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16th annual bliss carnochan lecturer

April 4 , 2008

David Lieberman
Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley

 


About the Speaker

David Lieberman joined the Boalt Hall School of Law at University of California, Berkeley in 1984. Before coming to Berkeley, he taught at Cambridge University and was a fellow and director of studies in history at Christ's College, Cambridge. He served as associate dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program and chaired the undergraduate Legal Studies Program from 2000-04. In 2003, he helped found the Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs, an international organization of law and society departments and undergraduate majors. He currently is president of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies.

Lieberman is a recipient of research fellowships and awards from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, the Institute of Historical Research, the American Bar Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science. He was an honorary research fellow of the Department of History at University College, London; a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School; and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. His book, The Province of Legislation Determined: Legal Theory in Eighteenth Century Britain, received honorable mention for the 1990 British Council Prize.

Lieberman's lecture will examine modes and projects of legal history in 18th century England.

Program

Friday, April 4, 3:30 p.m.
Lecture
"Shaping and Breaking the Politics of Legal History"
Levinthal Hall
Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford University

Free and open to the public


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