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The Illinois Legal History Program, under the co-direction of Professors
Richard Ross
and Bruce Smith,
seeks to further knowledge and appreciation of
legal history through an ambitious series of workshops, conferences, and public lectures.
Since its formation in 2004, the Program has hosted numerous distinguished scholars
in its workshop series. In 2005, the Program inaugurated a unique collaboration with the
Newberry Library in Chicago to host an annual Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History.
With a particular emphasis on American, British, and comparative legal-historical
scholarship, the Program draws upon the intellectual expertise of numerous faculty
members at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign including Eric Freyfogle,
a specialist in nineteenth-century American property law; Fred Hoxie, one of the
world's leading scholars of Native American history and law; Ralph Mathisen,
an expert in law and society in late antiquity; Dana Rabin, the author of a
recent study of eighteenth-century English criminal trials; and Leslie Reagan,
a historian of law and medicine and the author of an award-winning study of
nineteenth-century abortion law.
Students who study legal history at the College of Law enjoy access to a
wide range of curricular offerings, the third largest academic library in North America,
a rich set of online legal resources, and an impressive collection of rare legal-historical
materials in the College of Law's Albert E. Jenner Jr. Memorial Law Library.
- September 29, 2005: James Q. Whitman (Yale Law School) (co-sponsored with
Program in Criminal Law and Procedure): "The Origins of Reasonable Doubt:
Religious Roots of the Criminal Trial"
- October 11, 2005: Peter King (The Open University, England): "Making Law
in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century England: Shaping and Remaking Justice
from the Margins"
- November 17, 2005: William E. Forbath (University of Texas at
Austin School of Law and Department of History): "The Morality of Borders:
Race, Liberalism, and National Identity in the Law and Politics of European
Immigration, 1882-1924"
- March 30, 2006: Susanna L. Blumenthal (University of Michigan Law School):
"The Default Legal Person"
- April 26, 2006: Andrea McKenzie (University of Victoria, Department of History):
"God's Tribunal? Execution in England, 1670-1770"
- October 15, 2004: William E. Nelson (New York University School of Law):
"The Utopian Legal Order of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1686"
- December 7, 2004: Kerry Wynn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Department of History): "From Indian Territory to Oklahoma: Crime and Citizenship
in the Cherokee Nation"
- March 14, 2005: Robert W. Gordon (Yale Law School and Department of History):
"The American Legal Profession, 1870-2000"
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