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2011-12 Schedule of Presenters
| September 14 | Scott Dodson (The College of William & Mary) - Hybridizing Jurisdiction" |
| October 17 | Chaim Saiman (Villanova University) - "Faith in Legal Doctrine: An Anglo-American Comparison" |
| October 24 | Prasad Krishnamurthy (University of California at Berkeley) - "Branching Restrictions, Financial Integration, and Firm Growth" |
| November 2 | Katerina Linos (University of California at Berkeley) - "Legislative Borrowing" |
| November 9 | Gerald F. Leonard (Boston University) - "Jefferson's Constitutions" |
| November 14 | Ethan J. Leib (University of California, Hastings) - "Judges as Fiduciaries" |
| January 30 | Mae C. Quinn (Washington University) - "Feminist Legal Realism" |
| February 6 | Scott E. Sundby (University of Miami) - "Anatomy of an Infamous Decision: McClesky vs. Kemp After 25 Years" |
| February 8 | Julia D. Mahoney (University of Virginia) - "Health Care Reform, the Constitution and the "New" New Deal |
| February 13 | Howard M. Erichson (Fordham University) - "Outsourcing Settlement" |
| February 20 | Deborah J. Cantrell (University of Colorado at Boulder) - "Lawyers, Loyalty and Social Change" |
| February 27 | E. Lea Johnston (University of Florida Levin College of Law) - "Vulnerability and Desert: A Theory of Sentencing the Mentally Ill" |
| March 5 | Brett Frischmann (Yeshiva University) - "Infrastructure and Commons: From Roads and Telecommunications Networks to Ideas and Ecosystems" |
| April 16 | Henry E. Smith (Harvard University) - "An Economic Analysis of Law versus Equity" |
| May 3 |
Oren Perez (Bar Ilan University) - "Open Government, Technological Innovation and the Politics of Democratic Disillusionment: Democracy from Socrates to Obama" |
2010-11 Schedule of Presenters
| September 27 | John Mikhail (Georgetown University): Unreasonable Risk: A Formal Analysis and Critical History of Common Law Negligence |
| October 11 | Nelson Tebbe (Brooklyn Law School): Nonbelievers |
| October 18 | Anita S. Krishnakumar (St. John's University): The Anti-Messiness Principle in Statutory Interpretation |
| October 27 | Lawrence B. Solum (University of Illinois): The Interpretation-Construction Distinction |
| November 1 | Stephen I. Vladeck (American University): The New Habeas Revisionism |
| January 24 | Fred Smith Jr. (University of California at Berkeley): Awakening the People's "Giant": Sovereign Immunity and the Constitution's Republican Guarantee |
| February 14 | Albert Yoon (University of Toronto): The Market for Law Professors |
| February 21 | Ted Blumoff (Mercer University): How (Some) Criminals Are Made |
| February 28 | Charlene Luke (University of Florida): Managing the Deluge: Tax Approaches to Flood "Insurance" |
| March 7 | Stephen B. Burbank (University of Pennsylvania): Private Enforcement of Statutory and Administrative Law |
| March 21 | Jayne Barnard (College of William & Mary): The Years of Magical Thinking: Bernie Madoff's Victims and the Power of Bereavement |
| March 28 | Chaim Saiman (Villanova University) - "Faith in Legal Doctrine: An Anglo-American Comparison" |
| April 4 | Amy Gajda (Tulane University) - "Privacy Before The Right to Privacy" |
2009-10 Schedule of Presenters
| September 21 | Angela P. Harris (University of California at Berkeley): Color Chart and Gender Spectrum: Administering Race and Gender in a Post-Obama World |
| October 5 | Cara H. Drinan (The Catholic University of America): The National Right to Counsel Act: A Congressional Solution to the Indigent Defense Crisis |
| October 12 | Kimberly D. Krawiec (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): A Woman's Worth |
| October 19 | Roderick M. Hills (New York University): Federalism and Distrust: The Gentry, the Saints, and the Federal Republic in Nineteenth Century America |
| January 25 | Royce de R. Barondes (University of Missouri): ABA Ratings of Federal District Court Judges and the Likelihood of a Shepard's Warning Signal |
| February 1 | Stephanie M. Stern (Loyola University): The Inviolate Home: From Iconic Property to Relational Privacy in the Fourth Amendment |
| February 8 | Michael S. Kang (Emory University): Sore Loser Laws |
| February 15 | Olivier Moréteau (Louisiana State University): A Summary Reflection on the Future of Civil Codes in Europe |
| February 22 | Deborah Pearlstein (Princeton University): After Deference: Formalizing the Judicial Power in Foreign Relations Law |
| February 24 | Richard J. Peltz (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) Access to Gun Registry and Freedom of Information Law |
| March 1 | Lee-ford Tritt (University of Florida): Technical Correction or Tectonic Shift: Competing Default Rule Theories Under the New Uniform Probate Code |
| March 22 | Michael Zimmer (Loyola University Chicago): The Ricci Decision |
| April 5 | Christopher S. Elmendorf (University of California at Davis): "The Politics of First Best": Depolarization by Design and the Voting Rights Act |
| April 12 | Nirej Sekhon (Georgia State University): Taking Their Pick: Police Departments, Discretion, and Race |
2008-09 Schedule of Presenters
| September 22 | David J. Herring (University of Pittsburgh School of Law): Kinship Foster Care: Implications of Behavioral Biology Research |
| September 29 | Juan F. Perea (University of Florida Levin College of Law): On the Ideology of Constitutional Law Casebooks |
| October 6 | Anne M. Coughlin (University of Virginia School of Law): Interrogation Stories |
| October 13 | Gregory Klass (Georgetown University Law Center): Intent to Contract |
| October 20 | Amanda Frost (American University Washington College of Law): In Defense of Sua Sponte Decisionmaking |
| January 26 | Dennis D. Crouch (University of Missouri School of Law): Quasi Trademarks: Rethinking the Purposes of Design Patent Protection |
| February 2 | Mitu Gulati (Duke University School of Law): The Stickiness of Contract Terms |
| February 9 | Zanita E. Fenton (University of Miami School of Law): A Critical Race Feminist Reading of Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales |
| February 16 | Christine Hurt (University of Illinois College of Law): The Windfall Fallacy |
| February 23 | Al Brophy (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law): University, Court, and Slave: Thomas R.R. Cobb’s Proslavery Jurisprudence |
| March 16 | Robert Steinbuch (University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law): Kidneys, Cash and Kashrut: A Legal, Economic and Religious Analysis of Selling Kidneys |
| March 23 | Scott Hershovitz (University of Michigan Law School): Harry Potter and the Purposes of Tort Law |
| March 30 | Joe Miller (Lewis & Clark Law School): Hoisting Originality |
| April 13 | Robert Rhee (University of Maryland School of Law): The Production Theory of Pure Economic Loss |
| April 17 | Brian Z. Tamanaha (St. John's University School of Law): Over a Century of Balanced Realism About Judging (and Why It’s Endangered) |
| April 20 | Juliet M. Moringiello (Widener University School of Law): Balancing the Bankruptcy Code Towards the Honest but Unfortunate Creditor |
2007-08 Schedule of Presenters
| September 10 | Brandon Garrett (University of Virginia) |
| September 28 | Mitchell N. Berman (University of Texas) |
| October 12 | Chris Brummer (Vanderbilt) |
| October 19 | Shari Motro (University of Richmond) |
| October 26 | Dorothy A. Brown (Washington & Lee) |
| February 11 | Douglas H. Yarn (Georgia State University) |
| February 18 | Bernadette Meyler (Cornell) |
| February 25 | Ahmed E. Taha (Wake Forest) |
| March 3 | Randy Picker (University of Chicago) |
| March 24 | Camille A. Nelson (Saint Louis University) |
| March 31 | David B. Mustard & Thomas A. Eaton (University of Georgia) |
| April 7 | David Arthur Skeel (University of Pennsylvania) |
| April 14 | Anup Malani (University of Chicago) |
2006-07 Schedule of Presenters
| September 22 | Richard E. Myers II (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): The Sunset Amendment |
| September 29 | Michael S. Pardo (University of Alabama): Juridical Proof and the Best Explanation |
| October 6 | Margaret M. Blair (Vanderbilt University): Assurance Services as a Substitute for Law in Global Commerce |
| October 13 | Steven L. Schwarcz (Duke University): Explaining the Value of Transactional Lawyering |
| October 23 | Ani B. Satz (Emory University) |
| November 3 | John Neiman (University of Georgia): Defining the Judicial Office |
| January 19 | Peter B. "Bo" Rutledge (Catholic University of America): Is Arbitration State Action? Does It Matter? |
| January 22 | Lonnie T. Brown Jr. (University of Georgia): Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark |
| January 29 | Usha Rodrigues (University of Georgia): Corporate Law |
| February 9 | Jonathan Klick (Florida State University) |
| February 16 | Christina E. Wells (University of Missouri): Funeral Protests |
| February 23 | Ronald F. Wright (Wake Forest University): The Black Box of Prosecutor Declinations |
| March 2 | David A. Brennen (University of Georgia): Taxation of Nonprofits |
| March 9 | Jim E. Pfander (University of Illinois): Federal Supremacy, State Court Inferiority, and the Constitutionality of Jurisdiction Stripping |
| TBA | Cynthia L. Estlund (New York University): The Fall and Rise of Self-Governance in the Workplace |
Spring 2006 Schedule of Presenters
| January 27 | Ronald Rotunda (George Mason): The Detainee Cases of 2004 and Their Aftermath |
| February 3 | Jim Rossi (Florida State): Approaching Deference for State Regulators in Antitrust Law Through Chevron |
| February 17 | Julie Seamon (Emory): The Expert Witness as Stealth Fact-Finder: Hidden Hearsay, Confrontation, and Jury Determination of Facts |
| February 24 | Anthony Alfieri (Miami): The Fall of Legal Ethics and the Rise of Risk Management |
| March 1 | Michael Wells (UGA): "Sociological Legitimacy" in the Supreme Court |
| March 8 | Michael Perry (Emory): Is capital punishment constitutional under the Eighth Amendment? And if it's not, should the Supreme Court so rule? |
| April 7 | John Langbein (Yale) - Trust Law as Regulatory Law |
| April 12 | Alan Watson (UGA): Lord Mansfield: Judicial Integrity or its Lack: Somerset's Case. |
| April 21 | Thomas Lee (Fordham):The World Balance of Power and the Evolution of U.S. Foreign-States' Law |
Fall 2005 Schedule of Presenters
| September 23 | Peter Schuck (Yale University) - Bad Draws, Bad Bets, Bad Apples, and Bad Policies |
| September 30 | Sean J. Griffith (University of Connecticut) – Unleashing a Gatekeeper |
| October 12 | Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. (University of Georgia) - Reconsidering the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege: A Response to the Compelled-Voluntary Waiver Paradox |
| October 20 | Julian A. Cook III (Michigan State Univesity) - Crumbs From the Master's Table: The Supreme Court, Pro Se Defendants and the Federal Guilty Plea Process |
| October 26 | Akhil Amar (Yale University), Comparative Constitutional Law: American Style |
| November 9 | David A. Brennen (Mercer University) – TBA |
| November 16 | Olufunmilayo B. Arewa (Case Western Reserve University) – "Piracy," Borrowing and Global Intellectual Property Frameworks: History, Hierarchies and Conceptions of Culture |
| November 18 | Jedediah S. Purdy (Duke University) - The American Transformation of Waste Doctrine: A Pluralist Interpretation |
Spring 2005 Schedule of Presenters
| January 21 | Ryan Goodman (Harvard University) - Humanitarian Intervention and Pretexts for War |
| February 10 | Jim Brudney (Ohio State University) - Neutrality Agreements and Card Check Recognition: Prospects for Changing Paradigms |
| February 18 | Tung Yin (University of Iowa) - Ending the War on Terrorism One Terrorist at a Time |
| February 25 | Polly Price (Emory University) - State Court Judge and Property Rights: The Case for Conservatism in the Antebellum Era |
| March 4 | John McGinnis (Northwestern University) - The Condorcet. Case for Super Majority Rules |
| March 11 | Kent Greenfield (Boston College) - Five New Principles for Corporate Law |
| March 25 | Orin Kerr (George Washington University) - The Fourth Amendment and the Computer Forensics Process |
| March 29 | Sanford Levinson (University of Texas) - In Quest of a Common "Conscience": Reflections of the Current Debate about Torture |
| April 13 | Allison Danner (Vanderbilt University) -The International Criminal Tribunals as International Courts |