John Fabian Witt Visiting Scholar Spring 2017

During the Spring 2017 semester, the UAlbany chapter of Phi Beta Kappa and the Department of History hosted Professor John Fabian Witt from Yale University. Dr. Witt is Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law and Professor of History. Professor Witt participated in a discussion titled Law Schools and Legal Careers Open Forum with UAlbany students representing history, political science, and criminal justice majors interested in law school. Professor Witt also presented a public lecture titled The Switch: The Twentieth-Century Reinvention of American Freedom. In addition to the open forum and public lecture, Professor Witt presented two classroom lectures titled Death in the Workplace and the Ambiguities of Progressive Reform and The Puzzling Laws of War: The American Civil War and the Invention of the Modern Jus in Bello.