Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society

Historical Society Meetings

Upcoming Meetings

Details to follow

2016

2015

Fall Meeting - Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Quinnipiac University School of Law
Honorable Jon Blue
The Case of the Piglet's Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639-1663
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October 13, 2015 Minutes
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - Tenth Annual Meeting
Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society
The New Haven Lawn Club
Speaker: Todd Brewster author of Lincoln's Gamble.
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April 23, 2015 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
March 9, 2015 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2014

2013

Fall Program, October 24 - Appellate Court
Title: And Then There Was an Appellate Court
September 11, 2013 Minutes
Annual Meeting - May 2 - 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
May 2, 2013 Minutes
January 14, 2013 Minutes

2012

December 18, 2012 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
Fall Program, October 23 - The Appointment of Judges and Justices: Reflections of Governor Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
September 10, 2012 Minutes
Annual Meeting - Thursday, May 10 - 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
January 9, 2012 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2011

Annual Meeting - Thursday, May 12 - 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
April 26, 2011 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
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
March 31, 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
September 11, 2007 - Minutes
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