The Elizabeth Battelle Clark Legal History Series brings several distinguished historians of law to campus each year to lecture and talk with students and faculty.
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Adventures in Legal History
Sir John Baker, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, University of Cambridge
September 26, 2003
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The Many Laws of the Market: The Contrasting Constitutions of Capitalism and Early American Localism
Christine Desan, Professor of Law, Harvard University
March 28, 2003
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The Passion of William Werner
John Fabian Witt, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia University
February 28, 2003
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The Duke and the Lady: Helvering v. Gregory and the History of Tax Avoidance Adjudication
Assaf Likhovski, Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
January 24, 2003
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As the Alligator Knows: Trials of Racial Identity in America
Ariela Gross, Professor of Law and History, University of Southern California
April 19, 2002
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The Construction of Constitutional Regimes
Keith Whittington, Professor of Politics, Princeton University
April 5, 2002
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Mormon Polygamy and Legal Change
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Professor of Law and History, University of Pennsylvania
March 15, 2002
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"The Fall, Without a Whimper, of an Empire": Loving v. Virginia and the Politics of Race and Sex in America
Jane Dailey, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
November 13, 2001
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The Culture of Violence, the Discourse of English Colonizing, and the Refusals of American History
Christopher Tomlins, American Bar Foundation
April 6, 2001
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The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921: Contemplating Reparations
Alfred Brophy, Boston College Law School
March 21, 2001
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Lochner, Liquor, and Longshoremen
Barry Cushman, University of Virginia Law School
November 10, 2000
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Neither Individual Nor Collective: A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment
Saul Cornell, Professor of History, Ohio State University
September 26, 2000
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Property in the Two Legal Realisms -- American and Scandinavian
Gregory Alexander, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
March 31, 2000
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WLA Brown Bag Lunch on The History of Women Lawyers in America -- Emphasizing Women at B.U.S.L.
David Seipp, Professor, Boston University School of Law
March 30, 2000
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Contest and Consent: A Legal History of Marital Rape
Jill Hasday, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
November 3, 1999
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the University of Minnesota Law School
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Reversible Error in Massachusetts Homicide Cases, 1805-1996
Alan Rogers, Professor of History, Boston College
October 1, 1999
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Reflections on the History of Women Lawyers
Virginia Drachman, Professor, Department of History, Tufts University
April 1, 1999
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A Companionable Past: Researches in the History of Fishing Law in Massachusetts
Sarah P. Robinson, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School; Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
March 23, 1999
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William Kunstler and the Radical Lawyer Tradition
David J. Langum, Professor, Cumberland School of Law
February 9, 1999
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English Law and the American Republic
J.R. Pole, Rhodes Professor of American History, St. Catherine's College, Oxford
November 18, 1998
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Harry Thaw and the Unwritten Law: The Dialogics of Legal History
Martha Umphrey, Professor, Amherst College
November 10, 1998
Photo Credit: Amherst College
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The Warren Court (and American Politics)
Scot Powe, Professor of Law, University of Texas
April 2, 1998
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AMISTAD: Filming Legal History
Mary Sarah Bilder, Professor of Law, Boston College
February 26, 1998
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Anatomy and Instrumentality in the History of Business Organizations in England, 1720-1844
Ron Harris, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University
February 3, 1998
