University of Pennsylvania Law School & Graduate Department of History  
 
   


THE PENN LEGAL HISTORY CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE

Friday, February 23, 2007

Conference Details

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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.

For more info and to download papers,
visit our Speaker Series Page.


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.