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Faculty Workshops and Conferences: Archives

USC Gould School of Law

Archived Faculty Workshops and Conferences listings are available below by academic year. Click the down arrow to view listings for each year.

Archived CLEO Workshop listings can be found here.

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  • July 27, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CTLB Workshop)Speaker: Panel Discussion Title: "New Developments for Antitrust Enforcement in Asia and the EU"
  • August 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Kathy Zeiler (Boston) Title: The Transparency of Quantitative Empirical Legal Research (2018–2020)
  • August 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Lewis Kornhauser (NYU) Title: "A Tale of Two Models"
  • August 25, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Maya Sen (Harvard Kennedy School) Title: “The ‘Old Party Out’ Theory Certiorari”
  • August 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Melissa F. Wasserman (Texas) Title: “Deadlines versus Continuous Incentives: Evidence from the Patent Office.”
  • September 01, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Maeve Glass (Columbia Law School) Title: “Killing Precedent: The Slaughterhouse Constitution.” Jointly with CLHC.
  • September 08, 12:10 PM - 1:14 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Eyal Zamir (Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould) Title: “Exponential Growth Bias and the Law: Why Do We Save too Little, Borrow too Much, and Fail to React on Time to Deadly Pandemics and Climate Change?” Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould
  • September 12, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC) Title: “Judicial Independence in Immigration Courts”
  • September 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Leslie Kendrick (UVA) Title: “Contemporary Problems and Autonomy Justifications for Freedom of Speech”
  • September 15, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: David Landau (Florida State Univ. School of Law) Title: “Restorative Constitutionalism”
  • September 19, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Matt Shaffer (Marshall) Title: “Contentious Valuations: Financial Reports as Schelling Points.”
  • September 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Stephanie Jones-Rogers (UC Berkeley) Title: “She had…a Womb Subjected to Bondage”: Reconsidering the Origins of British Colonial Descent Law.
  • September 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Avihay Dorfman (Tel Aviv) Title: "The Conflict Theory of Tort Law"
  • September 29, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Brad Wendel (Cornell) Title: “Canceling Lawyers: Case Studies of Criticism, Accountability, and Regret.”
  • October 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Eyal Zamir (Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould) Title: “Biases in Legal Decision Making: Comparing Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Law Students, and Laypersons”.
  • October 06, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Orly Lobel (University of San Diego School of Law) Title: “The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future”
  • October 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Daria Roithmayr (USC) Title: “Detecting the Network Spread of Police Shooting in the Chicago Police Department”
  • October 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Courtney Cox (Fordham) Title: "The Uncertain Judge"
  • October 13, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CTLB Workshop)Speaker: Panel Discussion Title: "Digital Privacy Hot Topics"
  • October 13, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Brandon Garrett (Duke) and Nicholas Scurich (UCI) Title: “Judging Firearms Evidence.”
  • October 17, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Stephanie Tully (USC Marshall) Title: "Psychological Ownership of Money"
  • October 20, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Mark Fenster (Florida) Title: “How Reputational NDAs Fail (Or, In Praise of Breach).” Jointly with CLHC
  • October 24, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Angela Zhang (Hong Kong University) Title: "HAPPY: How China Regulates Tech and Beyond"
  • October 24, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Angela Zhang (Hong Kong) Title: "HAPPY: How China Regulates Tech and Beyond"""
  • October 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Mona Oraby (Howard University) Title: “Historical Fiction as Legal Archive: Horizontal Law in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Frankenstein in Baghdad”
  • October 27, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Scott Altman (USC) Title: "A Right to Adopt and Parental Licensing"
  • October 31, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Hillel Bavli (SMU Dedman School of Law) Title: "Character Evidence as a Conduit for Implicit Bias"
  • November 02, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Kate Klonick (St. John's Univ. School of Law) Title: “Big Speech”
  • November 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Jeffery Zhang (Michigan) Title: "Protecting the Sovereign's Money Monopoly."
  • November 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Nick Sage (LSE) Title: “Is Contract Law Liberal?”
  • November 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Mugambi Jouet (USC) Title: “A History of Post-Roe America and Canada: From Intertwined Abortion Battles to American Exceptionalism.”
  • November 10, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Michele Goodwin (UCI) Title: "Involuntary Servitude: Pregnancy, Abortion, and The Thirteenth Amendment""
  • November 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Dolores Albarracin (Penn) Title: “Communicating Behavior: Bottom-Up Processes of Social Influence” *Jointly sponsored by Social Science/ Psychology Workshop Brown Bag Series
  • November 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University) Title: “Slavery and the pursuit of freedom in later medieval Mediterranean Europe” Co-sponsored with the Center for the Premodern World
  • November 17, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CTLB Workshop)Speaker: Asheesh Agarwal (Agarawl Strategies), Kelly Fayne (Latham & Watkins) and Daniel O'Brien (Compass Lexecon) Title: Nascent Competition
  • November 17, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Amna Akbar (Ohio State University) Title: "TBA"
  • November 28, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Colleen Chien (Santa Clara) Title: "TBA"
  • November 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Jessica Marglin (USC) Book Talk Title: "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean" Co-sponsored by the Casden Institute and Levan Institute for the Humanities
  • December 08, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM (Via Zoom Only) (CTLB Workshop)Speaker: Panel Discussion Title: “The Meaning of Section 5 of the FTC Act”
  • December 08, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Sarah Mayeux (Vanderbilt) Title: "TBA"
    • December 01, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Olatunde Johnson (Columbia) Title: "The Missing Half: Revisiting Monetary Remedies to Address Segregation"
    • January 09, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM (Via Zoom Only) (CTLB Workshop)Speaker: Panel Discussion Title: “Antitrust and Private Equity: New Risks”
    • January 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Anthony Moffa (Maine) Title: “Strength in Numbers (of words): Empirical Analysis of Preambles and Public Comments”
    • January 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: David Hirshleifer (USC Marshall) Title: “A Tour of Behavioral Finance.” *Jointly sponsored by Social Science/ Psychology Workshop Brown Bag Series
    • January 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Ari Bryen (Vanderbilt) Title: “Law Among the Degraded: Three Legal Stories from the Roman Provinces.” Co-sponsored with Classics.
    • January 26, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Robin Craig (USC) Title: “Eco-Necrotourism and Public Land Management: Last Chance Tourism, Ecological Grief, and the World's Disappearing Natural Wonders”
    • January 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Barak Richman (Duke) Title: Statelessness in an Era of Nationalism: The Diamond Cartel and the Nazi War Machine”
    • February 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Oscar Pedreza Vargas (USC) Title: "The threshold of expertise: visual evidence, police violence and emergent forms of counterinsurgency in Colombia."
    • February 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Abby Wood (USC) Title: “Institutions, Risk, and Categories: The Political Economy of Essential Work”
    • February 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Erin Miller (USC) Title: “Quasi-State Agents in First Amendment Doctrine” Commentator: Rebecca Brown
    • February 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Dorothy Lund (USC) Title: “Corporate Purpose in a Second-Best World."
    • February 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Alan Schwartz (Yale) Title: “Midstream Contract Interpretation”
    • February 23, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Doheny Library, Rm. 240) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania) Title: “The Legacy of Family Separation and Black Mothers’ Radical Resistance.” 20th Annual CLHC Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture
    • February 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Roseanna Sommers (Michigan) Title: “Virtuous Victims and Adjacent Consent” CONTENT WARNING**CONTENT WARNING Sexual Violence will be discussed
    • February 28, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Nils Jansen (Münster) Title: “The Point of View of Legal Science”
    • March 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Mike Simkovic (USC) Title: "Natural-Person Shareholder Voting"
    • March 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Penelope Andrews (NY Law) Title: #MeToo and #Black Lives Matter: Mutual Lessons or Mutually Exclusive?
    • March 20, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Peter Ditto (UCI) Title: “Partisan Bias and Its Discontents” *Jointly sponsored by Social Science/ Psychology Workshop Brown Bag Series
    • March 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Brandon Bourgeois Title: “Fictions Made ‘Elsewhere than at Rome’: the Dies Imperii and Lex de imperio of Vespasian”
    • March 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Katerina Linos (Berkeley) Title: "Dynamic Diffusion"
    • March 30, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Nomi Stolzenberg (USC) Book Talk Title: American Shtetl
    • April 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Yaron Nili (Wisconsin) Title: “Peer Group Governance”
    • April 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Jordan Barry (USC) & Danny Sokol (USC) Title: “Data Valuation and Law”
    • April 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Mala Chatterjee (Columbia) Title: “The Extended Self: A Framework for Information Rights”
    • April 17, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Nan Jia (Marshall) Title: Forced to Innovate: Consequence of U.S. Anti-Dumping Sanctions on Chinese Exporters’ Innovations
    • April 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Matthew Fletcher (Michigan) Title: “The Three Lives of Mamengwaa: Toward an Indigenous Canon of Construction” Indigenous Law & Policy Lecture
    • April 20, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Angel Diaz (Visiting assistant professor at USC) Title: “Online Racialization and the Myth of Colorblind Content Policy”
    • April 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Dan Klerman (USC) Title: “Diversity Jurisdiction: An Experiment”
    • April 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Diego Papayannis (Girona) Title: "TBA"
    • April 26, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Author: Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University) Title: 19th Annual West Coast Law and Literature Book Panel Book: Law as Performance Panelist: Simon Stern (University of Toronto), Rebecca Lemon (USC)
    • May 05, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Via Zoom Only) (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Greg Book Conference: Greg Keating (USC) Title: "Reasonableness and Risk"
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  • August 24, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • August 31, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • September 11, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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

  • September 14, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • September 16, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • September 17, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • September 21, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • September 24, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • September 25, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • October 15, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • October 19, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • October 26, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • October 28, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 02, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • November 05, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 09, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • November 11, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • November 16, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • November 18, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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 30, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • January 11, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • January 25, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Emilie Aguirre (University of Chicago)
    Title: "Beyond Profit"

  • February 01, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Geeyoung Min (Michigan State University School of Law)
    Title: “Relational Enforcement of Stock Exchange Rules”

  • February 03, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (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, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Matthew Shaffer (USC Marshall)
    Title: “Accounting Reports as Arbiters of Value in Contentious M&A”

  • February 11, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • February 18, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • February 18, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Sarah Barringer Gordon (University of Penn) Dana Johnson (USC Dornsife)
    Title: “Two Stories of Biddy Mason: A Freedwoman and Entrepreneur in Early Los Angeles”
    CLHC Conversation: Moderator: Hilary Schor (USC)

  • February 22, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Paul Slovic (University of Oregon)
    Title: "Virtuous Violence in America”
    *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative

  • February 23, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM (CLP Workshop)

    Speaker: Japa Pallikkathayil (University of Pittsburgh)
    Title: "What May I Use?"

  • February 24, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Mark Letteney (USC)
    Title: “Roman Law in Late Antiquity: Christianization and Codification”

  • March 01, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: CLASS Workshop -Adam Chilton (University of Chicago)
    Title: “Identifying Exceptional Law Students”

  • March 03, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Sam Erman (USC), K-Sue Park (Georgetown) & Greg Ablavasky (Stanford)
    Title: CLHC Conversation
    A conversation on how to tell the U.S. legal history of the United States with slavery, indigenous dispossession, empire, nativism, and racism all front and center.

  • March 08, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Markus Brauer (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
    Title: "Promoting diversity and inclusion: Ineffective and effective approaches"
    *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative

  • March 10, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Sean Fraga (USC)
    Title: "Digitally Mapping Commercial Currents: Narrating a U.S. Customs Logbook with Digital Humanities Tools"
    Sean Fraga is a Digital Humanities postdoc at USC.

  • March 11, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Robin Craig
    Title: "The Regulatory Shifting Baseline Syndrome: Public Law as Cultural Memory"

  • March 15, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Ken Ayotte (Berkeley)
    Title: “Bankruptcy Process For Sale”

  • March 23, 2021, 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM (CLP Workshop)

    Speaker: Victor Tadros (University of Warwick)
    Title: “Beyond the Scope of Consent”

  • March 24, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College)
    Title: : "Defending Wives' Right to Say No: Debating Marital Rape in Eighteenth-Century English Courts and Culture"

  • March 25, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Dan Klerman (USC)
    Title: “The Transformation of the Art World: Law, Norms, and Institutions” (with Anja Shortland)
    Commentator: Scott Altman

  • March 29, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Sylvia Perry (Northwestern)
    Title: “Exploring how Parent-Child Conversations about Race influence Children’s Implicit Biases”
    *Co-sponsored by the USC Behavioral Science and Well-Being Initiative

  • April 12, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: CLASS/Psych Workshop- Maureen Craig (NYU)
    Title: “Towards a “Majority-minority” Nation: Understanding Political Attitudes & Intergroup Relations in the 21st Century”

  • April 13, 2021, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM (CLP Workshop)

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

  • April 14, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Jennifer Petersen (USC)
    Title: “A Primitive but Effective Means of Conveying Ideas”: Gesture and Image as Speech”

  • April 19, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Jon Gould (ASU)
    Title: “What We Know – and Do Not – About the Insidious Effects of Brady Violations”

  • April 20, 2021, 9:00 AM - 10:50 AM (CLP Workshop)

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

  • April 21, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Simona Cerutti (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris)
    Title: "The Poor's Justice”. Jurisdiction and Debt-Credit Relationships (Savoyard State, 18th century)

  • April 22, 2021, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Marcela Prieto (USC)
    Title: The Morality of the Laws of War: War, Law, and Murder" (under contract with Oxford University Press) The chapter is chapter IV, "Beyond the revisionist morality"
    Commentator: Jonathan Quong (USC)

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  • August 26, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • September 03, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • September 04, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • September 05, 2019, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • September 09, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • September 19, 2019, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • September 23, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • September 26, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • October 10, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • October 21, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • October 28, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • October 30, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 07, 2019, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • November 12, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 13, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • November 14, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 18, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 20, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 25, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • December 02, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • December 03, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • December 05, 2019, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (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)

  • January 13, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • January 14, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • January 22, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • January 27, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • February 03, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • February 06, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • February 12, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2020, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • February 27, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • March 02, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • March 04, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • March 09, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Jesse Fried (Harvard University)
    Title: “Alibaba and the Rise of Law-Proof Insiders”

  • March 11, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • March 23, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Jon Gould (Arizona State University)
    Title: “Mapping the Path of Brady Violations: Typologies, Causes and Consequences in Erroneous Conviction Cases”

  • March 25, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna)
    Title: "Whose Body Is It? The Right to Say No in English Marriage, 1660-1860"

  • March 26, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • March 30, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • April 06, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Chris Whytock (UCI)
    Title: "The Decline of a “Magnet Forum”? Evidence from Transnational Diversity Cases in the U.S. Federal Courts"

  • April 09, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • April 13, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
    Title: TBA

  • April 16, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • April 20, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • April 23, 2020, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • April 27, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • April 29, 2020, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

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  • August 20, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • August 23, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • August 27, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • August 29, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • September 10, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • September 12, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • September 20, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • September 24, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • September 26, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Recent Faculty Publications
    Title: Book Party

  • September 27, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • October 01, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • October 03, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • October 08, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • October 10, 2018- 04, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • October 15, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • October 17, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • October 18, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • October 18, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • October 22, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • October 23, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • October 24, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (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, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 05, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2018, 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • November 12, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Erik Hovencamp
    Title: "Platform Antitrust"

  • November 14, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 15, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • November 19, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • November 27, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • November 29, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • December 03, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • December 06, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • January 07, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • January 08, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • January 09, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • January 14, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Joel Cooper (Princeton)
    Title: “Gullibility in the Era of Donald Trump: How the Avoidance of Feeling Gullible Leads to Distorted Beliefs”
    *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series

  • January 22, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:20 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • January 23, 2019- 23, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • January 24, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Monica Bell (Yale)
    Title: "Safety, Friendship, and Dreams"

  • January 28, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Dorainne Green (Indiana)
    Title: “Relationship Inequalities in Law School Predict Disparities in Law School Satisfaction and Achievement”

  • February 07, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Michael Simkovic (USC)
    Title: "Measuring Regulation"
    Commentator: Dan Klerman

  • February 11, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Abby Wood - (USC)
    Title: TBA

  • February 13, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • February 21, 2019, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

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

  • February 25, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • February 28, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Workshop)

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

  • March 04, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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 18, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Robert Anderson (Pepperdine)
    Title: “An Evolutionary Perspective on Contracting: Evidence from Poison Pills”

  • March 21, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Gabriel Rauterberg (University of Michigan)
    Title: “Manipulation across Financial Markets”

  • March 25, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • March 27, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Guillaume Calafat (Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)
    Title: "The Shipwreck of the ‘Turks’: Law of Nations, Maritime Sovereignty, and the Boundaries of Hospitality in the 18th century Mediterranean"

  • April 01, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

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

  • April 03, 2019, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: 17th Annual CLHC West Coast Law Literature Conference
    Title: "Addiction And Devotion in Early Modern England" Author: Rebecca Lemon (English, USC)
    Commentators:Bradin Cormak - English, Princeton; Susan Schmeiser - Law, UConn Moderator: Hilary Schor- USC Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Law Co-Sponsors: USC Department of English; USC- Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute (EMSI)

  • April 04, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Franita Tolson (USC)
    Title: Re-scheduled for fall 2019

  • April 08, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Yair Listokin - (Yale)
    Title: "Law and Macroeconomics: Legal Responses to Recessions"

  • April 11, 2019, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Genevieve Lakier (University of Chicago Law School)
    Title: “The First Amendment’s Real Lochner Problem”

  • April 15, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: JJ Prescott ( University of Michigan)
    Title: “Expungement of Criminal Convictions: An Empirical Study”

  • April 17, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Edgardo Pérez Morales (USC Dornsife)
    Title: "Legal Culture and Gradual Slave Emancipation in Colombia"

  • April 18, 2019, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Jennifer Chacon (UCLA)
    Title: “Immigration Federalism in the Weeds”

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  • August 21, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Christian Grose (USC Political Science)
    Title: “Public Officials' Private Financial Interests and Lawmaking”

  • August 23, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Sarah Barringer Gordon (University of Pennsylvania Law School)
    Title: "The First Wall of Separation between Church and State: Slavery and Disestablishment in Late Eighteenth-Century Virginia"

  • August 28, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: John Matsusaka (USC Marshall)
    Title: "When do Legislators Follow Constituent Opinion? Evidence from Matched Roll Call and Referendum Votes"

  • August 31, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Sharmila Sohoni (University of San Diego, School of Law)
    Title: "Trump as Rights: Presidential Lochnerism and Constitutional Culture."

  • September 11, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Pam McCann (USC Price School of Public Policy)
    Title: "Congress and Judicidal Review of Agency Actions"
    co-authored work with Charles R. Shipan, University of Michigan and Yuhua Wang, Harvard University

  • September 13, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Susan Bibler Coutin (UCI, School of Social Ecology)
    Title: "Deferred Action and the Discretionary State: Migration, Precarity and Resistance"

  • September 14, 2017- 21, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Alexandra Natapoff (UCI School of Law)
    Title: "Misdemeanor Wrongful Convictions"

  • September 18, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Jed Stiglitz
    Title: "Reason-Giving and Statutory Fidelity"

  • September 25, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Tom Dishion (ASU, Dept. of Psychology)
    Title: “Scientific and Ethical Frontiers in Scaling up Family-based Interventions: The Family-checkup as a Case Example”

  • October 02, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Frank Nagle (USC Marshall)
    Title: "The Value of Crowds"

  • October 09, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Deirdre Brown (Victoria University of Wellington)
    Title: “There and back again: Interviewing Techniques and Memory Processes in Field and Laboratory-Based Settings”
    Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series

  • October 11, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University, The Buckmann Faculty of Law, Visiting at Stanford)
    Title: “Three Trade Institutions, Three Paths of Migration: Sea Loan, Funduq/Caravanserai, and Commenda”
    Jointly sponsored by the Social Psychology Brown Bag Series.

  • October 11, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University, The Buckmann Faculty of Law, Visiting at Stanford)
    Title: "Trading with Strangers: the Corporate Form in the Move from Municipal Governance to Overseas Trade"
    Joint workshop with CLASS.

  • October 16, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Andrew Coe (USC Marshall)
    Title: "The Tragedy of Arming"

  • October 19, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Dov Fox (University of San Diego School of Law)
    Title: "Subversive Science"

  • October 19, 2017, 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Man of Cinema
    Title: Wajda for the Twenty-First Century
    Thursday 10/19 will open with a screening of Wajda's classic DANTON (1983, starring Gérard Depardieu) and a conversation with actor Andrzej Seweryn.

  • October 20, 2017, 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Man of Cinema
    Title: Wajda for the Twenty-First Century
    a screening of Justine Raczkiewicz's short film WASTE (2016) and a conversation about the conditions for Polish filmmakers today with the director herself; and a screening of Miro Kepinski's NIGHT SHIFT (2016) that will be accompanied by a special musical performance and followed by a Q&A with director and composer Miro Kepinski.

  • October 23, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Jason Doctor (USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics)
    Title: "Use of Behavioral Insights to Improve Healthcare Quality"

  • October 30, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Joel Watson (UCSD Economics)
    Title: "Statistical Evidence and the Problem of Robust Litigation"

  • November 06, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Crystal Yang (Harvard Law School)
    Title: "Racial Bias in Bail Decisions"

  • November 08, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Carrie Hyde (UCLA, Dept. of English)
    Title: The Legal Subjunctive: Denmark Vesey, Conspiracy, and the Plot of Evidence”

  • November 20, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Paige Skiba (Vanderbilt University Law School)
    Title: “The Consequences of Online Payday Lending”

  • November 29, 2017, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Anne Dailey (UConn School of Law)
    Title: “Law and the Unconscious”
    Book Panel Discussion Commentators: Elyn Saks (USC Law) and Sarah Raff (Pomona College, Dept. of English). Moderator is Nomi Stolzenberg (USC Law)

  • December 01, 2017, 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM (Special Event)

    Speaker: Conference/Workshop: North American Workshop on Private Law Theory
    Title: NAWPLT-V
    The USC Gould School of Law will be hosting The North American Workshop on Private Law Theory (NAWPLT) on December 1-2, 2017. This is the fifth NAWPLT. Previous workshops have been held at McGill and Toronto Universities in Canada and at Harvard and Fordham Universities in the United States. The workshop is intended to provide an informal venue for American and Canadian scholars to discuss works-in-progress in the area of private law theory

  • December 02, 2017, 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM (Special Event)

    Speaker: Conference/Workshop: North American Workshop on Private Law Theory
    Title: NAWPLT-V
    The USC Gould School of Law will be hosting The North American Workshop on Private Law Theory (NAWPLT) on December 1-2, 2017. This is the fifth NAWPLT. Previous workshops have been held at McGill and Toronto Universities in Canada and at Harvard and Fordham Universities in the United States. The workshop is intended to provide an informal venue for American and Canadian scholars to discuss works-in-progress in the area of private law theory

  • December 04, 2017, 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: David Herzig (Valparaiso University Law, visiting at Loyola Law School)
    Title: "Structural Inequities between Mutual Funds and Exchange Traded Funds"

  • December 13, 2017, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Tommie Shelby (Harvard University Dept. of Philosophy),
    Title: Book Symposium on Dark Ghettos
    Co-symposiasts: Howard McGary (Rutgers University), Professor Jody David Armour (Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law, USC) Jointly sponsored by the Center for Law and Philosophy (CLP) and the Center for Law, History and Culture (CLHC). Reception to follow.

  • December 13, 2017, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CLP Workshop)

    Speaker: Tommie Shelby (Harvard University Dept. of Philosophy). Co-symposia’s will be Robert Gooding- Williams (Columbia University)
    Title: Book Symposium on Dark Ghettos
    Co-symposiasts: Howard McGary (Rutgers University), Professor Jody David Armour (Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law, USC) Jointly sponsored by the Center for Law and Philosophy (CLP) and the Center for Law, History and Culture (CLHC). Reception to follow.

  • January 08, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Edward Morrison (Columbia Law School)
    Title: Race and Bankruptcy

  • January 19, 2018- 20, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Mobility Conference
    Title: Sponsored by the Classics Department and CLHC

  • January 19, 2018- 20, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (Special Event)

    Speaker: Conference on Mobility
    Title: Co-sponsored by Classics Department and Center for Law, History and Culture
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  • January 22, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: William Thompson (UC Irvine)
    Title: "A New Crisis in Forensic Science: How Should Experts Present Source Conclusions?"
    Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series.

  • January 23, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Paul Blanc (UC San Francisco)
    Title: "Fake Silk: A Dark Story of Hazardous Manufacturing Abuses?"

  • January 24, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLP Workshop)

    Speaker: Benjamin Ewing (Duke University School of Law)
    Title: “Prior Convictions as Moral Opportunities.”

  • February 01, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Susan Silbey (MIT, Anthropology)
    Title: "Looking for Hegemony in All the Wrong Places: Critique, Context and Collectivities in Studies of Legal Consciousness"

  • February 05, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
    Title: "Representing Immigrants: The Role of Lawyers in Immigration Bond Hearings"

  • February 12, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Margaret Tankard (RAND)
    Title: "The Effect of a Supreme Court Decision Regarding Gay Marriage on Social Norms and Personal Attitudes"

  • February 15, 2018, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: 16th Annual CLHC Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture with Professor Michael Walzer (Institute of Advances Study, School of Social Science)
    Title: “Can Freedom and Equality Stand Together?”
    Reception to follow.

  • February 22, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Michael Simkovic (USC Law and Accounting)
    Title: “The Limited Liability Tax”

  • February 26, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Alec Stone Sweet (National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law)
    Title: “Arbitral Lawmaking and State Power: An Empirical Analysis of Investor-State Arbitration.”

  • February 26, 2018, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Philippe Sands (University College London)
    Title: "East West Street and Beyond: On the Origin of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity"
    Co-sponsors are USC Gould Center for Law, History, and Culture USC Gould International Human Rights Clinic, Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Caden Institute, Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics, and Hebrew Union College

  • March 01, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Douglas Massey (Princeton University)
    Title: “Why Border Enforcement Backfired”

  • March 05, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Norbert Schwarz (USC Psychology)
    Title: "How does the gut know truth? Intuitions of truth and their implications for fake news."

  • March 19, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Dan Klerman & Eric Helland
    Title: “Contingent Fees and Access to Justice“
    Lunch will be provided.

  • March 22, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Orin Kerr (USC Law)
    Title: “Cross-Enforcement of the Fourth Amendment”

  • March 26, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Margaret Boittin (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University)
    Title: "The Unintended Consequences of Mass-Media Anti-Trafficking Campaigns: Evidence from an Experimental Test in Nepal"

  • March 27, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLP Workshop)

    Speaker: Marcia Baron (Indiana University, Dept. of Philosophy)
    Title: “The Distinction Between Subjective and Objective Standards in the Criminal Law”

  • March 28, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: Mary Nyquist (University of Toronto, Dept. of English)
    Title: “Tyrannicide, Sacrifice, and Law in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.”

  • April 04, 2018, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (CLHC Workshop)

    Speaker: West Coast Law and Literature Conference: Tim Gustafson (USC), Peggy Kamuf (USC), Hilary Schor (USC), and Irene Tucker (UC Irvine)
    Title: “Trump Reads: Literature and Law in the Age of the Donald”

  • April 05, 2018, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Minor Myers (Brooklyn Law School)
    Title: Dell, DFC Global & the Use and Abuse of Corporate Finance

  • April 09, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Hazel Markus (Stanford University, Dept. of Psychology)
    Title: “American = Independent?”

  • April 12, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)

    Speaker: Franita Tolson (USC)
    Title: “The Spectrum of Congressional Authority over Elections”. Professor Rebecca Brown will be her commentator.
    Professor Rebecca Brown will be the commentator.

  • April 16, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Gillian Hadfield (USC)
    Title: “Incomplete Contracting and AI Alignment”

  • April 18, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLP Workshop)

    Speaker: Jeffrey Helmreich (UCI, Dept. of Philosohy and Law)
    Title: “When Sincerity isn’t Enough: Guarantees, Word-Giving and Sworn Testimony”

  • April 30, 2018, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)

    Speaker: Morgan Kousser (Caltech)
    Title: "Do The Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s Opinion in Shelby County?"

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  • August 22, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Nicholas Scurich (UC Irvine)
    Title: “Jurors’ Presumption of Innocence”
    *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  • August 29, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Keith E. Whittington (Princeton)
    Title: “The Political History of Judicial Review.”
  • September 07, 2016, 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Vic Khanna (Michigan)
    Title: "CEO Connectedness and Corporate Fraud"
  • September 12, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Steven Clark (UC Riverside)
    Title: "Legitimacy, Accuracy, and Eyewitness Identification"
    *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  • September 15, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2016, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Irene Yi (USC PhD Student) & John Matsusaka (USC Marshall School of Business)
    Title: “Opportunistic Proposals by Union Shareholders”
  • October 05, 2016, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Peter T. Leeson (George Mason University)
    Title: “Witch Trials”
  • November 02, 2016, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Andrea Cann Chandrasekher (UC Davis School of Law)
    Title: “The Effect of Police Slowdowns on Crime.”
  • November 14, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Wayne Sandholtz (USC)
    Title: "Implementing the International Criminal Court "
  • November 16, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Saks Institute Workshop)Speaker: Elyn Saks (USC)
    Title: Saks Institute Fall Lecture on “Supported Decisionmaking”
  • November 21, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Abby Wood (USC)
    Title: "Campaign Finance Transparency and Voter Competence"
  • November 30, 2016, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Jennifer Nedelsky, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
    Title: "Restructuring Work for (Part)-Time for All"
  • December 01, 2016, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Eugene Volkh, (UCLA)
    Title: “What Cheap Speech Has Done: The Transformation of Libel and Privacy Law”
  • December 07, 2016, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (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
  • January 09, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Pam Karlan (Stanford)
    Title: "The End of the Line: Marriage Equality, Racial Equality, and the Supreme Court”
  • January 23, 2017, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Yanhui Wu (USC Marshall School of Business)
    Title: “Are Arbitrators Political? Evidence from International Investment Arbitration”
  • January 25, 2017, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (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, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Jonathan Barnett (USC)
    Title: “Patent Tigers: The New Geography of Global Innovation”
  • February 02, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Gillian Hadfield (USC Gould School of Law)
    Title: "Is Rule of Law an Equilibrium Without Private Ordering?”
    USC Law
  • February 06, 2017, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Ariel Porat (Tel Aviv University/University of Chicago Law School)
    Title: "Liability for Personal Governmental Services"
  • February 06, 2017, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Christopher Essert (Queens University Law/UCLA)
    Title: "Property in the Society of Equals"
  • February 08, 2017- 07, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2017, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (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, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Scott Hershovitz (Michigan, Law and Philosophy)
    Title: "The Formal Normativity Fallacy"
  • February 16, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Bernadette Meyler (Stanford)
    Title: "Liberal Constitutionalism and the Sovereign Pardon"
    USC Law
  • February 22, 2017, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Robin L West
    Title: 15th Annual CLHC Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture
  • February 27, 2017, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Dan Kahan (Yale Law School)
    Title: "Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-government"
  • February 27, 2017, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Nicolas Cornell (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
    Title: "Wrongs, Rights, and Remedial Ambiguity"
  • March 02, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Leda Cosmides (UC Santa Barbara)
    Title: "Can race be erased?"
    *Jointly sponsored by Social Psychology Brown Bag Series
  • March 07, 2017, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Noah Zatz (UCLA)
    Title: "State Violence and the Production of Precarious Work"
  • March 20, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2017, 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Jeannine DeLombard (UC Santa Barbara)
    Title: "Black Dignity Matters"
  • March 23, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Tom Tyler (Yale Law & Psychology)
    Title: “Building Public Trust: Enhancing Police Legitimacy and Accountability”
  • March 27, 2017, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Kathryn Judge (Columbia)
    Title: "Investor-Driven Financial Innovation"
  • April 03, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Miguel di Figueiredo (University of Connecticut School of Law)
    Title: “Does Sentencing Juveniles as Adults Increase Recidivism?”
  • April 03, 2017, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Seanna Shiffrin (UCLA, Law and Philosophy)
    Title: "Democratic Law"
  • April 05, 2017, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (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, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (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, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (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, 2017, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Ben Graham (USC School of International Relations)
    Title: "Secure From What? Theorizing and Measuring Property Rights Security"
  • April 19, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (CLHC Workshop)Speaker: Nayan Shah (USC Dept. of American Studies & Ethnicity)
    Title: "Refugees, Detention and Hunger Strikes"
  • April 20, 2017, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Faculty Workshop)Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
    Title: TBA
  • April 24, 2017, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (CLASS Workshop)Speaker: Jens Prüfer (Tilburg School of Economics and Management)
    Title: “Religion, Moral Attitudes & Economic Behavior”
  • April 24, 2017, 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CLP Workshop)Speaker: Sophia Moreau (Toronto, Law and Philosophy)
    Title: "Towards a Theory of Social Subordination"
  • April 26, 2017, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (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, 2017, 11:50 AM - 1:00 PM (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”