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 conferences.

Past Conferences

Bloody Days: Massacres in Comparative Perspective
June 23-24, 2011
Keynote: Karl Jacoby, Brown University

Ab Initio: Law in Early America
June 16-17, 2010
Keynote: Bruce H. Mann, Harvard Law School

Law and Social Movements
September 26, 2008
Keynote: William Eskridge, John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School

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

Past Speakers

2006-2007

• 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.