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Fall 2018

• August 20, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Wayne Sandholtz (USC)
  Title: "The Transnational Legal Ordering of the Death Penalty"
  

• August 23, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Scott Altman (USC)
  Title: Are Boycotts, Shunning, and Shaming Corrupt?
  Commentator: Gary Watson (USC) Room: Faculty Lounge (Room 433)
  

• August 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jonathan Barnett (USC)
  Title: "The Great Patent Grab"
  

• August 29, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (103) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Adam Winkler (UCLA)
  Title: “We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won their Civil Rights”
  Book Talk
  

• September 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jeffrey Weaver - (USC Dornsife)
  Title: "The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio"
  

• September 12, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Justin Driver (University of Chicago)
  Title: "The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind"
  Book Talk
  

• September 17, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Sharece Thrower (Vanderbilt University)
  Title: "Legislative Capacity and Executive Discretion"
  

• September 20, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Abby Wood - (USC)
  Title: “Campaign Finance Transparency Affects Legislators’ Election Outcomes and Behavior.”
  Commentator: Franita Tolson
  

• September 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: John Wixted (UC San Diego)
  Title: "Time to Exonerate Eyewitness Memory"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• September 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Recent Faculty Publications
  Title: Book Party
  

• September 27, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Mila Versteeg (University of Virginia School of Law)
  Title: "Resisting Repression: The Organizational Basis of Constitutional Rights Protection"
  

• October 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Joshua Wright (George Mason University)
  Title: “Requiem for a Paradox: The Dubious Rise and Inevitable Fall of Hipster Antitrust”
  

• October 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Jessica Marglin (USC Dornsife)
  Title: “The Extraterritorial Century: Nationality in the Mediterranean, 1815-1915”
  

• October 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: David Bjerk (Claremont McKenna College)
  Title: “One Race and Wrongful Convictions”
  

• October 10- 04, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Daria Roithmayr
  Title: "The Contagiousness of Police Violence: Evidence From Chicago."
  Commentator: Jonathan Barnett
  

• October 15, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Ira Hyman (Western Washington University)
  Title: "Crime Blindness: The Impact of Selective Attention and Inattentional Blindness on Eyewitness Awareness and Memory”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• October 16, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Kevin Cope (Faculty Recruitment Candidate)
  Title: "Making Treaties"
  

• October 17, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Erik Encarnacion
  Title: “Discrimination, Mandatory Arbitration, and Courts”
  

• October 18, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: John Witt (Yale)
  Title: “To Save the Country: Reason and Necessity in Constitutional Emergencies”
  Co sponsored with Faculty Workshop
  

• October 18, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: John Witt (Yale)
  Title: “To Save the Country: Reason and Necessity in Constitutional Emergencies”
  Co-sponsored by (CLHC)
  

• October 22, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Timothy Lovelace (University of Indiana School of Law)
  Title: “Civil Rights as Human Rights”
  

• October 23, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Emma Kaufman (University of Chicago Law School)
  Title: “Segregation By Citizenship”
  Rm., 433
  

• October 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Alaina Morgan (Stanford)
  Title: “A Practice Round for the Inner City?: Intellectual and Internationalist Discourses on the War on Drugs in Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam”
  

• October 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Merritt Fox (Columbia Law School)
  Title: "Contextualizing the Link between Corporate Governance and Performance: Governance Changes As a Signal of Managerial Quality"
  

• October 30, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Manisha Padi (University of Chicago Law School)
  Title: Consumer Protection Laws and the Mortgage Market: Evidence from Ohio
  Rm., 433
  

• November 01, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan Law)
  Title: “Bridging the Red-Blue Divide: A Proposal for U.S. Regional Tax Relief”
  

• November 05, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: David Dunning (University of Michigan)
  Title: “Hypocognition: Making Sense of the Landscape Beyond One’s Conceptual Reach”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• November 07, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal (USC Dornsife) Sam Erman (USC Gould)
  Title: "Inventing the rules of blood and of soil: Nineteenth-century origins of birthright citizenship"
  

• November 08, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (Bovard Auditorium) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Anita Hill
  Title: Conversations with Anita Hill
  Co sponsored by CLHC **Doors open @ 11:45 a.m.
  

• November 12, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Erik Hovencamp
  Title: "Platform Antitrust"
  

• November 14, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Cathy Hwang - University of Utah
  Title: "Deal Momentum"
  

• November 15, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Vicki Schultz (Yale)
  Title: "Sexual Harassment Law in the Age of #MeToo"
  CLHC - Lecture
  

• November 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jennifer Skeem (UC Berkeley)
  Title: "Impact of Risk Assessment on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Sentencing"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• November 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Daniel Klerman (USC)
  Title: “Law Matters - Less Than We Thought”
  

• November 27, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Rebecca Crootof - Yale University
  Title: "The Internet of Torts"
  

• November 29, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: David Alan Sklansky (Stanford)
  Title: “Take the Hand Away: Police Violence and Criminal Procedure”
  Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433
  

• December 03, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Duane Rudolph - Peking University School of Transnational Law
  Title: “On Moral Outrage in Judicial Opinions”
  

• December 06, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Dorothy Lund (USC)
  Title: “Nonvoting Shares and Efficient Corporate Governance”
  Commentator: Professor Robert Rasmussen
  

Spring 2019

• January 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Johnathan Katz - (Caltech)
  Title: “Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Evaluations of Partisan Fairness in District-Based Democracies”
  

• January 08, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Lina Kahn -Yale Law School
  Title: The Separation of Platforms and Commerce
  

• January 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Paul Blanc (UC San Francisco)
  Title: "Fake Silk: A Dark Story of Hazardous Manufacturing Abuses?"
  Co-sponsored by Political Science and Global Health and Law Research Group
  

• January 10, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Felipe Jimenez Castro
  Title: “Is Breach of Contract a Moral Wrong?”
  

• January 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Joel Cooper (Princeton)
  Title: TBA
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• January 16, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Karrigan Bork
  Title: “Guest Species: Rethinking Our Approach to Biodiversity in the Anthropocene”
  

• January 22, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Andrea Katz
  Title: “Extralegality: The Militarization of Immigration Law and Presidential Power”
  

• January 23, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Anne Krakus (USC) Norman Spaulding (Stanford) Randy Schoenberg (USC)
  Title: "Symposium on Law, History and Memory"
  

• January 24, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Monica Bell (Yale)
  Title: TBA
  

• February 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Mike Simkovic (USC)
  Title: "Measuring Regulation"
  

• February 13, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Lucy Salyer - (University of New Hampshire)
  Title: "Under the Starry Flag"
  Book Talk
  

• February 21, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Doheny Library Building, Room 240) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Anne Gordan-Reed (Harvard Law School)
  Title: 17th Annual Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture
  

• February 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Michael Kang (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law)
  Title: "Hyperpartisan Gerrymandering"
  

• February 28, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Daniel Klerman (USC)
  Title: "Legal Origin from Outer Space"
  Commentator: Dean Andrew Guzman
  

• March 04, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Keith Payne ( University of North Carolina)
  Title: “Inequality and subjective status: Why economic inequality is more than economics.”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• March 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Christopher Fleming (USC)
  Title: TBA
  

• March 07, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
  Title: TBA
  

• March 20, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Guillaume Calafat (Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
  Title: TBA
  

• March 21, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Gabriel Rauterberg (University of Michigan)
  Title: TBA
  

• March 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Adam Bonica (Stanford)
  Title: "The Judicial Tug of War: How Lawyers, Politicians, and Ideological Incentives Shape the American Judiciary"
  

• April 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Emily Satterthwaite (University of Toronto)
  Title: “Toward A Signaling Account of Voluntary Value-Added Tax Registration”
  

• April 03, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: CLHC West Coast Law Literature Conference
  Title: "Addiction And Devotion in Early Modern England"
  Commentators: Bradin Cormak - English, Princeton Susan Schmeiser - Law, UConn
  

• April 04, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Franita Tolson (USC)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 15, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: JJ Prescott ( University of Michigan)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 17, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Edgardo Pérez Morales (USC Dornsife)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 18, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Jennifer Chacon (UCLA)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Bernd Wittenbrink (University of Chicago)
  Title: TBA
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• April 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Dan Kahan (Yale)
  Title: TBA
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

Los Angeles Times
December 12, 2018
Re: Rob Saltzman

Rob Saltzman was interviewed on the necessity of public trust of the police, saying that "It is important people have confidence in the system that police are acting constitutionally."

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Sam Erman
September, 2018

Sam Erman wrote an op-ed, "Devastation Without Representation in Puerto Rico," posted to The Los Angeles Times on September 20, 2018.

Gregory Keating
September, 2018

"Principles of Risk Imposition and the Priority of Avoiding Harm," Revus [Online] (2018).

Jody David Armour
September, 2018

"Where Bias Lives in the Criminal Law and its Processes: How Judges and Jurors Socially Construct Black Criminals," American Journal of Criminal Law 45 (2018): 203.