PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
- “The Treatment of Detainees during the Bush Presidency.” 2011 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association. Seattle, Washington, October 14.
- “The War Crimes Trial That Never Was: An Inquiry into the War on Terrorism, the Laws of War, and Presidential Accountability.” University of Washington Law School Faculty Colloquium, October 13, 2011.
- “Law in a Time of War.” Rotary Club of Lynnwood, Washington, June 23, 2011.
- “War Crimes Trials and Accountability in the War on Terrorism.” 2011 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. San Francisco, California, May 26.
- “Bringing Back the Laws of War.” 13th Annual Trina Grillo Public Interest & Social Justice Retreat. University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, California, March 26, 2011.
- “The Torture Debate.” 2010 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. San Francisco, California, April 2.
- “The Illusion of Accountability: The Idea of an American Torture Commission.” LSJ/CLASS Faculty Workshare Series, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, February 19, 2010.
- “The Truth Commission in the American Political System.” 2009 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association. Victoria, British Columbia, October 16.
- “The Politics of Accountability.” Panel discussion, “Declassifying Torture: The Torture Memos,” University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, May 20, 2009.
- “What Would Warren Do? A Brief Historical Comment on the Seattle Schools Case.” LSJ/CLASS Faculty Workshare
Series, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, April 4, 2008.
- “The Importance of Being Justice Curtis.” Puget Sound Civil War Board, Seattle, Washington, May 10, 2007.
- “Law and Society in Civil War America.” Law, Societies, and Justice Program, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, February 24, 2006.
- “Paradoxes of U.S. Constitutionalism: Legacies
of the American Civil War Era.” Faculty of Law, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 18, 2005.
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“Justice Curtis in the Civil War Era.” The Supreme Judicial Court
Historical Society of Massachussetts, Boston, Massachussetts, November
8, 2005.
- “The Supreme Court in American Politics.”
Annual Meeting of the Tohoku Association for American Studies, Sendai,
Japan, July 9, 2005.
- “Capital Punishment in Japan and America.” International Association of Japanese Studies, Yamagata, Japan, June 25, 2005.
- “American Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era.” Kyoto University School of Law, Kyoto, Japan, June 6, 2005.
- “Law and Race in America.” American Lecture Series, Tohoku Association for American Studies, Sendai, Japan, February 26, 2005.
- “War and the U.S. Constitution Today.” Institute of Legal Studies, Kansai University, Japan, February 10, 2005.
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“The Abolitionist Movement and the Law in Antebellum America.” Center
for the Study of Social Stratification and Inequality, Tohoku University, Japan,
November 15, 2004.
- “Election Day Special: How the Election Campaign was Fought.” Tokyo American Center, Japan, November 2, 2004.
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“Military Tribunals in the American Civil War: The Public Debate.” 2004
Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association. Chicago, Illinois,
May 28.
- “Powers of the Commander in Chief: Revisiting
the Lincoln Precedent.” 2004 Annual Meeting of the Western Political
Science Association. Portland, Oregon, March 13.
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“Conscience in Controversy: Fugitive Slaves, Jury Nullification and
Justice Curtis.” 2003 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society
Association. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 7.
- “War Powers and Civil Liberties: Lessons from the Past.” Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, March 25, 2003.
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“Cause Lawyering against Slavery.” 2002 Annual Meeting of the Law and
Society Association. Vancouver, British Columbia, June 1.
- “Law and American Slavery.” Law and Society Speaker Series, University of California, Santa Barbara, January 9, 2002.
- Research
Round, “Civil Disobedience and Slavery.” 2000 Annual Meeting of the Law
and Society Association. Miami, Florida, May 28.
- “The
Abolitionist Movement and the Law.” 94th Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association. Boston, Massachusetts, September 4, 1998.
- “Structural
Argument in Constitutional Interpretation.” 69th Annual Meeting of the
Southern Political Science Association. Norfolk, Virginia, November 8,
1997.
- “The Constitutional Debate over the
Emancipation Proclamation.” 92nd Annual Meeting of the American
Political Science Association. San Francisco, California, August 31,
1996.
- “State-Building on the New England Model:
Justice Curtis in the Antebellum Political System.” 91st Annual Meeting
of the American Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois,
September 2, 1995.
- “Slavery and Justice Curtis: The Search for
Constitutional Solutions.” 1994 Annual Meeting of the Law and Society
Association. Phoenix, Arizona, June 18.
- “Perspectives on the Presidential Campaign.” Social Science Expo, University of Miami, Florida, October 5, 1996.
- “The
Significance of the Paradox of Voting.” Mathematics Honors Lecture,
Bowling Green State University Mathematics Department, Bowling Green,
Ohio, May 1978.