Colloquium: Legal History

2 Credit Hours

This is an advanced seminar that will focus on innovative research and works-in-progress in legal history. During six class weeks, we will host a faculty workshop where a leading scholar will present a work-in-progress or a recently completed portion of a larger research project. During the other classes, we will prepare for the forthcoming scholar-led workshop or discuss the different methods of historical analysis. The workshop papers will reflect a variety of legal history topics and methods, including socio-legal history, global histories of law, and research in the history of legal ideas.The seminar will bring together scholar-presenters, Northwestern law students and faculty,as well as faculty and graduate students from Northwestern, the American Bar Foundation, and Chicago-area universities.