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Legal History
  
Columbia Law School, the University, and New York City abound in rich source material for research in legal history. Courses address topics from the legal theory of conquest in the New World, to the Civil War and the New Deal, to today’s debates over remedies for discrimination, allowing students to delve deeply into the law’s development. The joint Law School–History Department Program in Law and History further supports such interdisciplinary scholarship.
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Programs
Columbia Program in Law and History
The Columbia Program in Law and History brings together faculty and students in the History Department and the Law School of Columbia University interested in the history of law and legal institutions.
Special Features
Center for the Study of Law and Culture
The mission of Center for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University (CSLC) is to facilitate interdisciplinary study, research and scholarship on the intersections of law and culture. Starting from the twin premises that law is a cultural form and that culture carries the regulative force of legal practices and norms, the CSLC seeks to advance a wide range of work in law and culture studies. Embracing an expansive definition of culture as a concept whose boundaries range from the aesthetic to the political, the CSLC supports projects that understand law in a strict institutional or positivist sense, as well as those that approach law more generally as a regime for ordering social life, constructing cultural meaning and shaping group and individual identity. CLSC projects emanate from the understanding that law can no longer be adequately analyzed as though it were exogenous to the realm of culture. In keeping with its broad mandate, the CSLC offers an intellectual home for teaching, research and scholarship across disciplines.
The Diamond Library: An Array of Resources for Legal Historians
Legal historians can't pursue their work without the texts and documents generated by governments, lawyers, and any persons who have had a brush with the law. At that point, the Diamond Law Library is called in for assistance and suggestions.
Faculty Profiles
Barbara Aronstein Black
Vincent A. Blasi
Ariela Dubler
Robert A. Ferguson
Eben Moglen
John Witt
Articles
Legal History at Columbia Law School
In the past two decades, American law schools have strengthened their legal history curricula and faculty. Columbia Law School, which offered legal history long before its peers, is renewing its commitment to this endeavor.
Thinking Historically about American Accident Law
How do we account for the peculiar features of American accident law? Make no mistake, our accident law is peculiar, as recent developments make abundantly clear... By Professor John Witt
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