Faculty Workshops and Faculty Colloquia

Winter 2012

• Thursday, January 19
  Devon Carbado
  UCLA School of Law
  Acting White?:  Rethinking Race in a Post-Racial Era
  

Spring 2012

• Thursday, January 26
  Jim Greiner
  HLS
  The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future (Shorter Version)
  
  The Limits of Unbundled Legal Assistance: A Randomized Study in a Massachusetts District Court and Prospects for the Future (Longer Version)
  
  
• Thursday, February 23
  Anthea Roberts
  London School of Economics
  
  
• Thursday, March 1
  Faculty Colloquium
  Amy Finkelstein
  MIT, Department of Economics
  
  
• Monday, March 19
  Adam Samaha
  University of Chicago
  
  
• Thursday, March 22
  Michael Klarman
  HLS
  
  
• Monday, March 26
  Peter Shane
  Ohio State University 
  
  
• Thursday, March 29
  Gillian Hadfield
  University of Southern California 
  
  
• Monday, April 2
  Faculty Colloquium
  Parag Pathak
  MIT, Economics
  
  
• Thursday, April 5
  Faculty Workshop on Clinical Teaching
  Phil Malone
  HLS
  
  
• Monday, April 16
  Faculty Colloquium
  Steven Pinker
  Harvard University, Department of Psychology 
  
  
• Thursday, April 19
  Sharon Dolovich
  University of California Los Angeles
  
  
• Monday, April 23
  Nico Krisch
  Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany
  
  
• Thursday, April 26
  Kristen Stilt
  Northwestern University
  
  
• Monday, April 30
  Neus Torbisco Casals
  Visiting Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
  
  
• Monday, May 7
  Faculty Colloquium
  Elaine Scarry
  Harvard University, Department of English
  
  
• Thursday, May 10
  John Manning
  HLS
  
  
• Thursday, May 17
  Ruth Gavison
  Hebrew University

Fall 2011

• Thursday, September 8
  Richard Fallon
  HLS
  Scholars’ Briefs and the Vocation of a Law Professor
  
• Thursday, September 15
  Charles Fried
  HLS
  Contract as Promise Thirty Years On
  
• Thursday, September 22
  Yair Listokin
  Yale Law School
  Taxation and Marriage: A Reappraisal
  
• Thursday, October 6
  Carlos Vazquez
  Georgetown University Law Center
  Customary International Law as U.S. Law: A Critique of the Revisionist and Intermediate Positions and a Defense of the Modern Position
  
• Thursday, October 13
  Kenneth Mack
  HLS
  Postponed
  
• Thursday, October 20
  David Strauss
  University of Chicago Law School
  Adaptive Preferences
  
• Thursday, October 27
  Dan Kahan
  Yale Law School
  'They Saw a Protest': Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction
  
• November 3
  Lawrence Lessig
  HLS
  Two Conceptions of "Corruption"
  
• November 10
  Colloquium
  David Laibson
  Harvard
  Department of Economics
  Self Control and Liquidity:  How to Design a Commitment Contract
  
• Thursday, November 17
  Colloquium
  Gary King
  Harvard
  Department of Government
  General Purpose Computer-Assisted Clustering and Conceptualization
  
• Monday, November 21
  Richard Lazarus
  HLS
  Postponed
  
• Monday, November 28
  David Wilkins
  HLS
  Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies
  Cover Memo
  Globalization, Lawyers and Emerging Economies:  Theoretical and Methodological Commitments
  Globalization, Lawyers, and the Rule of Law:  Private Practice and Public Values in the Global Market for Corporate Legal Services
  Globalization, Lawyers, and India:  Toward a Theoretical Synthesis between Globalization Studies and the Sociology of the Legal Profession
  
• Monday, December 5
  Colloquium
  Amartya Sen
  Harvard
  Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy
  Rights, Laws, and Language
  
• Thursday, December 8
  Vicki Jackson
  HLS
  'Extra-Territorial' Constitutional Interpretation: Outsider Interventions in Domestic Constitutional Contests

Summer 2011

• Thursday, June 9
  Mark Tushnet
  The Hughes Court:  Civil Liberties After 1937
• Monday, June 13
  Einer Elhauge
  A Little Lower than God:  What Should Limit Our Efforts to Redesign Humans?
  
• Thursday, June 16
  Matthew Stephenson
  The Distributional Effects of Minority-Protective Judicial Review
  
• Monday, June 20
  John Goldberg and Robert Sitkoff
  Torts or Estates?  Remedying Wrongful Interference with Inheritance
  
• Thursday, June 23
  Scott Brewer
  Logocratic Method and the Analysis of Arguments in Evidence
  
• Monday, June 27
  Eric Foner 
  Department of History
  Columbia University
  The Fiery Trial:  Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
  Preface and Chapter 2
  Chapter 7, 8, and Epilogue
  End Materials
  
• Thursday, June 30
  Terry Fisher
  The Hope Poster Case
  
• Thursday, July 7
  Ashish Nanda
  Cover Memo
  Linklaters (A):  Seeking Clear Blue Water
  
• Monday, July 11
  Workshop on Teaching Fraud 
  Led by John Coates
  The DONS Negotiation
  
• Thursday, July 14
  Workshop on Assessing Our Teaching
  Led by Carol Steiker
  NOTE:  This Workshop  is for HLS Faculty Only.
  
• Monday, July 18
  Janet Halley
  What is Family Law?: A Genealogy, Part II
  
  
  What is Family Law?:  A Genealogy, Part I
  
• Thursday, July 21
  Rachel Brewster
  The Surprising Benefits to Developing Countries of Linking International Trade and Intellectual Property
  
• Monday, July 25
  Lani Guinier
  Workshop Materials
  
• Thursday July 28
  Adrian Vermeule
  “Government by Public Opinion”: Bryce’s Theory of the Constitution
  
• Monday, August 1
  Michael Sandel
  Department of Government
  What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
  
• Thursday, August 4
  Charles Nesson
  Principled Originalism
  
• Monday, August 8
  David Rosenberg and Kathy Spier
  On Structural Bias in the Litigation of Common Question Claims
  
• Thursday, August 11
  I. Glenn Cohen
  Medical Outlaws or Medical Refugees?:  Circumvention Medical Tourism and the Extraterritorial Application of Domestic Criminal Law
  
• Monday, August 15
  Ben Sachs
  Unions, Corporations, and Political Opt-Out Rights After Citizens United
  
• Thursday, August 18
  Morton Horwitz
  Brown v. Board of Education
  
• Monday, August 22
  Dan Coquillette
  The Intellectual Sword:  Two Centuries of Harvard Law School:  The Bicentennial History (2017)
  Chapter Outline, Volume I
  
  Chapter Four:  The “Ancien Regime” and the Civil War (1848-1869)
  
• Thursday, August 25
  Gerald Neuman
  The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, or, How I spent my Spring Break (and July)
  

Winter 2011

• Monday, January 10
  Holger Spamann
  (Entry Level Presentation; HLS Faculty Only)
  
• Thursday, January  13
  Ganesh Sitaraman
  (Entry Level Presentation; HLS Faculty Only)
  

    Spring 2011

• Monday, January 24
  Melissa Wasserman
  (Entry Level Presentation; HLS Faculty Only)
  
• Thursday, February 3
  Eloise Pasachoff
  (Entry Level Presentation; HLS Faculty Only)
  
• Thursday, February 10
  Katherine Porter
  University of Iowa
  The Pretend Solution:  An Empirical Study of Bankruptcy Outcomes
  
• Monday, February 14
  Prabha Kotiswaran
  (Entry Level Presentation; HLS Faculty Only)
  
• Thursday, February 17
  Moria Paz
  (Entry Level Presentation; HLS Faculty Only)
  
• Monday, February 21
  Samuel Bray
  (Entry Level Presentation; HLS Faculty Only)
  
• Thursday, February 24
  Timothy Wu
  Columbia Law School
  Excerpts from The Master Switch
  
• Monday, February 28
  Vincent Chiao
  (Entry Level Presentation; HLS Faculty Only)
  
• Thursday, March 3
  Louis Kaplow
  HLS
  Burden of Proof
  
• Monday, March 21
  Frank Michelman
  HLS
  The Priority of Liberty:  Rawls and a “Warren Court Model”
  
• Thursday, March 24
  David Estlund
  Brown University 
  "Human Nature and the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy" and "What Good Is It? Unrealistic Political Theory and the Value of Intellectual Work"
  
• Monday, March 28
  HLS Planning Workshop
  Led by Dan Meltzer
  (HLS Faculty Only)
  
• Thursday, March 31
  Moshe Halbertal
  NYU Law School and Hebrew University
  At the Threshold of Forgiveness:  Law and Narrative in the Talmud
  
• Monday, April 4
  “How Am I Doing?”  Assessing Our Teaching
  Carol Steiker, Jim Greiner, Ron Sullivan, and Todd Rakoff, HLS
  and Terry Aladjem, Executive Director, Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
  POSTPONED
  
• Thursday, April 7
  Chibli Mallat
  University of Utah Quinney College of Law
  Islam and the Constitutional Order
  
• Monday, April 11
  Robert L. Nelson
  American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University (Law and Sociology)
  Rights on Trial: Race and Representation in Employment Civil Rights Litigation
  
• Thursday, April 14
  Theunis Roux
  University of New South Wales Faculty of Law
  Chapter 2
  Introduction
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 3
  
• Thursday, April 21
  Antony Anghie
  University of Utah Quinney College of Law
  Imperialism and Sovereignty in the Jurisprudence of Emer de Vatell
  
• Monday, April 25
  John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain, HLS
  Smarter Law School Cases and Casebooks
  
• Thursday, April 28
  Adriaan Lanni and Adrian Vermeule
  HLS
  Constitutional Design in the Ancient World
  
• Monday, May 9
  James Greiner
  HLS
  Randomized Evaluation in Legal Assistance: Report of a First Study, A Critical Review of the Literature, and Prospects for the Future
  
• Monday, May 16
  Eric Nelson
  Department of Government
  Harvard University
  Patriot Royalism:  The Stuart Monarchy in American Political Thought, 1769-1775
  
  

Fall 2010

• Monday, September 13
  Eloise Pasachoff (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  Special Education, Poverty, and the Limits of Private Enforcement
  
• Thursday, September 16
  Jake Brooks (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  Doing Too Much: The Standard Deduction and the Conflict Between Progressivity and Simplification
  
• Monday, September 27
  Jaime Dodge (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  The Limits of Procedural Private Ordering
  
• Thursday, September 30
  Using Technology to Support Our Teaching: Case Studies of How Faculty Design, Shape and Use Learning Technologies
  John Palfrey, Karen Storin Linitz, and Kimberly Hall
  HLS
  
• Monday, October 4 (Colloquium)
  Internet Economics: Online Advertising, Search Engines, and the Future of Internet Publishing
  Abstract
  Introduction
  Article
  Susan Athey
  Department of Economics
  Harvard University
  
• Wednesday, October 6
  Rebecca Haw (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  Unreasonable Disagreement: The Problem of Manufactured Dissent Among Expert Economists in Antitrust Litigation
  
• Thursday, October 7
  Workshop on Best Teaching Practices
  Led by Carol Steiker
  HLS
  
• Monday, October 11
  Zack Gubler (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  Why We Should Think Twice About An Insurance Regime For Ending the Twenty-First
  Century Bank Run
  
• Thursday, October 14
  Yves Dezalay, French National Center for Scientific Research
  Bryant Garth, Southwestern Law School and American Bar Foundation
  Asian Legal Revivals: Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire
  
• Monday, October 18
  Robin Kelsey (Colloquium)
  Professor of Photography
  Department of the History of Art and Architecture
  Harvard University
  The Uneasy Relationship Between Courts and Cameras
  
• Thursday, October 21
  Cora True-Frost (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  Signaling Credibility?:  The Development of Individual Standing in International Security
  
• Monday, October 25
  Jennifer Lerner (Colloquium)  
  Kennedy School of Government
  Portrait of the Angry Decision Maker: How Appraisal Tendencies Shape Anger’s Influence on Cognition
  
• Thursday, October 28
  Mihir Desai
  Harvard Business School
  Trade Credit and Taxes
  
• Monday, November 1
  Michael Burstein (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  Exchanging Information without Intellectual Property
  
• Monday, November 8
  Ivan Reidel (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  The Price of Fame:  The Antitrust Law and Economics of Broadcasting, Music, and Advertising
  
• Thursday, November 11
  Arnulf Becker Lorca (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  Armed Force against Non-State Actors?:  Regulating Violence between War & Peace
  
• Monday, November 15
  Norman Spaulding
  Stanford Law School
  The Privilege of Probity: The Development of Attorney-Client Privilege Doctrine in America, 1782-1900
  
• Thursday, November 18
  Sanford Levinson
  University of Texas School of Law
  Courts as Participants in ‘Dialogue’: A View from American States
  
• Monday, November 22
  Jason Marisam (Moot Academic Job Talk)
  Duplicative Delegations
  
• Thursday, December 2
  Jon Elster
  Department of Political Science
  Columbia University
  A Dialogue with Bentham
  
• Monday, December 6
  Gillian Metzger
  Columbia Law School
  Federalism and Federal Agency Reform
  
• Thursday, December 9
  Philip Alston
  New York University School of Law
  Should UN Human Rights Monitors be Accountable?
  
• Monday, December 13
  Yo-Yo Ma
  Department of Music
  Harvard University
  Musical Score

Summer 2010 

• Monday, June 7
  Noah Feldman
  Scorpions:  The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices (Book Draft Selections)
  
• Thursday, June 10
  Charles Nesson
  Public Trial In The Age of Internet
  
• Monday, June 14
  I. Glenn Cohen
  Well, What About the Children?: Best Interests Reasoning, the New Eugenics, and the Regulation of Reproduction
  
• Thursday, June 17
  John Coates
  Citizens United, Corporate Governance, and a New Era of Crisis in the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy
  
• Monday, June 21
  Michael Sandel
  Markets and Morals
  
• Thursday, June 24
  Guhan Subramanian
  What Happened to the Rule of Law?  Three Dealmaking Case Studies from the Financial Crisis and
  Policy Implications
  
• Monday, June 28
  Ben Sachs
  Despite Preemption: Labor Lawmaking in the Cities and States
  
• Thursday, July 1
  Gabriella Blum
  On a Differential Law of War
  
• Thursday, July 8
  Frank Michelman
  "The Public Private Divide" in Comparative Constitutional Law
  
• Monday, July 12
  Ben Roin
  Intellectual Property Versus Prizes: A Policy-Lever Analysis
  
• Thursday, July 15
  Bill Stuntz
  Fighting Crime: Race, Democracy, and Criminal Justice in America
  
• Monday, July 19
  Jim Greiner
  Can Voter ID Laws Be Administered In a Race-Neutral Manner?: Evidence from the City of Boston in 2008
  
• Thursday, July 22
  Scott Brewer
  Pyrrhonian Doubt and the Appearances of Law
  
• Monday, July 26
  Randall Kennedy
  Obama and the Racial Politics of the Sotomayor Confirmation
  
• Thursday, July 29
  Jonathan Zittrain
  Ubiquitous Human Computing
  
• Monday, August 2
  Adrian Vermeule
  Second Opinions
  
• Thursday, August 5
  Christine Desan
  Making Money:  Coin, Credit, and the Coming of Capitalism in the Anglo-American World
  
• Monday, August 9
  Mark Ramseyer
  Do School Cliques Dominate Japanese Bureaucracies?  Evidence from Supreme Court Appointments
  
• Thursday, August 12
  John Goldberg
  Rights and Responsibility in Tort
  
• Monday, August 16
  Ashish Nanda
  Memo to Faculty
  Case Study 1 -- Bingham McCutchen
  Case Study 2 -- Berwin
  Case Study 3 -- "Hands Across the Atlantic"
  
• Thursday, August 19
  Matthew Stephenson
  Endogenous Information Acquisition and Institutional Design
  
• Monday, August 23
  John Palfrey
  Four Phases of Internet Regulation
  
  For further information, please contact Akiba Covitz (at acovitz@law.harvard.edu) or Aileen Slater (at aslater@law.harvard.edu).  Thank you.