Legal History Workshop – Faculty Colloquium Spring 2025 Coordinator: Ariela Gross

Mondays, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m., Rm. 2467

January 27
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, History, UCLA
“The Whites-Only Immigration Regime”
(larger project: Still Racist: Immigration Control Since 1790)

February 3
Adriana Chira, History, Emory
“Beyond the Chattel Principle: Vulnerability, Intimacy, and the Laws of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Cuba.”

February 10
Tamika Nunley, History, Duke
The Demands of Justice: Enslaved Women, Capital Crime, and Clemency in Early Virginia, Intro and Chapter.

February 24
Sunita Patel, Law, UCLA
“Campus Protest Policing”

March 3
Sam Erman, Law and History, University of Michigan
“Status Manipulations: How U.S. Liberal-Democratic Ideals Accommodated Slavery, Nativism, Empire, and Anti-Indigeneity”

March 10
Tanner Allread, Law, UCLA
“Indigenous Constitutionalism”

March 17
Rabia Belt, Law, Stanford
“An Awful Tragedy: The Hidden History of the American M’Naghten”

March 31
Dylan Penningroth, Law and History, Berkeley
“Hidden Histories of Black Civil Rights”

April 7
Lauren Van Schilfgaarde, Law, UCLA
“Noncompetent Indians Not Taxed”

April 14
Stuart Banner, UCLA Law
“When Tipping Was A Crime”

April 21
Alexander Arnold, UCLA Law
“Truth Seeking in Civil Litigation: The Early Years”