Faculty Workshops and Faculty Colloquia

Fall 2013

• Monday, September 9
  Faculty Workshop
  Gabriella Blum
  Harvard Law School
  Selections from "The Spider and the Mosiac"
• Thursday, September 12
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Paul MacMahon
  Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
  Good Faith, Fair Dealing, and Underenforced Legal Norms in Private Law
• Monday, September 16
  Faculty Workshop
  Allen Ferrell
  Harvard Law School
  Thirty Years of Shareholder Rights and Firm Value
  Thirty Years of Shareholder Rights and Stock Returns
• Thursday, September 19
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Michael Morley
  Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
  Public Law at the Cathedral: A Defense of Strong Injunction Essentialism
• Monday, September 23
  Faculty Workshop
  Jeannie Suk and Scott Hemphill
  Harvard Law School
  The Fashion Originators' Guild of America: Self-Help at the Edge of IP and Antitrust
• Thursday, September 26
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  John Muller
  Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
  The Law of Issues
• Monday, September 30
  Faculty Workshop
  Catharine MacKinnon
  Visiting Professor of Law
  Gender in Constitutions
• Thursday, October 3
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Seth Stoughton
  Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
  The Incidental Regulation of Policing
• Thursday, October 10
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Sharon Jacobs
  Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
  
• Monday, October 21
  Faculty Workshop
  TBD
  
• Thursday, October 24
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Jeffrey Skopek  
  Petrie Flom Academic Fellow
• Monday, October 28
  Faculty Workshop
  Daniel Klerman  
  Visiting Professor of Law
• Thursday, October 31
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  William Nicholson Price 
  Petrie Flom Academic Fellow
• Monday, November 4
  Faculty Workshop
  Vikramaditya Khanna
  Visiting Professor of Law
• Thursday, November 7
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Kazi Sabeel Rahman 
  Regional F. Lewis Fellow
• Monday, November 11
  Faculty Workshop
  Anna Gelpern  
  Visiting Professor of Law
• Thursday, November 14
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Nitzan Shilon   
  S.J.D.
• Monday, November 18
  Faculty Colloquium
  Richard Lewontin   
  Professor of Biology Emeritus
• Thursday, November 21
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Anna Su  
  S.J.D.
• Monday, November 25
  Faculty Workshop
  William Burke-White   
  Visiting Professor of Law
• Monday, December 2
  Faculty Colloquium
  Stephen Ansolabehere   
  Professor of Government, Harvard
• Monday, December 9
  Faculty Workshpo
  John Coates   
  Harvard Law School
• Monday, December 16
  Faculty Workshop
  Justin Driver  
  Visiting Professor of Law

Summer 2013

• Monday, June 3
  William Fisher 
  Intellectual Property and Business Strategy
• Thursday, June 6
  Scott Brewer 
  Law, Logic, and Leibniz' Axiomatic Vision of Law: A Contemporary Perspective
• Monday, June 10
  James Greiner 
  Rehabilitating Consumers in Financial Distress: A Randomized Control Trial, A Clinical Approach, and More
• Thursday, June 13
  Ben Roin  
  The Case For Tailoring Patent Awards Based On The Time-To-Market Of Inventions
• Monday, June 17
  Lawrence Lessig  
  What an Originalist Would Understand "Corruption" to Mean
• Thursday, June 20
  Richard Fallon  
  The Irreducible Roles of Values and Judgment within Textualist as Well as Purposivist Theories of Statutory Interpretation
• Monday, June 24
  Elizabeth Bartholet  
  Creating a Child-Friendly Child Welfare System: The Use and Misuse of Research
• Thursday, June 27
  Cass Sunstein  
  Nonquantifiable
• Monday, July 8
  Mark Tushnet  
  Progressivism, Prohibition and Organized Crime: Criminal Law in the 1930's
• Thursday, July 11
  Lucian Bebchuk  
• Monday, July 15
  Noah Feldman  
  Cool War: The Future of Global Competition
• Thursday July,18
  Vicki Jackson
  Judging and Representing
• Monday, July 22
  Philip Heymann
  The U.S. and Organized Crime: The Mexican Front
• Thursday, July 25
  Robert Bordone, Carol Steiker and Jeannie Suk 
• Monday, July 29
  Michael Sandel
  Markets and Morals
• Thursday August 1
  Lani Guinier
  Selections from forthcoming book on meritocracy
• Monday, August 5
  Benjamin Sachs
• Thursday August 8
  Kenneth Mack
  A Black Man in the White House: Lessons from the Eisenhower Years
• Monday, August 12
  Einer Elhauge
  Obamacare and The Theory of The Firm
• Thursday August 15
  Anne Fleming, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law  
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  The Rise and Fall of Unconscionabilty as the "Law of The Poor"
• Thursday August 22
  Avlana Eisenberg, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law  
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Expressive Enforcement 
• Monday, August  26
  Seth Davis, Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law  
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Presidential Government and the Law of Property   

Spring 2013

• Monday, February 25
  Faculty Colloquium on Teaching
  Eric Mazur
  Area Dean of Applied Physics
  Balkanski Professor of Physics and of Applied Physics
  Harvard University
  "Farewell, Lecture?"
• Thursday, February 28
  Faculty Workshop
  Fionnuala Ni Aolain
  Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization
  Close Encounters of the Female Kind in the Land of Counter-Terrorism: A Cautionary Tale
• Thursday, March 7
  Faculty Workshop
  Thomas Lee
  Visiting Professor of Law
  The Civil Law Tradition in American Constitutional Jurisprudence 
• Thursday, March 14
  Faculty Workshop
  Samuel Moyn
  Visiting Professor of Law
  The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity
• Monday, March 25
  Faculty Colloquium
  Matthew Desmond
  Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies
  Harvard University
  Eviction and the Reproduction of Urban Poverty
• Thursday, March 28
  Faculty Workshop
  Nicola Lacey
  Visiting Professor of Law   
  Political Economy, Local Autonomy and the Path from Education to Employment
• Thursday, April 4
  Faculty Workshop
  Mark Wu
  Harvard Law School
  The Next Generation of Trade and Environment Conflicts
• Thursday, April 11
  Faculty Workshop
  Oren Gross
  Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems
  Venerate and Violate
• Thursday, April 18
  Faculty Workshop
  Phil Heymann
  Harvard Law School 
  Phil Heymann Faculty Workshop Paper
• Monday, April 22
  Faculty Workshop
  Adrian Vermeule
  Harvard Law School
  Rationally Arbitrary Decisions (in Administrative Law) 
• Thursday, April 25
  Faculty Workshop
  Jeanne Fromer
  Visiting Professor of Law
  The Audience in Intellectual Property Infringement 
• Monday, May 6
  Faculty Colloquium
  Emma Rothschild
  Knowles Professor of History
  History Department
  Director, Center for History and Economics
  Harvard University
• Monday, May 13
  Faculty Colloquium
  Svetlana Boym
  Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature
  Harvard University
  Selections from Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea
• Thursday, May 16
  Faculty Workshop
  Yochai Benkler
  Harvard Law School
  Practical Anarchism: Peer Mutualism, Market Power, and the Fallible State
• Monday, May 20
  Faculty Colloquium
  Claudine Gay
  Professor of Government, and Professor of African and African American Studies
  Harvard University  
  Moving to Opportunity: The Political Effects of a Housing Mobility Experiment

Fall 2012

• Thursday, September 6
  Library Services: Past, Present, and Future
  Kim Dulin, Suzanne Wones, and Jonathan Zittrain
  
  
• Monday, September 10
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  William Magnuson
  Climenko Fellow
  International Corporate Bribery and Unilateral Enforcement 
  
  
• Thursday, September 13
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Sam Erman
  Berger-Howe Legal History Fellow, 2011-2012
  Citizens of Empire: Puerto Rico, Status, and Early-20th-Century Constitutional Change
  
  
• Thursday, September 20
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Leah Plunkett
  Climenko Fellow
  Captive Markets
  
  
• Monday, September 24
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  James Coleman
  Climenko Fellow
  Domestic Regulation of Global Environmental Problems Without a Treaty
  
  
• Thursday, September 27
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Klemen Jaklic, S.J.D.
  Liberal Legitimacy and the Question of Respect
  
  
• Monday, October 1
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Nimer Sultany, S.J.D.
  The Sharia Clause: Islamic Law, Democracy, and Constitutionalism in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
  
  
• Thursday, October 4
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Jeff Skopek
  Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow
  A Theory of Anonymity:  The Production of Goods
  
  
• Monday, October 8
  Moot Academic Job Talk
  Katharine Young, S.J.D.
  Courts and Social Welfare Rights: Changing the Terms of the Enforcement Debate
  
• Thursday, October 11
  Faculty Colloquium
  Frank Dobbin
  Professor of Sociology
  Department of Sociology
  Harvard University
  When do Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Work?  Evidence from Private-Sector Workplaces
  
• Monday, October 15
  Faculty Colloquium
  Caroline Elkins
  Professor of History
  Department of History
  Harvard University
  (Re)writing the History of British Decolonization
  
  
• Thursday, October 18
  Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Lani Guinier
  Amicus Brief, Fisher v. Texas
  
  
• Monday, October 22
  Intisar Rabb
  The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Legal Studies
  Harvard Law School and
  Associate Professor of Law and of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU and NYU School of Law
  Postponed Until December 10
  
  Noah Feldman
  Harvard Law School
  Cool War:  The Future of Global Competition
  
• Thursday, October 25
  Wendy Jacobs and Todd Rakoff
  Faculty Assessment Initiative
  
• Monday, October 29
  Youngjae Lee
  Visiting Professor of Law
  Harvard Law School and
  Professor of Law
  Fordham School of Law
  Moral Uncertainty and Reasonable Doubt
  POSTPONED UNTIL DECEMBER 3 DUE TO HURRICANE SANDY
  
  
• Thursday, November 1
  Faculty Colloquium
  Robert Lue
  Faculty Director, HarvardX
  Director of Life Sciences Education and
  Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  Department Molecular and Cellular Biology
  
  
• Monday, November 5
  Daniel Lieberman
  Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
  Chair, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
  Affiliate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
  Curatorial Board, Peabody Museum
  Four Legs Good, Two Legs Fortuitous: Brains, Brawn, and the Evolution of Human Bipedalism
  
  
• Thursday, November 8
  Morton Horwitz
  Harvard Law School
  The Erosion of Felix Frankfurter’s Influence, 1957-1962
  
  
• Monday, November 12
  Adam Levitin
  Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law
  Harvard Law School and
  Professor of Law
  Georgetown University Law Center
  The Paper Chase: Securitization, Foreclosure, and the Uncertainty of Mortgage Title  
  
  
• Thursday, November 15
  Julie Suk
  Visiting Professor of Law
  Harvard Law School and
  Professor of Law
  Cardozo School of Law
  Quotas:  From Discrimination to Democracy
  
  
• Monday, November 19
  Shahab Ahmed
  The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Legal Studies
  Harvard Law School and
  Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Barker Center, Harvard University
  Rethinking the Normativity of Islamic Law
  
  
• Thursday, November 22
  Thanksgiving Holiday
  No Workshop
  
• Monday, November 26
  Jesse Fried
  Harvard Law School
  The Uneasy Case for Favoring Long-Term Shareholders
  
• Thursday, November 29
  Faculty Colloquium
  Jessica Silbey
  Professor of Law
  Suffolk Law School
  Harvesting Intellectual Property: IP Interventions and the Roles of Intellectual Properties in Creative and Innovative Work
  Book Summary
  
  Chapter 3: Making Do With Leaky IP
  
• Monday, December 3
  Faculty Colloquium
  Daniel Kahneman
  Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Emeritus
  Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and
  Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
  Princeton University
  POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2013
  
  Youngjae Lee
  Visiting Professor of Law
  Harvard Law School and
  Professor of Law
  Fordham School of Law
  Moral Uncertainty and Reasonable Doubt
  RE-SCHEDULED FROM OTOBER 29 DUE TO SUPERSTORM SANDY
  
  
• Thursday, December 6
  Kristin Hickman
  Donald C. Alexander Visiting Professor in Tax Law, Harvard Law School
  and
  Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School
  Unpacking the Force of Law
  
  
• Monday, December 10
  Intisar Rabb
  The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Visiting Associate Professor of Islamic Legal Studies
  Harvard Law School and
  Associate Professor of Law and of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU and NYU School of Law
  "Reasonable Doubt" in Early Islamic Law and Society
  
  
• Thursday, December 13
  Faculty Colloquium
  Frances Kamm
  Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy
  Kennedy School of Government and
  Professor of Philosophy
  Department of Philosophy
  Harvard University
  Ethics for Enemies:  Terror, Torture, and War
  Part 1
  
  Part 2

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.