Faculty Workshops and Conferences: Archives

• 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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
Title: TBA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Justin Driver (University of Chicago)
Title: "The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind"
Book Talk

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

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

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

Speaker: Recent Faculty Publications
Title: Book Party

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

Speaker: Merritt Fox (Columbia Law School)
Title: "Contextualizing the Link between Corporate Governance and Performance: Governance Changes As a Signal of Managerial Quality"

Speaker: Manisha Padi (University of Chicago Law School)
Title: Consumer Protection Laws and the Mortgage Market: Evidence from Ohio
Rm., 433

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

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

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"

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

Speaker: Erik Hovencamp
Title: "Platform Antitrust"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaker: Abby Wood - (USC)
Title: TBA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Speaker: Conference on Mobility
Title: Co-sponsored by Classics Department and Center for Law, History and Culture
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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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”

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

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

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.

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

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

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