GATHERING A LEGAL STUDIES COMMUNITY AT
BROWN UNIVERSITY.
Brown Legal Studies is the umbrella organization for a number of projects at Brown University related to law-related scholarship and initiatives. This website divides the projects into three categories: The Legal History Workshop, the oldest of these initiatives and the centerpiece of Brown Legal Studies; initiatives for and by Brown Graduate Students; and initiatives for and by Brown Undergraduate Students. Although Brown does not house a law school, many Brown faculty and graduate students work on law-related topics. Some use case files to write social histories. Others analyze the writings of jurists as literary texts. Others, still, probe the various ways of knowing indexed in legal systems in myriad times and places. The goal of Brown Legal Studies is to bring together members of the Brown community from across the disciplines—including history, anthropology, literature, religious studies, rhetoric, political science, sociology, art and musicology, geography, area studies, and more—whose work in one way or another touches on law. We hope to forge a broadly inclusive, interdisciplinary legal studies community at Brown.
NOTE AS OF MAY 2024: The Brown Legal History Workshop was temporarily suspended in the Spring of 2020 due to COVID-19. We will resume full programming in the fall semester of 2024. This website will be used for further announcements and programming. If you have questions or want to know more about Brown Legal Studies, including the Brown Legal History Workshop, please email: brownlegalstudies@gmail.com.