Alison LaCroix : Presentations
"Slavery, Abolition, and Human Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Thirteenth
Amendment." University of Chicago Law School, April 2009. Commentator.
"The Law of Nations and the Early Modern Atlantic World," Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.,
April 2009. Commentator.
Conference for Morton J. Horwitz, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Ma., September 2008
“The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty”
"The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereign to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic." Faculty Work-in-Progress Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, April 2008.
"The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic." Research Seminar, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, January 2008.
"The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty." Conference in Honor of Morton J. Horowitz, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, September 2008.
"A Positive Passion for the Public Good: Speech and Privacy in the Early American Republic." Columbia Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture, Columbia University, New York, NY, September 2007.
"Theories of Union: Constructing Confederations, 1774"The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereign to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic." Faculty Work-in-Progress Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, April 2008.
"The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereignty to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic." Research Seminar, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, January 2008.
"The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty." Conference in Honor of Morton J. Horowitz, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, September 2008.
"A Positive Passion for the Public Good: Speech and Privacy in the Early American Republic." Columbia Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture, Columbia University, New York, NY, September 2007.
"Theories of Union: Constructing Confederations, 1774–1777." Faculty Work-in-Progress Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, May 2007.
"Drawing the Line: the Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty." American Society for Legal History, Baltimore, MD, November 2006.
"An Imperial Presidency? The U.S. Supreme Court and the Extent of Executive Power." University of Chicago Constitution Day Panel, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 2006.
"The Dilemma of Proving a Negative: Imperial Precedents for Federalism in America." Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, April 2005.
"A Well-Constructed Union: The Intellectual History of American Federalism." History Department Dissertation Prospectus Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 2004.
"The Translatlantic Context of the Hartford Convention." Nineteenth-Century American History Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 2002.
1777." Faculty Work-in-Progress Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, May 2007.
"Drawing the Line: the Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty." American Society for Legal History, Baltimore, MD, November 2006.
"An Imperial Presidency? The U.S. Supreme Court and the Extent of Executive Power." University of Chicago Constitution Day Panel, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, September 2006.
"The Dilemma of Proving a Negative: Imperial Precedents for Federalism in America." Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, April 2005.
"A Well-Constructed Union: The Intellectual History of American Federalism." History Department Dissertation Prospectus Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 2004.
"The Translatlantic Context of the Hartford Convention." Nineteenth-Century American History Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 2002.
