Professor Kunal Parker, associate dean for intellectual life and dean’s distinguished scholar, recently participated in several talks throughout the country. In February, he was a panelist at the 15th annual Presidential Symposium: Civil War and Immigration, held by the HistoryMiami Museum. There he discussed Citizenship and Immigration in the Antebellum United States. In January, Parker was a virtual discussant in the seminar titled “Deported Americans: U.S. Citizens & the Expanding Global Deportation Regime during the Interwar era,” sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society. He also gave a talk titled, “History, Tradition, and Analogical Reasoning” at Notre Dame Law School in November 2023.
Parker’s teaching areas and interests include American Legal History, Estates and Trusts, Immigration and Nationality Law, and Property.
Parker recently published his new book, "The Turn to Process." The book explores the massive reorientation of American legal, political, and economic thinking between 1870 and 1970.
In addition to his new book, Parker has published two other books: "Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America" (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), and "Common Law, History, and Democracy in America, 1790 - 1900: Legal Thought Before Modernism" (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
