Stanford Law and History Courses
2022-2023 Courses
SLS Courses
Carceral Borders, Prof. Jennifer Chacon, Autumn Quarter
Law and Culture in American Fiction, Prof. Ticien Sassoubre, Autumn Quarter
Legal Studies Workshop, Prof. Bernadette Meyler, Autumn Quarter
State Constitutional Law, Prof. Jane Schacter, Autumn Quarter
US Legal History, Prof. Greg Ablavksy, Autumn Quarter
Constitutional Crises from the Founding to the Present, Prof. William Simon, Winter Quarter
Constitutional Law, Profs. Jenny Martinez, Bernadette Meyler, and Anne Joseph O’Connell, Winter Quarter
Gender, Law, and Public Policy, Prof. Joanna Grossman, Winter Quarter
Law and Disorder, Prof. David Mills, Winter Quarter
Constitutional Law: The 14th Amendment, Profs. Pamela Karlan and Jane Schacter, Spring Quarter
Critical Race Theory, Prof. Ralph Richard Banks, Spring Quarter
History of Civil Rights Law, Prof. Rabia Belt, Spring Quarter
Legal Studies Workshop, Prof. Bernadette Meyler, Spring Quarter
Reconstruction: Adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Prof. Michael McConnell, Spring Quarter
Non-SLS Classes
POLICSCI 314D: Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Prof. Kathryn Stoner, Autumn Quarter
POLISCI 3365: Justice, Prof. Brian Coyne, Autumn Quarter
MS&E 193: The Dialogue of Democracy, Prof. James Fishkin, Autumn Quarter
AMSTUD 165: History of Higher Education in the US AMSTUD 165, Prof. Emily Levine, Winter Quarter
HISTORY 392B: Law & Society in Late Imperial China, Prof. Matthew Sommer, Winter Quarter
PHIL 275W: Philosophy of Law: Protest, Punishment & Racial Justice, Prof. Wendy Salkin, Winter Quarter
HISTORY 102: History of the International System since 1914, Prof. Robert Rakove, Spring Quarter
PUBLPOL 201: Introduction to American Politics and Policy: Democracy Under Siege?, Prof. Hakeem Jefferson, Spring Quarter
HISTORY 3J: Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal and Medical Perspectives, Prof. Katherine Jullock, Autumn Quarter
HISTORY 8S: Whales, Bombs, and the Race to the Bottom: Oceanic Histories of Law, Environmentalism and Human Rights, Prof. Sonya Schoenberger, Spring Quarter
HISTORY 24N: Stalin’s Terror: Causes, Crimes, Consequences, Prof. Norman Naimark, Spring Quarter
HISTORY 201A: The Global Drug Wars, Prof. Robert Crews, Spring Quarter
HISTORY 201P: History & Policy, Prof. Robert Crews, Spring Quarter
HISTORY 202F: Surveillance States and Societies, Prof. Amir Weiner, Spring Quarter
HISTORY 208C: The Laws of War in Global History, TBA Instructor, Winter Quarter
HISTORY 253F: Thinking the American Revolution, Prof. Jonathan Gienapp, Winter Quarter
HISTORY 261C: Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Racism, Misogyny and the Law, Prof. Kathleen Tarr, Spring Quarter
HISTORY 281D: Introduction to Islamic Law, 281D Prof. Nora Barakat, Spring Quarter
HISTORY 291E: Maps, Borders and Conflict in East Asia, Prof. Kären Wigen, Winter Quarter
HISTORY 495A: Qing Legal Documents, Prof. Matthew Sommer, Winter Quarter
Past Courses
Amending the U.S. Constitution, Prof. Russell Feingold, Spring Quarter
American Constitutional History from the Civil War to the War on Poverty, Prof. Michele Dauber, Autumn Quarter
Ancient Inequalities, Profs. Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel, Autumn Quarter
Artists, Athletes, Courtesans, and Crooks, Prof. Jody Maxmin, Autumn Quarter
Asian Americans and the Law, Prof. Daniel Ho, Autumn Quarter
Blood and Money: The Origins of Antisemitism, Prof. Rowan Dorin, Autumn Quarter
Civil Rights Movement in History and Memory, Prof. James Campbell, Autumn Quarter
Colonial and Revolutionary America, Prof. Jack Rakove, Autumn Quarter
Comparative Approaches to Law and Inequality, Prof. Amalia Kessler, Autumn Quarter
Constitutional Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, Prof. Ralph Richard Banks, Autumn Quarter
Constitutional Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, Prof. Jane S. Schacter, Spring Quarter
Creation of the Constitution, Prof. Michael McConnell, Spring Quarter
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe and Russia, Prof. Nancy Kollmann, Winter Quarter
Criminal Legal Histories, Prof. George Fisher, Autumn Quarter
Disability Law, Prof. Rabia Belt, Spring Quarter
Discussion (1L): Asian Americans Justice Struggles, Prof. Diane Chin Prof. Shirin Sinnar, Autumn Quarter
Discussion (1L): Reflecting on Red Power: 50 Years After Alcatraz, Prof. Elizabeth Reese, Autumn Quarter
Discussion (1L): Why is the USA Exceptional — In Crime and Punishment?, Prof. Robert Weisberg, Autumn Quarter
Doing Legal History, Profs. Jonathan Gienapp and Rowan Dorin, Winter Quarter
Dress Codes: Law, Status, Sex, and Power, Prof. Richard Ford, Autumn Quarter
Federal Indian Law, Prof. Greg Ablavsky, Winter Quarter
From Gold Rush to Google Bus: History of San Francisco, Prof. Michael Kahan, Spring Quarter
History of American Law, Prof. Lawrence Friedman, Winter Quarter
History of Civil Rights Law, Prof. Rabia Belt, Spring Quarter
History of Criminal Justice, Prof. Lawrence Friedman, Winter Quarter
History of the Police in the United States, Branden Adams, Spring Quarter
History of Prisons and Immigration Detention, Prof. Ana Raquel Minian, Autumn Quarter
History of Surveillance, Prof. Colleen Anderson, Autumn Quarter
How to Start Your Own Country: Sovereignty and State-Formation in Modern History, Prof. Steven Press, Autumn Quarter
Human Rights in Historical Perspective, Prof. David Cohen, Spring Quarter
Human Trafficking: Historical, Legal, and Medical Perspectives, Profs. Katherine Jolluck, Beth Van Schaak, and Rebecca Walker, Autumn Quarter
Introduction to Disability Studies and Disability Rights, Prof. Doron Dorfman, Winter Quarter
Is there an American Legal Canon?, Prof. Aziz Huq, Autumn Quarter
Law and Culture in American Fiction, Ticien Sassoubre, Autumn Quarter
Law and Empire in U.S. History, Prof. Gregory Ablavsky, Spring Quarter
Law and Humanities Workshop: History, Literature, and Philosophy, Profs. Amalia Kessler and Bernadette Meyler, Winter Quarter
Law and the Rhetorical Tradition, Prof. Ticien Sassoubre
Law in Early China, Prof. Martin Lewis, Winter Quarter
Law, Religion, and Society in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Profs. Rowan Dorin & Maureen Miller (UCBerkeley), Winter Quarter
Legal History Workshop, Prof. Robert Gordon and Prof. Amalia Kessler, Winter Quarter
Legal History: Research Seminar in Legal Biography, Prof. Robert Gordon, Spring Quarter
LGBT/Queer Life in the United States, Spring Quarter
LGBTQ in Russia: A Legal History, Autumn Quarter
Modern American History: From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Prof. Clayborne Carson
Native Nation Building, Prof. Karen Biestman, Winter Quarter
Originalism, Prof. Michael McConnell, Spring Quarter
Originalism and the American Constitution: History and Interpretation, Prof. Jonathan Gienapp, Autumn Quarter
Qing Legal Documents, Prof. Matthew Sommer, Winter and Spring Quarters
Race and International Law, Prof. Darryl Li, Autumn Quarter
Racial and Gender Inequalities in Latin America, Prof. Eliane Cavalleiro, Spring Quarter
Racial Identity in the American Imagination, Prof. Allyson Hobbs, Spring Quarter
Reconstruction: Adding the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, Prof. Michael McConnell, Winter Quarter
Riot!: Visualizing Civil Unrest in the 20th and 21st Centuries, Prof. Rose Salsida, Spring Quarter
Sentencing, Corrections, and Criminal Justice Policy, Prof. Joan Petersilia, Spring Quarter
Sexual Violence in America, Prof. Estelle Freedman, Spring Quarter
Slavery, Human Trafficking, and the Moral Order: Ancient and Modern, Profs. David Cohen and Richard Saller, Winter Quarter
Terrorism, Prof. Robert Crews, Autumn Quarter
The American Legal Profession, Prof. Robert Gordon, Spring Quarter
The Central Park Five Case, Prof. David Mills, Autumn Quarter
The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1830 to 1877, Prof. Kathryn Olivarius, Spring Quarter
The Politics of Sex: Work, Family, and Citizenship in Modern American Women’s History, Prof. Estelle Freeman, Spring Quarter
The White Supremacist Constitution: American Constitutional History, Prof. Michele Dauber, Winter Quarter
Theories and Critiques of Legal Education, Prof. Bernadette Meyler, Autumn Quarter
The Constitution: A Short History, Prof. Jack Rakove, Spring Quarter
The “Woman Question” in Modern Russia, Prof. Katherine Jolluck, Winter Quarter
Topics in Constitutional History, Prof. Jack Rakove, Spring Quarter
U.S. Legal History, Prof. Greg Ablavsky, Autumn Quarter
What Counts as “Race,” and Why?, Prof. Aliya Saperstein, Winter Quarter
When Worlds Collide: The Trial of Galileo, Prof. Paula Findlen, Autumn Quarter