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Summer 2023 Faculty Activities

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Summer 2023 Faculty Activities

Anne Alstott

Publications

  • Protecting Transgender Health and Challenging Science Denialism in Policy, N Engl J Med, Nov. 24, 2022;387(21):1919–1921 (with Meredithe McNamara and Christina Lepore)
  • Scientific Misinformation Is Criminalizing the Standard of Care for Transgender Youth, JAMA Pediatr, Oct. 1, 2022;176(10):965–966 (with Meredithe McNamara and Christina Lepore)
  • Psychological Parenthood, 106 Minn. L. Rev. 2363 (2022) (with Douglas NeJaime and Anne Dailey)
  • Braidwood Misreads the Science: the PrEP Mandate Promotes Public Health for the Entire Community (with Meredithe McNamara, Dini Harsono, E. Jennifer Edelman, Aliza Norwood, Samantha V. Hill, A. David Paltiel, and Gregg Gonsalves)

Other Professional Highlights

Guido Calabresi

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Administrative Law and the Unity of Legal Science” (Il diritto amministrativo e l’unita’ della scienza giuridica), in honor of Marco D’Alberti, University of Rome, Jan. 30, 2023
  • Presentation of my and Enrico Al Mureden’s book Driverless Cars, University of Venice (Universita’ Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Feb. 2, 2023
  • “Comments and Reflections,” Hofstra Law Review Symposium, Freedom of Expression at American Law Schools, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, Feb. 10, 2023

Publications

  • Outside In, The Oral History of Guido Calabresi (2 Volumes), Oxford University Press (2023) (with Norman I. Silber)
  • Preface of Liber Amicorum per Marco D’Alberti, G. Giappichelli Editore – Torino, IT (2022)

Justin Driver

Lectures and Addresses

  • Victor S. Johnson Lecture, “The Affirmative Action Wars,” Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN, Oct. 27, 2022
  • Panelist, “Free Speech & Schools,” PEN America, Philadelphia, PA, Jan. 7, 2023
  • Dermot S. McGlinchey Lecture, “Schooling Free Speech,” Tulane Law School, New Orleans, LA, Feb. 9, 2023
  • Guest Lecture, “The Schoolhouse Gate,” Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, Mar. 2, 2023
  • Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture, “Schooling Free Speech,” Brown University, Providence, RI, Mar. 9, 2023
  • Distinguished Visiting Lecture, University of Texas School of Law, “Schooling Free Speech,” Austin, TX, Mar. 21, 2023
  • Distinguished Commentator, National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars, Tucson, AZ, Mar. 25, 2023
  • “What to Write & When,” Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Apr. 6, 2023

Publications

  • Three Hail Marys: Carson, Kennedy, and the Fractured Détente over Religion and Education, 136 Harvard L. Rev. 208 (2022)
  • Rules of Engagement, The New York Times Book Review, Nov. 13, 2022, at BR41 
  • Think Affirmative Action Is Dead? Think Again., The New York Times, Oct. 31, 2022, at A23
  • Does Campus Diversity Justify Affirmative Action? Our Study Says Yes, The Washington Post, Oct. 18, 2022 (with Adam Chilton, Jonathan Masur, and Kyle Rozema)

Other Professional Highlights

  • University of Texas School of Law, Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Spring 2023
  • Marshall Scholar Selection Committee, New England Region, Boston, MA

Daniel C. Esty

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Climate Change Action to Achieve Net-Zero Emissions: Observations from COP27 and the Path to COP28,” Rhodes House, Oxford, United Kingdom, Apr. 13, 2023
  • “Closing the Water Gap: Improving Water Management,” State of Green and Danish Water Industries Federation event at the UN Water Conference, New York, NY, Mar. 22, 2023
  • “Agrifood, Biodiversity, and Climate Change Nexus,” Villars Summit, Villars, Switzerland, Mar. 17, 2023
  • “Trade, Innovation, and Digital Opportunities for a Sustainable Future,” Remaking Global Trade Workshop, Villars, Switzerland, Mar. 15, 2023
  • “Drivers of a More Sustainable Trading System,” Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 27, 2023
  • “Sustainability – What is it?,” Yale Blue Green Webinar, Yale University, New Haven, CT (virtual), Feb. 23, 2023
  • “Towards a Sustainable International Trading System: Environmental Imperatives, Legal Challenges, and Political Realities,” Widener University Commonwealth Law School Distinguished Speaker Series, Harrisburg, PA (virtual), Feb. 22, 2023
  • “Remaking Global Trade for a Sustainable Future,” World Trade Organization Knowledge Hub, Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 21, 2023
  • “Climate Change Diplomacy and Trade,” Washington International Trade Association, Washington, D.C. (virtual), Feb. 13, 2023
  • “Water and Trade: Perspectives on the Global Commission on the Economics of Water,” World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 6, 2023
  • “Trade and Climate Change Action: Shifting the Paradigm for a Just Transition to a Clean Energy Future,” University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados (virtual), Feb. 2, 2023
  • “Transforming World Trade and Investment Law for Sustainable Development,” World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 31, 2023
  • “Remaking Global Trade for a Sustainable Future,” European Union WTO Ambassadors Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, Jan. 24, 2023
  • “Cities and a Shared Challenge: International Responses to Climate Change,” Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (virtual), Jan. 20, 2023
  • “Sustainable Agriculture Within and Beyond the Global Trading System,” Forum on Trade, Environment, & the Sustainable Development Goals, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 16, 2022
  • “COP27 Outcomes, Opportunities, and Challenges,” World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 15, 2022
  • “Sustainable Agriculture and Trade,” Forum on Trade, Environment, and the SDGs, Chambésy, Switzerland, Dec. 14, 2022
  • “Key Messages for a Sustainable Water Future,” Global Commission on the Economics of Water, Potsdam, Germany, Dec. 9, 2022
  • “Pathways to Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Outcomes from COP27,” Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, Dec. 8, 2022
  • “Trade’s Role in Reimagining Sustainability,” Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (virtual), Dec. 6, 2022
  • “Promoting Alignment of Trade and Climate Policy in the World Trade Organization,” Climate Leadership Council, Washington, D.C. (virtual), Dec. 1, 2022
  • “Climate Policy and Perspectives,” Yale University, New Haven, CT (virtual), Nov. 28, 2022
  • “Trade, Environment, and Climate Change,” Cairo University, Giza, Egypt (virtual), Nov. 15, 2022
  • “Business Action to Accelerate the Low-Carbon Transition,” International Chamber of Commerce Pavilion, COP27 Climate Summit Meeting, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Nov. 8, 2022
  • “Reforming the WTO for a Sustainable Future,” International Law Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY (virtual), Oct. 21, 2022

Publications

  • Zeroing in on Net-Zero: From Soft Law to Hard Law in Corporate Climate Change Pledges, 94 University of Colorado L. Rev. (2023) (with Nathan De Arriba-Sellier)
  • Should Humanity Have Standing? Securing Environmental Rights in the United States, 95 Southern California L. Rev. (2023)
  • Designing Effective Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes, 65 Arizona L. Rev. (2023) (with Goran Dominioni)

Other Professional Highlights

  • On public service leave from Yale working for World Trade Organization Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on international trading system sustainability in Geneva, Switzerland
  • Appointed as Advisor to the Global Commission on the Economics of Water

Claudia Flores

Publications

  • Accounting for the Selfish State: Human Rights, Reproductive Equality, and Global Regulation of Gestational Surrogacy, Chicago Journal of International Law, 23(2), 3 (2023)
  • Season 3 of the Entitled Podcast on the right to equality, Episodes 2.1-2.8, Apple Podcasts 
  • Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers (2022) (with Jennifer Turner, Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat, Nino Guruli, Sophie Desch, Katya El Tayeb, Leena Elsadek et al.)

Miriam Gohara

Lectures and Addresses

  • Presented working manuscript “Black Survivors’ Visions for Justice” at Stephen Ellman Clinical Theory Workshop at Fordham Law School, Nov. 2022
  • Moderated panel at Black Voices for the Future, sponsored by the Center for Policing Equity and the Black Futures Lab, at Yale Divinity School, “Race, Place, and Political Attitudes,” panelists were Vesla Weaver, Robert Sampson, Elijah Anderson, and Dara Strolovich, Feb. 2023
  • Participated as a panelist at Yale Law School’s “YLW+ Abolitionist Feminism” panel with co-panelists Aya Gruber and Maya Menlo, Mar. 2023
  • Participated in Yale Law School’s Law and Racial Justice Center’s Facing Life Symposium as a panelist on “Mass Incarceration, Racial Injustice, and Opportunities for Relief,” moderated by Jennifer Taylor, panelists were Bidish Sarma, Alex Taubes, and Gaylord Salters, Mar. 2023
  • Moderated YLS panel called “The Power and Possibility of Public Interest Lawyering,” featuring a discussion of Nicholas Dawidoff’s The Other Side of Prospect, panelists were Dawidoff, Michael Jefferson, and Emma Freudenberger, Apr. 2023
  • Participated as a panelist at AALS Clinical Conference panel called “Excavating Hope Through Clinical Teaching and Substantive Practice,” panelists are Deborah N. Archer, Michael Pinard, Vincent Southerland, and Lynnise Pantin, Apr. 2023

Oona Hathaway

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Reimaging World Order,” Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Apr. 14, 2023
  • “Order of the Coif Lecture,” Emory University School of Law, Atlanta, GA, Apr. 12, 2023
  • Conference on International Law Scholarship, Consortium for Study and Analysis of International Law Scholarship, Apr. 1, 2023
  • Georgetown Law School International Law Seminar, Washington, D.C., Mar. 31, 2023
  • “Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and the international legal order,” the ninth annual Justice Stephen Breyer Lecture on International Law, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., Mar. 30, 2023
  • Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law Listening Session, American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C.
  • Editor-in-Chief Roundtable, American Society of International Law (Washington, D.C.)
  • “Nuremberg Principles: The Contemporary Challenges,” Catholic University of America, Institute for Policy Research, Washington, D.C., Mar. 27, 2023
  • “What in the World...is Happening in Ukraine,” American Association of Law Librarians, Mar. 7, 2023
  • “Core Group/Key States and CSOs roundtable on Ukraine Crime of Aggression Tribunal” (online), Mar. 6, 2023
  • One Year into Russia's Invasion: Will Justice Be Served?,” Breaking Boundaries Podcast, Mar. 6, 2023
  • “International Law & The Use of Force,” Ohio State Law School, Columbus, OH, Feb. 24, 2023
  • A Year that Changed the World: The War in Ukraine, and How it Shaped the International Legal Order,” Case Western Law School, Cleveland, OH, Feb. 23, 2023
  • “International Law Goes to War in Ukraine,” Northwestern Law School, Chicago, IL, Feb. 22, 2023
  • One Year into Russia’s Invasion: Will Justice be Served?,” Northwestern Buffet Institute, Evanston, IL, Feb. 21, 2023
  • The government’s secrets apparatus could collapse under its own weight,” Federal News Network, Feb. 27, 2023
  • Yale Club New Haven, “International Law Goes to War in Ukraine,” Feb. 15, 2023
  • New York City Bar, “The Need for a Special Tribunal on the Crime of Aggression in Ukraine,” Feb. 8, 2023
  • European Policy Center-US Mission to the EU Online Policy Dialogue on “War Crimes in Ukraine: How to ensure Russia is held accountable?,” Feb. 6, 2023
  • Sorry, That’s Classified,” WNYC Studios On the Media, Jan. 27, 2023
  • 2023 Cardozo-Columbia Colloquium on Sovereignty, New York, NY, Jan. 26, 2023
  • How to Prosecute Vladimir Putin for the Crime of Aggression,” Global Dispatches—World News That Matters (podcast), Jan. 26, 2023
  • Classification of Government Documents,” CSPAN, Washington Journal, Jan. 24, 2023
  • Intelligence Community Civil Liberties, Privacy & Transparency Summit, Jan. 19, 2023 (online)
  • Brennan Center Live: “Secret War: Unauthorize Combat and Legal Loopholes,” Jan. 18, 2023 (online)
  • Biden's mishandling of documents is resurfacing the problem of 'overclassification,’” NPR’s All Things Considered, Jan. 16, 2023
  • “Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine,” Advisory Committee on International Law, U.S. Department of State, Dec. 12, 2022
  • “Countering Authoritarian Influence in International Institutions: How to Revive and Advance Democratic Standards?,” National Endowment for Democracy, New York, NY, Dec. 9, 2022
  • “The ICC and the Crime of Aggression: In Defense of the Rules-Based International Order,” ICC 21st Session of the Assembly of States Parties Side-Event, Hague, The Netherlands, Dec. 6, 2022
  • “Investigating and Prosecuting Cyberwarfare,” ICC 21st Session of the Assembly of States Parties Side-Event, Hague, The Netherlands, Dec. 5, 2022
  • BBC World Service Newshour, “EU Proposes Special Court for Russian Crimes,” Nov. 30, 2022
  • The Just Security Podcast: “The Biden Administration’s Secret Drone Policy” (Pilot Episode), Oct. 28, 2022
  • “The Junction between International Law and Transatlantic Defence and Security,” Brunel University London, London, UK, Oct. 24, 2022 (via Zoom)
  • “The Role of Customary International Law in the Next 100 Years,” International Law Weekend, New York, NY, Oct. 21, 2022 (via Zoom)

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

  • Appointed Reporter, Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States, American Law Institute
  • Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor, 2023
  • Visiting Fellow, Sciences Po, MaxPo Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (formed in collaboration with Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies) (Fall 2022)

Christine Jolls

Lectures and Addresses

  • “The Administrative Procedure Act and the Supreme Court,” presented at the 2022 Harvard Law, Economics, and Organization Seminar, Harvard Law School

Doug Kysar

Lectures and Addresses

  • “The Constitutional Claim to Individuation in Tort – A Tale of Two Centuries, Part 2,” Festschrift for Professor Aaron Twerski, Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY, Apr. 20-21, 2023
  • “On Having an Impact,” Brooks Congress 2023, Scottsdale, AZ, Mar. 3-5, 2023
  • “Climate Change, Attribution Science, and Judging Responsibility,” Georgetown Environmental and Land Use Law Workshop, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Oct. 11, 2022
  • “Climate Change, Attribution Science, and Judging Responsibility,” Faculty Workshop, National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, Singapore, Feb. 14, 2023
  • “Climate Change, Attribution Science, and Judging Responsibility,” Faculty Workshop, University of Georgia Law School, Athens, GA, Apr. 3, 2023

Publications 

Other Professional Highlights

John H. Langbein

Lectures and Addresses

  • "The Rise and Fall of Legal Academic Treatise Writing in the United States,” Yale Law Library Symposium on the Treatise: Past, Present, Future, New Haven, CT, Mar. 24, 2023

Publications

  • The Turn to Confession Bargaining in German Criminal Procedure: Causes and Comparisons with American Plea Bargaining, 70 American Journal of Comparative Law 139 (2022)
  • Because Property Became Contract: Understanding the American Nonprobate Revolution, The Changing Role of Property Law: Rights, Values and Concepts, Nordveit, Ernst, ed. (Northampton, UK, Edward Elgar, 2023)

Public Service

  • Commissioner, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; Member, Drafting Committee on Conflict of Laws in Trust and Estate Acts; Study Committee on Updates to Uniform Transfers to Minors Act; Member, Standby Committee on Cohabitants’ Economic Remedies Act; Member, Standby Committee on Uniform Directed Trust Act; Member, Standby Committee on Uniform Electronic Wills Act; Member, Standby Committee on Uniform Fiduciary Income and Principal Act; Member, Standby Committee on Amendments to Uniform Probate Code; Emeritus Member, Joint Editorial Board for Uniform Trust and Estate Acts

Tracey L. Meares

Lectures and Addresses

  • Yale Ethics Bowl’s Inaugural Northrop Speaker Series (with Tom Tyler), "The Ethics of Social Media," Oct. 2022
  • Nextdoor Speaker Series on Content Moderation, San Francisco, Jan. 2023
  • U.C. Berkeley Faculty Workshop, "Uncovering Police," Jan. 2023
  • Veronica Beard “Social Justice VBU” (with Miriam Gohara), NYC, Feb. 2023
  • Princeton University, American Politics Colloquium, “Uncovering Police,” Feb. 2023
  • Panelist, "A Biased World: Psychological Science in the Service of Justice" with Phillip Goff, Tom Tyler, Yale Departments of African American Studies and Psychology, Feb. 2023
  • Flynn Theater Community Discussion on 21st Century Policing, "Collaborating Public Safety," (with Sean Smoot and Deborah Spence), Burlington, VT, Mar. 2023
  • Odyssey Impact, Brain Trust discussion on the national campaign for the forthcoming documentary All I See is the Future, Mar. 2023
  • Justice Collaboratory Social Media Governance Initiative Conference, “Beyond Moderation,” Mar. 2023
  • “Crafting Effective Solutions to Gun Violence,” Johns Hopkins, Apr. 2023

Publications

  • Trust and Models of Policing, Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Institutions, Experts & the Loss of Trust, Vol. 151, Number 4, Fall 2022
  • Presumption of Liberty: Reducing Pretrial Incarceration, Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas About Justice (edited by Jeremy Travis and Bruce Western), Feb. 2023 (with Arthur Rizer)

Media

Awards

  • Inducted into Springfield High School, Springfield, IL, Distinguished Alumni Award for the Hall of Fame, Apr. 2023
  • Russell Sage Foundation Research Fellowship Awarded for 2023–24

Membership/Affiliations

  • Annual Review of Criminology, Co-editor
  • Council on Criminal Justice, Member
  • University of Oxford, Centre for Criminology, External Advisory Board
  • Head of Silliman College Search Committee, Yale College, Feb. 2023

Samuel Moyn

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War,” given at Peking Law School, University of Zürich (as Annual Dietrich Schindler Lecture)
  • “What Happened to Psychoanalysis,” given at Saint Louis University
  • “White Feminism in Historical Perspective,” given at Southwestern Law School
  • “Hannah Arendt among the Cold War Liberals,” given at ICI Berlin
  • “James Bradley Thayer on Juristocracy,” given at Notre Dame University and the University of Miami Law School

Publications

  • Sufficiency, Equality, and Human Rights, in Malcolm Langford and Katharine G. Young, eds., Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023 online)
  • Emancipation, Humanity, and Peace: A Response, Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 24 (2021): 181–89
  • History, Law, and the Rediscovery of Social Theory, in Richard Bourke and Quentin Skinner, eds., History in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), 49–68
  • Eric Weitz and the Old History of Human Rights, Central European History 55, 3 (Sept. 2022): 417–20
  • Interventionism, Rebooted, The New Republic, Mar. 2023
  • With this Supreme Court, How Liberals Dissent Matters, The New York Times, Dec. 20, 2022 (with Ryan D. Doerfler)
  • It’s Time for Democrats to Move Past Donald Trump, The Guardian, Nov. 10, 2022

Douglas NeJaime

Lectures and Addresses 

  • Presenter, “Domestic Violence and Functional Parent Doctrines,” Centering Family Violence Roundtable, University of Virginia School of Law (Jan. 2023)
  • Presenter, “Parentage in the 21st Century,” The Evolving Face and Future of Adoption: A Look at Tri-Parent & Non-Traditional Family Structures, New York State Judicial Institute (Oct. 2022)

Publications

  • How Parenthood Functions, 123 Columbia L. Rev. 319 (2023) (with Courtney Joslin)

Nicholas Parrillo

Lectures and Addresses

  • One of six panelists at the Constitutional Law Symposium, Drake Law School, Apr. 15, 2023
  • Interlocutor with Judge Justin Walker, “The Future of Administrative Law,” Yale Law School Federalist Society, Apr. 5, 2023
  • “Who Sues Their Regulator?,” Notre Dame Law School Faculty Colloquium, Mar. 21, 2023
  • Organizer and Panelist, “The Constitutional Law of Agency Personnel Structures,” ABA Administrative Law Conference, Dec. 1, 2022
  • Co-Instructor, “American Bureaucracy and the Constitution,” Reiss Graduate Institute, New York Historical Society, Nov.-Dec. 2022 (with Gillian Metzger)
  • Panelist, “Render Law Unto Congress and Execution Unto the Executive,” Federal Society National Lawyers’ Convention, Nov. 10, 2022

Judith Resnik

Lectures and Addresses

  • Honoree: “Managerial Judges @ 40: A Conference on the Fortieth Anniversary of Judith Resnik’s Managerial Judges,” Yale Law School, Nov. 3–4, 2022
  • Commentator: “Procedure in Lawyered and Lawyerless Courts,” for the Clifford Scholar In-Residence Lecture, DePaul University College of Law, Nov. 7, 2022 (via Zoom)
  • Commentator: “The Limits of Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act,” Quinnipiac — Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop, Nov. 9, 2022 (via Zoom)
  • Panelist: “Arbitration in Employment/Consumer Contracts,” at Recent Developments in Arbitration, sponsored by the Center on Civil Justice at NYU School of Law, New York City, Nov. 12, 2022
  • Convener: Symposium: “Incarceration Introductory Lecture: Punishment in Polities, Democratic and Not,” American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 18, 2022
  • Manuscript workshop for my book draft Impermissible Punishments: The Problem Punishment Poses for Democracies (forthcoming U Chicago Press, 2024), at Georgia State College of Law, Atlanta, GA, Dec. 12, 2022
  • Participant: “Fines & Fees Reform Convening,” Arnold Ventures, Austin, TX, Dec. 13-14, 2022
  • Presenter: “Punishment in Prison: The Law and the Practices of Solitary Confinement,” at the Decarceration Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Jan. 13, 2023 (via Zoom)
  • Moderator: Crossing Divides Speaker Series, Yale Law School, with the Honorable Stephanos Bibas and the Honorable Cheryl Ann Krause, Feb. 8, 2023
  • Commentator: “The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Informal Justice and the Death of ADR,” Amy Cohen’s presentation in the Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution series, Mar. 8, 2023
  • Speaker: “The Federal Courts, circa 2023,” Munger, Tolles & Olson, Mar. 23, 2023
  • Speaker: “The Future of the Federal Courts,” Pepperdine L. Rev.’s 50th Anniversary Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, Mar. 24, 2023
  • Paper Presenter: “Constraining and Licensing Arbitrariness: The Stakes in Debates about Substantive-Procedural Due Process,” in the Symposium, The Future of Due Process, SMU Dedman School of Law, Dallas, TX, Mar. 31, 2023
  • Commentator: Managerial Judges, a conference on the Symposium edition of The Review of Litigation at the U. Texas at Austin School of Law (via Zoom), Apr. 7, 2023
  • Presenter: “Punishment in Prison: The Law and the Practices of Solitary Confinement,” for the Speakers Series of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Apr. 12, 2023 (via Zoom)

Publications

  • Time-in-Cell 2021: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems, Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law (2022) (co-authored)
  • Weighing Judicial Authority, Yale Global Constitutionalism Seminar, A Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights (editor, 2022)

Other Professional Highlights

  • Brief of Scholars of Federal Civil Procedure as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, on the question of intervention on appeal, filed in Arizona v. Mayorkas, U.S. S. Ct. No. 22-592, Feb. 9, 2023
  • Comments to the U.S. Department of Justice’s proposal to take funds from incarcerated people in the federal Bureau of Prisons, filed Mar. 13, 2023
  • Co-creator of website: Seeing Solitary, launched in late Mar. 2023 to create a route to resources and data on solitary confinement and noted in John Oliver’s segment on Solitary Confinement, aired Apr. 1, 2023 

Carol Rose

Lectures and Addresses

  • Presented: Commentator, Shi-Ling Hsu’s Capitalism and the Environment, Book Forum, Florida State University Law School, Tallahassee, Florida, Oct. 26, 2022 (remote)
  • Presented: Paper presentation, General Customs and Legal Institutions, Harvard/Notre Dame Interstitial Private Law Workshop, Rome, Italy, Nov. 3, 2022
  • Presented: Commentator, New Histories of Property in Early America, American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10, 2022

Publications

  • What E.J. Has to Do with It: Vicki Been’s Empiricism in the Forge of Environmental Justice, 11 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal 25 (2022)
  • Property from the Outside In, Foreword to Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society (N. Graham, M. Davies, and L. Godden, eds., 2023)

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Lectures and Addresses

  • New York Law School, Presentation to Workshop on Teaching Public Corruption
  • University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Presentation with Edgar Melgar on forthcoming article: Hyper-Presidential Administration: Executive Policymaking in Latin America
  • University of Tokyo Law School, Lecture on Rose-Ackerman’s book: Democracy and Executive Power

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

David Schleicher

Lectures and Addresses 

  • “In A Bad State,” Yale Law Alumni Weekend, Oct. 21, 2022
  • “The Basketball Court,” Fed Courts Scholars Conference, Duke Law School, Dec. 8, 2022
  • Panel Discussion on State and Local Finance, Opening of the Ravitch Center on Public Finance, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2023
  • “In a Bad State,” America Trends Podcast, Mar. 9, 2023
  • “In a Bad State,” Clauses and Controversies Podcast, Apr. 14, 2023

Publications

  • What is Property Law in an Age of Statutes and Regulation?: A Review of Property: Principles and Policies by Thomas Merrill, Henry Smith and Maureen Brady, NYU Annual Survey of American Law (2023)
  • Continued Hosting, Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast

Reva Siegel

Lectures and Addresses

  • “The Second Amendment, Sensitive Places, and Self-Government” (with Joseph Blocher), Guns Everywhere: Individual Rights and Communal Harms after NYSRPA v. Bruen, UCLA School of Law, Oct. 21
  • Presented manuscript of Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance, Progressive Scholarship Workshop American Constitutional Society Yale Law School Chapter, Nov. 2
  • Presented manuscript of Originalism and Colorblindness: The Triumph of Constitutional Memory over Constitutional History (with Jack Balkin), Constitutional Memory and Historical Authority in Dobbs, American Society for Legal History 2022 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10
  • Presented manuscript of Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance, Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School, Nov. 14
  • Presented manuscript of Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance; Law, Letters, and Society Lecture; moderated by Professor David Lebow; University of Chicago; Nov. 14
  • Presented manuscript of How History and Tradition Perpetuates Inequality: Dobbs on Abortion’s Nineteenth-Century Criminalization, a commentary on Professor Melissa Murray’s Frankel Lecture, “Children of Men: The Roberts Court’s Jurisprudence of Masculinity,” University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX, Nov. 18
  • “The Supreme Court Transforms the Law: Dobbs and the Affirmative Action Cases,” DEI Speaker, Yale Immunobiology Seminar — Professor Paula Kravathas moderating, Yale University, Dec. 1
  • Presented manuscript of Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance, Critical Public Law Workshop, Professor Justin Weinstein Tull moderating, Dec. 2
  • “Equal Protection in Dobbs and Beyond: How States Protect Life Inside and Outside of the Abortion Context,” Gender & Legal Studies Group, University of Zurich, Dec. 6
  • Dobbs, the Politics of Constitutional Memory, and the Future of Reproductive Justice,” Dobbs & The Rule of Law, Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference, San Diego, CA, Jan. 6
  • Presented manuscript of Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance, Civil Rights Section, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Jan. 6
  • Commented on Professor Richard Fallon’s Selective Originalism, Section on Interpretation, American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Jan. 7
  • Presented manuscript of Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance, Faculty Workshop, University of British Columbia Allard School of Law, Jan. 17
  • Discussant. Joined Linda Greenhouse for hour-long podcast with Professors Julie Suk and Jed Shugerman on “The 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade,” Constitutional Crisis Hotline, Jan. 22
  • Discussant. Joined Linda Greenhouse, Douglas NeJaime, and Melissa Murray in a conversation moderated by Katherine Kraschel on “The 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade,” Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, Yale Law School, Jan. 23
  • Dobbs, the Politics of Constitutional Memory, and the Future of Reproductive Justice,” Looking Beyond Roe v. Wade: Seeking Reproductive Justice in the Next 50 Years, Boston University School of Law, Jan. 26
  • “Guns, Democracy, and Race Inequality,” White Supremacy & Firearms Symposium, Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Tim Carey moderating, Feb. 9
  • Presented manuscript of Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance, Faculty Workshop, Emory Law School, Feb. 22
  • Discussant. “Historical Perspectives and Shifting Frameworks on Abortion”; “Health, Equity, and Law After Dobbs”; George Washington and American Universities; Washington, D.C.; Feb. 24
  • Discussant. “Reimagining Rights and Justice: The Future of Constitutional Law,” After Dobbs: New Directions in Reproductive Justice, University of California, Davis, Mar. 24
  • “Originalism & Democratic Constitutionalism,” Presentation and exchange with Professor Lawrence Solum, Public Interest Law & Policy Speakers Series, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. St. Louis, MO, Apr. 13

Publications

Michael J. Wishnie

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Collective Action and Veterans Law,” Feerick Center for Social Justice, Fordham Law School, New York, NY, Feb. 2023

Other Professional Highlights

  • Monk v. United States, No. 3:22-cv-01503-JBA (D.Conn. filed Nov. 28, 2022) (challenging historic discrimination against Black veterans in VA benefits programs)
  • Skaar v. McDonough, 57 F.4th 1015 (Fed. Cir. 2023) (denying petition for rehearing over dissent of five judges, where panel vacated certification of class of veterans challenging radiation exposure methodology), petition for cert. pending, No. 22-815 (U.S.)
  • Connecticut Veterans Legal Center v. Dept. of Defense, No. 3:23-cv-____ (D.Conn. filed Apr. 3, 2023) (Freedom of Information Act lawsuit challenging refusal to disclose records regarding lethal military pollution at air base in Uzbekistan from which U.S. Special Forces launched initial ground attacks in 2001 in Afghanistan)

John Fabian Witt

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Rehearsal for the Liberal State: The Labor Injunction and the Garland Fund,” American Society for Legal History, Chicago, Nov. 12, 2022
  • “Formalisms in Historical Perspective,” Foundations of American Legal Thought Lecture Series, New Haven, Feb. 1, 2023
  • “A Conversation with Suzanne Nossel of PEN America: Free Speech on Campus and in the World,” Shabtai, New Haven, Jan. 25, 2023

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

  • Named founding chair of the Cromwell Foundation Annual Legal History Article Prize Committee
  • Brief of Legal Scholars, in National Shooting Sports Foundation v. Attorney General of New Jersey, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Apr. 9, 2023
  • Brief of Tort Scholas as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondent, in Glacier Northwest, Inc. v. Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 21-1449, Nov. 2022
  • Named to the Honors Committee of the American Society for Legal History, Nov. 2022