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

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 7, 2016** 

 01:00PM - 05:15PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop 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



 

 



 

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