This really should be part of my series, you known you live in a university town when ... one of our nation's most distinguished legal historians speaks on the local NPR station. (Or I suppose I might have included this in my occasional series on "legal historians loose in public.")
William Nelson of NYU Law School spoke on WUNC yesterday about the colonial North Carolina courts. Nelson has an article on this forthcoming in the North Carolina Law Review. This is part of Nelson's four-volume synthetic history of colonial legal history. The first volume on the Chesapeake appeared from Oxford University Press in 2008.
Nelson groupies -- and those interested in legal history in general -- will love this. Lots of talk of jurisdiction, the legal profession, and punishment. It's great.
Perhaps next up for WUNC will be constitutional ideas in pre-Civil War UNC graduation addresses?
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