History and the Courts

This conversation takes its inspiration from Melissa Murray’s 2024 article “Making History” (The Yale Law Journal Forum 133 (PDF)), in which she asks, “What does it mean for the Court to ‘do history’?”

Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, co-host of Strict Scrutiny podcast, MSNBC legal analyst, and Robert L. Hess Scholar-in Residence 2025. She will be joined by Christen Hammock Jones, doctoral student in American legal history at University of Pennsylvania; Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus, professor at Columbia University School of Law; and Noah Rosenblum, associate professor of law at New York University School of Law and faculty director of the Vanderbilt Scholars Program and Katzmann Symposium.

Moderated by Anna Law, Kurz Chair of Constitutional Rights and Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College.