The Legal History Podcast

EPISODE 40: Thomas Duve and Tamar Herzog

In this episode guest host Shaayan Tiwari talks with Tamar Herzog and Thomas Duve about their co-edited volume, "The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective"(CUP, 2024). The book is the first volume to construct a truly pan-Latin American legal narrative and set it within the larger global frame. Professor Tamar Herzog is the Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs at Harvard University, with an affiliation at Harvard Law School. Her scholarship cuts straight to the core of colonial legal dynamics. She has studied the relationship between Spain, Portugal, and their colonies, focusing on how legal norms responded to both material and symbolic constraints. She delves into colonial institutions in everyday life, examining how penal justice functioned in Quito, how scribes operated in Spanish America, how citizenship and land rights were contested, and how territorial boundaries emerged through negotiation rather than top-down decree. She has been described as relentless in revealing how individuals and institutions shaped law, as rigorous as they come. Professor Thomas Duve is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and a professor of Comparative Legal History at Goethe University Frankfurt. He specializes in global legal history, particularly the entanglements between secular and religious normativity in the Iberian world, the early modern period. He is known for advancing legal history as the study of the production of normativity through translation, a nuanced angle that refuses reductive approaches.

EPISODE 39: Chloe Kennedy

In this episode, Catherine Evans [https://www.crimsl.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/catherine-evans] talks with Chloe Kennedy [https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/chloe-kennedy] about Kennedy's book "Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law [https://doi-org.ezproxy.princeton.edu/10.1017/9781009361095]" (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Chloe Kennedy is Professor of Law and History at The University of Edinburgh Law School where she focuses on intellectual and cultural legal history. More particularly, she studies the ways prevailing ideas have shaped the law's development and continue to inform our contemporary assumptions. Guest host Catherine Evans is Associate Professor of Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto where her research focuses on the history of criminal law in the British empire.

EPISODE 38: Gijs Kruijtzer

In this episode, Siobhan talks with Gijs Kruijtzer about his book "Justifying Transgression: Muslims, Christians, and the Law - 1200 to 1700 [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111218014-fm/pdf]" (De Gruyter, 2023) Since obtaining a PhD from Leiden University, Gijs Kruijtzer has held postdocs at Yale University, Humboldt University, and the University of Vienna, and worked as a lecturer and archivist. Starting from a background in the history of South Asia and the Muslim world, as well as Europe, he researches universal questions about the experience of identity and how people deal with inconvenient rules/laws. You can view a Zoom AI generated transcript here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/176QT6gRZivBWdXH1SeecUGlXbOaysC2ZM5b6AtdONQM/edit? [https://docs.google.com/document/d/176QT6gRZivBWdXH1SeecUGlXbOaysC2ZM5b6AtdONQM/edit?usp=sharing]usp=sharing

EPISODE 37: Hendrik "Dirk" Hartog

In this episode, Siobhan talks with Hendrik Hartog [https://history.princeton.edu/people/hendrik-hartog] about his book "Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo220801271.html]” (The University of Chicago Press, 2024). Hendrik "Dirk" Hartog is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law and Liberty, Emeritus at Princeton University. For a decade, he was the director of Princeton University’s Program in American Studies. Hartog has spent his scholarly life obsessed with the difficulties and opportunities that come with studying how broad political and cultural themes have been expressed in everyday legal conflicts. He has worked in a variety of areas of American legal history: on the history of city life, on the history of constitutional rights claims, on the history of marriage, on the history of slavery and emancipation, and on the historiography of legal change and of legal history.

EPISODE 36: Dylan C. Penningroth

In this episode Siobhan talks with Dylan C. Penningroth [https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/dylan-penningroth/#tab_profile] about his prize-winning book “Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights [https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093107]” (Liveright, 2023). Dylan C. Penningroth is Alexander F. & May T. Morrison Professor of American History & Citizenship and Associate Dean for the Program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Legal Studies at UC Berkeley. He specializes in African American history and in U.S. socio-legal history.