Prerequisites: None
Exam: None
Attendance at the lecture series is required, because in the Reading Group meetings we will discuss commonalities and differences in the encounters of different ethnic and social groups with the legal system over the course of U.S. history. Is it helpful to create a category, "diversity," or, in contrast, are the experiences so diverse that each encounter must be examined and understood on its own terms?
Students will be required to attend both the discussion sections and lectures for this reading group. The discussion sections will be held on 9/21, 9/28, 10/26, 11/2 and 11/16.
The lectures are as follows:
"567 Nations: The History of Federal Indian Law”
Diversity and US Legal History Series talk: Joseph Singer, Bussey Professor of Law
Wednesday, September 7 at 12pm, WCC 1010
Title TBD
Diversity and US Legal History Series talk: Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law
Wednesday, September 14 at 12pm, WCC 1010
“Coming Into an Awareness: Unlawful Children in American Law and Society"
Diversity and US Legal History Series talk: Professor John S.W. Park, UC Santa Barbara
Wednesday, September 21 at 12pm, WCC 1010
“Liminal Latinos: Contested Categories, Coming Challenges”
Diversity and US Legal History: Professor and Dean Emerita Rachel Moran, UCLA Law School
Wednesday, September 28 at 12pm, WCC 1010
“Race in American History”
Diversity and US Legal History talk: Michael Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
Monday, October 3 at 12pm, WCC 1010
Title TBD
Diversity and US Legal History: Diana L. Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School
Wednesday, October 5 at 12pm, WCC 1010
Title TBD
Diversity and US Legal History: Katherine Frank, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Wednesday, October 19 at 12pm, WCC 1019
Title TBD
Diversity and US Legal History: Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History
Wednesday, October 26 at 12pm, WCC 1010
Title TBD
Diversity and US Legal History: Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law
Wednesday, November 2 at 12pm, WCC 1010
Title TBD
Diversity and US Legal History: Ken Mack, Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law
Wednesday, November 16 at 12pm, WCC 1010