Thursday, September 18, 2008

Yale Law School Legal History Forum

Here is the fall line up for the Legal History Forum of the Yale Law School:

Tuesday, September 23
Jay M. Winter, Yale University, “From War Talk to Rights Talk: René Cassin, Human Rights, and the Two World Wars”

Tuesday, October 28
Christopher W. Schmidt, Chicago-Kent College of Law, “Explaining Massive Resistance: The Debate over Law and Social Change, 1954-1964”

Tuesday, November 18
Jed Shugerman, “The People's Courts: The Rise of Judicial Elections and Judicial Power in America”