Workshops & Conferences

Spring 2013

 

  • January 18, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 130)

    Wayne Sandholtz (USC School of International Relations). Topic: “Constitutions and Human Rights Treaty Commitments.” Commentator: Edwin Smith. (Faculty Workshop)

  • January 23, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Deborah Kamen (University of Washington, Dept. of Classics). Topic: “Buying Freedom? Slave-Prostitutes and Legal Fictions in Ancient Greece.” (CLHC)

  • January 28, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Anne Layne-Farrar (Charles River Associates). Topic: “Payments and Participation: The Incentives to Join Cooperative Standard Setting Efforts.” Co-authored with Gerard Llobet. (CLEO)

  • January 30, 1:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. (USC Gould School of Law, Faculty Lounge, Room 433)

    CSLP Conference. Topic: "Initiatives and Referendums in the Elections of 2012" Speakers: Mat McCubbins (USC, Dept. of Finance and Business Economics & Gould School of Law), Dan Schnur (USC, Unruh Institute of Politics), Bruce Cain (Stanford, Dept. of Political Science) and Colin McCubbins (Stanford, Dept. of Political Science). (CSLP)

  • February 6, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Christelle Fischer-Bovet (USC, Dept. of Classics). Topic: “The Integration of Local Elites in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires: Balancing Ethnic and Socio-Economic Solidarities.” (CLHC)

  • February 8, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 130)

    Camille Rich (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: “Elective Race.” Commentator: Ariela Gross. (Faculty Workshop)

  • February 13, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Claude Berrebi (Hebrew University, School of Public Policy & RAND Corporation). Topic: “Terrorism and the Labor Force: Evidence of an Effect on Female Labor Force Participation and the Labor Gender Gap.” (CLEO)

  • February 14, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (Room 130)

    Gillian Hadfield (USC Gould School of Law) and Dan Ryan (Mills College, Dept. of Sociology). Topic: “Democracy and the Information Order.” (Faculty Workshop)

  • February 21, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (USC Town & Gown) Reception to follow.

    Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture. Speaker: Robert Gordon (Stanford Law School). Topic: “Markets, Morals, and Lawyers.” (CLHC)

  • February 25, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Kimberly Clausing (Reed College, Dept. of Economics). Topic: “The Future of Corporate Taxation.” (CLEO)

  • March 4, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Thomas Hazlett (George Mason University School of Law). Topic: “Exactitude in Defining Rights: Radio Spectrum and the 'Harmful Interference' Conundrum.” (CLEO)

  • March 6, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Diana Williams (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: “Plessy's Peers: Race and The Jim Crow Jury.” (CLHC)

  • March 8, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 130)

    Samuel Bagenstos (University of Michigan Law School). Topic: “Employment Law and Social Equality.” (Faculty Workshop)

  • March 11, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Peter Siegelman (University of Connecticut School of Law). Topic:“TBA.” (CLEO)

  • March 13, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Jackie Stevens (Northwestern University, Dept. of Political Science). Topic: “We Citizens: Hannah Arendt and the Conundrums of the Nation-State.” (CLHC)

  • March 14, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Kim Buchanan (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: “HIV Disclosure Laws: A Right to Know?” Commentator: Ariela Gross. (Faculty Workshop)

  • March 29, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 130)

    Jennifer Arlen (New York University School of Law). Topic: “The Endowment Effect: Voluntary Debiasing Through Agents and Markets.” (w/Stephan Tontrup). Commentator: Matthew McCubbins. (Faculty Workshop)

  • April 3, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Sam Erman (Harvard Law School Berger Fellow). Topic: “Citizens of Empire: Puerto Rico, Status, and Early-20th-Century Constitutional Change.” (CLHC)

  • April 5, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 130)

    Nomi Stolzenberg (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: “Dirty Hands, Divine Accommodation and Secularism: A Different Political Theology.” Commentator: Greg Keating. (Faculty Workshop)

  • April 8, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Stuart Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business). Topic: “Setting Patent Fees.” (CLEO)

  • April 10, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Brian Klopotek (University of Oregon, Ethnic Studies Dept.). Topic: “Indian on Both Sides: Indigenous Identities, Race, and National Borders.” (CLHC)

  • April 11, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. & April 12, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (USC Gould School of Law, Faculty Lounge, Room 433)

    Saks Institute 2013 Spring Symposium. Topic: “Criminalization of Mental Illness.” Keynote Speaker: Richard Bonnie (Virginia Law). (Saks Institute)

  • April 16, 12:15 p.m. (Room 433)

    Ehud Kamar (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: “TBA.” (Faculty Workshop)

  • April 19, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Room 130)

    Katherine Franke (Columbia Law School). Topic: “Marriage Rules: The Curious Relationship of Marriage to Freedom.” (Faculty Workshop)

  • April 22, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Mark Phillips (USC Sol Price School of Public Policy). Topic: “Tax Holidays: An Excess Burden Loser?” (CLEO)

  • April 24, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Nayan Shah (USC Dept. of American Studies and Ethnicity). Topic: “Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West.” (CLHC)

  • May 3, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 130)

    Dan Klerman (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: “Legal Fictions.” (Faculty Workshop)

Fall 2012

 

  • August 30, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 (Room 103)

    Nancy Staudt (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: “Supercharged IPOs.” Commentator: Ed Kleinbard. (Faculty Workshop)

  • September 6, 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (USC Town & Gown) Reception to follow

    CLHC 10th Annual Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture. Speaker: John Comaroff (University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology). Topic: “Divine Detection: Crime and the Metaphysics of Disorder.” (CLHC)

  • September 10, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Albert Choi (University of Virginia Law School). Topic: “The Effect Of Bargaining Power on Contract Design.” (CLEO)

  • September 10, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 102, Mudd Hall Bldg.)

    Gideon Rosen (Princeton University, Dept. of Philosophy). Topic: Milgram and Morals” (CLP)

  • September 12, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Noga Morag-Levine (Michigan State University College of Law). Topic: “Facts, Formalism, and the Brandeis Brief: The Making of a Myth.” (CLHC)

  • September 21, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 130)

    Stephen Rich (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: “Inferred Classifications.” Commentator: Rebecca Brown (Faculty Workshop)

  • September 24, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Ben Depoorter (UC, Hastings College of the Law). Topic: “Symbolic Rights as Property.” (CLEO)

  • September 24, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 102, Mudd Hall Bldg.)

    George Sher (Rice University, Dept. of Philosophy). Topic: “Setting the Norms of Recognition.” (CLP)

  • October 5, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 130)

    Chimène Keitner (USC Gould School of Law, visiting from UC Hastings College of the Law). Topic: “Horizontal Enforcement in International Law.” (Faculty Workshop)

  • October 8, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Jim Greiner (Harvard Law School). Topic: “How Effective Are Limited Legal Assistance Programs? A Randomized Experiment in a Massachusetts Housing Court.” (CLEO)

  • October 8, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 102, Mudd Hall Bldg.)

    Jay Wallace (UC Berkeley, Dept. of Philosophy). Topic: “TBA.” (CLP)

  • October 10, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Sven Beckert (Harvard Law School). Topic: “TBA.”  This will be a joint workshop with the Center for Law, Economics and Organization. (CLHC, CLEO)

  • October 17, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Peter Baldwin (UCLA, Dept. of History). Topic: “TBA.” (CLHC)

  • October 19, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 130)

    Zev Eigen (USC Gould School of Law, visiting from Northwestern University School of Law). Topic: “Justice or Just between Us: Empirical Evidence of the Trade-Off between Procedural and Interactional Justice in Workplace Dispute Resolution.” (Faculty Workshop)

  • October 22, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Yair Listokin (Yale Law School). Topic: “Tax Expenditure Salience.” (CLEO)

  • October 22, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 102, Mudd Hall Bldg.)

    Susan Wolf (UNC Chapel Hill, Dept. of Philosophy). Topic: “TBA.” (CLP)

  • October 31, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Kerry Abrams (University of Virginia School of Law). Topic: “TBA.” (CLHC)

  • November 2, 2:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Room 130)

    Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School) and Michael Moore (University of Illinois College of Law). Topic: “Panel: Philosophical and Economic Challenges in Contemporary Law-and-Economics Analysis of Private Law.” (Faculty Workshop)

  • November 5, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Steven Davidoff (Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law). Topic: “Limits of Disclosure.” (CLEO)

  • November 12, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Dhammika Dharmapala (University of Illinois College of Law). Topic: “Freeze-outs Before Cross-Listings: An Analysis of the ‘Mardi Gras’ Strategy.” (CLEO)

  • November 13, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Chimène Keitner (USC Gould School of Law, visiting from UC Hastings College of the Law). Panel Discussion: “The Paradoxes of Nationalism.” Commentators: Patrick James (USC) and David Myers (UCLA) (CLHC)

  • November 16, 2:45 p.m. (Room 130)

    Alon Harel (Hebrew University, Faculty of Law). Topic: “The Case Against Privatization.” (Faculty Workshop)

  • November 19, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Daniel Chen (Duke University School of Law). Topic: “Growth Under the Shadow of Expropriation? The Economic Impacts of Eminent Domain.” (CLEO)

  •  November 19, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 102, Mudd Hall Bldg.)

    Thomas Scanlon (Harvard University, Dept. of Philosophy). Topic: “TBA.” (CLP)

  • November 28, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 12)

    Chris Brooks (Durham University in England, Distinguished Fellow at Huntington Library). Topic: “TBA.” (CLHC)

  • November 30, 2:45 p.m. (Room 130)

    Camille Rich (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: “Elective Race.” Commentator: Ariela Gross. (Faculty Workshop)

  • December 3, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 12)

    Anthony Niblett (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law). Topic: “Outcomes and Precedents.” Co-authored with Albert Yoon. (CLEO)

  • December 3, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Room 102, Mudd Hall Bldg.)

    Stephen Darwall (Yale University, Dept. of Philosophy). Topic: “TBA.” (CLP)

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