Fridays At Newcomb: Pratt v. Davis and the Origin of Informed Consent — Evelyn Atkinson

Evelyn Atkinson is the Charles E. Lugenbuhl Associate Professor of Law at Tulane Law School and the
Murphy Institute, where she teaches constitutional law, legal history, and a seminar on Race, Law, and
Capitalism. Her book manuscript, under contract with Columbia University Press's Studies in the History
of U.S. Capitalism series, is entitled American Frankenstein: A History of the Constitutional Corporate
Person in the Nineteenth Century.
Atkinson's scholarship has been published in the Virginia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, Journal
of Law & Social Inquiry, the Law and History Review, the Yale Journal of Law & Humanities, and
the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. She has been a Robert Gordon/Stanford Law School Fellow at
the J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History and a Doctoral Fellow in Law & Inequality at the
American Bar Foundation. Among other distinctions, she is the recipient of the Kathryn T. Preyer Award
from the American Society for Legal History and the Fishel-Calhoun Article Prize from the Society for
Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Atkinson received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago, her J.D. cum laude from Harvard
Law School, and her B.A. in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College