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Spring 2020

• January 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Alex Lee (Northwestern)
  Title: "A Model of Stock Market-Based Rulemaking"
  

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

  Speaker: Hajin Kim
  Title: “Cap and Trade vs. Pollution Taxes: Theoretically Equivalent, Behaviorally Distinct?”
  

• January 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University)
  Title: “Visualizing Brotherhood: Mafia, Freemasons, and the changing criminalization of ritual relationships in Sicily”
  Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Visual Anthropology
  

• January 23, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Scott Altman (USC)
  Title: "Sexual Harassment NDAs: Privacy, Complicity, and the Paradox of Blackmail"
  Commentator: Ariela Gross
  

• January 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Christopher Leslie (UC Irvine)
  Title: “Denial, Deception, and Destruction of Evidence: How Antitrust Law Helps Conceal Price-Fixing Conspiracies”
  

• February 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Adriana Robertson (Toronto)
  Title: “The (Mis)Uses of the S&P 500”
  

• February 06, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Mike Simkovic (USC)
  Title: “The Effect of Dividend Taxation on Work Hours: Evidence from State Tax Deductions”
  Commentator: Professor Ed Kleinbard
  

• February 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jessica Erickson (University of Richmond)
  Title: "Arbitrating Corporate Fraud"
  

• February 12, 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Danielle Boaz (University North Carolina)
  Title: "The Roots of Religious Racism: The Prohibition of “Witchcraft,” “Obeah,” and Vagrancy in Britain’s Atlantic Empire, 1830s-1960s"
  

• February 13, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Keila Grinberg (Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro)
  Title: “Abolition of Slavery, International Relations and the Paraguayan War, 1840-1865”
  co-sponsored by CLHC
  

• February 20, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Town & Gown) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins University)
  Title: 18th Annual Law and Humanities Distisnguished Lecture
  Topic: "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted On Equality for All" Cosponsor, California African American Museum (CAAM) Reception to follow
  

• February 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Kimberly Clausing (Reed College)
  Title: "Fixing Five Flaws of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act"
  

• February 27, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Stephen Rich (USC Law)
  Title: "The Not So Empty Idea of Identity"
  Commentator: Scott Altman (USC Law)
  

• March 02, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Dan Simon (USC)
  Title: “The Adversarial Mindset"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• March 04, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Robert Post (Yale University)
  Title: “Social and Economic Legislation and The Taft Court; Chapter 5, Volume X of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States.”
  

• March 05, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Reva Siegel (Yale University)
  Title: “Equal Citizenship and Pregnancy, from Suffrage to the Present”
  Co- Sponsored by CLHC
  

• March 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jesse Fried (Harvard University)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• March 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Fahad Bishara (University of Virginia)
  Title: "Into the Bazaar: Indian Ocean Vernaculars in the Age of Global Capitalism"
  

• March 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jon Gould (American University)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• March 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna)
  Title: "The Right to Be Left Alone?: Gender, the Body, and Privacy in English Marriage, 1660-1860"
  

• March 26, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: John Matsusaka (USC)
  Title: "Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Meets the Populist Challenge"
  

• March 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Dov Cohen (University of Illinois)
  Title: "Attitudes, Behavior, and Institutional Inversion: The Case of Debt"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• April 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Honor Sachs (University of Colorado Boulder)
  Title: “Descendants of Indian Women’: The Social World of Robin v. Hardaway”
  

• April 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Chris Whytock (UCI)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• April 09, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Maggie Blackhawk (University of Pennsylvania)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• April 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 16, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Wayne Sandholtz (USC)
  Title: "TBA"
  

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

  Speaker: Book Launch: Ariela Gross
  Title: "Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana"
  Co-authored by Alejandro de la Fuente
  

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

  Speaker: Arie Kruglanski (University of Maryland)
  Title: “The Call of the Wild: How Extremism Happens”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• April 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Felipe Jiménez (USC Law)
  Title: “Legal Principles, Law, and Tradition”
  

• April 23, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Greg Keating (USC Law)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• April 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Taylor Dalton (Ph.D. student and Michael Young Fellow in Political Science and International Relations
  Title: TBA
  

• April 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA)
  Title: “Million Dollar Hoods: Mapping the Fiscal and Human Cost of Mass Incarceration in Los Angeles”
  

Fall 2019

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

  Speaker: Darius Palia (Rutgers)
  Title: “Are M&A Contract Clauses Value Relevant to Bidder and Target Shareholders?”
  

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

  Speaker: Faculty Workshop - Aaron Tang (UC Davis School of Law)
  Title: "A Lowest Cost Avoider Theory of Constitutional Law"
  

• September 04, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Christopher Fleming (USC)
  Title: "Possession Adverse to God? The Sanskrit Jurisprudence of Divine Trusts and the ‘Ayodhya Dispute’"
  

• September 05, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Dorothy Lund (USC Law)
  Title: “Toward a Mission Statement for Mutual Funds in Shareholder Litigation”
  Commentator: Mike Simkovic
  

• September 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: David Wilson (University of Delaware)
  Title: "Racial Double Standards: Implications for Voting and Elections"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• September 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Ofer Eldar (Duke University)
  Title: “Federal Forum Provisions and the Internal Affairs Doctrine.”
  

• September 19, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley)
  Title: "How Would a Progressive Wealth Tax Work? Evidence From The Economics Literature"
  

• September 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Tom Lyon (USC)
  Title: "The Effects of the Putative Confession and Evidence Presentation on Maltreated and Non-Maltreated 9- to 12-year-olds’ Coached Concealment of a Minor Transgression"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• September 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Sara Sligar (USC)
  Title: "Regional Sin: States’ Rights and Southern Gothic Crime Fiction.”
  

• September 26, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Faculty Workshop - Andrea Chandrasekher (UC Davis School of Law)
  Title: “Empirically Investigating the Source of the Repeat Player Effect in Consumer Arbitration”
  

• October 02, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Mani Shekhar Singh (Jindal Global Law School in Delhi)
  Title: "A Murder Trial, a Painter’s Tale and the (im)-possibility of Justice"
  

• October 07, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Sarath Sanga (Northwestern School of Law)
  Title: Joint Faculty Workshop/CLASS Workshop
  "Joint Faculty Workshop & CLASS Workshop
  

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

  Speaker: Faculty Workshop - Robin Kundis Craig (University of Utah)
  Title: “Re-Valuing The Ocean In Law: From Individual Goods To Complex System”
  

• October 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Rodney Ramcharan (USC Marshall)
  Title: “Shifting Risks while Risking Fire Sales: How European Banks Adjust their Bond Portfolios in Response to Solvency Shocks”
  

• October 17, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Faculty Workshop - Anita Krishnakumar (St. John's School of Law)
  Title: “Backdoor Purposivism”
  

• October 21, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jed Stilglitz (Cornell Law School)
  Title: “The Reasoning State”
  Faculty Recruitment Job Talk
  

• October 28, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Erik Hovenkamp - (USC Law)
  Title: “Startup Acquisitions, Error Costs, and Antitrust Policy”
  

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

  Speaker: Gregory Mark (DePaul School of Law)
  Title: “The Origins of Modern Corporate Law and the Enigma of James B. Dill”
  Co-Sponsored by USC Marshall School of Business
  

• November 04, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Allison Earl ( University of Michigan)
  Title: “Racial Disparities in Attention to Health Information: Causes and Consequences for Intervention”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• November 06, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Thomas Frampton
  Title: “For Cause: Rethinking Racial Exclusion and the American Jury”
  

• November 07, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Jill Hasday (University of Minnesota Law School)
  Title: Book Talk on "Intimate Lies and the Law"
  *Jointly sponsored by (CLHC)
  

• November 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Angela Zhang (Hong Kong University)
  Title: "Crowd-Judging"
  

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

  Speaker: Meirav Furth-Matzkin
  Title: “The ‘Paper Deal-Real Deal’ Gap in Consumer Markets: Evidence From a Field Experiment”
  

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

  Speaker: Jeremy Kessler (Columbia University)
  Title: "A Constitutional Right to Resist?: Legal Liberalism and Draft Administration During Vietnam"
  

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

  Speaker: Faculty Workshop - Myriam Gilles (Cardozo School of Law)
  Title: "The Issue Class Revolution"
  

• November 18, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute)
  Title: “Justice is in the Eyes of the Beholder: Eye Tracking Evidence on Balancing Normative Concerns in Torts Cases”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

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

  Speaker: Talia Gillis
  Title: “False Dreams of Algorithmic Fairness: The Case of Credit Pricing”
  

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

  Speaker: Atinuke Adediran
  Title: “The Relational Costs of Free Legal Services”
  

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

  Speaker: Jordan Barry (University San Diego)
  Title: “Collusion in Syndicated Markets”
  

• December 02, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Matt Shaffer (USC Marshall)
  Title: “Truth and Bias in M&A Target Fairness Valuations: Appraising the Appraisals”
  

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

  Speaker: Marcela Prieto (Fellow, USC)
  Title: “Regulating Murder: The Moral Justification of the Legal Privilege to Kill in War”
  

• December 05, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm. 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Daniel Shaviro (NYU Law)
  Title: “Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age”
  Jointly sponsored by the Center for Law, History and Culture (CLHC)
  

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

Marketwatch
February 25, 2020
Re: John Matsusaka

John Matsusaka wrote an op-ed about how referendums can revive American democracy. Matsusaka said, "To revive our democracy, we the people need to get back into the business of governing ourselves. The first step should be to let the people decide important national issues by referendum." Prof. John Matsusaka is the director of the USC Initiative and Referendum Institute. The op-ed also appeared on Morningstar.

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