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.

Events for Spring 2012

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Date Speaker / Institution Event / Title Time / Location Faculty moderator/ Coordinator
Jan. 26
Thursday

Robert Bone

(UT School of Law)

"Party Rulemaking: Making Procedural Rules Through Party Choice"

Faculty Colloquium

Susman Academic Center
(JON) 5.257

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Robert M. Chesney
Feb. 2
Thursday

Mark Tushnet

(Harvard)

"Art and the First Amendment"

Colloquium on Constitutional and Legal Theory

TBD

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Mitch Berman
Feb. 3
Friday

Susan Herman

(Brooklyn Law School)

Keynote talk:
"Barriers and Innovations in Civil Rights Litigation Since 9/11: Practical and Theoretical Perspectives"

Civil Rights Conference

Susman Godfrey Atrium

12:15 PM

Jennifer Laurin
Feb.6
Monday

Alison Morantz

(Stanford School of Law)

Keynote talk:
"Do Unions Make a Difference"

CLBE Workshop

TBN 3.127

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Matthew Spitzer
Feb.13
Monday

Professors Andrew F. Daughty and Jennifer F. Reinganum

(Vanderbilt)

Keynote talk:
"Cumulative Harm and Resilient Liability Rules for Product Market"

CLBE Workshop

TBN 3.127

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Matthew Spitzer
Feb. 13
Monday

Professor Manuel Jose Cepeda Espinosa

(Constitutional Court of Columbia)

Memo and Opinions for Colloquium on Constitutional Courts

Colloquium on Constitutional Courts

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

William Forbath
Feb. 14
Tuesday

John M. Golden

(UT School of Law)

"Patent Privateers"

Drawing Board Luncheon

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:20 AM – 12:20 PM

The talk starts promptly at 11:25 AM.

Mitch Berman
Feb. 16
Thursday

Gillian Metzger

(Columbia)

"Embracing Administrative Common Law"

Colloquium on Constitutional and Legal Theory

TBD

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Mitch Berman
Feb. 20
Monday

Jorge Contesse

(Universidad Diego Portales)

"Inter-American Constitutionalism: The Creation and Internalization of Human Rights"

Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series

TNH 3.142

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Karen Engle
Daniel Brinks
Feb. 21
Tuesday

Larry Laudan

(UT School of Law)

"A Presumption of Priors? Or a Soft-Spot for First-Time Offenders?"

Handout

Drawing Board Luncheon

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

The talk starts promptly at 11:35 AM.

Mitch Berman
Feb. 23
Thursday

William Lietzau

(Deputy Assistant Sec. of Defense – Detainee Policy)

 

Eidman Courtroom
(CCJ 2.306 )

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Robert M. Chesney
Feb.27
Monday

Professor Max Schanzenbach

(Northwestern)

Keynote talk:
The Prudent Investor Rule an Empirical and Theoretical Reassessment

CLBE Workshop

TBN 3.125

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Matthew Spitzer

Feb. 28
Tuesday

Julius G. Getman

(UT School of Law)

"The Boeing Case and the Right Wing’s Continuing Attacks on the NLRB"

Drawing Board Luncheon

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

The talk starts promptly at 11:35 AM.

Mitch Berman
Mar. 1
Thursday

Tom Lee

(Fordham)

Colloquium on Constitutional and Legal Theory

TBD

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Mitch Berman
Mar. 1
Thursday

Property Rights and the Human Rights Agenda

Rapoport Center Annual Conference

Eidman Courtroom
(CCJ 2.306)

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Karen Engle
Daniel Brinks
Mar. 2
Friday

Property Rights and the Human Rights Agenda

Rapoport Center Annual Conference

Eidman Courtroom
(CCJ 2.306)

8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

Karen Engle
Daniel Brinks
Mar. 2
Friday

William ("Terry") W. Fisher

(Harvard Law School)

"Infection: The Health Crisis in the Developing World and What We Should Do About It?"

Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Oren Bracha
March 5
Monday

Professor Dan Klerman

(USC)

Keynote talk:
Personal Jurisdiction and Products Liability

CLBE Workshop

TBN 3.125

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Matthew Spitzer
Mar. 5
Monday

Judge Dennis Davis

(High Court of South Africa, Western Cape)

"Port Elizabeth Municipality v. Various Occupiers"

"Mazibuko v. City of Johannesburg"

"Joseph v. City of Johannesburg"

Colloquium on Constitutional Courts

Sheffield Room (TNH) 2.111

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

William Forbath
Mar. 5
Monday
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Mar. 6
Tuesday
ABA Site Visit Team TBD TBD Stefanie Lindquist
Mar. 8
Thursday

Peter H. Schuck

(Yale Law School)

"Immigrant Criminals in Overcrowded Prisons: Rethinking an Anachronistic Policy"

Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Matthew Spitzer
Mar. 19
Monday

Sean H. Williams

(UT School of Law)

"Death and Doubt"

Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Robert M. Chesney
Mar. 19
Monday

CANCELLED
Sadly, Justice Cossio Diaz has had to cancel his visit due to unanticipated work and hearings at the Supreme Court of Mexico. The Colloquium, therefore, will not meet next Monday.

Justice Jose Ramon Cossio Diaz

(Mexican Supreme Court)

"A New Beginning for Mexico’s Constitutional Justice System" and "The Rosendo Radilla Case (2010)"

Colloquium on Constitutional Courts

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

William Forbath
Mar. 22
Thursday

Reva Siegel

(Yale)

Colloquium on Constitutional and Legal Theory

Susman Academic Center
(JON) 5.257

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Mira Ganor
March 26
Monday

Professor Mira Ganor

(UT)

Keynote talk:
Improving Innovation by Rationalizing IRC

CLBE Workshop

TBN 3.125

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Matthew Spitzer
Mar. 27
Tuesday

Hans W. Baade

(UT School of Law)

"Comparative  Law Meets International Criminal Law: Defining ‘Foreign Official’"

Drawing Board Luncheon

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

The talk starts promptly at 11:35 AM.

Mitch Berman
Mar. 29
Thursday

Angela Littwin

(UT School of Law)

"Escaping Battered Credit: A Proposal for Repairing Credit Reports Damaged by Domestic Violence"

Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Robert M. Chesney
April 2
Monday

Professor Lior Strahilevitz

(Chicago)

Keynote talk:
Absolute and Relative Preferences

CLBE Workshop

TBN 3.125

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Matthew Spitzer
Apr. 2
Monday

Justice Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer

(German Federal Constitutional Court)

Memo and Readings from the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany

Colloquium on Constitutional Courts

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

William Forbath
Apr. 3
Tuesday

Mitch N. Berman

(UT School of Law)

"From Intersexuality to Affirmative Action"

Drawing Board Luncheon

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

The talk starts promptly at 11:35 AM.

Mitch Berman
Apr. 5
Thursday

Dan Priel

(Osgoode Hall)

"General Jurisprudence Is Not
Conceptual: Some Lessons From
Democratic Theory
"

Colloquium on Constitutional and Legal Theory

Susman Academic Center
(JON) 5.257

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Mitch Berman
Apr. 9
Monday

Advocate General Pedro Cruz Villalón

(Constitutional Court of Spain)

Cases from the Constitutional Court of Spain
Colloquium on Constitutional Courts

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

William Forbath
Apr. 12
Thursday

CANCELLED

This event has been cancelled due to a confluence of scheduling challenges (posed by the dean search forum and related events) and opportunities (created by flexibility in the joints of our guest's schedule).  Thanks for those who were planning to attend, and apologies for the late notice to those who already made their way through the paper.  We are working to reschedule Nancy to present in the early fall . . . at which time there may be even more (post-Fisher) fodder for discussion of her paper, Racial Capitalism.

Best,
Jennifer

 

Nancy Leong

(University of Denver)

"Racial Capitalism"

Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Jennifer Laurin
Apr. 12
Thursday

Sanford Levinson

(UT School of Law)

Framed: America's Fifty-One Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance

Colloquium on Constitutional and Legal Theory

Susman Academic Center
(JON) 5.257

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Mitch Berman
Apr. 16
Monday

Professor Keith Hylton

(BU)

Keynote talk:
Causation Incentives

CLBE Workshop

TBN 3.125

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Matthew Spitzer
Apr. 16
Monday

Professor Benjamin Gregg

(UT Government)

"The Social Construction of Human Rights in Africa"

Human Rights Happy Hour Speaker Series

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Karen Engle
Daniel Brinks
Apr. 20
Friday

CANCELLED

Please note that the Faculty Colloquium on Friday, April 20th @ 11:30 AM with guest speaker Kimberly A. Yuracko (Northwestern) has been cancelled. We are working to reschedule Professor Yuracko’s presentation for next fall.

Kimberly A. Yuracko

(Northwestern University School of Law)

"Soul of a Woman: The Sex Stereotyping Prohibition at Work"

Faculty Colloquium

Susman Academic Center
(JON) 5.257

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Ronen Avraham
Apr. 23
Monday

Michal Barzuza

(University of Virginia)

"Market Segmentation: The Rise of Nevada as a Liability Free Jurisdiction"

Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Ronen Avraham
Apr. 23
Monday

Professor José A. Caballero Juárez

(Legal Studies Division, CIDE, Mexico City, Mexico)

"A New Beginning for Mexico's Constitutional Justice System" and "The Rosendo Radilla Case (2010)"

Colloquium on Constitutional Courts

Susman Academic Center
(JON) 5.257

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

William Forbath
Apr. 26
Thursday

Miranda P. Fleischer

(University of Colorado Law School)

"Consequentialism and the Charitable Tax Subsidies"

Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Robert M. Chesney
Apr. 26
Thursday

John Ferejohn

(Stanford Political Science, NYU Law)

"Blank Checks, Insufficient Balances"

Colloquium on Constitutional and Legal Theory

Susman Academic Center
(JON) 5.257

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Mitch Berman

Apr. 30
Monday

Justice Antonio Herman Benjamin

(Brazilian Supreme Federal Court)

Ecology and Property in the Brazilian Constitution

Colloquium on Constitutional Courts

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

William Forbath

May 1
Tuesday

Joseph R. Fishkin

(UT School of Law)

Professor Fishkin will be presenting the introduction and a chapter from his book manuscript, titled:

"Opening the Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity"

Faculty Colloquium

Sheffield Room
(TNH 2.111)

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Robert M. Chesney