Faculty Workshops
2018-2019 Faculty Workshop Series | 2018 Summer Workshop Series | 2017-2018 Faculty Workshop Series
2018-2019 Faculty Workshop Series
The Faculty Workshop Series for Northwestern Law faculty will take place in the Faculty Commons from 12:00 - 1:00 pm. CLE credits will be offered and lunch will be provided.
Note: Papers are private and accessible to Northwestern Law faculty only.
Monday, September 10
Daniel Rodriguez, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Barry Weingast, Stanford University
Engineering the Modern Administrative State: Political Accommodation and Legal Strategy in the New Deal Era
Thursday, September 13
Matthew Kugler, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
An Empirical Investigation of Biometric Privacy Harms
Monday, September 17
Raymundo Gama, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
A Gender Perspective on Evidence: The Case of Mexico
Alberto Puppo, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Local Priority in Italian Courts, from Ferrini vs Germany to Flatow vs Iran: Just the Law, Beyond Good and Evil
Thursday, September 20
Micaela Alterio, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
Reactive vs. Structural Approach: A Public Law Response to Populism
Monday, September 24
Christopher Walker, The Ohio State University
The New World of Agency Adjudication
Monday, October 1
Jordan Blair Woods, University of Arkansas
Policing, Autonomous Vehicles, and Officer Danger
Thursday, October 4
Nadav Shoked, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Cities Taxing New Sins: The Judicial Embrace of Local Excise Taxation
Monday, October 8
Herbert Hovenkamp, University of Pennsylvania
Regulation and the Marginalist Revolution
Monday, October 15
Daniel Markovits, Yale Law School
The Meritocracy Trap
Friday, October 19
Jim Pfander, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Alex Reinhart, Cardozo Law, and Joanna Schwartz, UCLA
Ziglar V. Abbasi and the Myth of Personal Liability
Monday, October 22
Steven Davidoff Solomon, University of California Berkeley
Passive Investors
Thursday, October 25
Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
The Law and Economics of Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing by a Fiduciary
Monday, October 29
Beth Colgan, University of California Los Angeles
Wealth-Based Penal Disenfranchisement
Monday, November 5
Elizabeth Kamali, Harvard University
Tales of the Living Dead: Dealing with Doubt in Medieval English Criminal and Civil Law
Monday, November 12
Daniel Ho, Stanford University
Quality Review of Mass Adjudication: A Randomized Natural Experiment at the Board of Veterans Appeals, 2002-16
Thursday, November 15
Sarath Sanga, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Network Effects in Corporate Governance
Monday, November 19
Melissa Murray, New York University
Consequential Sex: #MeToo, Masterpiece Cakeshop, and Private Sexual Regulation
Monday, January 7
Maggie McKinley, University of Pennsylvania
Federal Indian Law as Paradigm Within Public Law
Monday, January 14
James Spindler, University of Texas at Austin
Salary History Bans and Gender Discrimination
Monday, January 28
Kristen Underhill, Columbia University
Sham Experimentation, Sham “Evidence-Based” Policy
Thursday, February 7
Barry Wimpfheimer, Northwestern University (Jewish Studies)
Excerpt from The Talmud: A Biography
Monday, February 11
Sarah Lawsky, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Form as Formalization
Thursday, February 14
Jennifer Shinall, Vanderbilt University
Anticipating Accommodation
Monday, February 18
Joseph Blocher, Duke University
Bans
Monday, February 25
Sam Erman, University of Southern California
Inventing the rules of blood and of soil: Nineteenth-century origins of birthright citizenship
Monday, March 4
Gerald Torres, Cornell University
Decolonization: Treaties, Resource Use, and Environmental Conservation
Thursday, March 7
Laura Pedraza-Fariña, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
A Network Theory of Patentability
Monday, March 11
Shelley Welton, University of South Carolina
Decarbonization in Democracy
Thursday, March 21
Martha Minow, Harvard Law School
The Changing Ecosystem of News and Challenges for Freedom of the Press
Monday, April 1
Michelle Anderson, Stanford University
The Fight to Save the Town
Thursday, April 4
Tamar Kricheli-Katz, Tel Aviv University
Those Who Tan and Those Who Don’t: A Natural Experiment on Race Discrimination
Monday, April 8
Hiroshi Motomura, University of California Los Angeles
The New Migration Law: A Roadmap for an Uncertain Future
Monday, April 15
G. Marcus Cole, Stanford University
Jurisdictional Competition in the Market for Chinese Companies
Thursday, April 18
Shawn Bayern, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law (Visiting from Florida State University)
The Radical Implications of Modern Legal Organizations
Monday, April 29
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir, University of Chicago (Visiting from Hebrew University)
What's in a Name? The Disparate Effects of Identifiability on Offenders and Victims of Sexual Harassment
Thursday, May 2
Destiny Peery, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Monday, May 6
David Schwartz, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Gender Discrimination in Online Market
Monday, May 13
Karen Tani, University of California Berkeley
2018 Summer Workshop Series
The Summer Workshop Series for Northwestern Law faculty will take place in the Faculty Commons from 12:00 - 1:00 pm. CLE credits will be offered and lunch will be provided.
Note: Papers are private and accessible to Northwestern Law faculty only.
Tuesday, June 5
Andrew Koppelman
The Corruption of Libertarianism
Monday, June 18
Zach Clopton, Cornell Law School
Making State Civil Procedure
Appendix
Tuesday, July 10
Emily Kadens
Cheating Pays
Monday, August 6
Tonja Jacobi
The New Oral Argument: Justices as Advocates
Monday, August 13
Eleanor Wilking
Independent contractor or employee? The changing relationship between firms and their workforce and potential consequences for the U.S. income tax
Thursday, August 23
Faculty Projects Day
Monday, August 27
David Shapiro
Solitary Confinement in the Young Republic
2017-2018 Faculty Workshop Series
The Faculty Workshop Series for Northwestern Law faculty will take place in the Faculty Commons from 12:00 - 1:00 pm. CLE credits will be offered and lunch will be provided.
Note: Papers are private and accessible to Northwestern Law faculty only.
Monday, August 21, 2017
William Henderson, Indiana University
Diffusion of Innovation in the Legal Industry
Monday, August 28
Lauren Rivera, Northwestern University (Kellogg)
When Two Bodies Are (Not) a Problem: Gender and Relationship Status Discrimination in Academic Hiring
Monday, September 11
Janice Nadler and David Dana
Regulation, Public Attitudes, and Private Governance
Tuesday, September 19
David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania
Oversight Boards, Municipal Bankruptcy, and the Path to Puerto Rico
Article 1
Article 2
Article 3
Monday, September 25
Eliav Lieblich, Tel Aviv University
The Case Against Police Militarization
Monday, October 9
Julie Cohen, Georgetown University
Between Truth and Power: The Legal Construction of Informational Capitalism, chapters 1 and 2 ("Everything Old Is New Again - Or Is It?" and "The Biopolitical Public Domain").
**Readers pressed for time should focus on Chapter 1.
Monday, October 16
Kate Shaw, Cardozo Law
Speech, Intent, and the Executive
Monday, October 23
Thomas Lambert, University of Missouri
How to Regulate
Monday, October 30
Shitong Qiao, University of Hong Kong
Exclusionary Megacities
Monday, November 6
Elisabeth de Fontenay, Duke University
The First-Drafter Advantage in M&A
Monday, November 13
Erin Delaney, Northwestern University
The Federal Case for Judicial Review: From Structure to Rights
Monday, November 20
Richard Schragger, University of Virginia
The Attack on American Cities
Monday, November 27
Camille Gear Rich, University of Southern California
Contracting Our Way to Inequality: Race, Reproductive Freedom and the Quest for the Perfect Child
Tuesday, December 5
Workshop on Net Neutrality
James Speta and Matthew Spitzer
Monday, January 8, 2018
Daphna Renan, Harvard University
Presidential Norms and Article II
Monday, January 22
Candice Player, Northwestern University
Death with Dignity and Mental Disorder
Monday, January 29
Ganesh Sitaraman, Vanderbilt University
Public Options: How to Improve Markets, Expand Freedom, and Increase Opportunity
Monday, February 5
See Faculty Calendar for details
Monday, February 12
Rabia Belt, Stanford University
Race, Disability, and the Vote
Monday, February 19
Charlotte Crane, Northwestern University
Uncovering a Meaning for “Direct Tax”
Monday, February 26
Steven Calabresi, Northwestern University
Individual Rights Under State Constitutions in 2018: What Rights Are Deeply Rooted in a Modern-Day Consensus of the States
Monday, March 5
Marah McLeod, University of Notre Dame
The Death Penalty as Incapacitation
Monday, March 12
Richard Briffault, Columbia University
The Challenge of the New Preemption
Thursday, April 5
Mila Sohoni, University of San Diego
Executive-Branch Lochnerism
Monday, April 16
Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Yale University
Eddie Murphy and the Dangers of Counterfactual Causal Thinking About Detecting Racial Discrimination
Monday, April 23
Allison Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania
Health Care's Market Bureaucracy
Monday, April 30
Alan Sykes, Stanford University
The Economic Structure of International Investment Agreements with Implications for Treaty Interpretation and Design
Monday, May 7
Jennifer Laurin, University of Texas
Criminal Mass Error and Institutional Design
Monday, May 14
David Rabban, University of Texas
First Amendment Academic Freedom