Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society

Historical Society Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

May 2, 2013 - Annual Meeting - New Haven Lawn Club
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Warshauer, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.
Topic: Habeas Corpus, Martial Law, and the Partisan Mud of Emergency Powers

2012

Fall Program, October 23 - The Appointment of Judges and Justices: Reflections of Governor Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
Annual Meeting - Thursday, May 10, 2012 - New Haven Lawn Club - Speaker The Hon. Judith Kaye, Former Chief Judge of the State of New York. Topic: Reflections on the ‘After-Life’ of a Chief Judge.
May 10, 2012 Minutes
March 6, 2012 Minutes

2011

Annual Meeting - Thursday, May 12, 2011 - New Haven Lawn Club - Speaker Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, at Yale Law School. Topic: The Democracy Index: A First Step Toward Election Reform in Connecticut.
May 12, 2011 Minutes
January 25, 2011 Minutes

2010

2009

December 8, 2009 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
September 16, 2009 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
May 14, 2009 - Annual Meeting - "Origins of American Constitutionalism," by Gordon Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University at the New Haven Lawn Club.
May 14, 2009 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2008

2007

November 3, 2007: Conference - The Constitution of 1818 And Beyond
Daylong conference on Connecticut constitutional and legal history.
University of Connecticut School of Law. More information...
October 11, 2007: Fall Meeting of Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society
Featuring: A Talk by the Hon. Henry Cohn on Connecticut's Early Constitutions
June 6, 2007 - Minutes
May 10, 2007 - Minutes
Second Annual Dinner Meeting
with remarks by Seth P. Waxman, Esq.
Attorney Waxman, who has delivered over 45 oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court, presently is a partner in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, and served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 through 2001. See video of the meeting.
February 6, 2007 - Minutes

2006

2005