Hendrik hartog biography sampler

Law and Social Inquiry 4:2(May 2019), includes a retrospective symposium on the work of Hendrik Hartog, Princeton University.  Risa Goluboff, University of Virginia Law School, has posted her introduction to SSRN, and so we include a link to it and her abstract below.

What Makes Hartog Hartog: Introduction to a Symposium on the Work of Dirk Hartog
Risa L.

Goluboff

The essays in this symposium on the work of Dirk Hartog encompass meditations on legal positivism and the histories of slavery, civil rights, and women’s rights as well as con- temporary analyses of spousal abuse and the dependency of adult children.

That wide range of subjects, approaches, and concerns might be puzzling were it not for the wide substantive, methodological, and theoretical range in Hartog’s own oeuvre. Hartog’s work has been so generative for other scholars because of his simultaneous engagement with history and law, with fact and theory, with the whole sweep of the nineteent