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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Rahimi, the Second Amendment, Domestic Violence, and "Originalism" After Bruen
Reva Siegel, Yale Law School
April 16, 2024
Photo Credit: Harold Shapiro
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Federal War-Time Prosecutions Based on "Implied" Presidential Powers and "The Law of Nations" - Without Any Federal Statutes, 1790s
Matthew Boutros, Boston University School of Law, and
Jed Shugerman, Boston University School of Law
April 11, 2024
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Demand the Impossible: One Lawyer's Pursuit of Equal Justice for All
Robert Tsai, Boston University School of Law, and
Stephen Bright, Southern Center for Human Rights
March 28, 2024
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Haitian Revolution and French Translations of American Constitutions in the 1790s and/or A History of Campus Speech and Institutional Neutrality in the 1960s
Malick Ghachem, MIT History
March 21, 2024
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Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall
Anna Lvovsky, Harvard Law School
March 7, 2024
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Birthright Citizenship in the Empire: Chinese-Filipino Intimacies and Race-making in U.S. Colonial Philippines, 1912-1947
Jilene Chua, Boston University History Department
February 29, 2024
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The Constitutional Bind: How American Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them
Aziz Rana, Boston College Law School
February 15, 2024
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"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Peter Onuf, University of Virginia
February 8, 2024
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Building Presidential Administration
Noah Rosenblum, New York University School of Law
February 1, 2024
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The Nation at Sea: The Federal Courts and American Sovereignty, 1789-1825
Kevin Arlyck, Georgetown Law
January 18, 2024
Photo Credit: Brent Futrell/Georgetown Law
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Lien on Me: Property Tax Delinquency Laws and Urban Inequality
Andrew Kahrl, University of Virginia
April 23, 2018
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The Long History of Insanity: Forgiveness and Defenses in New England to 1840
Cornelia Dayton, The Cocoran Department of History, University of Connecticut
April 9, 2018
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The Framer's Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
Michael Klarman, Harvard University School of Law
March 26, 2018
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The Emancipation and its Challenges in the South Carolina Sea Islands
Cynthia Nicolleti, University of Virginia School of Law
March 12, 2018
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The Birth of the Business Corporation East and West: Eurasian Trade Institutions and their Migration 1400-1700
Ron Harris, The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
February 3, 2018
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The Legal Revolution of Land Reform and the Changing Language of Property, 1820-1917
Jo Guldi, Southern Methodist University, Dedham College of Humanities and Sciences
March 2, 2017
Photo Credit: Brown University
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The Second Bill of Rights: A Reconsideration
Samuel Moyn, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Professor of History, Harvard University
February 16, 2017
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The Emergence of a Notion of Sovereignty over Territory in Roman Public Law
Clifford Ando, David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Classics, History and Law, University of Chicago
February 2, 2017
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Owning Inventions (Chapter from Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property 1790-1909)
Oren Bracha, Howrey LLP and Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professor, University of Texas School of Law
April 7, 2016
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Administrative Constitutionalism at the Borders of Belonging
Karen Tani, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
March 24, 2016
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"No Person May Go Armed": A Forgotten Chapter in the History of Gun Regulation
Saul Cornell, Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History, Fordham University
March 17, 2016
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The Sporting Life: Democratic Culture and the Historical Origins of the Scottish Right to Roam
Gregory Alexander, Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
February 25, 2016
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The Law of Nations in Global History: An Introduction to the Thought of Charles Henry Alexandrowicz (1902-75)
David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History, Harvard University, and Jennifer Pitts, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
February 11, 2016
Photo Credit: © Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, University of Chicago
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Chinese Eurasians: Mixed Families and Dependent Citizenship During the Era of Chinese Exclusion
Emma Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations & MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
January 28, 2016
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Presumption of Innocence / Presumption Against Punishment: Two Western Modes of Justice
James Q. Whitman, Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law, Yale Law School
November 19, 2014
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Protection, the Imperial Constitution, and the British Global Order, 1790-1850
Lauren A. Benton, Professor of History and Silver Professor, New York University
November 12, 2014
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Defining Imperial Spaces: How South America became a Contested Territory
Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor, Harvard University
October 29, 2014
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Revulsions of Capital: The Political Law of Slavery in the Epoch of the Turner Rebellion, Virginia, 1829-1832
Christopher L. Tomlins, Professor of Law, University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
October 15, 2014
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The Personnel Power
Joshua Chafetz, Professor of Law, Cornell University School of Law
October 1, 2014
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The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution
William E. Forbath, Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Law, University of Texas, Austin School of Law
September 26, 2014
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National League of Cities v. Usery and the Return of Constitutional Federalism
Logan E. Sawyer III, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia School of Law
December 20, 2012
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Adultery and the Law in Fifteenth Century France
Sara McDougall, John Jay College, CUNY, History Department
November 14, 2012
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Jews, Law, and Identity Politics
William Forbath, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
January 1, 2012
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History of Environmental Law and Politics
Jebediah Purdy, Duke Law School
January 1, 2012
Photo Credit: Photo: Columbia Law School
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The Creation of the Department of Justice: Professionalization without Civil Rights or Civil Service
Jed Shugerman, Fordham University School of Law
January 1, 2012
Photo Credit: Fordham Law School
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Reproductive Medicine in the Legal Shadows: Artificial Insemination, 1890-1945
Kara Swanson, Northeastern University Law School
November 30, 2011
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Birth, Belief, and Blood: Allegiance during the American Civil War
Michael Vorenberg, Brown University, History Department
November 16, 2011
Photo Credit: Brown University
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The Baseball Trust: Baseball's First Antitrust Crisis, 1912-1916
Stuart Banner, UCLA School of Law
October 28, 2011
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The Last Days of the Warren Court
Laura Kalman, University of California Santa Barbara History Department
October 12, 2011
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Exits: Forming International Rules on Expatriation
Lucy Salyer, University of New Hampshire, History Department
September 28, 2011
Photo Credit: copyright University of New Hampshire
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Can "Necessitous Men" Ever be Free? Exigency, Security, and the American Political Constitution
Thomas P. Crocker, University of South Carolina Law School; Visiting Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010-11)
November 17, 2010
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Recasting the Canon of Family Law
Jill Hasday, University of Minnesota Law School
October 20, 2010
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the University of Minnesota Law School
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Selections from The People's Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Power in America
Jed Shugerman, Harvard Law School
October 6, 2010
Photo Credit: Fordham Law School
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The Enclosure of Justice: Courtroom Architecture, Due Process, and the Dead Metaphor of Trial
Norman Spaulding, Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
September 22, 2010
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The Mind in Issue: Consciousness and Liability in the Nineteenth-Century American Courtroom
Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota School of Law
November 18, 2009
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the University of Minnesota Law School
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Melville W. Bigelow: The Origins of Historical Legal Science in America
David Rabban, University of Texas School of Law
October 16, 2009
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Universal International Law: Nineteenth Century Histories of Imposition, Appropriation, and Circulation
Arnulf Becker Lorca, Visiting Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
October 7, 2009
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"The Great Constitutional Question": Judicial Review and the Origins of an Independent Judiciary in Virginia
Scott Gerber, Ella & Ernest Fisher Chair in Law, Ohio Northern University College of Law
September 23, 2009
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The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation
R. Kent Newmyer, University of Connecticut Law School
November 21, 2008
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Understanding the End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
Claire Priest, Northwestern Law School
November 12, 2008
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Staging The Octoroon in Reconstruction New Orleans
Diana Williams, Wellesley College, History Department
October 29, 2008
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Becoming White in Washington, D.C.: The Passing of the Wall Family, 1870-1910
Daniel Sharfstein, Vanderbilt University School of Law
October 15, 2008
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Marriage, Immigration, and the Settlement of the West: The Case of the Mercer Girls
Kerry Abrams, University of Virginia School of Law
October 8, 2008
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Saving Our Kids: Child Protection in America
Michael Grossberg, Indiana University Department of History & School of Law
April 14, 2008
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The Pluralist Corporation
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell, George Washington University School of Law
April 7, 2008
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Constitutional Conservatism in the National Review, 1955-1964
Kenneth Kersch, Boston College, Political Science Department
March 17, 2008
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Hume on the Origins of Law
Aaron Garrett, Boston University, Philosophy Department
March 3, 2008
Photo Credit: Freepik, licensed under CC BY 3.0
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Administration and "The Democracy": Administrative Law from Jackson to Lincoln, 1829-1861
Jerry Mashaw, Yale Law School
February 25, 2008
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The Twist of Long Terms: Disasters, Elected Judges, and American Tort Law
Jed Handelsman Shugerman, Harvard Law School
February 20, 2008
Photo Credit: Fordham Law School
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"Equality in Theory" or "Equality in Fact"? Reviving the Equal Rights Amendment in the Reagan Era
Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
April 1, 2007
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Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War I, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State
Ajay K. Mehrotra, Associate Professor of Law, Maurer School of Law, Indiana University -- Bloomington
April 1, 2007
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Objecting to the Wartime State: Conscientious Objectors and the Meanings of Citizenship in the United States, 1917-1918
Christopher Capozzola, Professor, MIT
February 23, 2007
Photo Credit: Allegra Boverman
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Cows, Crops, Courts and Voters (Closing the Range, 1870 to 1900, and the Language of Property Rights)
Ellen D. Katz, University of Michigan
April 7, 2006
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BACKLASH! Political Backlash Against Supreme Court Decisions: Brown and Lawrence (and Goodridge)
Michael Klarman, James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History, University of Virginia
March 23, 2006
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Contradictory Commitments to Gender Apartheid and Academic Merit: A Comparative Study of Harvard Law School and Boston University School of Law, 1870-1950
Mary Elizabeth Basile, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Boston University
November 18, 2005
Photo Credit: Lili Engelhardt Fine Art
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"Righteous Fathers, Vulnerable Old Men and Degraded Creatures": Southern Justices on Miscegenation in the Antebellum Will Contest
Bernie D. Jones, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Department of Legal Studies
April 15, 2005
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Collective Criminality, Sexual Deviance, and Constructing a National Criminal Law in Turkey
Ruth Miller, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Massachusetts, Boston
March 18, 2005
Photo Credit: Mount Holyoke: Image courtesy of Ruth Miller '97
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Victorian Tort Liability for Workplace Injuries: The Judges versus the Wounded Soldiers of Industry
Michael Stein, William and Mary College of Law; Human Rights Fellow, Harvard Law School
November 19, 2004
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The Limits of Sovereignty: Legislative Confiscation in the Union and Confederacy
Daniel W. Hamilton, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
October 22, 2004
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The Variegated Life of the Self-Informing Jury
James C. Oldham, St. Thomas More Professor of Law and Legal History, Georgetown University Law Center
September 24, 2004
Photo Credit: Georgetown Law
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Corporate Personality Discourse at the Turn of the 20th Century: Germanic Clans, British Trade Unions, and American Big Business
Ron Harris, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Professor of Law, Boalt Hall
April 8, 2004
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Law and the Modern Mind: The Problems of Consciousness in American Legal Culture, 1800-1930
Susanna Blumenthal, Professor of Law, University of Michigan
March 18, 2004
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the University of Minnesota Law School
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Face to Face: Rediscovering the Right to Confront Prosecution Witnesses
Richard Friedman, Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law, University of Michigan
October 17, 2003
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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
