Home Current Lectures | Lecture Archives | Watch Lectures Online | Get Email Alerts | Visitor Info | Contact Us
Home

Graduate Council Lectures

David M. Kennedy

 

Steven Usselman
Associate Professor, School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology

Technology, Democracy, and the Law
A forum in conjunction with Constitution Day, with commentary by Robert P. Merges and Lee Tien
Thursday, September 17, 2009 – 2:00-4:30 p.m.
Great Hall of the Bancroft Hotel (2680 Bancroft Way), Berkeley

Steve Usselman specializes in the history of technology and American political economy.  His book, Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840-1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2002) won the Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians and the Hilton Prize in railroad history.  He also served as the president of the Society for the History of Technology from 2007-2008. 

For more information visit www.law.berkeley.edu/ilr.htm