
James Nagle

Walter Nelson

UCLA Faculty Center
Winter 2020

Georgian Justice: Legal Matters in Jane Austen’s Day
February 29, 2020
UCLA Faculty Center
Speakers:
James Nagle — Inheritance in Jane Austen’s Time
Walter Nelson — Crime and Punishment in the Regency Era
Presenters
Our speakers at this half-day event will be lawyer and frequent JASNA AGM speaker James Nagle on “Inheritance in Jane Austen’s Time” and historian Walter Nelson on “Crime and Punishment in the Regency Era.”
Nagle is a member of the Puget Sound Region and a former secretary of JASNA. A semi-retired lawyer, he maintains an abiding interest in all things Regency and has spoken at numerous Annual General Meetings on Austen’s life and times.
Nelson is an historical consultant who has appeared numerous times on the History Channel and A&E. He has participated in hundreds of living history programs in the U.S. and U.K., and is a librarian and web designer for the RAND Corporation.