Legal History
Students interested in finding out more about the legal history concentration should contact Prof. Segal at Miryam.Segal@qc.cuny.edu.
Legal History Courses Spring 2022
History 186: Introduction to Legal History: Case Law and Legal Thinking
48598 - 001
Fridays, 9:10-12:00 Online
The Beberfall Law School Scholarship awards between $250 and $500 to a graduating student, in any major, who shows great promise in pursuing a legal career. To qualify for the scholarship, students must have been already accepted to, and agreed to attend, an ABA-‐approved law school in the coming fall.
All application materials, including the completed form and an approximately 1000-word personal statement, should be sent to the Chair of the History Department, Powdermaker 352 by mid-Spring semester (inquire at that address for the exact deadline).
Forms can be downloaded here. Hard copies are also available in the History Dept (Powdermaker 352) and the Political Science Dept (Powdermaker 200).
beberfall law scholarship
HIST 289 - VT: Law, Crime, and Society in the Non-Western World
47795 - 001
Mon, Wed. 10:45am-12pm
Instructor: Mr. Andrew Alger
HIST 757: Jewish Legal History
48599 - 001
Tues. 6:30-8:20
Instructor: Prof. Miryam Segal
Legal History Courses Spring 2021
EVENTS SPRING 2021
April 12, 2021: CUNY School of Law Information Session
The History Department is hosting "What Comes After?", a series of Information Sessions on CUNY Professional Schools.The CUNY School of Law Information Session will take place in Free Hour on Monday, April 12, 2021. To register click here.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpd-mrrzIqEtczF9U-_NMKkxAGAp448I40
Legal History Courses Fall 2020
Case Law and Legal Thought (History 186)
Introduction to the ways the law and legal documents, such as court proceedings or speeches, legislative processes, and criminal activity and police archives, among other primary sources, may be used by historians to understand broader trends in society, culture, and political life.
Jewish Family Law (History 290)
This course in legal history takes Jewish rabbinic law--including its reception of biblical law--as its focus. We will be especially interested in instances of development and change in law and thinking about the law, and how those changes are acknowledged or reconciled. Most of the laws we will study will fall into the category of “family law,” broadly conceived, including, for example: laws of marriage and divorce; inheritance; adultery and/or sexual purity; authority and power of family members over each other.