#  Texts and Contexts in Legal History 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 7, 2016** 

 01:00PM - 06:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Law School, Hauser 105**  



 

 



 

A conference in honor of Charles Donahue, Paul A. Freund Professor of Law

1:00-3:00: Law and Medieval History: Selected Topics

Adam J. Kosto (Columbia University), *Written Agreements and Civil Wars: The Catalan and Anglo-Norman Examples*  
Robert Berkhofer (Western Michigan University), *Forgery and Pope Alexander III's Decretal on* Scripta Authentica  
Richard Helmholz (The University of Chicago), *Custom and Law in the Medieval Court Records of the Province of Canterbury*  
Paul Brand (University of Michigan School of Law), *The Secular Consequences of Annulment of Marriage for Precontract England c. 1300*

3:15-5:15 pm: Law and Early Modern History: Selected Topics

David Seipp (Boston University Law School), *When Lawyers Lie: Forging an English Constitution in 1399*  
Wim Decock (University of Leuven), *Quantitative Easing Four Centuries Ago: Juan de Mariana's* De monetae mutatione (1609)  
Amalia D. Kessler (Stanford Law School), *The Mystery of the "Charitable Arbitrator," or Reflections on a Neglected Old Regime Text and the Intersection Between Status and Practices of Arbitration and Mediation*  
Mary Bilder (Boston College School of Law), *The Relevance of Colonial Appeals to the Privy Council*

5:30-6:30: Cocktail Reception and Festschrift Presentation for Professor Charles Donahue (Harvard Law Library Treasure Room)



 

 



 

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