2023-2024
John Fabian Witt | Yale Law School (Tuesday, September 26), See the Millennium: The Social Democratic Origins of Brown
Nurfadzilah Yahaya | Yale University (Tuesday, October 24), Enemy Oil: Legacies of Wartime Fuel in Post-War Southeast Asia
Adriaan Lanni | Harvard Law School (Tuesday, November 14), Constructing "Crime" and "Criminals" in Classical Athens
Laura Weinrib | Harvard Law School (Tuesday, March 12), Law, History, and the Interwar ACLU’s Jewish Lawyers
Elizabeth Hinton | Yale University (Tuesday, March 26), Criminal Injustice: Crack Cocaine Laws and Their Legacies
Mara Yue Du | Cornell University (Tuesday, April 2), Translating International Law and Making the Modern Chinese "Nation"
2022-2023
Clifford Ando | University of Chicago (Tuesday, September 13), The Rise of the Indigenous Jurists
Dylan Penningroth | University of California, Berkeley (Tuesday, October 11), Race in Contract Law.
Lisa Ford | University of New South Wales (Tuesday, November 8), Liberated Africans and Imperial Inquiry, 1822: The Problem of Evidence
Fei-Hsien Wang | Indiana University (Tuesday, February 7), Bicycle Thieves Going to the Supreme Court: Reconfiguring Values and the Law in Post-World War II China (1945-1949)
Maggie Blackhawk | New York University (Tuesday, March 14), Legislative Constitutionalism & Federal Indian Law
Jonathan Gienapp | Stanford University (Tuesday, April 18), The Meaning of the United States: Debating Union Before the Constitution
2021–2022
Jesús Velasco | Yale University (Tuesday, September 14), Science of the Soul, Bodies of Law
Daniel Carpenter | Harvard University (Tuesday, October 19), Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790-1870
Sarah A. Seo | Columbia Law School (Tuesday, November 16), Between Pardons and Treason: Conspiracy Laws in the United States
Farah Peterson | University of Chicago Law School (Tuesday, February 15), Our Constitutionalism of Force
Debin Ma | London School of Economics (Tuesday, March 8), Ideology and Contours of Economic Change in Modern China, 1850-1950
Robert Shoemaker | University of Sheffield (Tuesday, April 5), Victims in the English Cirminal Courts, 1674 to the Present: From Obligations to ‘Rights’
2020–2021
Ariela Gross | USC Gould School of Law (Tuesday, September 15), Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Thomas McSweeney | William & Mary Law School (Tuesday, October 13), Writing the Common Law in Latin in the Later Thirteenth Century
Kentaro Matsubara | University of Tokyo (Tuesday, November 10), Land, Credit, and Possession in Qing South China: Internal Tensions of a Society Reflected in its Institutions
K-Sue Park | Georgetown University Law Center (Tuesday, February 16), Conquest and Slavery as Foundational to Property Law
Intisar Rabb | Harvard Law School (Tuesday, March 9), Islamic Law's Marbury Moment? An Early Case of Land and Leadership, 661-883
Kunal Parker | University of Miami School of Law (Tuesday, March 23), Common Law Modernism: The Turn to Process in American Legal Thought, 1900-1970
Christopher Tomlins | UC Berkeley School of Law (Tuesday, April 6), In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History
2019–2020
Marcus Folch | Columbia University (Classics) (Tuesday, October 15), Political Prisoners in Democratic Athens
Naomi Lamoreaux | Yale University (History and Economics) (Tuesday, November 5, co-sponsored with the Bert W. Wasserman Workshop in Law & Finance), The Achievement of General Laws in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States
Maeve Glass | Columbia Law School (Tuesday, November 19), Founding Properties
Nikolas Bowie | Harvard Law School (Thursday, December 5), The Constitutional Right to Local Self-Government
Coel Kirkby | Sydney Law School (Tuesday, February 4), Brexit’s Civil Warrior: On the Genesis of Finnis’ Practical Guide to Statesmen
Michael Szonyi | Harvard University (East Asian Languages and Civilizations) (Tuesday, February 25), Land Markets, Property Rights, and Corporate Organizations in Late Imperial China: Preliminary Reflections on Recently Discovered Materials from Fujian
2018–2019
Sergei Antonove | Yale University (History) (Tuesday, September 18), The Fracturing of Tsarist Russia: Criminal Upperworlds and the Great Trials of the 1870s
Brian R. Cheffins | University of Cambridge Faculty of Law (Thursday, September 20), co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Corporate Law, The Public Company Transformed
Natasha Wheatley | Princeton University (History) (Tuesday, October 23, Room 120), Legal Pluralism as Temporal Pluralism: Historical Rights, Legal Vitalism, and Non-Synchronous Sovereignty
Philippe Sands | UCL Faculty of Laws, Tuesday, January 15, Faculty Lounge, co-sponsored by the Center for Global Legal Challenges, East West Street: On the Origins of 'Genocide' and 'Crimes Against Humanity'
William Ewald | University of Pennsylvania Law School (Law and Philosophy) (Tuesday, February 12), Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Duncan Williams | USC Dornsife (Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures) (Wednesday, February 20), co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Departments of Religious Studies and American Studies, American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
H. Timothy Lovelace | Indiana University Maurer School of Law (Law and History) (Tuesday, March 5), Taking Affirmative Action around the World
Miranda Johnson | University of Sydney (History) (Tuesday, April 9) Indigenous Rights or Decolonization? Toward a Deeper History of Indigenous International Law
Madeleine Zelin | Columbia University (History and Chinese Studies) (Tuesday, April 16), Legal Transplants and Local Custom: The Struggle over Apportioned Liability for the External Debt of Partnerships.
2017–2018
Rohit De | Yale University (History), Tuesday, September 26, Defending Kenyatta: Decolonization, Mobility, and a Global History of Rebellious Lawyering
Li Chen | University of Toronto (History), Tuesday, October 10, The Security Regime and Emergency Governance of Colonial Empires in Late Qing China
Mira Siegelberg | Queen Mary University of London (History and Law), Tuesday, November 14, The Fate of Non State Legal Order in the Twentieth Century: On Intellectual History and International Legal History
Mitra Sharafi | University of Wisconsin Law School, Tuesday, December 5, Forensic Experts and Corruption in Colonial India: Graphology as a Suspect Science
Erika Hermanowicz | University of Georgia (Classics), Thursday, February 22, co-sponsored by Archaia and the Departments of Classics, Religious Studies, The Roman Legal Understanding of Church Property in Late Antiquity
Walter Scheidel | Stanford (Classics and History), Tuesday, February 27, co-sponsored by the Law, Economics & Organization Workshop, Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Making of the Modern World
Cynthia Nicoletti | University of Virginia School of Law, Tuesday, March 20, Emancipation and Its Challengers in the South Carolina Sea Islands
Matthew Sommer | Stanford University (History), Tuesday, April 17, Gender Passing and Official Panic in Qing Dynasty China
2016–2017
Noel Lenski | Yale University (Classics & History) (Thursday, September 22), The Significance of the Edict of Milan
Gregory Ablavsky | Stanford Law School (Thursday, October 20), The Expenses of Sovereignty: Dependence, Allegiance, and Federal Finance in the Early U.S. Territories
Sam Erman | University of Southern California Gould School of Law (Thursday, November 17), The Constitution and the New Expansion: Debating the Status of the Islands
Sara McDougall | John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center (History) (Thursday, February 2), Like Father like Son? Clerical Celibacy and the Inheritance of Priestly Office in Medieval Europe
Risa Goluboff (Dean’s Lecture) | University of Virginia School of Law (Tuesday, February 21)
Isabel Hull | Cornell University (History) (Thursday, March 30), Carl Schmitt, International Law, and Imperialism
Dylan Penningroth | University of California, Berkeley (History & Law) (Thursday, April 20)
2015–2016
Edward Rugemer | Yale University, History (September 29, 2015), The Consolidation of Slave Law in Jamaica and South Carolina during the Seventeenth Century
Jeremy Adelman | Princeton University, History (October 1, 2015), Inequality and Development
Elizabeth Papp Kamali | Harvard Law School (November 17, 2015), Anger’s Place in the Medieval English Law of Felony
Ada Ferrer | NYU History (February 23, 2016), A Black Kingdom of This World: History and Revolution in Havana, 1812
Rabia Belt | Stanford Law School (March 8, 2016), Ballots for Bullets? Disabled Veterans and the Right to Vote
Lindsay Farmer | University of Glasgow (April 5, 2016), Making Sexual Offenses
Sophia Z. Lee | University of Pennsylvania Law School (April 12, 2016), Barnette and the First Amendment Right to Privacy
2014–2015
Paul Sabin | Yale University, History (September 23, 2014), Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order
Holly Brewer | University of Maryland, History (October 14, 2014), Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its Empire
Paul Brand | Michigan Law School and Oxford, All Souls College (November 4, 2014), Judges and Juries in Civil Litigation in Medieval England: The Millon Thesis Reconsidered
David Freeman Engstrom | Stanford Law School (February 24, 2015), ‘Not Merely There to Help the Men’: St. John v. General Motors Corp. and Equal Pay Litigation at the Dawn of American Fair Employment Law
Sam Lebovic | George Mason, History (March 10, 2015), From Censorship to Classification: How World War II Remade American Press Freedom
Tomiko Brown-Nagin | Harvard Law School (April 16, 2015), Race and Gender at Work: Constance Baker Motley and Sex Discrimination on and off the Bench
2013–2014
Danielle Allen | Institute for Advanced Study (September 19, 2013), Social Capital and the Art of Association
Ned Blackhawk | Yale University, History (October 1, 2013), The Problem of Indigenous Governance in the American West: The Civil War Treaties of James Doty and John Evans
Petra Moser | Stanford University, Economics (November 21, 2013), Dead Poets’ Property: Does Copyright Increase the Price of Content?
Brian Tamanaha | Washington University School of Law (February 18, 2014), Insights about the Nature of Law from the History of Law
Rebecca McLennan | University of California Berkeley, History (March 25, 2014), Living Law in Revolutionary Era America: Towards a New Cultural History
Randall Lesaffer | Tilburg Law School (Netherlands) (April 1, 2014), Peace Treaties and the Formation of International Law
2012–2013
Steven Pincus | Yale University, History (September 24, 2012), The Rise of the Interventionist State
William Forbath | University of Texas School of Law (November 1, 2012), Jews, Law, and Identity Politics
Jed Sugerman | Harvard Law School (November 27, 2012), The Founding of the Department of Justice: Professionalization without Civil Rights or Civil Service
Jill Lepore | Harvard University (January 31, 2013), On Evidence: Proof in the Classroom, the Laboratory, and the Courtroom
Sarah Barringer Gordon | University of Pennsylvania Law School (March 5, 2013), State v. Church: Limits on Church Power and Property from Disestablishment to the Civil War
Laura Weinrib | University of Chicago Law School (April 9, 2013), Free Speech or Fair Labor
David Armitage and Jo Guldi | Harvard University (Aril 23, 2013), The Return of the Longue Durée: Law, War, and Land
2011–2012
Naomi Lamoreaux | Yale University, History and Economics (September 22, 2011), Intermediaries in the Market for Technology
Mark S. Weiner | Rutgers-Newark School of Law (October 25, 2011), The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Can Teach Us about Modern Law and Culture
Melinda C. Miller | United States Naval Academy (November 15, 2011), The One Thing Needful: Free Land and Black Mobility, 1880-1900
Daniel Hulsebosch | NYU Law School (February 7, 2012), Being Seen Like a State: The American Constitution and Its International Audiences at the Founding
James Masschaele | Rutgers University, History (February 28, 2012), How the King’s Law Became the Common Law under the Early Angevins
Alison LaCroix | University of Chicago Law School (April 10, 2012), The Lawyer’s Library in the Early American Republic
2010–2011
Beverly Gage | Yale University, History (September 23 2010), G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century
Christina Duffy Ponsa | Columbia Law School (October 12, 2010), The Monroe Doctrine Rightly Understood: Empire and Law in the Americas on the Eve of World War I
Catherine Fisk | UC- Irvine School of Law (November 16, 2010), Screen Credit and the Writers Guild of America, 1938-2000: A Study in Labor Market and Idea Market Intermediation
Lisa Cook | Michigan State University (February 8, 2011), Violence, Legal Segregation, and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 to 1940
Serena Mayeri | University of Pennsylvania Law School (February 15, 2011), Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution
Daniel Sharfstein | Vanderbilt University Law School (March 7, 2011), The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White
Rebecca Scott | University of Michigan (April 19, 2011), Paper Thin: Freedom, Re-enslavement, and Determinations of Status in the Diaspora of the Haitian Revolution
James Q. Whitman | Yale Law School (May 3, 2011), Why was Eighteenth-Century Warfare so Civilized?
2009-2010
Joseph Manning | Yale University, History (September 22, 2009), Seeking Justice, Telling Stories: The Adjudication of a Family Property Dispute in Southern Egypt, June, 170 BC
Amy Dru Stanley | University of Chicago, History (October 13, 2009), The Badges of Woman’s Slavery: Abolition, War Powers, and Inviolate Rights
Steven Neff | Edinburgh Law School (November 17, 2009), Natural Law and Its Three Incarnations
Adriaan Lanni | Harvard Law School (February 23, 2010), Transitional Justice in Classical Athens
Amalia Kessler | Stanford Law School (March 23, 2010), Civic Republicanism and the Rise of a Unified (Oral and Adversarial) Model of Procedure
Assaf Likhovski | Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law (April 13, 2010), Chasing Ghosts: On Writing Cultural Histories of Tax Law
2008–2009
Jay Winter | Yale University, History (September 23, 2008), From War Talk to Rights Talk: Réne Cassin, Human Rights, and the Two World Wars
Jed Sugerman | Harvard Law School (November 18, 2008), The People’s Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Power in America
Christopher W. Schmidt | Chicago-Kent College of Law and the American Bar Foundation (October 28, 2008), Explaining Massive Resistance: The Debate over Law and Social Change, 1954-1964
Ron Harris | Tel Aviv University (February 24, 2009), Law, Finance, and the First Corporations
Samuel Moyn | Columbia University, History (March 24, 2009), Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights
Risa Goluboff | University of Virginia School of Law (April 7, 2009), People out of Place: The Sixties, the Supreme Court, and Vagrancy Law