Faculty Colloquia and Events
Consistent with its longstanding commitment to fostering a communal environment of intellectual engagement, the Law School is pleased to host countless colloquia, conferences, and guest lectures throughout the school year. Many of these events are specially scheduled, one-time affairs. In addition, the school runs the following regularly scheduled series, which cover a range of formats and scholarly areas.
Upcoming Events
Faculty Colloquium: Oren Bar-Gill, NYU Law
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- Oren Bar-Gill Prof., NYU Law
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Drawing Board Luncheon: H.W. Perry
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- H. W. Perry Jr Associate Professor, University of Texas
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Drawing Board Luncheon: H.W. Perry
Drawing Board Luncheon: Lee Kovarsky
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- Lee Kovarsky Professor, University of Texas
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Drawing Board Luncheon: Lee Kovarsky
Rapoport Center: Valena Beety (Indiana University Maurer School of Law), “Reproductive Wrongful Convictions: The Making of ‘Unfit’ Mothers”
Faulty forensic evidence and biased evidence relying on sex-based stereotypes have long been used to convict innocent women in situations where an accident or health event has been misconstrued as a criminal act. This talk will conceptualize and consider “reproductive wrongful convictions,” which are instances in which a noncriminal pregnancy-related event or act––such as a miscarriage, stillbirth, or taking legally prescribed medicine––is erroneously labeled as criminal. It will also attend to the ways that women with disabilities and from racially and economically subordinated communities are often labeled as “unfit” and made particularly vulnerable to these charges.
Bowden Fellows Speaker Series: Jocelyn Wilson (Princeton University)
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Details to follow.
Drawing Board Luncheon: Andrew Granato
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- Andrew Granato Assistant Professor, University of Texas
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Drawing Board Luncheon: Andrew Granato
Rapoport Center: Michele Goodwin (Georgetown University Law Center), “Gaslighting: The Politics of Sexual Violence and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice”
Using the example of post-Dobbs abortion bans that contain no exceptions for incest or rape, this talk will argue that law and institutions charged with protecting the vulnerable are often responsible for the oppression of women, the suppression of their capacities, and the harms that follow. It will examine some of the ways that the state wields and perpetuates sexual violence inconsistently based on race and class, as it curates prurient and avoidable harm against women and girls, fails to shield them from harm, and too frequently magnifies both risks of this harm and the harm itself.
Bowden Fellows Speaker Series: Nathan Chapman (University of Georgia Law)
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Details to follow.
Rapoport Center: Agustina Ramón Michel (Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad Área de Salud, Economía y Sociedad (CEDES), Argentina), “Not a Tango: Conscientious Objection Clauses in Abortion Healthcare”
Healthcare conscientious objection allows providers to refuse treatment based on moral or religious beliefs. Alongside the legalization of abortion since the 1970s, conscience clauses have expanded globally. In response, some legislative bodies and courts have implemented institutional safeguards to ensure that conscience-based refusals do not become insurmountable obstacles for patients. This talk will argue that while these institutional safeguards hold potential, they have not fundamentally altered the dominant understanding of medical objection, which frames the conflict and its resolution as a situation involving two equally balanced parties.
Drawing Board Luncheon: Alma Diamond
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- Alma Diamond Assistant Professor, University of Texas
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Drawing Board Luncheon: Alma Diamond
Bowden Fellows Speaker Series: Michael Helfand (Pepperdine Caruso Law)
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Details to follow.
Bowden Fellows Speaker Series: Margot Kaminski (Colorado Boulder Law)
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Bowden Fellows Speaker Series: Wanling Su (Indiana University)
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Details will be announced soon.
Bowden Fellows Speaker Series: Mark Kubisch (Pepperdine Caruso Law)
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Bowden Fellows Speaker Series: Kelsey Baer Flores (BYU Law)
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