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Spring 2021

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

  Speaker: Brian Cheffins (University of Cambridge) & Steve Bank (UCLA)
  Title: “Corporate Law’s Critical Junctures”
  

• February 03, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Book Talk- John Witt (Yale)
  Title: “American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19”
  Commentators:Rabia Belt (Stanford University) and Michael Willrich (Brandeis University) Moderator: Ariela Gross
  

• February 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Matthew Shaffer (USC Marshall)
  Title: TBA
  

• February 11, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Anita Krishnakumar (St. John's University)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• February 18, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: A Conversation- Sarah Barringer Gordon (Penn) & Dana Johnson (USC)
  Title: TBA
  Moderator: Hilary Schor (USC)
  

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

  Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Paul Slovic (University of Oregon)
  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

• February 23, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh)
  Title: "TBA"
  

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

  Speaker: Mark Letteney (USC)
  Title: TBA
  

• March 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Markus Brauer (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

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

  Speaker: Sean Fraga (USC)
  Title: TBA
  Sean Fraga is a Digital Humanities postdoc at USC.
  

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

  Speaker: Jon Gould (ASU)
  Title: TBA
  

• March 23, 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
  Title: "TBA"
  

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

  Speaker: Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College)
  Title: TBA
  

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

  Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Sylvia Perry (Northwestern)
  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

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

  Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Maureen Craig (NYU)
  Title: TBA
  *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative
  

• April 13, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Micah Schwartzman (University of Virginia)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• April 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Jennifer Petersen (USC)
  Title: TBA
  

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

  Speaker: Dan Simon (USC)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• April 20, 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Helen Frowe (Stockholm University)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• April 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Simona Cerutti (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 22, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Marcela Prieto (USC)
  Title: "TBA"
  

Fall 2020

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

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

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

• August 31, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: 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 03, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: John Matsusaka (USC)
  Title: “Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Challenge of Populism”
  Discussant: "TBA"
  

• September 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: David Kirk (Oxford)
  Title: Title: “Home Free: Prisoner Reentry and Residential Change After Hurricane Katrina”
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• September 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Alison Renteln (USC)
  Title: “Comparing Legal Approaches to Offensive Names and Imagery”
  

• September 17, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Guy Charles (Duke)
  Title: “Race, Political Power, and American Democracy: Voting Rights Law and Policy for a Divided America.”
  

• September 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Marco Becht (Université libre de Bruxelles / Free University of Brussels)
  Title: “Corporate Governance Through Exit and Voice”
  

• September 24, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Greg Keating (USC)
  Title: “Form and Substance in the ‘Private Law’ of Torts”
  Commentator: Gary Watson
  

• September 25, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker:
  Title: Book Panel: Alejandro de la Fuente & Ariela Gross, “Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia”
  Panelists: Adrienne Davis (Washington University St. Louis School of Law); Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon School of Law); Sven Beckert (Harvard History); moderator Nathan Perl-Rosenthal USC Dornsife). Cosponsored by the Levan Institute for the Humanities.
  

• October 05, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: 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 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: CLHC Discussion
  Title: Racial Justice Protest and Resistance Lawyering
  Discussants: Ken Mack (Harvard, Law), Melynda Price (U. of Kentucky, Politics & Law), Dan Farbman (Boston College, Law); moderator Clare Pastore (USC Law)
  

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

  Speaker: Michael Abramowicz (George Washington)
  Title: “Modeling Settlement Bargaining with Algorithmic Game Theory”
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

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

  Speaker: Wayne Sandholtz (USC)
  Title: Constructing a Regional Human Rights Legal Order: The Inter-American Court, National Courts, and Judicial Dialogue, 1988 - 2014
  Commentator: Marcela Prieto Rudolphy
  

• October 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Jessica Marglin (USC)
  Title: Manuscript Workshop,“Nationality on Trial: Legal Belonging in the Modern Mediterranean"
  

• October 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Chris Whytock (UCI)
  Title: “Transnational Forum Shopping and U.S. Courts: A Theoretical and Empirical Reassessment”,
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• October 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: CLHC Discussion
  Title: The Right to Vote: Reconstruction and Right Now
  Discussants: Morgan Kousser (Cal Tech, History), Franita Tolson (USC Law); Moderator: Sam Erman (USC Law)
  

• October 22, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Jody Armour
  Title: “N*GGA THEORY: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law”
  

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

  Speaker: Danny Sokol (University of Florida)
  Title: “Debt, Control, and Collusion”
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• October 28, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Jasmine Harris (UC Davis)
  Title: “Taking Disability Public”
  Commentator: Ed McCaffery
  

• November 02, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Melissa Ferguson (Yale)
  Title: TBA
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

• November 05, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Craig Konnoth (Colorado University)
  Title: “Preemption through Privatization, 134 Harvard Law Review (forthcoming 2021)”
  

• November 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Assaf Hamdani (Tel Aviv University)
  Title: “Corporate Law and Superstar CEOs”
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

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

  Speaker: Jennifer Rothman (Loyola)
  Title: “Trademark Preemption, The Right of Publicity, and Trademark’s Theory of Personality”
  

• November 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Kyle Rozema (Washington University)
  Title: “Price Isn’t Everything: Behavioral Response around Changes in Sin Taxes”
  

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

  Speaker:
  Title: Anti-Blackness in a Multiracial World
  Discussants: Jared Sexton (UC Irvine, Sociology), Danzy Senna (USC, English); Moderator: Stephen Rich (USC Law)
  

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

  Speaker: TBA
  Title: TBA
  Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

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

  Speaker: Dov Cohen (University of Illinois)
  Title: TBA
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series Via Zoom Video Conferencing
  

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Felipe Jiménez
November, 2020

"Rethinking Contract Remedies," Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.

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“Mourning, Memory, and Metahistory,” English Language Notes (forthcoming 2021).

Ariela Gross
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“Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana,” Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University Annual Conference on Cuban Slavery, Yale University, New Haven, CT.