Created in 1985, Mr. and Mrs. Fulton stipulated that the primary purpose of this gift was to fund an annual lecture in legal history, though they allowed the Law School to use any unspent income for library acquisitions. Links to full-text are provided when available. Beginning in 2006, the lectures were recorded and in beginning in 2008, they were also videotaped. After 2008, printed papers were no longer made available. No recordings are available for the 2015 lecture. Additional files include event posters when available.
Submissions from 2023
Writing America’s Constitutions, Nicholas Cole
Submissions from 2021
Vanguard : Leading on Vioting Rights, Leading the Nation, Martha S. Jones
Submissions from 2019
Why Madison Matters : Rethinking Democracy in America, James T. Kloppenberg
Submissions from 2018
F.W. Maitland, Common Law and Civil Law, John Hudson
Submissions from 2017
The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court, Laura Kalman
Submissions from 2016
Weapons of Truth : Money, Propaganda, and Civil Liberties in World War I America, John Fabian Witt
Submissions from 2014
The Honor and Burden of Being First: Judge Constance Baker Motley, Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Submissions from 2013
Civil War: a Genealogy, David Armitage
Submissions from 2012
The Popular Press and the Law in Pre-Industrial England, James Oldham
Submissions from 2011
Quantum Meruit and Old Age Care in American Family Life, Hendrik Hartog
Submissions from 2010
The Spirit of the Law: Separation of Church and State from 1945-1990, Sarah Barringer Gordon
Submissions from 2009
The Verdict of Battle, James Q. Whitman
Submissions from 2008
Forswearing Allegiance, Gerhard Casper
Submissions from 2007
From the Mercantilist World to Market-Based Liberalism: Money as a Constitutional Medium, Christine Desan
Submissions from 2006
Ethics and Corruption in Business and Government: Interdependence and Adverse Consequences, Richard Painter
Submissions from 2005
Rules of Law and Economic Realities: an Historical Reconsideration, Avner Greif
Submissions from 2004
The European Convention on Human Rights: Taking Stock after Half a Century, Alfred William Brian Simpson
Submissions from 2003
The American Jury Project and the Chicago Law School, Franklin E. Zimring
Submissions from 2001
Fundamental Human Rights in Medieval Law, Richard H. Helmholz
Hesitating to Look in the Mirror: German jurisprudence after 1933 and after 1945, Michael Stolleis
Submissions from 2000
A Tale of Two Confederations: the Iroquois, the Americans and the Origins of a Constitutional Dilemma, Jack Rakove
Submissions from 1999
The Origins of Defensive Safeguard in Anglo-American Criminal Procedure, John H. Langbein
Submissions from 1997
Interaction of Spiritual and Secular Law: The Sixteenth-Century and Today, Harold J. Berman
Submissions from 1996
Law and Morals in Classical Legal Thought, Herbert Hovenkamp
Submissions from 1994
Natural Rights: Before and After Columbus, Brian Tierney
Submissions from 1993
Karl Llewellyn's Unfinished Agenda, William L. Twining
Submissions from 1990
Judge Holmes' Life Plan: Confronting Passion, Ambition and Powerlessness, G. Edward White
Submissions from 1989
States' Wrongs, Individuals' Rights and the Nation's Duty: Our First Civil Rights Act, Harold Hyman
Submissions from 1987
The Monastic Judge: Social Practice and Formal Rule in Medieval Marriage, Charles Donahue Jr.
