Faculty Workshops
2018-2019 Faculty Workshop Series | 2018 Summer Workshop Series | 2017-2018 Faculty Workshop Series | 2017 Summer Workshop Series | 2016-2017 Working Paper Series | 2016-2017 10/10 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
Monday, January 7
Maggie McKinley, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, January 14
James Spindler, University of Texas at Austin
Monday, January 28
Kristen Underhill, Columbia University
Monday, February 4
Barry Wimpfheimer, Northwestern University (Jewish Studies)
Monday, February 18
Joseph Blocher, Duke University
Monday, February 25
Sam Erman, University of Southern California
Monday, March 4
Gerald Torres, Cornell University
Monday, March 11
Shelley Welton, University of South Carolina
Monday, March 18
Jennifer Shinall, Vanderbilt University
Monday, April 1
Michelle Anderson, Stanford University
Monday, April 8
Hiroshi Motomura, University of California Los Angeles
Monday, April 15
G. Marcus Cole, Stanford University
Monday, April 22
William Forbath, University of Texas at Austin
Monday, April 29
Daphna Lewinsohn-Zamir, University of Chicago (Visiting from Hebrew University)
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
2017 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.
Monday, August 7
Tonja Jacobi
The Supreme Irrelevance of Criminal Procedure Jurisprudence
Working Paper
2016-2017 Working Paper Series
The Working Paper 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 26, 2016
Laurent Sacharoff (Arkansas Law)
Bitcoin: Characterizing the Blockchain
Monday, October 3
Bernadette Meyler (Stanford Law)
The Rhetoric of Precedent
Tuesday, October 11
Issachar Rosen-Zvi (Tel Aviv University)
Reclaiming Regionalism
Monday, October 17
Amanda Tyler (Berkeley Law)
Habeas Corpus
Monday, October 24
Destiny Peery
Beyond Explicit Bias: Incorporating Implicit Bias as a Theory of Discrimination
Monday, November 14
Michael Barsa
Rethinking the Dormant Commerce Clause: Climate Change and Food Security
Monday, January 23, 2018
Ezra Friedman
Should Failure to Defend Imply Forfeiture of Coverage Defenses?
Tuesday, January 24
Josh Kleineld
Manifesto Democratizing Criminal Law
Monday, February 6
Jide Nzelibe
Vulnerable Treaties
Monday, February 20
Laura Pedraza-Fariña
Spill Your (Trade) Secrets: Knowledge Networks as Innovation Drivers
Monday, March 6
Steven Lubet
Investigator Bias in Randomized Controlled Studies
Monday, March 13
Tonja Jacobi
Justice, Interrupted: The Effect of Gender, Ideology and Seniority at Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Appendix
Monday, March 27
Sarath Sanga
Incomplete Contracts and Strategic Ambiguity: Evidence From Silicon Valley
Monday, March 30
Juan González Bertomeu (ITAM Law School in Mexico City)
What/Whose Property Rights? The Selective Enforcement of Land Rights under the Mexican Porfiriato
Monday, April 10
Wendy Wagner (Texas Law)
Dynamic Rulemaking
Monday, April 17
Veronica Root (Notre Dame Law)
Constraining Monitors
Monday, April 24
Traci Burch (Northwestern)
The Effect of Police- and Citizen-Initiated Checks of Pedestrians and Cars on Voter Turnout in St. Louis
Monday, May 1
James Forman (Yale Law)
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Thursday, May 4
James Pfander
Constitutional Torts and the War on Terror
Monday, May 8
Amanda Rose (Vanderbilt Law)
The “Reasonable Investor” of Federal Securities Law: Insights from Tort Law’s “Reasonable Person” & Suggested Reforms
Monday, May 15
David Schwartz
Patently Risky: Framing, Innovation and Entrepreneurial Preferences
Monday, May 22
Ruth Gavison (Hebrew University Law)
Defining What's Jewish about the Jewish State: An Introduction to Ruth Gavison's Report to the Minister of Justice
2016-2017 10/10 Series
The 10/10 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 12, 2016
Matthew Kugler
The Myth of Fourth Amendment Circularity
Monday, October 31
Carolyn Shapiro (Chicago-Kent Law)
The Language of Neutrality in Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings