ABF/Northwestern Legal History Colloquium
This is an advanced seminar that brings together outside scholars, faculty and fellows affiliated with the American Bar Foundation, and Northwestern faculty and students for an exchange of views about innovative research and works-in-progress in legal history. During eight class weeks, we host a faculty workshop where a leading scholar presents a work-in-progress or a recently completed portion of a larger research project. During the other classes, we prepare for the forthcoming scholar-led workshop or discuss the different methods of historical analysis. The papers presented at the workshop reflect a variety of legal history topics and methods, including socio-legal history, economic histories, global histories of law, and research in the history of legal ideas. The workshops themselves are attended not only by the students, but also by members of the faculty of the School of Law and of other schools and departments within Northwestern, ABF-affiliated scholars, and legal historians from all Chicago-area universities. Through the discussion at the
Organized by Professors Nadav
All sessions take place on Wednesdays from 4:30pm - 5:30pm in Rubloff 339.
Spring 2024
January 24
Gautham Rao, Associate Professor, American University
January 31
Luis Fuents-Rohwer, Professor of Law, Indiana University-Maurer School of Law
February 14
Kate Masur, Professor of History, Northwestern University
February 21
Sara Mayeux, Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
March 6
Mitra Sharafi, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School
March 13
Kristin Collins, James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
April 3
Jonathan Levy, James Westfall Thompson Professor of US History, University of Chicago
April 10
Myisha S. Eatmon, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Spring 2022
January 26
Allison Tirres, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, DePaul College of Law
The Civil Rights of Immigrants and the Lost Promise of the 1970s
February 2
Joanna Grisinger, Associate Professor of Instruction in Legal Studies, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Loud Flights, Angry Neighbors, and Indifferent Bureaucrats: The Civil Aeronautics Board Confronts Noise Pollution
February 16
Kunal Parker, Professor of Law & Dean's Distinguished Scholar, University of Miami School of Law
Law Becoming Procedure
February 23
Stuart Banner, Norman Abrams Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA Law
Itinerant Judges on a Part-Time Court: The U.S. Supreme Court, 1790-1860
March 9
Barbara Welke, Professor of History and Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
The Price of Settlement
March 16
Sophia Lee, Professor of Law and History, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Democratizing Privacy: Free Speech and the Fourth Amendment
April 6
Amalia Kessler, Lewis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professor of International Legal Studies, Stanford Law School
Maternalist Arbitration: Frances Kellor and the New York Bureau of Industries and Immigration
April 13
Emily Prifogle, Assistant Professor of Law, The University of Michigan Law School
The Remaking of Modern Rural America: The Heartland’s Legal Landscapes from 1920-2020
Fall 2019
September 18
Michelle McKinley, Bernard B. Kliks Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law
Juana de Godinez: Navigating Freedom Inside the Cloistered Households of Religious Women in Colonial Lima
September 25
Timothy H. Lovelace, Jr., Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Racial Discrimination as a Public Problem
October 9
Claire Priest, Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America
October 16
Daniel Ernst, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal History, Georgetown Law
Reefs and Shoals
October 23
John F. Witt, Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Garland’s Million: The Radical Experiment to Save American Democracy
October 30
Shaun
Racialized Help: Legal Aid and the Institution of Slavery
November 13
Kara Swanson, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Patent Law’s Hidden Figures: Race, Memory and Invention of a Slave
November 20
Anna di Robilant, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
The Tensions of Absolute Property