  • Professor Ariela Gross, University of Southern California Law School
  • Professor Paul Halliday, University of Virginia History Department
  • Professor Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School
  • Professor Francis R. Herrmann, S.J., Boston College Law School
  • Professor Marilynn Johnson, Boston College History Department
  • Professor Bernie D. Jones, Suffolk University Law School
  • Professor Carolyn Jones, University of Iowa Law School
  • Professor Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Professor Linda Kerber, University of Iowa History Department
  • Professor Ken Kersch, Director of the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston College
  • Professor Marjorie Kornhauser, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
  • Professor Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of Law
  • Professor Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School
  • Professor Joyce Malcolm, Bentley College History Department
  • Professor Ray Madoff, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
  • Dr. Maeva Marcus, Editor of the Documentary History of the Supreme Court
  • Professor Jennifer Mnookin, University of Virginia Law School
  • Professor William Nancarrow, Curry College History Department (former Ph.D. candidate at Boston College)
  • Professor James Oldham, Georgetown University Law Center
  • Professor Ileana Porras, Visiting Professor at Boston College Law School
  • Professor James Rogers, Boston College Law School
  • Professor David Seipp, Boston University Law School
  • Professor Jed Shugerman, Harvard Law School
  • Mr. Anthony Taussig, London
  • Dean William Treanor, Fordham University Law School
  • Professor Russell Versteeg, New England School of Law
  • Dr. Michael von der Linn, Antiquarian Book Department, Law Book Exchange
  • Professor Robert Williams, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
  • Professor Michael Wilrich, Brandeis University History Department


 

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