Alison LaCroix : Presentations
SCHEDULED PRESENTATIONS
Conference on Union and Disunion, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, September 2013
University of Wisconsin Discussion Group on Constitutionalism, October 2013
American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, November 2013
Columbia Law School Public Law Workshop, February 2014
Critical Analysis of Law Workshop, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, February 2014
Philip Pro Lecturer in Legal History, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, March 2014
Constitutional Legal History Workshop, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 2014
Selected Presentations
Yale Law School Symposium, “Federalism as the New Nationalism,” July 2013
Participant, Symposium on Akhil Amar, America’s Unwritten Constitution, University of Illinois
College of Law, October 2012
Speaker, “Federalism and the States” Session, National Conference of State Legislators Annual
Legislative Summit, August 2012
Yale Law School Legal History Forum, April 2012
Stanford Law School Legal History Workshop, March 2012
Author, Recent Books Seminar, Georgetown University Law Center, April 2011
"What If: Constitutional Counterfactuals" Symposium, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis, April 2011
Author and Presenter, "Federalism and Its Future" Conference, University of Texas School of Law, February 2011
Commentator, "Year of the Book" Symposium, University of Connecticut School of Law, December 2010
Public lecture, "The Origins of American Federalism," Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture, University of Chicago, November 2010
Book Panel on The Ideological Origins of American Federalism, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Boston Colloge, October 2010
"Federalists, Federalism, and Federal Jurisdiction"
- George Washington University Law School Faculty Workshop, March 2011
- University of Virginia School of Law Legal History Workshop, February 2011
- Faculty Colloquium, University of Alabama Law School, February 2011
- Public Law Workshop, Columbia Law School, October 2010
- Legal History Workshop, University of Iowa College of Law, September 2010
- Colloquium on Constitutional History, Theory, and Law, University of Illinois College of
Law, September 2010 - "Ab Initio: Law in Early America," McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, June 2010
- University of Chicago Law School Faculty Workshop, March 2010
- Vanderbilt Law School Federalism Roundtable, February 2010
- American Bar Foundation/Illinois Legal History Seminar, February 2010
- American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Dallas, Tex., November 2009
- University of Wisconsin Discussion Group on Constitutionalism, October 2009
- University of Michigan Law School Legal History Workshop, September 2009
"Temporal Imperialism."
- Chicago-Kent College of Law Faculty Workshop, September 2009
- University of Chicago Law School Faculty Workshop, March 2009
"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.
“Time and the First Republic: Temporality in Constitutional Adjudication,” University of Chicago
Law School Faculty Workshop, March 2009
"The Pre-Revolutionary Origins of Federal Ideas of Sovereignty." Conference in Honor of Morton J. Horowitz, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, September 2008.
"The New Wheel in the Federal Machine: From Sovereign to Jurisdiction in the Early Republic."
- University of Chicago Law School Faculty Workshop, April 2008
- American Bar Foundation Research Seminar, January 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.
