HLS: Roundtable Conference on “Texts and Contexts in Legal History” in Honor of Professor Charles Donahue

Date: 

Friday, October 7, 2016, 1:00pm to 5:15pm

Location: 

Hauser Building 105, Law School Campus, Cambridge, MA

Roundtable Conference on “Texts and Contexts in Legal History”
in Honor of Professor Charles Donahue

Friday, October 7, 1:00 – 5:15 p.m.
Hauser Building 105

Law and Medieval History: Selected Topics - 1:00-3:00
1:00-1:30 Adam J. Kosto
Written Agreements and Civil Wars: The Catalan and Anglo-Norman Examples

1:30-2:00 Robert Berkhofer
Forgery and Pope Alexander III's Decretal on Scripta Authentica

2:00-2:30 R. H. Helmholz
Custom and Law in the Medieval Court Records of the Province of Canterbury

2:30-3:00 Paul Brand
The Secular Consequences of Annulment of Marriage for Precontract England c. 1300

Break 3:00-3:15

Law and Early Modern History: Selected Topics - 3:15-5:15
3:15-3:45 David Seipp
When Lawyers Lie: Forging an English Constitution in 1399

3:45-4:15 Wim Decock
Quantitative Easing Four Centuries Ago: Juan de Mariana's De monetae mutatione (1609)

4:15-4:45 Amalia D. Kessler
The Mystery of the "Charitable Arbitrator," or Reflections on a Neglected Old Regime Text and the Intersection Between Status and Practices of Arbitration and Mediation

4:45-5:15 Mary Bilder
The Relevance of Colonial Appeals to the Privy Council

Cocktail Reception and Festschrift Presentation for Professor Charles Donahue
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Harvard Law Library Treasure Room

Opening: Sara McDougall (with introduction of Dean Martha Minow)
Martha Minow Comments on Charlie Donahue
John Witte Comments and Presentation of Festschrift
Charlie Donahue Response
Open Reception
Closing: Anna diRobilant