Spring 2008 Workshop

SPRING 2008

February 13	Laurent Mayali (Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley), Topic: "On the Meaning of Words and Things: Semantics and Law in Medieval Jurisprudence."
February 21	Nancy Polikoff (American University School of Law), Topic: "Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families Under the Law." Location: Room 103 Time: 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
March 5	Megan Reid (USC Dept of Religion), Topic: "Punishment and Appropriate Justice in Islamic Societies."
March 12	West Coast Law & Literature Symposium - "Banishment and Jurisdictional Identity in Seventeenth-Century New England." Keynote: Nan Goodman (University of Colorado, English Dept.) *This event will be held in the Faculty Lounge, Room 433 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.* Click here for the schedule.
April 2	Josephine McDonagh (King's College, London) Topic: "On Settling and Being Unsettled: Motion and Emotion in Dickens's Bleak House."
April 23	Carolyn Sale (University of Alberta, English Dept.), Topic: "‘The King is a Thing’: The King’s Prerogative and the Treasure of the Realm in Plowden’s Report of the 'Case of Mines' and Shakespeare’s Hamlet." I Coverletter