Faculty Workshops
In the Faculty Workshop series, top scholars from other institutions present works-in-progress (articles or books) to Northwestern Law faculty members. Faculty members provide feedback and pose questions. Workshops are held every week throughout the academic year, with topics covering a wide range of doctrinal legal fields and research methodologies.
During the summer, Faculty Workshops are dedicated to presentations by members of the Northwestern Law faculty. At summer's end, the Law School holds Faculty Projects Day, at which almost all faculty members present their ongoing research projects.
Spring 2023 Faculty Workshop Series|2022 Summer Faculty Workshop Series | 2021-2022 Faculty Workshop Series
Spring 2023 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.
Note: Papers are private and accessible to Northwestern Law faculty only. Zoom information will be sent upon request.
March 13
Michael Birnhack, Tel Aviv University, visiting Northwestern Law
The Temporal Dimension of Surveillance
March 27
David Law, University of Virginia School of Law
The Politics of Judicial Dialogue
April 3
Marc Spindelman, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, visiting Northwestern Law
Dobbs' Sex Equality Troubles
April 10
Cary Martin Shelby, Washington & Lee University School of Law, visiting Northwestern Law
Racism and Systemic Risk
April 17
Joshua Kleinfeld, Northwestern Pritzker Law
Social Trust in Criminal Justice: A Metric - Part II
April 24
Fred Smith Jr., Emory Law
Spiritual Reparations
May 1
Rachel Harmon, University of Virginia School of Law
Law and Orders
May 15
Darrell Miller, Duke Law
Technology, Tradition, and "The Terror of the People"
May 22
LaToya Baldwin Clark, UCLA Law
Whose Child Is This? Education, Property, and Belonging
2022 Summer Faculty Workshop Series
At each of these sessions, faculty members will discuss a work-in-progress.
June 6
Andy Koppelman
The Increasingly Dangerous Variants of the "Most-Favored-Nation" Theory of Religious Liberty
June 21 (Tuesday)
Bernie Black
July 11
Paul Gowder
Should Critics of the Administrative State also be Police Abolitionists?
July 25
Ajay Mehrotra
Nixon's VAT: The Rise and Fall of the 1970s National Value-Added Tax to Fund Education
2021-2022 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.
Note: Papers are private and accessible to Northwestern Law faculty only. Zoom information will be sent upon request.
September 13Supreme Court Review & Preview Panel
Chair: Tonja Jacobi
Panelists: David Shapiro, Michael Kang
September 14 (Tuesday)
Veronica Root Martinez, Notre Dame Law, visiting Northwestern Law
Monitors as Information Brokers
September 20
Kate Litvak, Northwestern Law
September 27
Merritt McAlister, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Rebuilding the Federal Circuit Courts
October 11
Martha Minow, Harvard Law, visiting Northwestern Law
Equality vs. Equity
October 18
Tonja Jacobi, Northwestern Law
Comparative Exceptionalism? Strategy and Ideology in the High Court of Australia
October 25
Rafael Pardo, Emory Law
Race Matters in Bankruptcy Federalism
November 1
Bernie Black, Northwestern Law
A COVID-19 Risk Calculator: Mortality Rates and Loss of Life Expectancy
November 8
Rebecca Allensworth, Vanderbilt Law School
The Dark Side of Professional Licensing
November 15
Sarah Lawsky, Northwestern Law
Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law
November 22
Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Drexel Kline School of Law
How the Liberal First Amendment Under-Protects Democracy
November 29
Jim Pfander, Northwestern Law
Public Law Litigation in Eighteenth Century America: Diffuse Law Enforcement for a Partisan World
December 6
Yesha Yadav, Vanderbilt Law School
Fragile Financial Regulation
January 11, 2022 (Tuesday)
Julie Suk, Fordham School of Law, visiting Northwestern Law
After Misogyny: Law and Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
January 31
Kate Masur, Northwestern University
The Privileges and Immunities Clause, the Rights of Free African Americans, and the Making of the Fourteenth Amendment
February 14
Christine Chabot, Loyola School of Law
The Lost History of Delegation at the Founding
March 7
Minor Myers, UConn School of Law
SPACs and the Corporate Foundations of Capital Market Innovation
March 14
Carissa Hessick, UNC School of Law
The Prosecutor Lobby
March 28
Stephen Rushin, Loyola School of Law
An Empirical Assessment of Pretextual Stops and Racial Profiling
April 4
John McGinnis, Northwestern Law
Prospective Overruling
April 11
Albertina Antognini, Arizona Law
Sexual Agreements
April 18
Max Schanzenbach, Northwestern Law
What is the University-Student Contract?