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Legal History Workshop

Description

The Legal History Workshop is designed as a forum in which faculty and students from both the Law School and the History Department can discuss some of the best work now being done in the field of legal history. Every other week, an invited speaker will present his or her current research for discussion. Speakers will be chosen not only for the quality of their work, but also with the aim of exposing students to a broad array of topics and methodologies within legal history. In the week prior to a given speaker's presentation, the class will meet as a group to discuss secondary literature relevant to understanding and critiquing the speaker's research. Students will then read the speaker's paper in advance of the following week's workshop presentation.

Special Instructions: Students are required to write a brief (4-5 pages) response to each speaker's paper. There will be a total of five speakers, and thus five papers. Guidance will be provided concerning how to frame these response papers, which will be due every two weeks - i.e., on the day before speaker presents and students will receive "W" writing credit. Students taking the course to receive "R" research credit are required to write a research paper (35 pages or more) on a legal history topic that they choose (in consultation with the professor).

This course is cross-listed with the History Department (Same as HISTORY 307A).

This course is open to first-year Law School students.

  • Number of Units: 2
  • Course Number: 372

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