For additional information about Law Faculty Workshops, contact Guyora Binder. Light food and refreshments will be available 30 minutes prior to each workshop.
Unless noted otherwise, workshops are held in the Cellino and Barnes Conference Center. Lunch will be served at 12:00 p.m.; talk will begin at 12:30 p.m.
Papers are only available for download to UB faculty and staff. To download the papers, please use your UBID name and password.
Apr. 19
Anya Bernstein
Title: Selective Empiricism in Statutory Interpretation
Download Bernstein's paper (PDF)
Apr. 26
James A. Gardner
Title: Conceptions of Politics in Comparative Perspective.
May 3
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: John J Donohue III, Stanford Law School
Title: Right to Carry Laws and Violent Crimes
May 10
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Steven Boutcher, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: Financing Legal Education Through Student Loans: Implications on Debt and Career Choice
Download Boutcher's paper (PDF)
Apr. 5
Laura Ford
Title: The Intellectual Property of Nations: Sociological and Historical Perspectives on a Modern Legal Institution
Mar. 29
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Matthew D. Adler, Duke Law School
Title: Measuring Social Welfare: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis
Mar. 15
Daniel Platt
Title: The Domestication of Finance: Gender and Credit in the United States, 1830-1930
Mar. 8
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Social Proximity and the Evolution of Norm Compliance
Mar. 1
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: András Sajó, Central European University
Title: Human Rights in a Closing World
Feb. 22
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Catherine Fisk, Berkeley Law
Title: Lawyers, Labor Protest, and the First Amendment in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Feb. 1
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Steven Boutcher, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: Financing Legal Education through Student Loans: Implications on Debt and Career Choice
Jan. 22 - Law Review Camp
10:00am
Presenter: Jack Schlegel: “Third turtle down”
Commentators: Daniel Platt and Jim Wooten
11:10am
Presenter: Daniel Platt: "The Problem of Peonage"
Commentators: Matt Dimick and Athena Mutua
12:30pm
Presenter: Mandy Hughett: “Prison Labor”
Commentators: Daniel Platt and Michael Boucai
1:40pm
Presenter: Athena Mutua, “The Making of a Black Nationalist”
Commentators: Mandy Hughett and Jack Schlegel
Jan. 23 - Law Review Camp
10:00am
Presenter: Jessie Owley, “Climate Migration and Conservation Lands”
Commentators: Rick Su and Maggie Shannon
11:10am
Presenter: Rick Su, “Democracy in Rural America”
Commentators: Errol Meidinger and Matt Steilen
12:30pm
Presenter: Errol Meidinger: “The TPP and Environmental Regulation”
Commentators: Tara Melish and Jessie Owley
1:40pm
Presenter: Guyora Binder, “Democracy and the Authority of Law”
Commentators: David McNamee and Jim Wooten
Nov. 30
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Saule Omarova, Cornell Law School
Title: New Tech V. New Deal: Fintech as a Systemic Phenomenon
Nov. 9 (Law Library reception area)
Mitchell Lecture Speaker: John Braithwaite (Australian National University)
Title: Tempered Power, Variegated Capitalism, Law and Society
Oct. 26
Mark Bartholomew
Title: The Law of Advertising Outrage
Oct. 12
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Michael Storper (UCLA Luksin School of Public Affairs)
Title: Regional Innovation Transitions
Oct. 5
Matt Dimick
Title: Critical Labor Law: A Critique
Sept. 28
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Daniel Markovits (Yale Law School)
Title: The Meritocracy Trap
Sept. 14
Irus Braverman
Title: “Murky Waters: The Nature of Springs and the Israeli Occupation”
Sept. 7
Martha McCluskey
Title: Beyond Public Incapacity: Vulnerability’s Legal Theory for Ambitious Social Change
July 30 - Law Review Camp
10:00am
Presenter: Amanda Hughett, “Our Work Keeps This Place Running”: Prison Labor and Prison Finance in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Commentators: Michael Boucai and Matt Dimick
12:45pm
Presenter: Jennifer Pacella, “Fixing USA Gymnastics”
Commentators: Nellie Drew and Jack Schlegel
Aug 9 - Law Review Camp
11:15am
Presenter: David MacNamee "A Theory of Fundamental Law"
Commentators: Matt Steilen and Jonathan Manes
12:45pm
Presenter: Michael Boucai, "Before Loving"
Commentators: Luis Chiesa and Jim Gardner
Aug 8 - Law Review Camp
10:00am
Presenter: Brenner Fissell, “Criminalization by Administrative Agencies: A Critique”
Commentators: David MacNamee and Luis Chiesa
11:15am
Presenter: Jim Gardner, “A Democratic Theory Analysis of Primary Elections”
Commentators: Matt Steilen and Rick Su
12:45pm
Presenter: Matt Steilen, “The Constitutional Convention in Theory and Practice: A Reply to Tuck and Wood”
Commentators: Jim Gardner and Brenner Fissell
Aug 7 - Law Review Camp
10:00am
Presenter: Luis Chiesa, “Can Men be Raped?”
Commentators: Michael Boucai, Guyora Binder
11:15am
Presenter: Jessica Owley, “Property in Confederate Monuments”
Commentators: Amanda Hughett and Rick Su
12:45pm
Presenter: Matt Dimick, “Equity, Efficiency and Uncertainty in Liability Rules”
Commentators: Jim Wooten and Lucinda Finley
