Faculty Colloquia

Events for Spring 2018

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January 18, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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Faculty Colloquium - Sandy Levinson

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Public Monuments and Public Discontent: Notes from this Past Year

January 25, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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Faculty Colloquium - James Spindler - UT School of Law

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Optimal Deterrence When Shareholders Desire Fraud

February 1, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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Faculty Colloquium - Anna Gelpern // Georgetown

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If Boilerplate Could Talk

February 15, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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February 22, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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Public Lecture - Ian Ayres // Yale Law School

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March 1, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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March 8, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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Faculty Colloquium - Calvin Johnson

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What Caused the Constitution?

The colloquium will address what is traditionally a historian’s question, that is, cause, that is, what caused the Constitution. The proximate cause of the Constitution was the vetoes by RI and then by New York of proposals to allow national custom duties (the “impost”). “Impost Begat Convention” looks at the New York ratification debate as a synecdoche for the Constitution's adoption as a whole. The five-page paper, Why the Constitution Should Not be Adopted, rejects Charles Beard’s argument that the Constitution was adopted to suppress paper money and suppress uprisings like Shays’ Rebellion. Sandy Levinson will provide a response. I hope to provoke a discussion as to why Beard continues to be attractive to some, and why causes of the Constitution matter to lawyers.

March 23, 2018 Friday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
2:30pm - 4:30pm

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Bookfest - Charles Silver "Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care"

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March 29, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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April 5, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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Faculty Colloquium - Nick Parrillo // Yale Law

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April 9, 2018 Monday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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April 19, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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Faculty Colloquium - Mark Kelman // Stanford Law

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Oren Bracha Commentator

April 26, 2018 Thursday

TNH 2.111 (Sheffield-Massey Room)
11:30am - 1:00pm

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Faculty Colloquium - Larry Sager

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