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 |
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Jan. 14 Monday |
Susan Morse (UC Hastings) |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
John Golden |
Jan. 22 Tuesday |
"What is Slavery?" A discussion of the 13th Amendment by Profs Jack Balkin and Sanford Levinson Note: This event is for faculty only. |
Constitutional Studies Luncheon |
Sheffield Room 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM |
Sandy Levinson |
Jan. 24-26 | Conference | TBD | Sandy Levinson | |
Jan. 25 Friday |
Larry Lessig "Is the Republic Still in Danger of Being Lost?" If you are planning on attending this event, please register. |
Lunch Talk |
Susman Godfrey Atrium 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM |
Sandy Levinson |
Jan. 28 Monday |
Larry Laudan (UT School of Law) |
New Currents in Evidence Law |
Sheffield Room 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Jan. 28 Monday |
Please contact Michael Garms for the paper | Appointments Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Inga Markovits |
Jan. 31 Thursday |
Sean Theriault (UT School of Law) |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Jane Cohen |
Feb. 7 Thursday |
Rapoport Center Annual Conference |
Eidman Courtroom 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM |
Karen Engle Daniel Brinks |
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Feb. 8 Friday |
Rapoport Center Annual Conference |
Eidman Courtroom 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM |
Karen Engle Daniel Brinks |
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Feb. 11 Monday |
Michael Risinger (Seton Hall) "What Standards of Proof Imply We Want From Jurors, and What We Should Say to Them to Get It" |
New Currents in Evidence Law |
Sheffield Room 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Feb. 14 Thursday |
David Heymann (University of Texas) "An Un-flushable Urinal: Thoughts on the Aesthetic Potential of Sustainability in Architecture" |
Faculty Colloquium |
JON 5.257 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
John Robertson |
Feb. 15 Friday |
Emily Meazell (Wake Forest) "Administrative Proxies for Judicial Review: Building Legitimacy from the Inside-Out" |
Faculty Colloquium |
TNH 2.111 (Sheffield Room) 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Lynn Blais |
Feb. 18 Monday |
Fred Schauer (University of Virginia) |
New Currents in Evidence Law |
Sheffield Room 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Feb. 21 Thursday |
Jordan Steiker (University of Texas) |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 PM – 1:00 PM |
Colloquium Committee |
Feb. 25 Monday |
Alex Stein (Cardozo) |
New Currents in Evidence Law |
Sheffield Room 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Feb. 28 Thursday |
Tom Baker (Penn Law) |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Angela Littwin |
Mar. 4 Monday |
Oren Bracha (UT School of Law) "The Folklore of Informationalism: The Case of Search Engine Speech" |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Mitch Berman |
Mar. 7 Thursday |
Cynthia Estlund (NYU School of Law) "What Is Democracy For in China? The Case of Trade Union Elections" |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Joseph Fishkin |
Mar. 7 Thursday |
Ron Allen (Northwestern University) "A Demonstration that Evidence Scholarship can be Fun, Meaningful, and Enlightening, too" |
New Currents in Evidence Law |
Sheffield Room 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM |
John Deigh |
Mar. 18 Monday |
Lee Fennell (Chicago) |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Lynn Blais |
Mar. 21 Thursday |
David Vladeck (Georgetown University) |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Thomas McGarity |
Mar. 25 Monday |
David Adelman (UT School of Law) "Preemption in Practice: The Loss of State Autonomy over Clean Air Policy" |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Mitch Berman |
Mar. 29 Friday |
Richard Lazarus (Harvard) Sidney Shapiro (Wake Forest) Book Fest in honor of Tom McGarity's Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival (Yale UP, 2013) |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
William Forbath |
Apr. 5 Friday |
Robert Gordon (Stanford) Ken Kersch (Boston College) Book Fest in honor of David Rabban's Law's History: American Legal Thought and the Transatlantic Turn to History (Cambridge UP, 2013) |
Faculty Colloquium |
JON 5.257 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
William Forbath |
Apr. 8 Monday |
Please contact Michael Garms for the paper | Appointments Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Jennifer Laurin |
Apr. 11 Thursday |
Daniel Markovits (Yale) "Market Solidarity: Price as Commensuration, Contract as Integration" |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Jane Cohen |
Apr. 18 Thursday |
Hank Greely (Stanford) |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
John Robertson |
Apr. 22 Monday |
Jens Dammann (UT School of Law) |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Mitch Berman |
Apr. 25 Thursday |
Ronen Avraham (UT School of Law) "Explaining Variation in Insurance Anti-Discrimination Laws" |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Willy Forbath |
May 2 Thursday |
Jed Shugerman (Harvard) "The Creation of the Department of Justice: Professionalization without Civil Rights or Civil Service" |
Faculty Colloquium |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Willy Forbath |
May 20 Monday |
Ronen Avraham (UT School of Law) |
Drawing Board Luncheon |
Sheffield Room 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM |
Mitch Berman |