The Learned and Lived Law: A Celebration in Honor of Charles Donahue

Please join us for a celebration honoring Professor Charles Donahue and marking the publication of The Learned and Lived Law:  Essays in Honor of Charles Donahue.  We will have a day of presentations by chapter authors as well as a display of medieval manuscripts in the Harvard Law Library in the early afternoon (see schedule below).

Welcome

8:45 – 9:00 am

Interim Dean John C.P. Goldberg

Saskia Lettmaier and Elizabeth Papp Kamali

Panel 1: Roman Law

Chair: James Townshend

9:00 – 10:00 am

Charles Bartlett, Roman Property, Corporate Personhood, and the Politics of Natural Law in Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy: Venice, Baldus, and the res communes omnium

Wim Decock, “For the Sake of Mental Health and Mutual Peace”: The Transactio-Agreement in Early Modern Law and Theology

Break

10:00 – 10:15 am

Panel 2: Medieval and Early Modern Law

Chair: Elizabeth Papp Kamali

10:15 – 12:15 pm

Samantha Kahn Herrick, Getting Ahead in a Twelfth-Century City: The Ambitious Monks of Saint-Clément, Metz

Ryan Rowberry, The Papal Constitution Execrabilis (1317) and Clerical Justices in the English Royal Courts

Elizabeth Mellyn, Suicide in Early Modern Italy

Carol Symes, The “Desire of Deeds”: On Cherishing Medieval English Charters

Lunch

12:15 – 1:15 pm

Lunch available in Lewis 202

Medieval Manuscript Display

Harvard Law Library, 4th floor, Caspersen Room

1:15 – 2:15 pm

Arranged by Sarah Wharton, Historical & Special Collections

Co-Hosts: Carol Symes and Charles Bartlett

Panel 3: American Legal History

Chair: Ryan Rowberry

2:30 – 3:30 pm

Sally Hadden, Lawyers and Their Book Collections: Notes from the Eighteenth Century

Amalia Kessler, The American Importation of the Comparative Accusatorial/Inquisitorial Divide: Francis Lieber’s Failed Transplant and Its Early Twentieth-Century Resurgence

Break

3:30 – 3:45pm

Panel 4: Literature and Legal Theory

Chair: Saskia Lettmaier

3:45-4:45 pm

Anton Chaevitch, Faust: Goethe’s Guide to Legal Progress

Bharath Palle, Wesley Hohfeld’s Modernist Imagination

Closing Reflection

Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas, De Magistro eruditissimo et beneficentissimo