Christine Desan

Prerequisite: None Exam: In Class According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was the clause allocating authority over money.   Over the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam After the fall of the Soviet Union, capitalism appeared triumphant.  Commentators equated free markets with democracy and lauded the…

Prerequisite: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule An integrated political economy now covers much of the globe.  This course…

Prerequisite: None Exam: In Class According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was the clause allocating authority over money.   Over the…

Prerequisite: Students who wish to enroll should have taken a course in either monetary law, financial regulation, or the history of economic regulation; participation is…

Prerequisites: The seminar is intended for students who have studied money as a legal institution. Students must have completed one of the following courses previously:…

Christine A. Desan, Introduction in, A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment (Bill Maurer & Christine A. Desan eds., (Bloomsbury 2021).

Christine A. Desan, Money’s Design Elements: Debt, Liquidity, and the Pledge of Value from Medieval Coin to Modern “Repo” (Harvard Pub. L. Working Paper No.

Christine A. Desan & Nadav Orian Peer, The Constitution and the Fed after the COVID-19 Crisis, Just Money (June 10, 2020).

Christine Desan, The Key to Value: The Debate over Commensurability in Neoclassical and Credit Approaches to Money, 83 L. & Contemp. Probs. 1 (2020).

Christine Desan, The Monetary Structure of Economic Activity (Harv. Pub. L., Working Paper No. 20-04, Mar. 30, 2020).

Christine Desan, Book Review, 16 Labor 136 (2019) (reviewing Mehrsa Baradaran, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (2015)).

Christine A. Desan, Strange New Music: The Monetary Composition Made by the Enlightenment Quartet (July 21, 2018).

Christine A. Desan, Money Talks: Listening to the Value of History, 6 Common-Place (Apr. 2006).

Christine A. Desan, Coin Reconsidered: The Political Alchemy of Commodity Money, 11 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 361 (2010).

Christine A. Desan, Laura Jensen, Patriots, Settlers, and the Origins of American Social Policy, 23 Law & Hist. Rev. 470 (2005)(book review).

Christine A. Desan, Writing Constitutional History beyond the Institutional/Ideological Divide, 16 Law & Hist. Rev. 391 (1998).

Christine A. Desan, Perfect Violence, 7 J.L. & Religion 99 (1989).

Christine A. Desan, Decoding the Design of Money, Eur. Fin. Rev., Feb./Mar. 2015.

Christine A. Desan, Money as a Legal Project, in Money in the Western Legal Tradition 18 (David Fox & Wolfgang Ernst eds., Oxford Univ. Press…

American Capitalism: New Histories (Sven Beckert & Christine A. Desan eds., 2018).

Christine A. Desan, Remaking Constitutional Tradition at the Margin of the Empire: The Creation of Legislative Adjudication in Colonial New York, 16 L. & Hist.

Christine A. Desan, Out of the Past: Time and Movement in Making the Present, 1 Unbound: Harv. J. Legal Left 39 (2005).

Christine A. Desan, From Blood to Profit: The Transformation of Value in the American Constitutional Tradition, 20 J. Pol’y Hist. 26 (2008).

Christine A. Desan, Stephen G. Breyer, in The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789-1995 (Clare Cushman ed., 1995).

Christine A. Desan, Legislative Power, in The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Stanley N. Katz ed., 2009).

Christine A. Desan, Law and the Economy of Early America: Markets, Institutions of Exchange, and Labor, in The Blackwell Companion to American Legal History 269…

Christine A. Desan, The Constitutional Approach to Money: Monetary Design and the Production of the Modern World, in Money Talks 109 (Nina Bandelj, Frederick F.

Christine A. Desan, Money as a Legal Institution, in Money in the Western Legal Tradition: Middle Ages to Bretton Woods 18 (David Fox & Wolfgang…

Christine A. Desan, Creation Stories: Myths About the Origins of Money (Harv. Pub. L. Working Paper 13-20, Jul. 30, 2013).

Christine A. Desan, Contesting the Character of the Political Economy: Rights and Remedies in the Early Republic, in The House and Senate in the 1790s:…

Christine A. Desan, Beyond Commodification: Contract and the Credit-Based World of Modern Capitalism, in 2 Transformations in American Legal History: Law, Ideology, and Methods –…

Christine A. Desan, Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism (Oxford Univ. Press 2014).

Christine A. Desan, The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History, 30 Law & Soc. Inquiry 1 (2005).

Christine A. Desan, Constitutional Money: A Review of the Supreme Court’s Monetary Decisions, 53 J. Econ. Literature 1036 (2015) (reviewing Richard H. Timberlake, Constitutional Money:…

Christine A. Desan, The Constitutional Commitment to Legislative Adjudication in the Early American Tradition, 111 Harv. L. Rev. 1381 (1998).