Legal History

Organized by Professors Gordon Wood and Claire Priest

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FALL 2003

October 7
Philip Hamburger, John P. Wilson Professor of Law and Herbert and Marjorie Fried Research Scholar and Director, Legal History Program, University of Chicago
"Superior Law and Judicial Review"

October 20
Larry Kramer, Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean, Stanford University
"The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review"

November 3
Michael Vorenberg, Associate Professor of History, Brown University
"The Era of the Oath Reconsidered: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era"

November 17
Keith Whittington, Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University
"The Reconstruction of Judicial Authority"

December 1
Tomiko Nagin-Brown, Associate Professor of Law and History, Washington University, St. Louis
(Middle class African-Americans' views of desegregation in the era of Brown v. Board of Education)