Faculty Workshops Archive

Friday, February 27, 2009

The Small Laws: Eliot Spitzer and the Way to Insurance Market Reform

by: Sean Fitzpatrick (The Hartford; insurance law)

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Targeting, Universalism, and the Formation of Social Preferences

by: Gillian Lester (UC Berkeley, visiting Harvard; employment law & policy, contract law)

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The Institutional Aspects of Comparative Law

by: Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel Aviv; administrative and constitutional law, feminist jurisprudence)

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Actuarial Data in Insurance Interpretation

by: Michelle Boardman (George Mason, visiting at Vanderbilt; insurance law)

Monday, February 23, 2009

(Mis)Reading Like a Lawyer

by: Jill Anderson (University of Connecticut)

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Against Certification

by: Justin R. Long (University of Connecticut)

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

A Case Study of AIG: Credit Default Swaps and Contagion

by: Patricia A. McCoy (University of Connecticut)

Monday, February 16, 2009

Law, War, and the History of Time

by: Mary Dudziak (USC; legal history, political science)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Darfur, Divestment, and Dialogue

by: Perry Bechky (University of Connecticut)

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Doing Wrong Without Creating Harm

by: Lawrence Solan (Brooklyn; insurance law)

Thursday, February 5, 2009

American Earth: The Public Language of Environmental Commitment

by: Jedediah Purdy (Duke; environmental, property and constitutional law) (visiting Yale)

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Victims and the Significance of Causing Harm

by: Guyora Binder (Buffalo; jurisprudence, criminal law, constitutional law, international law)

Monday, January 26, 2009

The Challenge of Empirical Research on Business Compliance in Regulatory Capitalism

by: Christine Parker (U of Melbourne; corporations, legal profession, and socio-legal studies)

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

The Duty of Treatment: Human Rights and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

by: Noah Novogrodsky (University of Connecticut)

Friday, December 5, 2008

The New Sex War: Rape, Feminism, and the War on Crime

by: Aya Gruber (Florida Int'l; criminal law, criminal procedure)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Can Case-Management Software Facilitate Democracy? The Rule(s) of Law and US Rule-of-Law in Contemporary Arab Politics

by: David Mednicoff (UMass; international law and human rights) (visiting fall)

Monday, December 1, 2008

Speak No Evil: Privilege and the Language of Law

by: Kathleen Bergin (South Texas; constitutional law, critical race theory, women in the law)

Monday, November 24, 2008

Private Takings

by: Abraham Bell (University of Connecticut)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Positivism as Opposed to What? Law and the Moral Concept of Right

by: Martin Stone (Cardozo; law and philosophy)

Monday, November 17, 2008

Reciprocity in Humanitarian Law: Acceptance and Repudiation

by: Mark Osiel (Iowa; human rights and humanitarian law)

Thursday, November 13, 2008

The Failure of Private Equity

by: Steven M. Davidoff (University of Connecticut)

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Governance in the Ruins

by: David Skeel (Penn; corporate law)

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Diversity as Citizenship Training:The Case of the College Admissions Essay

by: Anna Kirkland (Michigan; women's studies and political science)

Friday, October 17, 2008

Whittling Away at Massive Problems

by: J. B. Ruhl (Florida State Law; Environmental law, land use, and property)

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Madison's Hand: Constructing Founding Intent

by: Mary Bilder (BC; legal history)