I've been meaning to put up a post for a while about the speakers in this year's legal history roundtable at Boston College. The schedule is as follows:
Wednesday, September
12: Annette Gordon-Reed
“Law, Culture & Legacies of
Slavery,” Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law and History at Harvard
University
Thursday, Oct 11:
Emily Kadens
“The Continuing Problem of Custom from the Medieval Jurists
to Public International Law”
Emily Kadens, Baker and Botts
Professor in Law at the University of Texas at Austin.
Thursday, Nov 1: Sir John Baker
“The Legal History Nobody
Knows,” Sir John Baker, of St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge.
Spring 2013
Thursday, Jan 10: Anne Fleming
“A Crisis of Contract: The Rise and
Fall of Unconscionability as the ‘Law of the Poor,’” Anne Fleming, limenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law Harvard Law School.
Thursday, Apr 18: Michael Hoeflich
“From Scriveners to Secretaries:
Legal Document Production in Nineteenth Century America,”
Michael Hoeflich, University of Kansas.