Upcoming Events

D.C. Area Legal History Roundtable

Friday, April 17, 2009
12:00 noon-4:00 p.m.
Room 215
George Mason University School of Law
3301 Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia 22201

Agenda

See also the
PDF version of the agenda

The D.C. Area Legal History Roundtable is an informal gathering of scholars who live or work in and around Washington, D.C. It first met in 2006 at George Washington University Law School and later at the law schools of American University, the Catholic University of America, and Georgetown University. It will reconvene on Friday, April 17, 2009, at George Mason University. The two-panel program appears below.

12:00-1:00: Buffet Lunch
1:00-2:20 Foundational Thickets: Competition and Coordination in 19th-Century America
- Standard Oil Co. v. United States: The Supreme Court and the Foundations of a New American Society.
  James May, Washington College of Law, American University
- A Stitch in Time: The Rise and Fall of the Sewing Machine Patent Thicket .
  Adam Mossoff, George Mason University School of Law
- Comments: Marc Winerman, Adviser to FTC Commissioner William Kovacic
- Moderator: TBA
2:20-2:30 Break (with beverages)
2:30-3:50 Life and Legitimacy: Bringing Legal History to Life Without Compromising Scholarly Discipline
- Louis D. Brandeis: A Life .
  Melvin Urofsky, Center for Public Policy, Virginia Commonwealth University
- A More Obedient Wife: A Novel of the Early Supreme Court .
  Natalie Wexler, independent scholar.
- Comments: Kriste Lindenmeyer, Department of History, University of Maryland
- Moderator: Joyce Malcolm, George Mason University School of Law
3:50-4:00 Planning for future meetings

Registration: RSVP to sbirchle@gmu.edu by Monday, April 13. Please be sure to indicate whether you will be joining us for lunch. There is no charge for this event.

Parking: Parking is extremely limited on the Arlington Campus but a few spaces may be available at an additional fee. If you require parking, please note that and RSVP early. There is some on street parking in the area too. The law school is close to two Metro stations, the Virginia Square and Clarendon. Both are within a 3-block walk.

Special needs: Any person with a disability who believes he or she might need a reasonable accommo-dation to attend this event should contact the email address above by April 9.

Future Legal History Roundtables: To join our mailing list, please send your name, institutional affilia-tion, and surface and email addresses to the email address above.

For more information contact Ross Davies at rdavies@greenbag.org or Joyce Malcolm at jmalcolm@gmu.edu.