Overview

In an era of increasing interdisciplinary collaboration, the fields that comprise the humanities are engaging in new ways with law as well as with each other, and projects developed within the context of law schools themselves bear renewed relevance to the humanities. This colloquium brings together scholars working at the forefront of legal history, law and literature, law and culture, jurisprudence, and critical theory from the institutional vantage points of both law and the humanities. Those who present materials will be asked to speak not only about their specific research but also to address where their work is situated within new developments in law and humanities as a whole.

 
 

Thursdays at 4:15 - 5:55 pm

RM. 146, Cornell Law School

SPRING 2013
Refreshments will be served

For further information and to be added to the distribution list for papers, contact Associate Professor Bernadette Meyler, Cornell Law School
Phone: (607)255-6045
Email: bam58@cornell.edu

    
       
 

2013 THEME: DEMOCRACY


SPEAKERS

 

Feb. 21

Chantal Thomas (Cornell Law School)
"L'Étranger: What Does the Emerging International Law of Migration Mean for Sovereignty?"

March 7

Andreas Kalyvas (Political Science, the New School, author of Democracy and the Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt)
"The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator: The Return of Dictatorship in Neo-Classical Republicanism"

March 14

Jonathan Neufeld (Philosophy and Music, College of Charleston)
"Aesthetic Disobedience"

March 28

Oliver Arnold (English, Berkeley, author of The Third Citizen: Shakespeare's Theater and the Early Modern House of Commons)
"Occupy Rome: Citizenship, Democracy, and Freedom in Early Modern Political Culture, Recent Political Theory, and Coriolanus"

April 4

Aziz Rana (Cornell Law School, author of The Two Faces of American Freedom)
"Paper Nationalism: Constitutional Loyalty and its Critics"

April 11

Eric Slauter (English, University of Chicago, author of The State as a Work of Art)
Charles Beard's "Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" at 100

April 18

Kunal Parker (Law and History, Miami University, author of Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790-1900: Legal Thought before Modernism)
"Who Is an Immigrant? Another History of U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Law"

April 25

Susan Maslan (History, UC Berkeley, author of Revolutionary Acts: Theater, Democracy, and the French Revolution)
"The Law in Pieces: Poetry, Freedom, and Biopolitics in Rousseau's The Levite of Ephraim"
 
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