This program brings together experts on Magna Charta and its influences on modern Anglo-American law. The panel will explore Magna Charta as a founding constitutional document and its effects on juries and on contemporary constitutions. The Section on Legal History seeks to foster interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in the broad field of legal history, promote discussion of ideas relating to teaching and research in the history of all legal systems of the present and the past, and mentor scholars in the rich traditions and disciplines of historical legal studies. By using the lens of Magna Charta, this program explores the rich tradition of constitutionalism that is at the foundation of the rule of law.
The Section held a virtual business meeting in advance of the Annual Meeting.