Spring 2012 Workshop

SPRING 2012

(Lunch workshops will be in room 118/120 of the Law School from 12:20 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., unless otherwise stated)

January 25	Rebecca Lemon (University of Southern California), Topic: "Sovereignty, Tyranny, and Shakespeare's Richard II," Co-sponsored by Early Modern Studies Institute.
February 8	Jody David Armour (USC Gould School of Law), Topic: "Nigger Lover: Luck, Law and Language in the Social Construction of Niggas."
March 6	Book Talk: Stuart Banner (UCLA), Topic: “American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own.” Chapters 1 "Lost Property," 3 "A Bundle of Rights" & 14 "The End of Property?" Commentators: Edward McCaffery and Peter Mancall, Location: Law School Faculty Lounge, Room 433
March 21	Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (University of Southern California), Topic: "Sailors Before the Law and the Unmaking of Maritime Cosmopolitanism, ca 1790-1799," Co-sponsored by Early Modern Studies Institute and USC History Department
March 28	Eleanor Brown (The George Washington University), Topic: "The Blacks Who 'Got' Their 40 Acres (Metaphorically): A Theory of West Indian Migrant Asset Acquisition."
April 25	Jessica Marglin (Princeton University), Topic: "Crossing Jurisdictional Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century Morocco."