Past Faculty Speakers
Fall 2007
Date | Speaker | Topic |
September 5 | Dorothy Brown | Shades of the American Dream: Race, Class, and Homeownership Wealth |
September 10 | Anna Kirkland | Feminism and Fat Rights: Gendering the "Obesity Epidemic"? |
September 12 | Mike Guttentag | Brandeis’ Policeman: Results from a Laboratory Experiment on How to Prevent Corporate Fraud |
September 19 | Kristin Osenga | The Componentization of Information |
September 26 | John Pottow | Myth and Realities of Forum Shopping in Cross-Border Insolvencies |
October 3 | Dan Burk | TBA |
October 10 | David Bederman |
Shipwrecks, Treasure and Pirates: |
October 17 | Melissa Waters | TBA |
October 24 | Andrew Koppelman | Religious Neutrality in American Law |
October 29 (Monday) | Dan Ortiz | Nice Legal Studies |
November 7 | Jonathan Klick |
Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: The Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity |
November 14 | Holning Lau | TBA |
Spring 2007
Date | Speaker | Topic |
January 10 (Wednesday) | Bill Mayton | "Birthright Citizenship" |
January 12 | Ani Satz | "Universal Access to High Technology Health Care: An Argument from Basic Capability Equality" |
January 17 (Wednesday) | Patricia Williams | "The Civil Rights Emergency" |
January 17 (Wednesday) | Panel Discussion | "The Future of Marriage & Family Life" |
January 18 (Thursday) | David Barron | "City Structures" |
January 26 (Friday) | Clarisa Long | "The Political Economy of Intellectual Property" |
January 29 (Monday) | Abduh An-Na'im | "The Future of Shar'ia" |
January 31 (Wednesday) | Julie Seaman | "Triangulating Testimonial Hearsay: Expert Witness Testimony at the Intersection of Daubert, Apprendi and Crawford" |
February 5 (Monday) | Sharona Hoffman | "Settling the Matter: Does Title I of the ADA Work?" |
February 7 (Wednesday) | Albie Sachs | TBA |
February 14 | Kate Nace Day | "One Art: Being Feminist in Legal Education" |
February 15 | Robert S. Vance Forum | "The Military Commissions Act of 2006: Does the Constitution Protect Terrorists?" |
February 19 | Sun Xinqiang | "The Progress of Law Reform in China" |
February 20 | Wang Liping | "Family Law & the Role of Women in China" |
February 21 (Wednesday) | Vik Amar | "Roe's Remarkable Reach" |
February 23 | Twenty-Sixth Annual Randolph W. Thrower Symposium | "The New Federalism: Plural Governance in a Decentered World" |
February 28 (Wednesday) | Peggie Smith | "Aging and Caring in the Home: Regulating Paid Domesticity in the 21st Century" |
March 1 | Dana Yankowitz | "Selected Hot Topics Under BAPCPA & The Brave New World of Finance" |
March 5 | Polly Price | "Biography: Judge Richard J. Arnold" |
March 7 (Wednesday) | Tomiko Brown-Nagin | "Seeking Redress in the Streets: The Student Movement's Challenge to Pragmatic Conservatism and Legal Liberalism, 1960-1968" |
March 8 | Dorothy Brown | Feminism & Legal Theory Project: Critical Perspectives on the Core Curriculum |
March 21 (Wednesday) | Lisa Bressman | "The Disunitary Executive" |
March 21 (Wednesday) | Sara Stadler | "Removing the Consumer from the Trademark Equation" |
March 23-25 | World Law Institute Inaugural Conference | "World Law and World Health" |
March 26 (Monday) | Martin Matthews | "The Influence of Europe on an English Academic Lawyer - The Ghosts of Europe Past, Europe Present & Europe Future" |
March 30 | Clark Freshman | "Emotionally Efficient Legal Education: A Theoretical and Empirical Account of How Emotions Predict Success at Negotiation and First Year Grades" |
April 4 (Wednesday) | Jennifer Hill | "The Shifting Balance of Power Between Shareholders and Managers: News Corp's Exodus to Delaware and Other Antipodean Tales" |
April 11 | Diana Henriques | Center for the Study of Law & Religion Lecture |
April 13 | Pam Karlan | TBA |
April 16 | Laura Dickinson | TBA |
April 25 (Wednesday) | Anupam Chander | "NetWork: Globalization and Glocalization in Trade in Services" |
May 4-5 | Conference | "Searching for New Paradigms? - Understanding Class and Caste Within a World of Global Inequalities" |
May 11-12 (Friday/Saturday) | Workshop | "An Uncomfortable Conversation: Religious Visions in the Family: Images and Aspirations for Equality" |
Fall 2006
Date | Speaker | Topic |
September 9 (Wednesday) | Bill Turner | "Narrative Structure and National Identity in Lawrence v. Texas, Romer v. Evans, and Bowers v. Hardwick" |
September 13 (Wednesday) | Rob Glicksman | "Global Warming, Hurricanes, and Coastal Flooding: Is There a Link?" |
September 18 (Monday) | David Blumenthal | "The Frontiers of Jewish Legal Studies" |
September 20 (Wednesday) | Cliff Carrubba | "A Model of the Endogenous Development of Legal Institutions" |
September 27 (Wednesday) | Ron Krotoszynski | "If Judges Were Angels: Religious Equality, Free Exercise, and the (Underappreciated) Merits of Smith" |
October 4 (Wednesday) | Teemu Ruskola | "Law's Empire? - On the Extraterritorial History of American Law in China" |
October 11 (Wednesday) | Richard Brooks | "Efficient Performance Hypothesis" |
October 20 (Friday) | Peter Alces | "Guerilla Terms" |
October 25 (Wednesday) | Scott Baker | "Discouraging Patent Holdouts with Reciprocal Commitment" |
October 26 (Thursday) | Fiona de Londras | "Hamdan v. Rumsfeld & Habeas Corpus Jurisdiction: 'The Most Terribly Difficult and Important Constitutional Question'" |
October 27 (Friday) | Julie Seaman | "The Expert Witness as Stealth Fact-Finder: Hidden Hearsay, Confrontation, and the Constitutional Right to a Jury Determination of Facts" |
October 30 (Monday) | Jane Stapleton | "Cause and Consequence in the Common Law" |
October 31 (Tuesday) | Tim Terrell | "The Umpire Strikes Back: An Essay on Legal Reasoning and the Angst of Judging" |
November 1 (Wednesday) | Chris Fairman | "Fuck" |
November 8 (Wednesday) | Albert Yoon | "The Returns to Legal Representation" |
November 10 (Friday) | Katha Pollitt | "Are We There Yet? - Why Women Aren't Equal, Even If We Think We Are" |
November 17 (Friday) | Craig Nard | "Rethinking Patent Law's Uniformity Principle" |
November 20 (Monday) | Courtney Cahill | "The Genuine Article: A Subversive Economic Perspective on the Law's Procreationist Vision of Marriage" |
November 29 (Wednesday) | Sam Bagenstos | "Defining Disability" |
December 14 (Thursday) | Joanna Shepherd | "The Demographics of Tort Reform: Winners and Losers" |
Please contact Professor Frederick Tung at fred.tung@law.emory.edu with questions.