Workshops & Conferences
Fall 2009
- August 24, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Max Schanzenbach (Northwestern University School of Law). Topic: "Do Standards of Review Matter? The Case of Federal Criminal Sentencing." (CLEO) - August 28, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Jody Armour (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: "Nigga Theory in the Substantive Criminal Law."
Commentator: Ronald Garet (Faculty Workshops) - August 31, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
James Spindler (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: "Endogenous Compensation in a Firm with Disclosure and Moral Hazard." (CLEO). - August 31, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Mudd Hall Bldg., Room 102)
Timothy Endiott (University of Oxford, UK). Topic: "Value of Vagueness." (CLP) - September 2, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Kurt Lash (Loyola Law School). Topic: "The Origins of the Privileges and Immunities Clause, Part I: 'Privileges and Immunities' as an Antebellum Term of Act." (CLHC) - September 11, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Jonathan Barnett (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: "Beyond Incentives: Intellectual Property as a Law of Organization." Commentator: Edward McCaffery. (Faculty Workshops) - September 14, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room118/120)
Bart Kosko (Internal CLEO Speaker, USC Viterbi School of Engineering). Topic: "Fuzzy Logic: An Introduction." (CLEO) - September 16, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room118/120)
Assaf Likhovski (Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Visiting UCLA). Topic: "Transplanting British Income Tax Law to Mandatory Palestine." (CLHC) - September 21, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Ralph Winter (University of British Columbia). Topic: "Exclusionary Contracts." (CLEO) - September 21, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Mudd Hall Bldg., Room 102)
John Perry (Stanford University). Topic: "Textualism and the Discovery of Rights." (CLP) - September 25, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Kim Buchanan (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: "Our Prisons, Ourselves: Race, Gender and Prison Rape." Commentator: Scott Altman. (Faculty Workshops) - October 2, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Barry Friedman (New York University School of Law). Topic: "The Will of the People: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution." Commentators: Rebecca Brown & Laura Kalman. (CLHC Special Event) - October 5, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University, Department of Economics). Topic: "Homicide in Black and White." (CLEO) - October 5, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Mudd Hall Bldg., Room 102)
Stephen Neale (CUNY). Topic: tba. (CLP) - October 9, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Andrei Marmor (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: "Can the Law Imply More than It Says? On Some Pragmatic Aspects of Strategic Speech." Commentator: Scott Altman. (Faculty Workshops) - October 19, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Jesse Fried (Harvard Law). Topic: "Current-Shareholder Bias in Corporate Governance." (CLEO)
- October 19, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Mudd Hall Bldg., Room 102)
Gideon Rosen (Princeton University), Topic: tba. (CLP) - October 21, 12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m (Law School Faculty Lounge, Room 433)
Law & Identities Symposium�peakers will include Claudia Moatti (USC-Classics); Susan Lape (USC-Classics); Debra Blumenthal (UCSB-History); Ariela Gross (USC-Law) & Camille Gear Rich (USC-Law). (CLHC) - October 23, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Mary Dudziak (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: "Law, War, and the History of Time." Commentator: Michael Shapiro (Faculty Workshops) - October 26, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
A. Mitchell Polinsky (Stanford Law School). Topic: "The Uneasy Case for Product Liability." (CLEO) - October 30, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Nomi Stolzenberg (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: "Facts on the Ground." Commentator: Assaf Likhovski (Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Visiting UCLA). (Faculty Workshops) - November 2, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Mudd Hall Bldg., Room 102)
Richard Holton (MIT), Topic: tba. (CLP) - November 9, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Shmuel Leshem (Internal CLEO Speaker, USC Gould School of Law), Topic: "Sequential versus Simultaneous Law Enforcements Games." (CLEO) - November 16, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Steven Tadelis (UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business). Topic: tba. (CLEO) - November 16, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Mudd Hall Bldg., Room 102)
Connie Rosati (University of Arizona). Topic: tba. (CLP) - November 20, 9:00 - 5:15 p.m. (followed by poster sessions and reception) & November 21, 7:30 - 5:00 p.m. (Law School)
4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) For more information regarding the conference, see http://law.usc.edu/cels/. (Special Event) - November 30, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Naomi Lamoreaux (UCLA, Department of Economics). Topic: "Beyond Monopoly: Patents, Inventors, and the Market for Technology in U.S. History." (CLEO) - November 30, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Mudd Hall Bldg., Room 102)
Nicos Stavropoulou (University of Oxyford, UK). Topic: tba. (CLP) - December 4, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Scott Baker (Washington University School of Law), Topic: "A Theory of Optimal Jurisprudence." (w/C. Mezzetti) (CLEO) - November 2, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Nina Walton (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: tba. Commentator: tba. (Faculty Workshops) - December 7, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Ricardo Alonso (Internal CLEO Speaker, USC Marshall School of Business), Topic: "Organize to Compete." (CLEO) - December 14, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Barak Richman (Duke Law School), Topic: "Mental Health Care Consumption and Outcomes: Considering Preventative StrategiesAcross Race and Class." (CLEO)
Spring 2010
- January 13, 2:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Faculty Lounge, Room 433)
West Coast Law & Literature Conference. Speakers: Victoria Kahn (UC Berkeley, English) and Bernadette Meyler (Cornell Law School). Topic "Early Modern/Post-Modern: Hobbes and the Contemporary Moment." (CLHC) - January 22, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Gregory Keating (USC Gould School of Law), Topic: tba. Commentator: tba. (Faculty Workshops) - January 25, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Nicholas Weller (USC Department of Political Science). Topic: tba. (CLEO) - January 27, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Melissa Murray (UC Berkeley School of Law). Topic: tba. (CLHC) - February 1, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Antoinette Schoar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Topic: tba (CLEO) - February 5, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Kareem Crayton (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: tba. Commentator: tba. (Faculty Workshops) - February 8, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Harrison Cheng (Internal CLEO Speaker, USC Department of Economics). Topic: "Online Buy Price Auctions with Resale." (CLEO) - February 11, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Russell Robinson (UCLA School of Law). Topic: tba. (CLHC) - February 19, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130 )
Gillian Hadfield (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: tba. Commentator: tba. (Faculty Workshops) - February 25, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., reception to follow (USC Town & Gown)
The 8th Annual Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture. Professor Etienne Balibar (University of Paris & UC Irvine) (CLHC) - February 26, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Daniel Markovits (Yale Law School). Topic: tba. (Faculty Workshops) - March 1, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Shane Greenstein (Northwestern University). Topic: tba. (CLEO) - March 4, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Darren Rosenblum (Pace Law School). Topic: tba. (CLHC) - March 12, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Bradley Wendel (Cornell Law School). Topic: tba. (Faculty Workshops) - March 26, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Alexander Capron (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: tba.Commentator: tba. (Faculty Workshops) - March 29, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Jessica Flack (Santa Fe Institute). Topic: tba. (CLEO) - April 5, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
George Triantis (Harvard Law School). Topic: tba. (CLEO) - April 7, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Susan Schmeiser (University of Connecticut School of Law). Topic: tba. (CLHC) - April 9, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Stephen Rich (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: tba.Commentator: tba. (Faculty Workshops) - April 12, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Ted Sichelman (UC Berkeley). Topic: tba. (CLEO) - April 21, 12:20 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Amalia Kessler (Stanford Law School). Topic: tba. (CLHC) - April 23, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Room 130)
Robert Rasmussen (USC Gould School of Law). Topic: tba.Commentator: tba. (Faculty Workshops) - April 26, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
James Andreoni (University of California, San Diego). Topic: tba. (CLEO) - May 3, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. (Room 118/120)
Heikki Rantakari (USC Marshall School). Topic: tba. (CLEO)