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All Center for Law, History and Culture workshops will take place in room 12, unless otherwise stated from 12:20 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

 

 

SPRING 2013

 

January 23

Deborah Kamen (University of Washington), Topic: "Buying Freedom? Slave-Prostitutes and Legal Fictions in Ancient Greece."

 
February 6 Christelle Fischer-Bovet (University of Southern California), Topic:  "Social unrest in Ptolemaic Egypt and in the Seleucid Empire: Balancing ethnic and socio-economic solidarities."
February 21 The 11th Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture, Robert Gordan (Stanford Law School), Title: Markets, Morals, and Lawyers."  Location: Town & Gown, Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.  Reception to follow.  Please rsvp to clhcserv@law.usc.edu.
March 6 Diana Williams (USC History & Law), Topic: "Plessy's Peers: Racial Determination and the Jim Crow Jury."
March 13 Jackie Stevens (Northwestern University), Topic: "We Citizens: Hannah Arendt and the Conundrums of the Nation-State."
April 3 Sam Erman (Harvard Law School Berger Fellow), Topic: "Reconstruction and Empire:  Legacies of the U.S. Civil War and Puerto Rico Struggles for Home Rule, 1898-1917."
April 10 Brian Klopotek (University of Oregon), Topic: "Indian on Both Sides: Indigenous Identities, Race, and National Borders."
April 24 Nayan Shah (USC American Studies), Topic: "Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West."

 

 

FALL 2012

 

September 6

The 10th Annual Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture, John Comaroff (University of Chicago) Title: "Divine Detection:  Crime and the Metaphysics of Disorder"  Location: Town & Gown Time:  4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Reception to follow.  

USC Gould School of Law, a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider, certifies that this activity qualifies for minimum continuing legal education credit in the amount of 1 hour. This event may or may not meet the requirements for continuing legal education in other states. Please check with the bar association or Supreme Court in the state in which you are seeking credit to determine if the event is eligible.

September 12 Noga Morag-Levine (Michigan State University), Topic: "Facts, Formalism and the Brandeis Brief:  The Making of a Myth."
October 10 Sven Beckert (Harvard), Topic: "Labor Regimes After Emancipation: The United States Civil War and the Integration of the Global Countryside into the Empire of Cotton."  This will be a joint workshop with the Center for Law, Economics and Organization. 
October 17

Peter Baldwin (University of California, Los Angeles), Topic: "The Strange Birth of the Author's Moral Rights in Fascist Europe."

October 31

Kerry Abrams (University of Virginia), Topic: "A Legal Home: Derivative Domicile and Women's Citizenship."
November 13 Chimène Keitner (UC Hastings College of the Law, visiting Professor USC Gould School of Law), Panel Discussion: "The Paradoxes of Nationalism." Commentator: David Myers (UCLA). This will be a joint workshop with the USC School of International Relations. Flyer and book chapters
November 28 Chris Brooks (University of Durham in England, Distinguished Fellow at Huntington Library), Topic: "Law and Revolution: The Seventeenth-Century English Example."