CLASS Workshops
Center for Law and Social Science (CLASS)

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic all events will be held from 12:00-1:00 pm via Zoom unless otherwise stated.

For Zoom participant information, please contact the department of Academic Operations AcademicOperations@law.usc.edu.

Online copies can be downloaded by clicking the title of the paper below as they become available. When not available for download, copies will be emailed to members of the CLASS email list. To join the list, please click here.

(Please note that some topics are to be announced)

Spring 2021

• January 11 - Brian Cheffins (University of Cambridge) & Steve Bank (UCLA)
  

  Title: “Corporate Law’s Critical Junctures”
  

• January 25 - Emilie Aguirre (University of Chicago)
  

  Title: "Beyond Profit"
  

• February 01 - Geeyoung Min (Michigan State University School of Law)
  

  Title: “Relational Enforcement of Stock Exchange Rules”
  

• February 08 - Matthew Shaffer (USC Marshall)
  

  Title: “Accounting Reports as Arbiters of Value in Contentious M&A”
  

• February 22 - CLASS/Psych Workshop- Paul Slovic (University of Oregon)
  

  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

• March 08 - CLASS/Psych Workshop- Markus Brauer (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
  

  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

• March 22 - Jon Gould (ASU)
  

  Title: TBA
  

• March 29 - CLASS/Psych Workshop- Sylvia Perry (Northwestern)
  

  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

• April 12 - CLASS/Psych Workshop- Maureen Craig (NYU)
  

  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

Fall 2020

• August 24 - Mariana Pargendler (Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in São Paulo)
  

  Title: “Veil Peeking: The Corporation as a Nexus for Regulation”
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• August 31 - Calvin Lai (Washington University in St. Louis)
  

  Title: “Racial Disparities in Police Traffic Stops are associated with County-Level Racial Prejudice”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• September 14 - David Kirk (Oxford)
  

  Title: Title: “Home Free: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Change After Hurricane Katrina”
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• September 21 - Marco Becht (Université libre de Bruxelles / Free University of Brussels)
  

  Title: “Corporate Governance Through Exit and Voice”
  

• October 05 - Arie Kruglanski (University of Maryland)
  

  Title: “On the Psychology of Extremism: How Motivational Imbalance Breeds Intemperance”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• October 12 - Michael Abramowicz (George Washington)
  

  Title: “Modeling Settlement Bargaining with Algorithmic Game Theory”
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• October 19 - Chris Whytock (UCI)
  

  Title: “Transnational Forum Shopping and U.S. Courts: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment”,
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• October 26 - Danny Sokol (University of Florida)
  

  Title: “Debt, Control, and Collusion”
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• November 02 - Melissa Ferguson (Yale)
  

  Title: TBA
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• November 09 - Assaf Hamdani (Tel Aviv University)
  

  Title: “Corporate Law and Superstar CEOs”
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• November 16 - Kyle Rozema (Washington University)
  

  Title: “Price Isn’t Everything: Behavioral Response around Changes in Sin Taxes”
  

• November 30 - Dov Cohen (University of Illinois)
  

  Title: TBA
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

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