| Jan. 13 | Introduction to the Course |
| Jan. 15 | Conflicts of Laws: Indians and Colonists |
| Jan. 22 | Structures of Colonial Governance |
| Jan. 27 | Collecting Debts and Constructing Gender in Colonial America |
| Jan. 29 | The Practice of Law in Colonial America |
| Feb. 3 | Criminal Procedure: Zenger and the 1741 Slave Conspiracy |
| Feb. 5 | Revolutions in Law |
| Feb. 10 | The Constitutional Settlement |
| Feb. 12 | John Marshall |
| Feb. 17 | The first American international law |
| Feb. 19 | The Emergence (and critique) of the courts |
| Feb. 24 | The Law of Slavery |
| Feb. 26 | Private Law of Creative Destruction |
| March 3 | The public law of development |
| March 5 | Federalism into Dred Scott |
| March 10 | Dred Scott into The Civil War in American Law |
| March 12 | The Reconstruction Settlement |
| March 24 | Disintegration (I): Race and the Failures of Reconstruction |
| March 26 | Disintegration (II): Labor and the Employment Relation |
| March 31 | Disintegration (III): Marriage, Family, and Sexuality |
| April 2 | Disintegration (IV): The Transformation of American Criminal Law |
| April 9 | Intellectual Solutions? CLT, Legal Realism, and Legal Education |
| April 14 | Judicial Solutions? Lochner and the Administrative State |
| April 16 | A New Deal for American Law (in the North) |
| April 21 | Same Old Deal for American Law (in the South): The New Slavery? |
| April 23 | The Road to Brown |
| April 28 | Civil Rights and the Law |