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Welcome to the Triangle Legal History Seminar's new webpage.  I'm delighted that -- thanks to Ashton Merck's talent and energy -- we have a new blog for the Triangle Legal History Seminar.  By way of background, Ed Balleisen founded the Triangle Legal History Seminar back in 2006 under the umbrella of the Carolina Seminars Program.  And he ran it -- along with a rotating set of co-convenors, including Adrienne Davis, Laura Edwards, and Jonathan Ocko -- until last year, when he entered the provost's office at Duke.

We currently have four conveners -- Al Brophy of UNC, Emiliano Corral of Duke, David Gilmartin of NC State, and Ashton Merck of Duke.  And we are in the process of putting together an exciting schedule for this year.  We typically meet once a month, on Fridays at the National Humanities Center.  But in recent years we've branched out to other meeting spots around the Triangle.

Our website was hosted at Duke Law School for many years -- and the website in fact is still up there -- though given the inter-school nature of our enterprise these days, we wanted a website that each of us could access and post to.

We'll be posting the schedule here and occasionally information about talks in the area, as well as publications that have been presented at the TLHS.  One of the things we want to do is keep a running list of who's presented and what -- and where those papers appear.

Thanks for visiting and we hope to see you at a Triangle Legal History Seminar soon!

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