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Spring 2022

• January 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Megan Stevenson (University of Virginia)
  Title: "Cause, Effect, and the Structure of the Social World"
  

• January 20, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing (only)) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Jeesoo Nam (USC)
  Title: "Lenity and the Meaning of Statutes”
  Moderator: Scott Altman (USC)
  

• January 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
  Title: TBA
  

• January 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Meredith Hall (USC) Postdoctoral Scholar – Teaching Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
  Title: TBA
  

• January 27, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Michele Goodwin (UCI)
  Title: "Complicit Bias"
  

• February 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Yehonatan Givati (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
  Title: TBA
  

• February 10, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Aziza Ahmed (UCI)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• February 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Salma Mousa (Stanford)
  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsors: Social Psychology Brown Bag Series, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) & Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

• February 24, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433 and Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Vincent Lloyd (Villanova University)
  Title: “Revisiting the ‘Abuse Excuse’ in the Age of Black Lives Matter”
  Co-sponsored with CLHC & Nova Forum.
  

• February 28, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Shahzeen Attari (Indiana University)
  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsors: Social Psychology Brown Bag Series, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) & Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

• March 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (TBD) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Ryan Enos (Harvard)
  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsors: Social Psychology Brown Bag Series, Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) & Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

• March 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jill Fisch (Penn Law)
  Title: TBA
  

• March 28, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Issa Kohler-Hausmann (Yale Law)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 07, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Felipe Jimenez (USC)
  Title: "Leaving the State of Nature Behind."
  

• April 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 18, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Elizabeth Pollman (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 21, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Sara Greene (Duke)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• April 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Tanisha Fazal (University of Minnesota)
  Title: TBA
  

Fall 2021

• August 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: John Matsusaka (USC Marshall)
  Title: “Does Proxy Advice Allow Funds to Cast Informed Votes?*”
  

• August 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Steven Shavell (Harvard Law)
  Title: “On the Law of the Household: The Principles Used by Parents in Disciplining Their Children”
  

• September 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Manisha Padi (Berkeley)
  Title: “Fiduciary Duty and the Market for Financial Advice”
  

• September 15, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Magdalena Candioti
  Title: "Abolitionist Policies in Spanish South America (1810-1870): Gradualism, Experimentation and Interconnections"
  Magdalena Candioti , Associate Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr Emilio Ravignani” and Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Sciences. Join Zoom Meeting: https://usc.zoom.us/j/98018695428 Meeting ID: 980 1869 5428 Passcode: 792419
  

• September 23- 23, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Sharon Jacobs (Colorado)
  Title: “Structural Deregulation”
  

• September 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Shane Greenstein (Harvard Business School)
  Title: “Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage”
  

• September 30, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Veronica Martinez (Notre Dame)
  Title: “Monitors as Informers”
  

• October 04, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Lawrence Zelenak (Duke)
  Title: “Stanley S. Surrey: A Life in Taxes”
  

• October 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Honor Sachs (University Colorado Boulder)
  Title: “’Descendants of Indian Women': Robin v. Hardaway (1772)”
  Join Zoom Meeting: https://usc.zoom.us/j/93920607970 Meeting ID: 939 2060 7970 Passcode: 316197
  

• October 07, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Eleanor Wilking (Cornell)
  Title: “Does it matter who remits? Evidence from U.S. states' Voluntary Collection Agreements”
  

• October 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Cathy Hwang (University of Virginia)
  Title: "Collaborative Intent"
  

• October 14, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Rick Hasen (UCI)
  Title: “Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons our Politics and How to Cure it”
  

• October 18, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Sander van der Linden (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge)
  Title: "Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• October 20, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Chelsea Rosenthal (Simon Fraser)
  Title: “Losing Privacy and Living a Social Bite Life”
  

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

  Speaker: Ajay Batra (USC)
  Title: "Hives of Subtlety: Abolition and the Aesthetics of Slave Conspiracy, 1800–1809."
  USC post-doctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows this Fall.
  

• October 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Robert Metcalfe (USC Dornsife)
  Title: “The Value of Time in the United States”
  

• October 27, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433 - In person and via zoom) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Aaron James (UCI)
  Title: “The Moral Necessity of Climate Efficiency”
  

• November 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Hybrid/ In person and in Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Colin Leach (Barnard College, Columbia University)
  Title: “The (racial) Phenomenology of Police & Protest”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• November 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Sherman Jackson (USC Dornsife)
  Title: "Shar‘ah: Between Law and Non-Law"
  

• November 04, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Lee Epstein (Washington University in St. Louis)
  Title: "The Ever-Evolving Field of Judicial Behavior"
  

• November 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: David G. Rand (Sloan School & Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT)
  Title: “Understanding and Reducing Misinformation Online”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• November 10, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Nomi Stolzenberg (USC)
  Title: “Leaving Kiryas Joel: 25 years of research into 45 years of a Hasidic village’s existence”
  Casden Institute Faculty and Graduate Student Research Seminar Series Email AcademicOperations@law.usc.edu for Zoom information.
  

• November 11, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Dorothy Lund (USC)
  Title: “Shareholders as Regulators”
  Commentator: Jordan Barry
  

• November 15, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Desmond Ang (Harvard Kennedy School)
  Title: "Police Violence Reduces Civilian Cooperation and Engagement with Law Enforcement"
  *Co-sponsors: Center for Economic and Social Research (CESR) & Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

• November 17, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Gina Schouten (Harvard)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• November 18, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Yesha Yadav (Vanderbilt)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• November 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Allison Redlich (George Mason University)
  Title: "Guilty Plea Hearings in Juvenile and Criminal Court"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• November 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Florencia Marotta-Wurgler (NYU Law)
  Title: “Learning in Standard Form Contracts: Theory and Evidence”
  

• December 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Facutly Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Hadi Qazwini (USC)
  Title: "Is Islamic Law Inherently Pluralistic?"
  (USC, PhD Candidate, Religion/Global Islam School of Religion)
  

• December 02- 10, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Adam Badawi (UC Berkeley)
  Title: “Evolutionary Learning in Complex Contracts”
  

• December 06, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433 - In person and via zoom) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Karen Bradshaw (Arizona)
  Title: “Using Collaborative Governance to Create More Equitable and Inclusive Environmental Law”
  

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

NPR
January 4, 2022
Re: Franita Tolson

Franita Tolson was interviewed about where election-denying candidates are running to control voting. "The reasons why Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election failed is because there were state officials who refused to substantiate his claims of fraud," she said.

RECENT SCHOLARSHIP

Robin Craig
October, 2021

Robin Craig participated on a virtual panel discussion on “Key Recent Environmental Law Developments in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and California Supreme Court,” California Lawyers Association Environmental Law Section, 30th Annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite. Yosemite National Park, CA.

Robin Craig
October, 2021

“Climate Change Adaptation in the United States.” Integrated Marine Biosphere Research. IMBIZO 6: Marine Biosphere Research: Buoyant Solutions for Ocean Sustainability, United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development activity. Virtual presentation.

Robin Craig
October, 2021

“In term-opener, justices will hear Mississippi’s complaint that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater,” SCOTUSblog, October 1. 2021.