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, September 7, 2016
Eric Talley, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Doug NeJaime, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
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, October 5, 2016
Alexandra D. Lahav, Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law, UConn School of Law
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
"The Taking of Things: Property Rules vs. Liability Rules Reconsidered.”
Paper co-authored with Nicola Persico (Kellogg)
Paper co-authored with Nicola Persico (Kellogg)
Oren Bar-Gill, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Peter Wiedenbeck, Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor of the Law of Property, Washington University School of Law
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
"Police Slowdowns"
Andrea Chandrasekher, Acting Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
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.
- Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Topic: "Biblical Prophecy and the American Tradition of International Law"
Mark Janis, William F. Starr Professor of Law, UConn School of Law - Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Topic: Intellectual Property
"Are We Running Out of Trademarks? Evidence from the U.S. PTO Principal Register"Jeanne Fromer, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law - Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Topic: Bureaucratic Administration: Experimentation and Immigration Law
"Bureaucratic Administration: Experimentation and Immigration Law"
Joe Landau, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law - Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Topic: Participation, Democracy, and the Electronic (non)Revolution in Rulemaking
"Participation, Democracy, and the Electronic (non)Revolution in Rulemaking"
Michael Eric Herz, Arthur Kaplan Professor of Law, Cardozo Law - THURSDAY, February 18, 2016*
Topic: "Toward a New Philosophy for the Market"
"Market Legalism: Toward a New Philosophy for the Market"
Avihay Dorfmann, Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School from Tel Aviv University - Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Topic: ZoneHartford: A Case Study in Local Sustainability
Sara Bronin, Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Law, UConn School of Law - Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Topic: Privately Owned Public Open Space
"The "Publicization" of Private Space: Or Making Private Space Public"
Sarah Schindler, Professor of Law and Glassman Faculty Research Scholar, University of Maine School of Law - Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Topic: Tax
"Citizenship Taxation"
Ruth Mason, Hunton & Williams Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law - Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Topic: A Comprehensive Theory of Civil Settlement (joint with Kathy Spier)
J.J. Prescott, Professor of Law, Codirector of Empirical Legal Studies Center, Codirector of Program in Law and Economics, Michigan Law - Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Topic: The Crime of Aggression
"The Crime of Aggression" (Chapter)
Matthew Gillett, Trial Attorney, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia - MONDAY, April 4, 2016
Topic: "Duck, Avoid and Evade: Federal Judging in the 21st Century"
"Opinions I Should Have Written"
Judge Nancy Gertner (Ret.), Senior Lecturer on Law 2015-2016, Harvard Law School - Wednesday, April 13, 2016
"Between the ‘Real’ and the ‘Right’: Explorations Along the Institutional-Constitutional Frontier"
Peter L. Lindseth, Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law and Director, International Programs, UConn School of Law - Wednesday, April 20, 2016
"Institutions and Constitutional Theory"
Rick Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law - Wednesday, April 27, 2016
"Big Data's Disparate Impact"
Andrew Selbst - Wednesday, May 4, 2016
"The Concept of the Speech Platform: Walker v. Texas"
Abner Greene, Leonard F. Manning Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
- Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Topic: "Supreme Court 2014 Highlights"
ZIVOTOFSKY v. KERRY
Loftus Becker, Professor of Law, UConn Law
OBERGEFELL v. HODGES
Susan Schmeiser, Professor of Law, UConn Law
KING v. BURWELL
Peter Lindseth, Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law, UConn Law
TEXAS DEPT. OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS v. INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES PROJECT, INC.
Jon Bauer, Clinical Professor of Law and Richard D. Tulisano '69 Scholar in Human Rights, UConn Law
Voting Rights Case(s)
Douglas M. Spencer, Associate Professor of Law and Public Policy and Roger S. Baldwin Scholar, UConn Law - Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Topic: Legal Protection for Paid Care Workers and the Contested Terrain of "Employee" Status
Michael Fischl, Professor of Law, UConn School of Law - Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Topic: Constitutional Bad Faith
"Constitutional Bad Faith"
David Pozen, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School - Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Topic: How Harmful is Trust Proliferation?
"How Harmful is Trust Proliferation?"
Adam Hofri, Senior Lecturer; Martin Flynn Global Law Professor, UConn, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Topic: Torts: TBD
"Austerity, Compassion, and the Rule of Law: A Case Study in Preemption and Products Liability Law"
Ben Zipursky, James H. Quinn '49 Chair in Legal Ethics; Professor of Law, Fordham University - Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Topic: Corporations and Democracy
"Corporations and Democracy: Beyond Cross-Country Regressions"
Naomi Lamoureaux, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics & History; Chair, History, Yale University - Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Topic: Lies, Rape and Statutory Rape
"Reconstructing the Law of Voyeurism and Exhibitionism"
Stuart Green, Distinguished Professor of Law and Nathan L. Jacobs Scholar, Rutgers School of Law Newark - Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Topic:
"Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War - Table of Contents"
"Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War - Preface"
"Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War - Chapter 8"
Richard Brown, History Department, University of Connecticut - Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Topic: Affirmative Action in Law Schools
"Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff"
Michael Lovenheim, Associate Professor, and Director of Graduate Studies, Cornell University College of Human Ecology
- Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Topic: TBD
New Faculty Jam, UConn School of Law - Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Topic: "Any"
Jill Anderson, Associate Professor of Law and William T. Golden Scholar, UConn School of Law - Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Topic: Redistricting and Election Law
"One Person, One Vote, 435 Seats: Interstate Malapportionment and Constitutional Requirements"
Jeff Ladweig, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut - Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Topic: Coercion, Deception, and Rape
"Rape by Fraud: A note to American readers"
"RAPE BY FRAUD"
Kim Buchannan, Associate Professor of Law and Gender Studies, University of Southern California Gould School of Law - Tuesday, February 17, 2015*
Topic: Relational Administration
"Admin"
Liz Emens, Professor of Law, Columbia University
*This is a Tuesday workshop. - Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Topic: Law & Neuroscience
Randy Buckner, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Harvard University - Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Topic: Implicit Associations Test
"Predicting Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of IAT Criterion Studies"
"Unconscious Racism: A Concept in Pursuit of a Measure"
Hart Blanton, Professor of Psychology, UConn - Thursday, March 26, 2015**
Topic: Freedom of Contracts
"FREEDOM OF CONTRACTS: THE CHOICE THEORY OF CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION"
Michael Heller, Professor of Real Estate Law, Columbia University
**This is a Thursday workshop. - Wednesday, April 1, 2015
"UNCHARTED WATERS: THE REACH OF FIDUCIARY DUTY"
"COMMON LAW TRUSTS IN HUNGARY AND OTHER CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN CIVIL LAW SYSTEMS"
"A TRUSTEE’S FIDUCIARY DUTIES AT THE START AND END OF ADMINISTRATION"
Bob Whitman, Professor of Law, UConn School of Law - Wednesday, April 8, 2015
"EMMETT TILL, TRAYVON MARTIN, AND THE LINK BETWEEN"
Angela Onwauchi-Willig, Professor of Law, The University of Iowa College of Law - Wednesday, April 15, 2015
"Lactic Tactics, Regulating Animal and Human Milk"
Mathide Cohen, Associate Professor of Law and Robert D. Glass Scholar, UConn School of Law - Wednesday, April 22, 2015
"DO TERMS & CONDITIONS DETER UNWANTED BEHAVIORS?"
Zev Eigen, Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
- Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Topic: Promising
"Promises and the Backward Reach of Uptake"
Hallie Liberto, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UConn Department of Philosophy - Tuesday, September 16, 2014**
Topic: Fundamental Rights in Europe
"Chapter 1: Of Floors, Ceilings, and Human Rights: The European Fundamental Rights Architecture in Comparative Perspective"
Federico Fabbrini, Senior Assistant Professor of European & Comparative Constitutional Law, Tillburg University
**This is a Tuesday Workshop. - Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Topic: Willful Ignorance
"The Point of Mens Rea: The Case of Willful Ignorance"
Gideon Yaffe, Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy & Professor of Psychology, Yale University - Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Topic: To Kill & Die for the Constitution: How Devotion to the Constitution Leads to Violence
"To Kill & Die for the Constitution: How Devotion to the Constitution Leads to Violence"
Jared Goldstein, Distinguished Research Professor of Law, Roger Williams School of Law - Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Topic: The Geography of Discrimination and the Voting Rights Act
"After Shelby County: Getting Section 2 of the VRA to Do the Work of Section 5"
Douglas Spencer, Associate Professor of Law & Public Policy & Roger S. Baldwin Scholar, Uconn School of Law - Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Topic: Improving Lawyers’ Judgment: Is Mediation Training De-Biasing?
"Improving Lawyers’ Judgment: Is Mediation Training De-Biasing?"
Jim H. Stark, Professor of Law & Director, Mediation Clinic, Uconn School of Law
Doug Frenkel, Morris Shuster Practice Professor of Law, U. Penn. School of Law - Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Topic: Liability Insurance and the Regulation of Food Safety
"Insuring Food Safety"
John Cogan, Associate Professor of Law & Roger S. Baldwin Scholar, Uconn School of Law - Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Topic: The Value of the Chief Legal Officer to the Firm
"Internal Governance: Value Creators and Value Protectors"
Robert Bird , Associate Professor, Uconn School of Business - Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Topic: Sexual Autonomy
Anne Dailey, Evangeline Starr Professor of Law, Uconn School of Law - Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Topic: “Citizenship and Red and Yellow:Elk v. Wilkins and United States v. Wong Kim Ark”
"Citizenship and Red and Yellow:Elk v. Wilkins and United States v. Wong Kim Ark"
Bethany Berger , Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law, UConn Law - Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Topic: "The Rise and Fall of the Federalist Constitution."
" The Rise and Fall of the Federalist Constitution: Chapter 3"
Saul Cornell , Paul and Diane Guenther Chair in American History, Fordham University
Gerald F. Leonard , Professor of Law, Boston University - Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Topic: Regulating Internalities
"Instrument Choice for Internality Regulation"
Brian Galle, Professor of Law, Georgetown School of Law - Tuesday, December 9, 2014
"Rights on Trial: Race and Representation in Employment Civil Rights Litigation"
Robert Nelson , Director, American Bar Foundation
- Tuesday, January 14, 2014
"Anticompetitive Speech and Innovation"
Hillary Greene, Professor of Law, UConn Law - Wednesday, January 22, 2014
"Going Dutch? Collaborative Dutch Privacy Regulation and the Lessons it Holds for U.S. Privacy Law."
Dennis Hirsch, Geraldine W. Howell Professor of Law, Capitol University Law School - Wednesday, January 29, 2014
A Common Law for Labor Relations (Redux)
Michael Fischl, Professor of Law, UConn Law - Wednesday, February 12, 2014
"Street Stops and Police Legitimacy: Teachable Moments in Young Urban Men's Legal Socialization"
Tom Tyler, Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale School of Law - Wednesday, February 26, 2014
"Systemic Lying"
Julia Simon-Kerr, Associate Professor of Law, UConn Law - Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Optimal Suburban Densities: History and Theory
William Fischel, Professor of Economics and Robert C. 1925 & Hilda Hardy Professor of Legal Studies, Dartmouth Department of Economics - Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Employment-Based Systems
Brendan Maher, Associate Professor of Law, UConn Law - Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Performance-Based Consumer Law
Lauren Willis, Professor of Law, Loyola Law & Harvard School of Law - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 - RESCHEDULED from Feb 5, 2014
Cognitive Bias and the Constitution of the Liberal Republic of Science
Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government
Dan Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology, Yale School of Law - Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Civil Rights by Design: Remapping Agency Expertise and Function
Olati Johnson, Professor of Law, Columbia Law - Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Regleprudence - at OIRA and Beyond (updated 3/27/14)
Nestor Davidson, Professor of Law and Director of the Fordham Urban Law Center, Fordham Law - Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Inciting Genocide with Words
Richard A. Wilson, Professor of Law, UConn Law - Monday, April 28, 2014
"Tort and Contract Law vs. Jewish and Shari’a Law: Legitimate Religious Practices Actionable under Civil Law". Book Prospectus Sample Chapter: Legal Pluralism
This workshop has been moved to Janet M. Blumberg Hall, Hosmer Hall
Benjamin Shmueli
Associate Professor of Law, Bar Ilan University & Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale School of Law
Yuval Sinai
Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale School of Law & Schusterman Visiting Professor of Jewish Law, Yale University - Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Topic: Rethinking the Harms of Brown
Angela Onwauchi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law, Iowa Law and Yale School of Law
- Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Enlightened Regulatory Capture
David Thaw, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, UConn Law - Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Sexy Searches
I. Bennett Capers, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School - Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Bastardy
Kaaryn Gustafson, Ellen Ash Peters Professor of Law, UConn Law - Wednesday, September 25, 2013
New Faculty Jam
New Faculty, UConn Law - Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Diversity in the Boardroom: A Content Analysis of Corporate Proxy Disclosures
Aaron Dhir, Associate Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School - Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Developing a Typology of Rules of Consent in the Shadow of Law
Jill D. Weinberg, Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University - Wednesday, October 16, 2013
An Individualist Theory of Disparate Impact
Noah Zatz, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law - Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Illegality in the Sale and Collection of Consumer Debts
Dalié Jiménez, Associate Professor of Law and Jeremy Bentham Scholar, UConn Law - Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Competition and Crisis in Mortgage Securitization
Michael Simkovic, Associate Professor, Seton Hall Law - Wednesday, November 6, 2013
From Conscience Clauses to Conscience Wars
Sara Dubow, Associate Professor of History, Williams College - Thursday, November 7, 2013
Hate Speech Law and Disagreement
Jim Allan, Professor of Law, TC Beirne School of Law
