Presentations

“The Nuremberg Principle in the Sweep of History,” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, California (April 19, 2019)

“The Impeachment and Trial of President Andrew Johnson: A Play in Five Acts,” Puget Sound Civil War Board, Seattle, Washington (December 13, 2018)

“International Human Rights Law: The Persistent Problem of Enforcement,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Bend, Oregon (November 10, 2018)

“The Hollow Hope of Habeas: Impact of Supreme Court Decisions on Guantánamo Detainees,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California (September 4, 2015)

“Guantánamo Detainees: A Decade of Rights without Remedy,” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Seattle, Washington (May 28, 2015)

“The Cultural Resonance of War Crimes Tribunals,” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota (May 29, 2014)

“A Historical Inquiry into Human Rights and U.S. Counterterrorism Policy,” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington (April 18, 2014)

“Reconsidering the Torture Debate: The Humanity Principle in Wartime,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Vancouver, British Columbia (October 18, 2013)

“The War against Terrorism in Light of the Human Rights Revolution: Interrogation Policies,” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Boston, Massachusetts (May 31 2013) 

“U.S. Counterterrorism Policies and the Human Rights Revolution,” Law, Societies, and Justice Faculty Workshare Series, University of Washington (May 10, 2013)

Panel Organizer/Chair, “Legal History: New Versions and Uses of History,” West Coast Law & Society Retreat, Seattle, Washington (September 21, 2013)

“The Treatment of Detainees during the Bush Presidency,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington (October 14, 2011)

“The War Crimes Trial That Never Was: An Inquiry into the War on Terrorism, the Laws of War, and Presidential Accountability,” University of Washington School of Law (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,” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, San Francisco, California (May 26, 2011)

“Bringing Back the Laws of War,” Annual Trina Grillo Public Interest & Social Justice Retreat, University of San Francisco School of Law, San Francisco, California (March 26, 2011)

“The Torture Debate,” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, California (April 2, 2010)

“The Illusion of Accountability: The Idea of an American Torture Commission,” Law, Societies, and Justice Faculty Workshare Series, University of Washington, (February 19, 2010)

“The Truth Commission in the American Political System,” Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Victoria, British Columbia (October 16, 2009)

“Declassifying Torture: The Torture Memos,” Panelist, University of Washington School of Social Work (May 20, 2009)

“What Would Warren Do? A Brief Historical Comment on the Seattle Schools Case,” Law, Societies, and Justice Faculty Workshare Series, University of 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,” Case, Law, Societies, and Justice Faculty Workshare Series, University of 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)

“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,” 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)

“The Abolitionist Movement and the Law in Antebellum America,” Center for the 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)

“Military Tribunals in the American Civil War: The Public Debate,” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Chicago, Illinois (May 28, 2004)

“Powers of the Commander in Chief: Revisiting the Lincoln Precedent,” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon (March 13, 2004)

“Conscience in Controversy: Fugitive Slaves, Jury Nullification and Justice Curtis,” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (June 7, 2003) 

“War Powers and Civil Liberties: Lessons from the Past,” Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee (March 25, 2003)

“Cause Lawyering Against Slavery,” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Vancouver, British Columbia (June 1, 2002) 

“Law and American Slavery,” University of California, Santa Barbara (January 9, 2002)

“Civil Disobedience and Slavery,” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Miami, Florida (May 28, 2000)

“The Abolitionist Movement and the Law,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts (September 4, 1998) 

“Structural Argument in Constitutional Interpretation,” Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Norfolk, Virginia (November 8, 1997)

“The Constitutional Debate over the Emancipation Proclamation,” 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,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois (September 2, 1995)

“Slavery and Justice Curtis: The Search for Constitutional Solutions,” Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association, Phoenix, Arizona (June 18, 1994)

“Perspectives on the Presidential Campaign,” University of Miami, Florida (October 5, 1996)

“The Significance of the Paradox of Voting,” Mathematics Honors Lecture, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio (May 1978)