Workshops

All workshops will be held at the law school's third floor conference room, unless otherwise noted.

Spring 2008 Workshops

"'Repaying Blood Debt' – Criminal Justice in Mao’s China, 1949-1968"
Klaus Muehlhahn
Department of History
Indiana University, Bloomington

Thursday, Jan. 31, 4:00 p.m.
"'Sensible Judaism Spits You Out' ... Defining and Defending Population Transfers in Israel and Palestine"
Timothy Waters
Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington

Thursday, Feb. 14, 4:00 p.m.
"Lawyers, Guns & Public Monies: The U.S. Treasury, World War I, and the Administration of the Modern Fiscal State"
Ajay Mehrotra
School of Law and Department of History
Indiana University, Bloomington

Thursday, March 6, 4:00 p.m.
"Convicting the Innocent"
Richard Lempert
School of Law and Department of Sociology
University of Michigan
(Co-sponsored with SPEA’s Public Affairs & Public Policy Research Seminar)

Thursday, March 20, 4:00 p.m.
"Lawyers at Mid-Career: Satisfied with Law and Satisfied with Life?"
John Monahan
School of Law and Department of Psychology
University of Virginia

Thursday, April 10, 4:00 p.m.
"Are America’s Civil Rights Laws Still Relevant?" [PDF]
John Skrentny
Department of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
(Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology's Politics, Economics, and Culture Workshop)

Thursday, April 17, 4:00 p.m.

What Justifies Sexual Penetration? Developing a New Approach to the Legal Regulation of Sexual Intimacy
Jonathan Herring
Law, Oxford University & Visiting Professor
Indiana Univesity School of Law—Bloomington

Thursday, Sept. 6, 4:00 p.m.
The Half-Life of Hate: Exploring the Martinsville Effect in Chicago
Jeannine Bell
Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington

Thursday, Sept. 20, 4:00 p.m.
Mechanism of Motivated Reasoning? Analogical Perception in Discrimination Disputes
Eileen Braman [PDF]
Political Science,
Indiana University
Bloomington

Thursday, Oct. 18, 4:00 p.m.
The Legalities of English Colonizing: Narratives of Intrusion on the North American Mainland
Christopher Tomlins
American Bar Foundation

Thursday, Nov. 1, 4:00 p.m.
Elastic Tournament of Lawyers
William Henderson
School of Law,
Indiana University
Bloomington

Thursday, Nov. 15, 4:00 p.m.

European Race Theory as the Thin Edge of the Anti-Sovereignty Wedge
Steve Russell
Criminal Justice

Thursday, March 29, 4 p.m.
Citizenship Behind Bars: Fatherhood and Incarceration
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Cornell University

Monday, April 2, noon