Twelve outstanding early-career scholars have been selected to participate in the 2009 Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, June 14-26, 2009, at the University of Wisconsin, organized by the Law School’s Institute for Legal Studies in conjunction with the American Society for Legal History (ASLH).
A biennial event based at the UW Law School, the Hurst Institute is named in honor of famed University of Wisconsin Law School legal historian J. Willard Hurst.
Each Hurst Institute is organized and chaired by a prominent legal historian and includes visiting senior scholars who lead specialized sessions. A committee appointed by the ASLH reviews applications from beginning faculty members, doctoral students with completed or almost completed dissertations, and recent J.D. graduates, and selects 12 junior scholars from around the world as Institute Fellows.
The Fellows come to Madison to participate in seminars, meet other legal historians, and discuss their own work. The two-week program is structured but informal, and features discussions of core readings in legal history and analysis of the work of the participants in the Institute.
Barbara Welke, Associate Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota, will return to chair this year's sessions. Guest scholars include Risa Goluboff, Professor of Law and History and Cadell & Chapman Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Christine Desan, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School; Matthew Sommer, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Stanford University; Lawrence M. Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School; and Robert W. Gordon, Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School.
The 2009 Hurst Fellows are:
Kevin Arlyck JD (New York University 2008)
PhD Candidate, New York University (2011)
Dissertation: The Means of Preventing Disputes with Foreign Nations': U.S. Federal Courts and the Atlantic World, 1793-1822
Lisa Blee PhD (UMN 2008)
Assistant Professor of History, Wake Forest University
Dissertation Book Project: Framing Chief Leschi: Narratives and the Politics of Historical Justice in the South Puget Sound
Binyamin Blum JSM (Stanford 2006)
JSD Candidate, Stanford University
Current work addresses legal reform in the British Mandate of Palestine between 1918 and 1937. JSD Dissertation: To Concur, or Not to Concur, That is the Question: The Judicial Independence of Judges Appointed Temporarily to the Supreme Court of Israel
Nancy Buenger
PhD Candidate, University of Chicago (2009)
Postdoctoral Alumni Fellow in Law and History, University of Minnesota Law School, 2009-10
Dissertation: Extraordinary Remedies: The Court of Chancery and Equitable Justice in Chicago
Melissa Hayes
PhD Candidate, Northern Illinois University (2010)
Instructor, Rockford College
Dissertation: Litigating Intimacy: The Legal Culture of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Illinois
Kelly Kennington
PhD Candidate, Duke University (2009)
Law and Society Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin Law School, 2009-10
Dissertation: River of Injustice: St. Louiss Freedom Suits and the Changing Nature of Legal Slavery in Antebellum America
Daniel LaChance
PhD Candidate, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota (2009)
Dissertation: Condemned to be Free: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment, 1945-Present
Cynthia Nicoletti JD (Harvard)
PhD Candidate in History, University of Virginia
Dissertation: The Great Question of the War: The Legal Status of Secession in the Aftermath of the Civil War, 1865-1869
Gautham Rao PhD (University of Chicago, 2008)
Post-doctoral Fellow, Library Company of Philadelphia Program in Early American Economy and Society.
Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers-Newark /New Jersey Institute of Technology (as of Aug. 2009)
Dissertation: The Creation of the American State: Customhouses, Law, and Commerce in the Age of Revolution
Joshua M. Stein
PhD Candidate, UCLA (2009)
Dissertation & Book Project: The Right to Violence: Assault Prosecution in New York, 1760-1840
Karen M Tani JD (University of Pennsylvania 2007)
PhD Candidate and Sharswood Fellow in Law and History, University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation project: Securing a Right to Welfare: Public Assistance Administration and the Rule of Law, 1938-1960
Hannah K. R. Weiss
PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Dissertation: An Empire of Subjects: Unities and Disunities in the British Empire, 1760-1790
For more information on the Hurst Institute see
http://www.law.wisc.edu/ils/hurst_institute.htm .
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