Event Details

End: May 1, 2018
Contact: MMarcus@nyhistory.org
More Info: http://www.nyhistory.org/education/higher-education/institute-constitutional-history/upcoming-events

The Constitutional History of Anglo-American Empire (Standford, CA Seminar)
July 8-13, 2018
Building on the literatures on constitutional development in the British Empire, the constitutional origins of the American Revolution, and settler constitutionalism, the seminar will focus on colonization and territorial expansion, the law of slavery, and geopolitics from first settlement to the era of “Manifest Destiny.” The workshop will be led by Annette Gordon-Reed, the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School, and Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Participants will receive accommodation at the Munger Graduate Residence on the campus of Stanford Law School and a modest stipend for meals as well as travel reimbursement up to $250.