Program

Research Programs: Conferences

Period of Performance

5/1/1978 - 10/31/1978

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$9,000.00 (approved)
$9,000.00 (awarded)


Conference on Law and Liberty

FAIN: RX-10179-78

Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)
J. H. Hexter (Project Director: May 1978 to present)

To hold a conference on law and liberty. Conference will focus on the problem of law and liberty faced by the Parliament of 1628 and the subsequent "Petition of Right" and on the symmetries and historical links of those British events with the problems faced in 1787-88 by the Founding Fathers.