Josephine R. Witte Professor of Law
May Brodbeck Fellowship in the Humantities, 2019-20
Guggenheim Fellow in Constitutional Studies, 2011
University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
L-vandervelde@uiowa.edu 319-335-9102
Subject areas:
Constitutional Law and Reconstruction; Labor & Employment Law; Property Law; Slavery, and Freedom, 19th c. American Legal History; Property & Land Use; Gender & the Law.
Principle Investigator, Law of the Antebellum Frontier: Stanford Spatial History Lab, since 2012, digital analysis of the texts of the Territorial Records of the U.S.
Principle Investigator, the RAOS project, Reconstruction Congress debates