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.
| Date | Speaker / Institution | Event / Title | Time / Location | Faculty moderator/Coordinator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan. 14 |
Jeffrey Staton Emory University |
CLBE Workshop |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
Jan. 22 |
Itty Abaham UT South Asia Institute "A Genealogy of Caring: A Long View of the Figure of the Refugee" |
Human Rights Happy Hour |
Eidman Jury Room Townes Hall, 2.310 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
Karen Engle |
Jan. 24 |
Neil Siegel Duke University School of Law "Legitimation as Law: Race-Conscious Assignment, 'Partial-Birth' Abortion, and the Virtue of Judicial Statesmanship" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
Jan. 25 |
Laura Gomez UNM School of Law "Manifest Destiny's Legacy: Race in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" |
Friday Faculty Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker |
Jan. 28 |
Niko Matouschek Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management |
CLBE Workshop |
TNH 3.127 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
Jan. 28 |
James K. Galbraith LBJ School of Public Affairs UT at Austin “How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too” |
Colloquium on Law, History, and the Humanities |
Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
Jan. 29 |
Stuart Chinn The University of Texas School of Law "Situating Judicial Action within Regime Politics: A Recurrent Theory of Judicial Behavior" |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
Feb. 4 |
Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci Universiteit Van Amsterdam |
CLBE Workshop |
Sheffield Room 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
Feb. 5 |
Alvaro Restrepo El Colegio de Cuerpo de Cartagena de Indias "Individual Body/Collective Body" |
Human Rights Happy Hour |
Eidman Jury Room Townes Hall, 2.310 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
Karen Engle |
Feb. 7 |
Dick Fallon Harvard Law School "Constitutional Precedent Viewed Through the Lens of Hartian Jurisprudence" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
Feb. 8 |
Daniel Hamilton Chicago-Kent College of Law “Emancipation and Contract Law: Litigating Human Property After the Civil War” |
Friday Faculty Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker |
Feb. 11 |
Alon Harel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
CLBE Workshop |
Sheffield Room 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
Feb. 18 |
David Walker Boston University School of Law |
CLBE Workshop |
TNH 3.127 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
Feb. 18 |
Kerry Rittich University of Toronto "Socializing Neoliberalism: The Fate of Social Rights"
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Colloquium on Law, History, and the Humanities |
Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
Feb. 19 |
Jennifer Harbury Activist, author, and human rights attorney "The U.S. and Torture: History and Jurisprudence" |
Human Rights Happy Hour |
Eidman Jury Room Townes Hall, 2.310 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
Karen Engle |
Feb. 21 |
Heather Gerken Yale Law School "Dissenting by Deciding" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
Feb. 22 |
Matt Spitzer USC "Interpreting Section 202(h)" |
Friday Faculty Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker |
Feb. 25 |
Mark Gergen The University of Texas School of Law |
CLBE Workshop |
Sheffield Room 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
Feb. 29 |
Brian Levack UT History & Religious Studies "The Prosecution of Sexual Crimes in Early Eighteenth-Century Scotland" |
Friday Faculty Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker |
March 3 |
Laura Beny University of Michigan Law School |
CLBE Workshop |
TNH 3.127 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
March 3 |
David Harvey Dept of Anthropology "From Capital Surplus to Accumulation by Dispossession" |
Colloquium on Law, History, and the Humanities |
Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
March 4 |
Philip Carter McKenna, Long, & Aldridge LLP "The Rule of Law and Counterinsurgency in Iraq" |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon |
Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 Lunch: 11:45 a.m. Talk: 12:05 p.m. |
Sanford Levinson |
March 4 |
Barbara Harlow UT Dept of English "Tortured Thoughts: the example set by Ruth First from her interrogation in 1963 to her assassination in 1982" |
Human Rights Happy Hour |
Eidman Jury Room Townes Hall, 2.310 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
Karen Engle |
March 6 |
Peter Smith George Washington University Law School "Originalism’s Living Constitutionalism" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
March 17 |
Mark Weinstein University of Southern California - Marshall |
CLBE Workshop |
Sheffield Room 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
March 18 |
Burt Neuborne New York University "Aiding and Abetting the Unthinkable: Legal Redress Against Holocaust Profiteers” |
Tom Sealy Lecture on Law and the Free Society |
Eidman Courtroom TNH 2.306 4:00 p.m. Reception: |
Jordan Steiker |
March 20 |
Randall Kennedy Harvard Law School “Good White People” |
Orgain Lecture |
Eidman Courtroom TNH 2.306 3:00 p.m. Reception following |
Jordan Steiker |
March 24 |
Adair Morse University of Chicago Graduate School of Business |
CLBE Workshop |
TNH 3.127 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
March 24 |
Jonathan Simon School of Law UC, Berkeley “War on! Why a War on Cancer should replace our War on Crime (and Terror)” |
Colloquium on Law, History, and the Humanities |
Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
March 25 |
Katherine Litvak The University of Texas School of Law "What Kind of Disclosure Helps Unsophisticated Investors? Study of the Recent Pink Sheets Experiment" |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
March 27 |
Matt Adler University of Pennsylvania Law School "Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the
Rule of Recognition" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
March 31 |
Michael Perino St. John's University School of Law |
CLBE Workshop |
Sheffield Room 4:10 - 5:30 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
April 1 |
Emily Kadens The University of Texas School of Law "Merchants, Kings, and the Codification of Commercial Law " |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
April 2 |
Alejandro Moreno UT Medical Branch "Implementation of the Istanbul Protocol - A Summary Report of the Efforts to Eliminate Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico"
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Human Rights Happy Hour |
Eidman Jury Room Townes Hall, 2.310 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
Karen Engle |
April 3 |
Calvin Johnson The University of Texas School of Law "Consumption Tax for Extraordinary Returns" |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Eidman Jury Room Townes Hall, 2.310 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
April 4 |
Kristin Collins Boston University School of Law “Let the Government become their guardians”: Administrative Law, Social Provision, and |
Friday Faculty Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker |
April 7 |
Albert Choi University of Virginia School of Law |
CLBE Workshop |
TNH 3.127 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
April 7 |
Michael Conroy Colibri Consulting "How civil society is striking back at neoliberal globalization: Tales from the 'certification revolution'" |
Colloquium on Law, History, and the Humanities |
Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
April 11 |
Brian Tamanaha St. John's University School of Law "The Bogus Tale About the Legal Formalists" |
Friday Faculty Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker |
April 14 |
Jeffrey Lax Columbia University |
CLBE Workshop |
Sheffield Room 3:50 - 5:10 p.m. |
Bernie Black |
April 17 |
Sai Prakash University of San Diego "The Separation and Overlap of War and Military Powers" |
Constitutional and Legal Theory Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
April 18 |
Stefan Vogenauer University of Oxford "Perceptions of Civil Justice Systems in Europe and their Implications for Choice of Forum and Choice of Contract Law: an Empirical Analysis" |
Friday Faculty Colloquium |
Faculty Lounge Townes Hall, 3.214 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. |
Jordan Steiker |
April 21 |
Jean Comaroff Dept of Anthropology "NATIONS WITH/OUT BORDERS: neoliberalism and the problem of belonging in Africa, and beyond" |
Colloquium on Law, History, and the Humanities |
Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. |
William Forbath |
April 22 |
Stephen Elkin Dept of Government and Politics "The Theory of Republican Constitution" |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon |
Sheffield Room TNH 2.111 Lunch: 11:30 a.m. Talk: 11:40 a.m. |
Sanford Levinson |
April 29 |
Ian Farrell The University of Texas School of Law "Gilbert & Sullivan and Scalia: The Philosophical Basis of the Eighth Amendment's Proportionality Principle" |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
May 6 |
Jens Dammann The University of Texas School of Law "Of Courts and Corporations" |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
May 13 |
Bernard Black The University of Texas School of Law "Health Care: The Link Between Information and Quality Innovation" |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |
May 20 |
John Golden The University of Texas School of Law "The Supreme Court as 'Prime Percolator': A Prescription for Appellate Review of Questions in Patent Law" |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room Townes Hall, 2.111 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
Mitch Berman |