Faculty Workshops and Faculty Colloquia

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
  Smithianismus and Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Europe 
• Monday, May 13
  Faculty Colloquium
  Svetlana Boym
  Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature
  Harvard University
• Thursday, May 16
  Faculty Workshop
  Yochai Benkler
  Harvard Law School
• Monday, May 20
  Faculty Colloquium
  Claudine Gay
  Professor of Government, and Professor of African and African American Studies
  Harvard University

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

Summer 2012

• Monday, June 4
  Gerald Neuman
  The Principle of Subsidiarity
  
• Thursday, June 7
  Richard Fallon
  Presidential Powers, Executive Precedent, and the Analogy of Machiavellian Morality
  
• Monday, June 11
  A Dialogue with David Barron, Jack Goldsmith, and Dan Meltzer
  
• Thursday, June 14 
  John Coates
  Allocating Risk Through Contract: Evidence from M&A
  
• Monday, June 18
  Neus Torbisco Casals
  Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Cultural Rights: Towards a Participatory Approach
  
• Thursday, June 21
  Christine Desan
  Reinventing Money
  
• Monday, June 25
  Guhan Subramanian
  Does Shareholder Proxy Access Improve Firm Value?:  Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge
  
• Thursday, June 28
  A Dialogue with John Coates and Howell Jackson
  
• Monday, July 2
  Charles Donahue
  What Happened in English Law in the Fourteenth Century and Why Would Anyone Want to Know?
  
• Thursday, July 5 
  No Workshop
  
• Monday, July 9
  David Barron and Todd Rakoff
  In Defense of Big Waiver
  
• Thursday, July 12
  Matthew Stephenson
  The Constraining, Liberating, and Informational Effects of Non-Binding Law
  
• Monday, July 16
  Randall Kennedy
  The Affirmative Action Controversy: Race, Law, and Higher Education
  
• Thursday, July 19
  Glenn Cohen
  Rationing Legal Services
  
• Monday, July 23
  Dean's Event on School-Wide Opportunities
  
• Thursday, July 26
  Howell Jackson
  Understanding and Improving Financial Literacy with Respect to Healthcare Expenditures in Retirement
  
• Monday, July 30
  Jed Shugerman
  The Decision of 1870:  The Origins of the Department of Justice, Professional Independence, and America's Exceptional Executive
  
• Thursday, August 2
  Carol Steiker
  Cover Memo
  
  Entrenchment and/or Destabilization? Reflections on (Another) Two Decades of Constitutional Regulation of Capital Punishment
  
• Monday, August 6
  Adrian Vermeule
  Conventions of Agency Independence
  
• Thursday, August 9
  Louis Kaplow
  Multistage Adjudication
  
• Monday, August 13
  Cass Sunstein
  Empirically Informed Regulation
  
• Thursday, August 16
  No Workshop
  
• Monday, August 20
  Climenko Moot Academic Job Talk
  Michael Coenen
  Constitutional Privileging
  
  Thursday, August 23
  Martha Field
  Postponed
  
• Monday, August 27
  Daniel Halperin
  The Tax Exemption Under Section 501(c)(4)
  
• Thursday, August 30
  Climenko Moot Academic Job Talk
  Elisabeth de Fontenay
  Private Equity Firms as Gatekeepers
  

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
  Clash of Paradigms: Actors and Analogies Shaping the Investment Treaty System
  
  
• Thursday, March 1
  Faculty Colloquium
  Amy Finkelstein
  MIT, Department of Economics
  Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures
  
  
• Monday, March 19
  Adam Samaha
  University of Chicago
  Unconstitutional Conditions Questions Everywhere
  
  
• Thursday, March 22
  Michael Klarman
  HLS
  The Founding Revisited
  
  
• Monday, March 26
  Peter Shane
  Ohio State University 
  Infostructure: The Crumbling Information Infrastructure of American Democracy
  
  
• Thursday, March 29
  Gillian Hadfield
  University of Southern California 
  What is Law? A Coordination Model of the Characteristics of Legal Order
  
  
• Monday, April 2
  Faculty Colloquium
  Parag Pathak
  MIT, Economics
  The Elite Illusion: Achievement Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools
  
• Thursday, April 5
  Faculty Workshop on Clinical Teaching
  Phil Malone
  HLS
  Access to Justice:  Combining Technology and Community Lawyering In Clinical Legal Education
  Best Practices in the Use of Technology to Facilitate Access to Justice Initiatives
  Ramping Up New Ramps to Justice: Cyberlaw Clinic Helps Massachusetts with Access to the Courts
  
  

• Monday, April 16
  Faculty Colloquium
  Steven Pinker
  Harvard University, Department of Psychology 
  

  Link to website for The Better Angels of Our Nature

  Preface and Front Matter for The Better Angels of Our Nature

  FAQ about The Better Angels of Our Nature

  Taming the Devil Within Us
  

• Thursday, April 19
  Sharon Dolovich
  University of California Los Angeles
  Two Models of the Prison: Accidental Humanity and Hypermasculinity in the L.A. County Jail (Edited)
  
  Two Models of the Prison: Accidental Humanity and Hypermasculinity in the L.A. County Jail (Full)
  
  
• Monday, April 23
  Nico Krisch
  Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany
  The Case for Pluralism in Postnational Law
  
  
• Thursday, April 26
  Kristen Stilt
  Northwestern University
  Constitutional Islam as Citizenship, Loyalty, and Privilege: The Formation of the Malaysian Constitution
  
• Monday, April 30
  Neus Torbisco Casals
  Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
  Feminism, Multiculturalism, and Cultural Rights: Towards a Participatory Approach
  
• Monday, May 7
  Faculty Colloquium
  Elaine Scarry
  Harvard University, Department of English
  Thermonuclear Monarchy: Choosing between Democracy and Doom
  
  
• Thursday, May 17
  Faculty Colloquium
  Ruth Gavison
  Hebrew University, Faculty of Law
  The Quest for (Political) identity: Between Universalism and Particularism

Winter 2012

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

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
  
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