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The Program in Law and History
announces the following
recipients of fellowships:
 
University of Minnesota Law School
Alumni Fund Fellowship in
Legal History 2008-2009:
 
Masako Nakamura, Ph.D. Candidate in History,
 "War Bridges of the Pacific War:  Marriage, Race,
Immigration, and U.S. Occupation of Japan"
 
Andy Urban, Ph.D. Candidate in History,
"An Intimate World: Race, Migration, and Chinese and
Irish Domestic Servants in the United States, 1850-1924"
 
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The Erickson Graduate Fellowship
in Law and History for Summer 2008:
 
     Daniel LaChance, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies
  "Condemned To Be Free:
The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment
in the United States, 1945-Present"
 
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Recent Events
 
April 22, 7:00 p.m. ,  "Stateless in America"
Professor Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa,
Ronald A. and Kristine S. Erickson Legal History
Series: Inaugural Distinguished Lecture
in Legal History
  
 
 

LEGAL HISTORY COLLOQUIUM
SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE
 

Feb. 5      Susanna Blumenthal, “‘Death by His Own Hand:’ Accounting for Suicide in Nineteenth-Century Life Insurance Litigation”

 

Feb. 19    Masako Nakamura, "Families Precede Nation and Race?: The 1947 Amendment of the War Brides Act and the American Family"

 

Feb. 26    Sarah Chambers, “A Legal Right to Support: Holding the State Responsible for Family Welfare in 19th-Century Chile”

 

March 4   Yaffa Epstein, "From Emission to Pollution: Business Interests and the Regulation of Smoke Emission in the Twin Cities, 1890–1910"

 

April 8     Tom Romero II, “Creating and Containing the Multiracial Heterotopia: Kelo, Parents and the Spatialization of Color(blindness) in the Berman-Brown Postmetropolis”

 

April 22   Distinguished Lecture in Law and History: “Stateless in America,” Linda K. Kerber, May Brodbeck Professor of History, University of Iowa (Law School Room 25 at 7 p.m.)

 

April 29    David Stras, “Justice Pierce Butler: Undistinguished or Unappreciated?”

 

May 6      Ruth Mazo Karras, “Telling the Truth About Sex in Late Medieval Paris”

 

 

Room 473, Law School, 12 - 1:15 p.m.

 (lunch beginning at noon, workshop at 12:15)

 (papers pre-circulated electronically a week in advance)

For questions or to be added to the mailing list,

contact Barbara Y. Welke, welke004@umn.edu

 

Director

Barbara Welke
Professor of Law
Associate Professor of History
American Legal and Constitutional History

Faculty Steering Committee

Susanna Blumenthal
Associate Professor
of Law and History
American Legal History 

Thomas P. Gallanis
Professor of Law
English and European Legal History 

Assistant

 Kristen Gandrow
kgandrow@umn.edu

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