Yale Hosts Symposium On The Legal Treatise: Past, Present, And Future

Yale hosts a symposium today on The Legal Treatise: Past, Present, And Future (registration):

The Lillian Goldman Law Library, with the generous support of the Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fund at Yale Law School, is pleased to announce its second legal information symposium: “The Legal Treatise: Past, Present, and Future,” scheduled to take place at Yale Law School on Friday, March 24, 2023. The papers presented at this event will be published as a special symposium issue of Law Library Journal. This symposium will examine the legal treatise as a source and genre through the lenses of history, authorship, identity, and transition. 

Welcome Remarks 

• Femi Cadmus (Librarian, Yale; Google Scholar) 
• Heather Gerken (Dean, Yale) 

Keynote Address 

• John Langbein (Yale), The Rise and Fall of Legal Academic Treatise Writing in the United States

Panel I: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

• Rachel Gordon (Yale) (moderator) 
• M.H. Hoeflich (Kansas; Google Scholar), Reprinting English Treatises in Antebellum America
• Carlton F.W. Larson (UC-Davis; Google Scholar), Treason and Treatise: English Legal Treatises in the American Revolution and Early National Period
• Shawn Nevers (BYU; Google Scholar), The Treatise and the Code

Panel II: Authorship

• Fred Shapiro (Yale) (moderator)
• John Cannan (Villanova; Google Scholar), Joel Bishop's Reign as King of the Treatise Writers and What it Means for Persuasive Authority
• Wesley Oliver (Duquesne) & Nicole Singleton (Duquesne), Nineteenth-Century Treatise Writers and Legal Codifiers Created a Fossil Record of Framing-Era Miranda Warnings
• Anne Rajotte (Connecticut), Zephaniah Swift and Swift's System of Laws

Panel III: Identity

• Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale) (moderator)
• Jane Bahnson (Duke) & Wickliffe Shreve (Duke; Google Scholar), Legal Treatises and the Evolution of Civil Rights Case Law
• John Moreland (Indiana-Maurer), To Train the Legal Mind: An Inquiry in the Law of Negro Slavery and the Creation of a Pro-Slavery Legal Education
• Simon Stern (Toronto; Google Scholar), The Treatise and the Human Figure

Panel IV: Transition

• Anne Klinefelter (North Carolina) (moderator)
• Dana Neacsu (Duquesne; Google Scholar) & Paul D. Callister (Missouri-Kansas City; Google Scholar), The Persistent Treatise
• Kent Olson (Virginia), Citation of Treatises in Law Reviews: Bluebook and Reality
• Amanda Watson (Houston; Google Scholar), Beyond Titles: Curating Relevant Law Library Collection