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Fall 2016

• August 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Nicholas Scurich (UC Irvine)
  Title: “Jurors’ Presumption of Innocence”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• August 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Keith E. Whittington (Princeton)
  Title: “The Political History of Judicial Review.”
  

• September 07, 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Rena Lauer (Oregon State Univ.) and Moria Paz (Stanford University); Respondent: Jessica Marglin (USC)
  Title: Jewish/Law Colloquium
  Rena Lauer will present "Shared Knowledge, Intimate Disputes" and Moria Paz will present "Network or State? International Law and the History of Jewish Transnationalism"
  

• September 08, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Vic Khanna (Michigan)
  Title: "CEO Connectedness and Corporate Fraud"
  

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

  Speaker: Steven Clark (UC Riverside)
  Title: "Legitimacy, Accuracy, and Eyewitness Identification"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• September 15, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Sean Griffith (Fordham University)
  Title: “Dead Hand Proxy Puts and Firm Value: Efficient Contracting in the Shadow of Hedge Fund Activism”
  

• September 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Seth Seabury (USC Schaeffer)
  Title: Self-Insuring Against Liability Risk: Evidence from Physician Home Values in States with Unlimited Homestead Exemptions
  

• September 20, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Steven Davidoff Solomon (UC Berkeley School of Law)
  Title: “Do Takeover Laws Matter? Evidence from Five Decades of Hostile Takeovers”
  

• September 21, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Peggy Kamuf (USC, Department of French and Italian)
  Title: “The Story Is in the Sentence: The Executioner’s Song and the Post-Gregg Era.”
  

• September 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Simon Wilkie (USC) & Hyojin Song (Microsoft Research)
  Title: “The Price of Privacy in the Cloud: The Economic Consequences of Mr. Snowden”
  

• September 29, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Scott Altman (USC)
  Title: “Reasonable Precautions when Shaping a Child’s Values: Reinterpreting the Right to an Open Future”
  Commentator: Stephen Rich (USC)
  

• October 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Irene Yi (USC PhD Student) & John Matsusaka (USC Marshall School of Business)
  Title: “Opportunistic Proposals by Union Shareholders”
  

• October 05, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Alison Buttenheim, University of Pennsylvania and Alexander Capron (USC Gould School of Law)
  Title: "Law's Unintended Consequences: Vaccines, Policies and Paradox"
  

• October 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jonathan Koehler (Northwestern Law)
  Title: “Science, Technology, or Examiner Experience: What Influences Jurors' Judgments About Forensic Science Testimony?”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• October 17, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Christopher Elmendorf (UC Davis)
  Title: “Words vs. Pictures: How Should We Represent Candidates’ Race and Ethnicity in Experiments on Voter Discrimination?”
  

• October 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jonathan Eyer & Matthew Kahn (USC Econ)
  Title: “Prolonging Coal’s Sunset: The Causes and Consequences of Local Protectionism for a Declining Polluting Industry”
  
  

• October 31, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Peter T. Leeson (George Mason University)
  Title: “Witch Trials”
  

• November 02, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Lois Dubin, Smith College, Department of Religion
  Title: "Anatomy of Law, Anatomy of Marriage: One Woman's Pioneering Pursuit of Civil Divorce and Marriage in the late 18th Century”
  

• November 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Tom Lyon (USC)
  Title: "Spatial Language, Question Type, and Young Children's Ability to Describe Clothing: Legal and Developmental Implications"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• November 10, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 130) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Andrea Cann Chandrasekher (UC Davis School of Law)
  Title: “The Effect of Police Slowdowns on Crime.”
  

• November 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Wayne Sandholtz (USC)
  Title: "Implementing the International Criminal Court "
  

• November 16, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Kurt Eggert, Fowler School of Law, Chapman University
  Title: “Deference in the Time of Obamacare: Reforming Chevron’s Magical Legal Fictions.”
  

• November 17, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 3) (Saks Institute Workshop)

  Speaker: Elyn Saks (USC)
  Title: Saks Institute Fall Lecture on “Supported Decisionmaking”
  

• November 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Christoph Engel (Max Planck Institute)
  Title: "You are in Charge. Experimentally Testing the Motivating Power of Holding a (Judicial) Office"
  

• November 28, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Abby Wood (USC)
  Title: "Campaign Finance Transparency and Voter Competence"
  

• November 30, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Jennifer Nedelsky, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
  Title: "Restructuring Work for (Part)-Time for All"
  

• December 01, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 130) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Eugene Volkh, (UCLA)
  Title: “What Cheap Speech Has Done: The Transformation of Libel and Privacy Law”
  

• December 07, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Elizabeth Hinton, (Harvard University, History Dept.)
  Title: Book Talk: “From The War on Poverty to The War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America”
  Link to the full e-book
  

Spring 2017

• January 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Anup Malani (University of Chicago Law School)
  Title: “Do Conflict of Interest Disclosures Work: Evidence from Citations in Medical Journals”
  

• January 19, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 130) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Pam Karlan (Stanford)
  Title: "The End of the Line: Marriage Equality, Racial Equality, and the Supreme Court”
  

• January 23, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Yanhui Wu (USC Marshall School of Business)
  Title: “Are Arbitrators Political? Evidence from International Investment Arbitration”
  

• January 25, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Susanna Blumenthal, University of Minnesota Law School
  Title: Book Panel Discussion on "Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Legal Culture"
  

• January 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jonathan Barnett (USC)
  Title: “Patent Tigers: The New Geography of Global Innovation”
  

• February 02, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 101) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Gillian Hadfield (USC Gould School of Law)
  Title: "Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium Without Private Ordering?”
  USC Law
  

• February 06, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Ariel Porat (Tel Aviv University/University of Chicago Law School)
  Title: "Liability for Personal Governmental Services"
  

• February 06, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Mudd Hall (Philosophy Building), Room 102) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Christopher Essert (Queens University Law/UCLA)
  Title: "Property in the Society of Equals"
  

• February 08- 07, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Rm. 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Nadav Molchadsky (UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures)
  Title: "Absent Children in a Captured Society: Israeli Discourse about the Missing Children Affair."
  

• February 13, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Peter Rosendorff (NYU-Visiting Spring 2017 USC Law Professor)
  Title: Why do Autocrats Disclose? Economic Transparency and Inter-Elite Politics in the Shadow of Mass Unrest
  

• February 15, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 118/120) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Scott Hershovitz (Michigan, Law and Philosophy)
  Title: "The Formal Normativity Fallacy"
  

• February 16, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 130) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Bernadette Meyler (Stanford)
  Title: "Liberal Constitutionalism and the Sovereign Pardon"
  USC Law
  

• February 22, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Town and Gown) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Robin L West
  Title: 15th Annual CLHC Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture
  

• February 27, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Dan Kahan (Yale Law School)
  Title: "Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-government"
  

• February 27, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Mudd Hall Building, Room 102) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Nicolas Cornell (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
  Title: "Wrongs, Rights, and Remedial Ambiguity"
  

• March 02, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 130) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Sam Erman (USC)
  Title: "The Constitutional Lion in the Path: The Fall and Rise of U.S. Expansion, 1868-1898"
  

• March 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Leda Cosmides (UC Santa Barbara)
  Title: "Can race be erased?"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• March 07, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Noah Zatz (UCLA)
  Title: "State Violence and the Production of Precarious Work"
  

• March 20, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 118/120) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Amy Lerman (UC Berkeley Political Science) *Room 118/120 (Please note room change)
  Title: “When Laws Change, Does Public Opinion Follow?”
  

• March 22, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Jeannine DeLombard (UC Santa Barbara)
  Title: "Black Dignity Matters"
  

• March 23, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 130) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Tom Tyler (Yale Law & Psychology)
  Title: “Building Public Trust: Enhancing Police Legitimacy and Accountability”
  

• March 27, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Kathryn Judge (Columbia)
  Title: "Investor-Driven Financial Innovation"
  

• April 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Miguel di Figueiredo (University of Connecticut School of Law)
  Title: “Does Sentencing Juveniles as Adults Increase Recidivism?”
  

• April 03, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Mudd Hall Building, Room 102) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Seanna Shiffrin (UCLA, Law and Philosophy)
  Title: "Democratic Law"
  

• April 05, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Catherine Gallagher (UC Berkeley), Paul Saint-Amour (Univ. of Penn.), and Norman Spaulding (Stanford); Moderator: Hilary Schor (USC)
  Title: West Coast Law and Literature Conference on "What If: The Law and Literature of Counterfactuals"
  

• April 06, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 130) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Hilary Schor (English and Law)
  Title: “Can You Forgive Him?: Jed Rubenfeld, Sexual Consent, and the Useful Delay of the Victorian Novel”
  

• April 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Tess Wilkinson-Ryan (University of Pennsylvania)
  Title: "The Behavioral Paradox of Boilerplate"
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  

• April 17, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Ben Graham (USC School of International Relations)
  Title: "Secure From What? Theorizing and Measuring Property Rights Security"
  

• April 19, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (118/120) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Nayan Shah (USC Dept. of American Studies & Ethnicity)
  Title: "Refugees, Detention and Hunger Strikes"
  

• April 20, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Room 130) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
  Title: TBA
  

• April 24, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jens Prüfer (Tilburg School of Economics and Management)
  Title: “Religion, Moral Attitudes & Economic Behavior”
  

• April 24, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Mudd Hall Building, Room 102) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Sophia Moreau (Toronto, Law and Philosophy)
  Title: "Towards a Theory of Social Subordination"
  

• April 26, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Karen Tani, UC Berkeley School of Law
  Title: Book panel for “States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972.”
  

• May 01, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Eric Allen (USC Marshall School of Business)
  Title: “It's All Fun and Games Until You Have to Explain Something New: Tax benefits, non-tax costs, and the organizational form choices of venture-capital backed startup firms”
  

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

Pacific Standard
May 16, 2018
Re: Jean Reisz

Jean Reisz was quoted about the legality of Los Alamitos refusal to acknowledge California's sanctuary policies. "The state attorney general can seek to enforce California's laws through a lawsuit," said Reisz. "If California did sue an individual city, I believe a city such as Los Alamitos would raise the defense that the law was unconstitutional or violated federal law. I think the state attorney general might elect to wait for the outcome of the federal lawsuit against California before beginning other lawsuits that are going to be dealing with the same or similar issues in an effort to conserve judicial resources."

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