So instead I pointed out that of the people in the room with us, any number worked with cases or statutes some read regulations for their research, others read treaties, and another group studied things like citizenship, public spheres, administrative systems or the State. It probably would have been prudent to have broken something as a distraction or otherwise tried to change the subject, since I didn’t have tenure at the time and the colleague who was trying to provoke me did. When I sputtered “What?” he asked me if I didn’t agree that legal and constitutional history were going the way of the dodo. A couple of years later, I was sitting in a conference room at UF waiting for a department meeting to start when one of my colleagues in history turned and asked me what I thought about the fact that I taught in a dying field.
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