Lunch with Charles Eskridge

Join us for lunch with Charles Eskridge as he discusses his paper,“An     Original Document for Every Song in ‘Hamilton:  An American Musical’”

Charles Eskridge joined Quinn Emanuel’s Houston Office in 2015.  Previously, he was a partner for 20 years with Susman Godfrey LLP.  He specializes in complex commercial litigation, representing plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state courts across the country. Eskridge serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, where he teaches a class on the origins of the U.S. Constitution.  A Sustaining Member of the American Law Institute, both Texas Law and Politicsand Texas Monthlymagazines have named him among Texas’ “Super Lawyers” since 2005.  Senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz appointed Eskridge to their Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee. Eskridge received a BSmagna cum laudefrom Trinity University in San Antonio, and a JD summa cum laudefrom Pepperdine University.

 Eskridge is the author of “An  Original Document for Every Song in ‘Hamilton: An American Musical’”  which traces the historical events leading to independence, the formation of the Constitution, and the early experience of the United States by associating an original document that captures the theme or actual narrative of each song in Hamilton.  At least 7 of the songs draw directly from papers written by Hamilton himself, including Washington’s Farewell Address, The Federalist Papers, the Hamilton/Jefferson debate on the National Bank, and the Hamilton/Madison debate on the Statement of Neutrality in the “quasi-war” between France and England.  Other songs explore themes of liberty, education, right to revolution, immigration, and more.