Speakers and Paper Topics
Speakers for the Symposium are listed below. Biographies are listed when available.
Austin Allen, bio
University of Houston-Downtown, History
”The Legacy of Substantive Due Process”
Adam Arenson
Yale University, History
“The Local Impact of the Dred Scott Case: 1857-2007”
The Hon. Duane Benton, bio
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
“Lessons Learned from the Missouri Supreme Court’s Role in the Dred Scott Case”
Dennis Boman
St. Louis University, History
“Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas on the Founders and Slavery”
Alfred Brophy, bio
University of Alabama Law School
“Realizing Reparations: Of Monuments and Memory”
Louis Gerteis, bio
University of Missouri-St.Louis, History
“The Legacy of the Dred Scott Case: The Uneven Course of Wartime Emancipation in Missouri”
Mark Graber, bio
University of Maryland Law School
“The Other Also Exists: John Brown and the Problem of Constitutional Evil”
Daniel Hamilton, bio
Chicago-Kent Law School
“The Dred Scott Case, Emancipation, and the Rise of the Fifth Amendment”
Cheryl Harris, bio
University of California-Los Angeles, Law School
“Enforced Belonging: Race, Nation and Citizenship from Dred Scott to the Fourteenth Amendment”
Cecil Hunt, II, bio
John Marshall Law School
“No Right to Respect: Justice Taney, Dred Scott, and the Legacy of White Innocence”
Joseph G. Hylton, bio
Marquette University Law School
“From Taney to Hughes: Dred Scott in the United States Supreme Court, 1857-1934”
Lewis Perry, bio
St. Louis University, History
“Civil Disobedience and the Struggle Against Slavery”
Silvana Siddali, bio
St. Louis University, History
“Human Property”
Alexander Tsesis
University of Wisconsin Law School
"The Unalienable Core of Citizenship"
Lea VanderVelde, bio
University of Iowa Law School
“The Real Dred and Harriet Scott: Unsung Heroes in their Own Right(s)”
Leland Ware, bio
University of Delaware, Law and Public Policy
”Dred Scott and the Enduring Marks of Inferiority”
William Wiecek, bio
Syracuse University Law School
“Emancipation and Equality: The Thirteenth Amendment and the Law of Personal Status”
Ken Winn, bio
State Archivist of Missouri and Deputy Secretary of State for Records Services
Michael Wolff, bio
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri
"Race, Law, and the Struggle for Equality: Missouri Law, Politics, and the Dred Scott Case"
Thursday, March 1, 4 pm, Graham Chapel, Free and open to the public
Michael Zuckert, bio
University of Notre Dame, Political Science
“Legality and Legitimacy in the Dred Scott Decision”
Moderators/Commentators
Annette Gordon-Reed, bio
New York Law School
James Simon, bio
New York Law School
Eric Claeys, bio
Saint Louis University School of Law
Davison Douglas, bio
Marshall-Wythe Law School (College of William & Mary)
Michael Les Benedict, bio
Ohio State University
Paul Finkelman, bio
Albany Law School
Jack Greenberg, bio
Columbia Law School
Kevin Johnson, bio
University of California-Davis
Judicial Roundtable
Michael Wolff, bio
Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Missouri
Richard Teitelman, bio
Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri
Stephen Limbaugh, bio
Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri
William Ray Price, bio
Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri
Mary Russell, bio
Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri
Laura Denvir Stith, bio
Judge, Supreme Court of Missouri
The Hon. Duane Benton, bio
United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit