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2025

  • A Discussion with Professor Matthew Warshauer
    Wednesday, November 12, 2026, at 6:30 p.m.
    Connecticut's Old State House
    Hartford, Connecticut
  • Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Meeting, Wednesday, May 28, 2025
    New Haven Lawn Club
    Speaker: Randy Barnett, Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law, Georgetown University Law Center, discussed "What the Supreme Court Gets Wrong About Rights."

2024

  • 2024 Fall Meeting, Thursday, September 5, 2024
    The Hartford Club
    Retirement Celebration for Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson.
  • Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Meeting, Tuesday, May 14, 2024
    New Haven Lawn Club
    Speaker: Deborah N. Archer, Margaret B. Hoppin Professor of Clinical Law at New York University and President, American Civil Liberties Union, discussed the historical use of transportation infrastructure to perpetuate racial inequities.
  • September 16, 2024 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • May 14, 2024 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • January 22, 2024 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2023

  • 2023 Fall Meeting, Wednesday, November 29, 2023
    The Hartford Club at 46 Prospect Street, Hartford, CT
    Speaker: Judge Maria Araújo Kahn of the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and former justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court discussed her career as a Connecticut judge and now on the federal bench.
  • Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Meeting - Wednesday, April 19, 2023
    New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue, New Haven CT
    Speaker: Neal Katyal, professor of national security law at Georgetown University and former Acting U.S. Solicitor General, addressed his experiences practicing before the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • April 19, 2023 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • January 9, 2023 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2022

  • September 19, 2022 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Meeting - Wednesday, June 15, 2022
    New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue, New Haven CT
    Speaker: Connecticut Chief Justice Richard Robinson discussed the state judicial system's remarkably effective navigation of the COVID pandemic crisis.
  • June 15, 2022 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • January 10, 2022 Mi

2021

  • 2021 Fall Meeting - Wednesday, November 10, 2021
    Via Zoom Online, Speaker: Dr. Donald W. Rogers talked about his recent book, Workers against the City: The Fight for Free Speech in Hague v. CIO (2020) and its implications for civil liberties around the country and in Connecticut
  • September 13, 2021 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • April 29, 2021 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Meeting - Thursday, April 26, 2021
    Via Zoom online, Speaker: Dr. Allison Lange discussed her recent book, Political Power: Images of the Women's Suffrage Movement (2020) and its reflection of gendered politics of the women's suffrage movement
  • (Delayed) Fall Meeting - Tuesday January 12, 2021
    Via Zoom Online, Speaker: Judge Henry Cohn discussed the career of late-nineteenth-century Connecticut judicial reporter John Hooker and his role in Conencticut's legal community.

  • January 11, 2021 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2020

  • 2020 No meeting due to the COVID Pandemic
  • May 4, 2020 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • January 13, 2020 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2019

  • 2019 Fall Meeting - Wednesday, October 23, 2019
    The Hartford Club at 46 Prospect Street, Hartford
    Speaker: Paul DeForest Hicks, Esq., The Litchfield Law School: Guiding the New Nation

  • September 24, 2019 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society Annual Meeting - Wednesday, April 3, 2019
    New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue, New Haven
    CT Speaker, Prof. Akhil Reed Amar Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University

  • April 3, 2019 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • January 14, 2019 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2018

  • Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society - Fall Meeting - Wednesday, October 24, 2018
    Refreshments 5:30 p.m. - Program 6:15 p.m. The Hartford Club 46 Prospect Street, Hartford
    Speaker: Jeanette Zaragoza De León PhD Visiting Research Scholar, Yale Divinity School

    Fall 2018 Meeting Event Details (PDF)
  • September 17, 2018 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • The Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society -
    Thursday, April 19, 2018
    The New Haven Lawn Club
    Speaker, Jeffrey Rosen President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center
    April 2018 Annual Dinner Program (PDF)
  • April 19, 2018 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • January 8, 2018 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2016

  • December 19, 2016 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • September 12, 2016 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • Spring Meeting - Thursday, May 12, 2016
    5:30 p.m. at The Hartford Club in Hartford
    Co-sponsored by The Travelers Companies
    May 2016 Spring Meeting Event Details
  • May 12, 2016 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • January 11, 2016 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2015

  • Fall Meeting - Tuesday, October 13, 2015
    Quinnipiac University School of Law
    Honorable Jon Blue
    The Case of the Piglet's Paternity: Trials from the New Haven Colony, 1639-1663
    October 2015 Fall Meeting Event Details
  • October 13, 2015 Minutes
  • Thursday, April 23, 2015 - Tenth Annual Meeting
    Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society
    The New Haven Lawn Club
    Speaker:  Todd Brewster author of Lincoln's Gamble.
    April 2015 Tenth Annual Meeting Event Details
  • April 23, 2015 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • March 9, 2015 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2014

  • Fall Meeting at the UConn Law School - Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 5:30 p.m.  - October 2014 Fall Meeting at UConn Law Event Details (PDF) PDF
  • September 8, 2014 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • April 29, 2014 Minutes
  • January 6, 2014 Minutes

2013

  • Fall Program, October 24 - Appellate Court
    Title:  And Then There Was an Appellate Court
  • September 11, 2013 Minutes
  • Annual Meeting - May 2 - New Haven Lawn Club
    Speaker: Dr. Matthew Warshauer, Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University.
    Topic: Habeas Corpus, Martial Law, and the Partisan Mud of Emergency Powers
  • May 2, 2013 Minutes
  • January 14, 2013 Minutes

2012

  • December 18, 2012 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • Fall Program, October 23 - The Appointment of Judges and Justices: Reflections of Governor Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.
  • September 10, 2012 Minutes
  • Annual Meeting - Thursday, May 10 - New Haven Lawn Club - Speaker The Hon. Judith Kaye, Former Chief Judge of the State of New York. Topic: Reflections on the After-Life of a Chief Judge.
  • May 10, 2012 Minutes
  • March 6, 2012 Minutes
  • January 9, 2012 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2011

  • Annual Meeting - Thursday, May 12 - New Haven Lawn Club - Speaker Heather Gerken, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, at Yale Law School. Topic: The Democracy Index: A First Step Toward Election Reform in Connecticut .
  • May 12, 2011 Minutes
  • April 26, 2011 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • January 25, 2011 Minutes

2010

  • Thursday, November 4, 2010 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • September 13, 2010 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
    Fifth Annual Meeting - New Haven Lawn Club. Featured Speaker - Jeff Benedict - Award-winning investigative journalist and best-selling author of nine books.
  • March 16, 2010 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2009

  • December 8, 2009 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • September 16, 2009 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • May 14, 2009 -  Annual Meeting - "Origins of American Constitutionalism," by Gordon Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University at the New Haven Lawn Club.
  • May 14, 2009 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • March 31, 2009 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2008

  • June 6, 2008 - Annual Dinner following 200th Anniversary Celebration
    Keynote Speaker: Linda Greenhouse, U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times.
  • December 8, 2008 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • September 29, 2008 - Minutes
  • June 2, 2008 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • April 8, 2008 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting
  • January 8, 2008 Minutes - Board of Directors Meeting

2007

  • November 3, 2007: Conference - The Constitution of 1818 And Beyond
    Daylong conference on Connecticut constitutional and legal history.
    University of Connecticut School of Law. November 2007 Constitution of 1818 Conference Details
  • October 11, 2007: Fall Meeting of Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society
    Featuring: A Talk by the Hon. Henry Cohn on Connecticut's Early Constitutions
  • September 11, 2007 - Minutes
  • June 6, 2007 - Minutes
  • May 10, 2007 - Minutes
    Second Annual Dinner Meeting
    with remarks by Seth P. Waxman, Esq.
    Attorney Waxman, who has delivered over 45 oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court, presently is a partner in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, and served as Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 through 2001. See video of the meeting.
  • February 6, 2007 - Minutes

2006

  • December 5, 2006 - minutes
  • October 3, 2006 - minutes and presentation materials
  • September 12, 2006 - board of directors meeting - minutes
  • June 20, 2006 - board of directors meeting - minutes
  • May 16, 2006 - board of directors meeting - minutes
  • May 2, 2006 - board of directors meeting - minutes
  • February 27, 2006 - board of directors meeting - minutes
  • February 16, 2006 - public meeting - minutes
  • January 23, 2006 - board of directors meeting - minutes
  • January 23, 2006 - archives committee report
  • January 12, 2006 - programs committee - minutes

2005

  • December 13, 2005 - board of directors meeting - minutes
  • November 7, 2005 - board of directors meeting - minutes
  • October 3, 2005 - minutes - First Public Meeting - View Video from CT-N
  • September 15, 2005 - board of directors meeting - minutes

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