Legal History Consortium

Welcome to the Legal History Consortium. The Consortium is jointly sponsored by the Law School and the Graduate History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. It was formed to promote interdisciplinary research, scholarship and education in law and history, with a focus on the American legal past. Faculty affiliated with the Consortium specialize in American history and law, and are committed to training graduate students in the best tradition of interdisciplinary work. The Consortium sponsors a speaker series, a joint degree program in law and history, and in 2007 a conference.

Events

2007 Legal History Consortium Conference
February 23, 2007
“Law and Political Development in Modern America”
Keynote: William J. Novak, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago

2006-2007 Speaker Series Schedule

• Monday, October 30, 2006
  Dan Ernst, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. “The Politics of Administrative Procedure in the Late New Deal.”
• Monday, November 13, 2006
  Elizabeth Hillman, Professor of Law, Rutgers-Camden School of Law. “Defending America: Military Culture and the Cold War Court Martial”
• Thursday, February 1, 2007
  Kenneth Mack, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. “Representing the Race: The Transformation of Civil Rights Lawyering and Politics, 1920-1955: New Negro Lawyers (1920s-1930s)”.
• Monday, February 26, 2007
  Emily Kadens, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin. TBA.
• Thursday, March 15, 2007
  Barbara Welke, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota. TBA.

More information about the Legal History Consortium and programs is available here.