Stanford Law School, Room 190
2:00 p.m. – Welcome
Amalia Kessler & Norman Spaulding, Stanford Law School
2:15 p.m. – Book Launch, Introduction to Program
Sarah Barringer Gordon, Penn Law School
John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School
2:30-4:00 p.m. – Roundtable on The Legal Profession Past and Present
Chair: Laura Kalman, UC Santa Barbara History Dept.
Kenneth W. Mack, Harvard Law School
William Simon, Stanford and Columbia Law Schools
Serena Mayeri, Penn Law School
Jed Shugerman, Fordham Law School
Norman Spaulding, Stanford Law School
4:30-5:30 p.m. – Robert W. Gordon: Wordsmith, Theoretician, Mensch
Chair: Lawrence Friedman, Stanford Law School
Barbara Fried, Stanford Law School
Carol Rose, Yale & Univ. of Arizona Law School
Robert Weisberg, Stanford Law School
William Forbath, Texas Law School
Alison LaCroix, Univ. of Chicago Law School
John Schlegel, Univ. of Buffalo School of Law
5:30-6:00 p.m. – Reception
Stanford Law School, Manning Faculty Lounge
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. – Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Part One: The Common Law Tradition
Chair: Tom Grey, Stanford Law School
John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School
Claire Priest, Yale Law School
Susanna Blumenthal, Univ. of Minnesota Law School
David Rabban, Texas Law School
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Part Two: Legal Histories
Chair: Hendrik Hartog, Princeton Univ. History Dept.
Reva Siegel, Yale Law School
Christopher Tomlins, Berkeley Law School
Sophia Lee, Penn Law School
Risa Goluboff, Dean, Virginia Law School
12:30 – 2:00 p.m. – Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. – Part Three: Critical Legal Historicism
Chair: Sarah Barringer Gordon, Penn Law School
Sara Mayeux, Vanderbilt Law School
Roy Kreitner, Tel Aviv Univ. Law School
Ariela Gross, Univ. of Southern California Law School
Kunal Parker, Univ. of Miami Law School
3:30 – 4:00 p.m. – Concluding Remarks: Robert W. Gordon, Stanford Law School