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.
Oct. 12
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Michael Storper (UCLA Luksin School of Public Affairs)
Title: Regional Innovation Transitions
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Oct. 26
Mark Bartholomew
Title: The Law of Advertising Outrage
Nov. 9 (Law Library reception area)
Mitchell Lecture Speaker: John Braithwaite (Australian National University)
Title: Tempered Power, Variegated Capitalism, Law and Society
Nov. 16
Guyora Binder
Title: Democracy and the Authority of Law
Nov. 30
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Saule Omarova, Cornell Law School
Title: New Tech V. New Deal: Fintech as a Systemic Phenomenon
Dec. 7
Jonathan Manes
Title: Algorithms, Transparency Laws, and Trade Secrecy
Feb. 22
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Catherine Fisk, Berkeley Law
Title: Lawyers, Labor Protest, and the First Ammendment in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Mar. 1
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: András Sajó, Central European University
Title: Human Rights in a Closing World
Mar. 8
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania
Title: TBD
Mar. 29
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: Matthew D. Adler, Duke Law School
Title: Measuring Social Welfare: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis
May 3
Baldy Distinguished Speaker: John J Donohue III, Standford Law School
Title: TBD
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”
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Sept. 7
Martha McCluskey
Title: Beyond Public Incapacity: Vulnerability’s Legal Theory for Ambitious Social Change
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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
