Faculty Workshops

The UConn School of Law faculty workshop series provides a weekly forum for the presentation of legal scholarship and fosters academic discussion among colleagues and peers. UConn faculty and scholars from around the world present papers --typically works in progress-- and the faculty attendees are given the opportunity to ask questions and provide comments. The workshops are an important focal point for the intellectual life of the school, providing an opportunity for the UConn Law community to meet leading scholars from other institutions.

The UConn Law faculty workshops series reserves a limited number of seats for UConn Law students. Student attendance is by registration only, and the availability of seats is evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Interested J.D. students should visit the SBA TWEN page to sign up. Interested LL.M. students should email llm@uconn.edu to determine availability for attendance. Students must sign up no later than the Monday before the workshop in order to confirm seat availability. 

Typically, faculty workshops are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Janet M. Blumberg Hall.

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Hillary Greene
Zephaniah Swift Professor of Law
UConn School of Law
 
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Topic: Grading Sex: Contextual Consent, “Gray Rape,” And the Case for Misdemeanor Sexual Assault
Grading Sex: Contextual Consent, “Gray Rape,” And the Case for Misdemeanor Sexual Assault
Erin Murphy
Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
 
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Guilt Before Innocence: Injustice and the American Prosecutor
Emily Bazelon
Senior Research Scholar in Law
Yale Law School
 
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Topic: Excavating Race-Based Disadvantage Among Class-Privileged People of Color
Excavating Race-Based Disadvantage Among Class-Privileged People of Color
Khiara Bridges
Visiting Professor of Law 2016-2017; Professor of Law
Harvard Law School; Boston University School of Law

*This faculty workshop is on a Tuesday.

 
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Topic: The Army’s Business is Martial, Not Maternal: Unwed Mothers, Single Parents, and the Military Welfare State
“The Army’s Business is Martial, Not Maternal”: Unwed Mothers, Single Parents, and the Military Welfare State
Serena Mayeri
Professor of Law and History
University of Pennsylvania Law School
 
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Topic: “Does Sentencing Juveniles as Adults Increase Recidivism?”
Miguel de Figuerido
Associate Professor of Law and Terry J. Tondro Research Scholar
UConn School of Law
 
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Topic: Prosecutorial Indiscretion: When Prosecutors Have a Duty to Charge
PROSECUTORIAL INDISCRETION: A DUTY TO CHARGE?
A note for workshop participants.
Rebecca Roiphe
Professor of Law
New York Law School
 
Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Does unconstitutionality of a statute necessarily mean nullity? – The point of view of the German Federal Constitutional Court
Markus Heintzen
Faculty of Law
Freie Universität Berlin
 
Thursday, March 23, 2017

Choice of Law and Jurisdictional Policy in the Federal Courts
Tobias Wolff
Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School

*This workshop is on a Thursday.

 
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Topic: The Constitution of Mothers
Founding Mothers: The Comparative Constitutional Entrenchment of Equality and Difference in Law and the Imagining of Difference
Julie C. Suk
Professor of Law
Cardozo School of Law
 
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Topic: Brown v. Board of Education: A Critical Race Judgment
READING CHARLES BLACK WRITING: “THE LAWFULNESS OF THE SEGREGATION DECISIONS” REVISITED
Kendall Thomas
Nash Professor of Law; Director, Center for the Study of Law and Culture
Columbia Law School
 
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

The Jorde Lecture: Federalism 3.0
Heather Gerken
J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law
Yale Law School
 
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Towards a Purposive Conception of Corporate Personhood
Turku Isiksel
James P. Shenton Assistant Professor of the Core Curriculum
Columbia University, Department of Political Science
 
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Understanding Partisan Bias in Lawyering Judgment: The Role of Need for Cognitive Closure
Jim Stark
Roger Sherman Professor of Law Emeritus, Oliver Ellsworth Research Professor
UConn School of Law
Maxim Milyavsky
Research Associate
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland
 

The UConn School of Law faculty workshop series provides a weekly forum for the presentation of legal scholarship and fosters academic discussion among colleagues and peers. UConn faculty and scholars from around the world present papers --typically works in progress-- and the faculty attendees are given the opportunity to ask questions and provide comments. The workshops are an important focal point for the intellectual life of the school, providing an opportunity for the UConn Law community to meet leading scholars from other institutions.

The UConn Law faculty workshops series reserves a limited number of seats for UConn Law students. Student attendance is by registration only, and the availability of seats is evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Interested J.D. students should visit the SBA TWEN page to sign up. Interested LL.M. students should email llm@uconn.edu to determine availability for attendance. Students must sign up no later than the Monday before the workshop in order to confirm seat availability. 

Typically, faculty workshops are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Janet M. Blumberg Hall.

Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Topic: Supreme Court Round-Up
 
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Contracting Out of the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Opportunity Waivers by Gabriel V. Rauterberg, Eric L. Talley
Eric Talley
Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law
Columbia Law School
 
Thursday, September 15, 2016

"The Nature of Parenthood"
Doug NeJaime
Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Williams Institute
UCLA School of Law
 
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

"Self-Driving Laws"
"The Death of Rules and Standards"
Anthony J. Casey
Professor of Law and Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar
University of Chicago Law School
Anthony Niblett
Associate Professor
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
 
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

"The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges"
Crystal Yang
Assistant Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
 
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

"The Disintegration of Procedure"
Alexandra D. Lahav
Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law
UConn School of Law
 
Thursday, October 13, 2016

"The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on International Tax Planning"
Tanja Bender
Professor of International Tax Law
Leiden University
 
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Topic: “Legitimacy and Deceptive Interrogation”
“Legitimacy and Deceptive Interrogation”
Julia Simon-Kerr
Associate Professor of Law, Ralph and Doris Hansmann Scholar
UConn School of Law
 
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Topic: "The Taking of Things: Property Rules vs. Liability Rules Reconsidered.”
The Taking of Things: Property Rules vs. Liability Rules Reconsidered
Oren Bar-Gill
William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law and Economics
Harvard Law School

Paper co-authored with Nicola Persico (Kellogg)

 
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Untrustworthy: ERISA’s Eroded Fiduciary Law
Peter Wiedenbeck
Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of the Law of Property
Washington University School of Law
 
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Topic: "Police Slowdowns"
Andrea Chandrasekher
Acting Professor of Law
UC Davis School of Law
 
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Social Value Orientation and the Law
Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff
Professor of Law
Washington University School of Law and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School
 

Below is a list of past faculty workshop series.

Spring 2016
Fall 2015
Spring 2015
Fall 2014
Spring 2014
Fall 2013