All workshops take place on Fridays in room 203 and begin at 12:15pm, unless otherwise noted. This calendar of workshop speakers and topics is also posted on our TWEN page ("Law Faculty - 2011-2012" on the "Workshop Schedule" link). Please also note that two teaching workshops will soon be scheduled; information on those is forthcoming.
2012 Spring Faculty Workshop Schedule
| Date | Name/School | Paper title |
| Feb. 3 |
Scott Baker / Wash U |
"A Dynamic Model of Doctrinal Choice" |
| Feb. 17 |
JD King / W & L |
"Beyond Life and Liberty: The Evolving Right to Counsel" |
| Feb. 24 |
Ryan Scott / IU - Bloomington |
"The Skeptic's Guide to a Common Law of Sentencing" |
| Mar. 2 |
Laura Dudley Jenkins / UC A&S (Department of Political Science) |
"International Perspectives on Affirmative Action in Higher Education" |
| April 6 |
Michelle Madden Dempsey / Villanova | "The Right and Duties of Crime Victims: A Response to Tadros" |
| April 12 |
Siva Vaidhyanathan / Virginia (Department of Media Studies & School of Law) - co-sponsored with A&S Department of English and Comparative Literature as part of the Ropes Lecture Series: | Informal coffee discussion at the law school - time and place TBD. Public lecture @ 7pm in room 118: "There is no such thing as 'The Internet'" |
| Apr. 20 | Jamelle Sharpe / Illinois | "Judging Congressional Oversight" |
| Apr. 27 | William Nancarrow / Curry College (Department of History) | "The Cincinnati Courthouse Riot, William Howard Taft, and Judicial Reform in America, 1880-1925" |
All workshops take place on Fridays in room 203 and begin at 12:15pm, except where otherwise noted. You can also view the calendar of speakers on our TWEN page (titled “Law Faculty Workshops and Colloquia – 2010-11”).
2011 Fall Faculty Workshop Schedule
| Date | Name/School | Paper title |
| Sept. 9 (room 100A) | Emily Houh | Course (Re)Design Redux |
| Sept. 23 | Tom Eisele | Tom on Teaching |
| Sept. 30 | Jennifer Bird-Pollan University of Kentucky |
"Unfair and Inefficient: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the Foreign Sovereign Tax Exemption" |
| Oct. 7 | Tom Eisele & Emily Houh | Exam-writing and Student Assessment |
| Nov. 18 | Deborah Brake University of Pittsburgh |
“Wrestling with Gender: Constructing Masculinity by Not Wrestling Women” |
2011 Summer Faculty Workshop Schedule
Please note that all workshops take place on Wednesdays in room 203 beginning at noon, except as otherwise noted. As usual, lunch will be provided.
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Date |
Name |
Title |
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May 18 |
Doug Mossman |
"Selling Meds for Competence Restoration: The Details Emerge or, Is this worth turning into a law review article?" |
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May 25 |
Stephanie McMahon |
“Joint and Several Tax Liability: I Do Not Think That Statute Means What You Think It Means” |
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June 1 |
Joe Tomain |
“Achieving Democracy: The Future of Government and Markets” |
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June 8 |
Josh Chambers-Letson (A&S – English) |
"The Making of Americans: Performance and Patriotism in the Japanese American Concentration Camps" |
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June 15 |
Darrell Miller |
“Historical Tests and Unbalanced Rights: What the Seventh Amendment Can Teach Us About the Second” |
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June 22 |
Barbara Black |
“Arbitration of Investors’ Claims Against Issuers: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?” |
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June 29 |
Janet Moore |
"Catching Cases" (aka "Connick-Garcetti: A One-Two Knockout Punch") |
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July 6 |
Ken Hirsh |
“Introducing Students to Practice Technology: A Skills Course Proposal” |
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July 12 (TUES) |
Betsy Lenhart |
TBA |
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July 13 |
Susan Boland and John Hopkins |
“Law Library Update: Scholarship Repository and Library Services,” and “The Latest Word in Classroom Technology |
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July 20 |
Sandra Sperino |
“Statutory Proximate Cause” |
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July 27 |
Olga Sanmiguel (A&S – Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies) |
TBA |
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August 3 |
Kristin Kalsem and Emily Houh |
“A Study of Payday Lender Customers: From the Ground Up” |
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August 10 |
Mark Godsey, Raymond Towler, and Robert McClendon |
OIP Update: Exoneree Voices |
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August 17 |
Brad Mank |
“Standing in Connecticut vs. American Electric Power” |
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August 24 |
Lynn Bai |
TBA |
| Date | Presenter | Paper | |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 28 |
Nichole Huberfeld (Kentucky) |
'Federlizing Medicaid' |
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| February 4 |
Todd Aagaard (Villanova) |
‘Regulatory Overlap and Statutory Discontinuities’ |
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| March 4 |
Deborah Widiss (IU-Bloomington) |
‘Reconfiguring Sex, Gender, and the Law of Marriage’ |
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| TUESDAY, April 5 | Andrew Spalding (Chicago-Kent) |
‘The Irony of International Business Law: U.S. Progressive Capitalism and China’s New Laissez Faire’ |
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| April 8 | Johanna Bond (Washington & Lee) |
‘Honor as Property’ |
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| April 15 |
Virginia Harper Ho (Kansas) |
‘Citizens United, Kiobel, and the Multinational Identity Crisis: (Un)bounding Corporate Accountability’ |
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| April 22 | Alexander Tsesis (Loyola-Chicago) |
‘Due Process in Civil Commitments’ |
| Date | Presenter | Paper | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 10 | David Schwartz (Chicago-Kent) |
"The Use of Legal Scholarship by the Federal Courts of Appeal: An Empirical Study" | |
| Sept. 16 | Garrett Epps (Baltimore) |
Defining "citizenship" with respect to children of the undocumented |
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| September 24 |
Richard Albert (Boston College) |
"Presidential Roulette: Presidential Succession in an Age of Terror" | |
| Oct. 1 |
Dan Chow (OSU) |
"Counterfeiting as an Externality Imposed by Multi-Nationals on Developing Countries" |
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| Oct. 8 | Eric Pan (Cardozo) |
"Explaining Financial Regulation" | |
| Oct. 29 | Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Pittsburgh) |
"Small Business and the Government: A Theory of Path Dependence and Cognitive Biases" | |
| Nov. 5 | Noga Morag-Levine (MSU) |
"Formalism and the Brandeis Brief: Revisiting the Myth" |
| Date | Presenter | Paper | Discussant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 15* | Brian Broughman (Indiana) |
Choice of Organizational Form: Preliminary Data | Tim Armstrong |
| Jan. 22* | Stephanie Hoffer (Ohio State) |
Designing an Opt-Out Model of Public Finance for the Provision of Non-Essential Public Goods | Adam Steinman |
| Jan. 29 | John Palfrey (Harvard) |
TBD | Tim Armstrong |
| Feb. 12 | TBD | TBD | Mark Godsey |
| Feb. 19 | Carol Sanger (Columbia) |
TBD | Kristin Kalsem |
| Feb. 26* | Mirit Eyal-Cohen (Pittsburgh) |
Small Business Taxation – Revisited | Stephanie McMahon |
| Mar. 12* | Paulo Barozzo (Boston College) |
Law as Moral Imagination: History, Reason and Will in Modern Law | Lynn Bai |
| Mar. 19 | Stephen Choi (NYU) |
The Supreme Court’s Impact on Securities Class Actions: An Empirical Assessment of Tellabs | Lynn Bai |
* Scholar Exchange Program