Winter 2021 Faculty Activities

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Winter 2021 Faculty Activities

Bruce Ackerman

Lectures and Addresses

“Constitutionalism in Crisis,” June 24, 2020 (at a Brazilian conference)
Roundtable: “Does Brazil Needs a New Constitution?,” Oct. 8, 2020
Reconstructing the Foundations of Brazilian Democracy After Bolsonaro, Oct. 20, 2020

Publications

Revolutionary Constitutions Symposium, Afterword: Multiple Identities, Italian Journal of Public Law, Vol. 12 July 2020
Clemenceau v. Tocqueville, Preface to Georges Clemenceau: Lettres d’Amerique (ed. P. Weil & G. Mace) (English translation published in Tocqueville 21: Critical Perspectives for an Engaged Democracy (Sept. 19, 2020)
My Friend Dieter, Preface to Dieter Grimm: Advocate of the Constitution (trans. Justin Collings) (Oxford University Press: Oct. 2020)
Adios Montesquieu, Revista del Centro de Estudios Constitutionales, Vol. 5, Num. 9. Pp. 3-14 (June-Dec. 2019)
Claims of a Rigged Election? Here’s How Congress Could Save Our Democracy from Vote-Count Chaos, L.A. Times, Sept. 13, 2020
The 10 Scariest Election Scenarios, Ranked, Slate, Aug. 14, 2020
A Hundred Days from Now, Correio Braziliense, July 27, 2020
Brazil’s Constitutional Dilemma in Comparative Perspective: Do Chile & Spain Cast Light on the Bolsonaro Crisis, The Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, July 17, 2020
Brazil Needs a New Constitution, Correio Braziliense, July 13, 2020
Politico Nightly: Coronavirus Special Edition, Politico, July 8, 2020
Chile’s Constituent Assembly, La Tercera, June 27, 2020

Interviews

“Trump’s Supreme Court Appointments,” The Day, German TV’s International News Show, Oct. 12, 2020
“Ginsburg’s Death Sparks Notorious Divisions, Exposes Frailty of US Judicial System,” France 24, Sept. 22, 2020
“Meet Me in the Middle,” Podcast: America at the Point of No Return, May 14, 2020
Bruce Ackerman, Richard Albert, Roberto Gargarella & Tom Ginsburg, Video Roundtable Discussion of Revolutionary Constitutions, International Journal of Constitutional Law, Apr. 16, 2020

Anne L. Alstott

Publications

Core Concepts: A Student’s Guide to Corporate and Partnership Tax (CCH, Aug. 2020), available at https://www.cchcpelink.com/book/core-concepts-a-students-guide-to-corporate-and-partnership-tax-10085236-0001/18908/
Mothering in a Pandemic, Boston Review (May 2020), available at https://bostonreview.net/gender-sexuality/anne-l-alstott-mothering-pandemic.

Ian Ayres

Publications

Gun Trust as Private Red Flag Law (with Frederick Vars), ABA (July 2020)
A lottery test of the effect of dispensaries on emergency room visits in Arizona (with Gregory Conyers), Health Economics (June 2020)
Is Biden or Bernie More Electable? (with Zachary Shelley), L.A. Times, Mar. 5, 2020
Response, One-Legged Contracting (with Gregory Klass), 133 Harv. L. Rev. F. 1-12 (2019)
Suicide Accounts for Most Gun Deaths. A Libertarian Approach Could Help, Wall St. J., Oct. 14, 2020
Gun Owners Support the Right Not to Bear Arms (with Frederick E. Vars), Emory L.J., Vol. 69, Issue 5 (2020)

Jack M. Balkin

Lectures and Addresses

Constitution Day Address, "The Cycles of Constitutional Time," Northeastern University Law School, Boston, MA, Sept. 17, 2020
Lecture and Interview, "Liberty in the Age of COVID-19," Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, Sept. 23, 2020
Panel, "Democracy in our Digital Age," The International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism, Austin, TX, Sept. 25, 2020

Publications

The Cycles of Constitutional Time (Oxford University Press, 2020)
The Fiduciary Model of Privacy, 134 Harv. L. Rev. Forum 11 (2020)

Other Professional Highlights

Elected, American Law Institute, July 2020

Guido Calabresi

Publications

Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Guido Calabresi, in giustiziainsieme (online journal), available at https://www.giustiziainsieme.it/it/il-magistrato/1333-ricordando-r-b-g, published Oct. 2020
Processo E Cultura Giuridica/Procedure and Legal Culture, Scritti per gli 80 anni di Vicenzo Varno, a cura di Vittoria Barsotti e Alessandro Simoni (2020)
Letter of Introduction: Enzo Varano at Eighty, An Appreciation, by Guido Calabresi
Tribute to Judge Robert Katzmann, 75 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. (2019)

Other Professional Highlights

Received the 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Italian Scientists & Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF), Dec. 1, 2020, webinar at the Embassy of Italy, Washington, DC

Amy Chua

Lectures and Addresses

“Political Tribalism,” Aspen Masterminds, June 24, 2020
“Pathbreakers,” Panel Discussion, Georgia Asian Pacific American Bar Association, July 22, 2020
“A Discussion on Political Tribalism with Professor Amy Chua,” Principles First, Aug. 18, 2020
“Conversation with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks on Morality,” Chicago Humanities Festival, Sept. 4, 2020
“Fireside Chat with Pauline Brown,” SupChina Women’s Conference 2020, Sept. 9, 2020
“From Tiger Mom to Cancel Culture: Finding Common Ground in a Tribal World, in Conversation with Anne Ackerley,” Visionary Women, Sept. 17, 2020
“Stars and Strife,” Panel Discussion, German Marshall Fund, Sept. 30, 2020
Conversations with Coleman, with Coleman Hughes, Sept. 7, 2020
“How Tribalism Has Infected America,” Tedstrom Talks, Oct. 8, 2020
“Political Tribes,” Telling the Truth 2020, SUNY Albany, Oct. 9, 2020
“Political Tribes,” 3 Takeaways with Lynn Thoman, Oct. 15, 2020

Fiona M. Doherty

Professional Highlights

Appointed by the Chief State’s Attorney in Connecticut to serve on the Conviction Integrity Advisory Board
Member, Criminal Justice Act Attorney Advisory Group, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second CircuitJustin Driver

Justin Driver

Lectures and Addresses

Keynote: “Are Public Schools Becoming Constitution-Free Zones?,” Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, June 18, 2020

Publications

Hartman Holtz Lecture: Freedom of Expression within the Schoolhouse Gate, 73 Arkansas L. Rev. 1 (2020)
Lane Lecture: The Public School as the Preeminent Site of Constitutional Law, 73 Nebraska L. Rev. 1 (2020)
Where the Sick Get Sicker and the Sane Are Driven Mad: Behind Bars, N.Y. Times Book Review, Aug. 9, 2020, at BR12
2019 The Supreme Court Review (edited with David A. Strauss & Geoffrey R. Stone) (University of Chicago Press, 2020)

Other Professional Highlights

Awarded the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law for The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind by the Education Law Association

Robert C. Ellickson

Lectures and Addresses

“Can an Apartment Building Be a Nuisance? An Essay for Henry Smith,” Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference (virtual), William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA, Oct. 2, 2020
“The Zoning Straitjacket: The Freezing of American Neighborhoods of Single-Family Houses,” Law-and-Economics Workshop (virtual), Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, Oct. 13, 2020

Publication

Ancient Rome: Legal Foundations of the Growth of an Indispensable City, in Roman Law and Economics: Exchange, Ownership, and Disputes, Vol. II (Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci & Dennis P. Kehoe eds.), Oxford University Press (2020)

William N. Eskridge Jr.

Lectures and Addresses

Lecture, “How Michigan Brought Closure to the Campaign for Marriage Equality,” University of Michigan School of Law, Oct. 26, 2020
Lecture, “Bostock: Dynamic Words and Original Public Meaning,” Notre Dame University Law School, Oct. 23, 2020
Lecture, “Sharonell Fulton v. City of Philadelphia,” Notre Dame University, Oct. 22, 2020
Lecture, “Marriage Equality and Minnesota,” University of Minnesota School of Law, Oct. 20, 2020
Lecture, “From Outlaws to In-Laws in Tennessee and Elsewhere,” Vanderbilt University School of Law, Oct. 2, 2020
Lecture, “How the McGeorge School of Law Influenced the Marriage Debate More than Any Other Law School in America,” McGeorge School of Law, Oct. 1, 2020
Lecture, “How Marriage Equality Came to Indiana and Everywhere Else,” Kinsey Institute & Indiana University School of Law, Sept. 18, 2020
Lecture, “Marriage Equality and the District of Columbia, 1975-2015,” District of Columbia Bar Ass’n, Sept. 2020
Featured Lecture and Discussion, SPECTRUM Conference, SUNY, “How Marriage Equality Prevailed in the United States,” Aug. 27, 2020
Lecture, “Why Marriage Equality Prevailed—And Lessons for Other Social Movements,” New York State Bar Ass’n, Aug. 21, 2020
Featured Address, “The Sex Discrimination Argument for Gay Rights: From Baker to Bostock,” Lavender Law, Washington, DC, Aug. 12, 2020

Publications

Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws (Yale Press 2020), with Christopher Riano
The Unfinished Business of LGBTQ+ Equality: Five Years After Obergefell v. Hodges, N.Y. Bar J., June 3, 2020 (with Christopher Riano)

Daniel C. Esty

Lectures and Addresses

“Toward a Sustainable Future.” Earth Day 50th Anniversary Keynote Address, Cheshire Academy, Cheshire, CT (via ZOOM), Apr. 22, 2020
“COVID-19 Lessons for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day,” KQED Forum (via ZOOM), Apr. 22, 2020
“The Future of Environmental Law,” EarthX Law and Policy Virtual Symposium (via ZOOM), Apr. 22, 2020
“Earth Day at 50,” Yale Environmental Dialogue Earth Day Speaker, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, CT (via ZOOM), Apr. 22, 2020
“Sustainability in the Post-COVID Economy,” Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT (via ZOOM), May 15, 2020
“Climate Policy in the Aftermath of Coronavirus,” ConservAmerica (via ZOOM), May 20, 2020
“Making Trade Sustainable,” World Economic Forum Green Trade Recovery Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland (via ZOOM), July 8, 2020
“Pathways to a Sustainable Future: Lessons from A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future,” Australian Davos Connection, Melbourne, Australia (via ZOOM), July 14, 2020
“Empowering Innovation Through Policy: The Yale Planetary Solutions Project,” New Haven, CT (via ZOOM), July 30, 2020
“Future of International Climate Negotiations,” National Geographic Society Pristine Seas Program (via ZOOM), Aug. 7, 2020
“Trends in Sustainable Investing: Lessons from Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting,” Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance (via ZOOM), Sept. 9, 2020
“Courts, Climate Change, and the Global Pact for the Environment.” 2020 Yale Law School Global Constitutionalism Symposium, New Haven, CT (via ZOOM), Sept. 10, 2020
“Sustainability through the COVID Lens,” Environmental Council of the States (via ZOOM), Sept. 22, 2020
“Pathways to a Sustainable Future: Lessons from A Better Planet,” Yale Environmental Dialogue, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, CT (via ZOOM), Oct. 6, 2020
“Pathways to a Sustainable Future: Lessons from A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future,” podcast with Electric Election Roadtrip with Benji Backer, American Conservation Coalition, New York, New York, Oct. 7, 2020
“Toward a Next Generation of Corporate Sustainability Metrics,” Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Forum on Green Finance and Investment, Paris, France (via ZOOM), Oct. 8, 2020
“Connecting Yale Teaching and Research to the Sustainable Development Goals: Overview of the UN Sustainable Development Goals,” Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, CT (via ZOOM), Oct. 15, 2020
“Pathways to a Sustainable Future,” Yale Franke Program in Science and the Humanities book talk on A Better Planet: 40 Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future, Yale University, New Haven, CT (via ZOOM), Oct. 15, 2020

Other Professional Highlights

“Pathways to a Sustainable Future,” Testimony to the Environment Committee of the Greek Parliament, Athens (via Zoom), June 30, 2020

Publications

Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting (edited with Todd Cort), New York: Palgrave Macmillan (Nov. 2020)
Sustainable Investing at a Turning Point, (with Todd Cort) in Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting (Esty & Cort, editors), New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2020)
Creating Investment-Grade Corporate Sustainability Metrics, in Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting (Esty and Cort, editors), New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2020)
Next Generation Corporate Sustainability Metrics (with David Lubin), in Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting (Esty and Cort, editors) New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2020)
ESG Standards: Looming Challenges and Pathways Forward (with Todd Cort), Organization & Environment, (July 28, 2020), available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026620945342.
Toward a Next Generation of Corporate Sustainability Metrics, (with David A. Lubin) Values at Work: Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (Fall 2020)
2020 Environmental Performance Index (with Zach Wendling et al.), Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (2020) available at: EPI.yale.edu
Earth Day at 50: Pathways to a Sustainable Future, Our Daily Planet, (Apr. 25, 2020), available at https://www.ourdailyplanet.com/story/special-bonus-earth-day-at-50-pathways-to-a-sustainable-future.
COVID-19 Lessons for the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, The Hill, (Apr. 22, 2020), available at https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/493946-covid-19-lessons-for-the-earth-day-50th-anniversary.
An Earth Day CEO Summit Shows How Dramatically Corporate Values Have Changed (with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld), Fortune, (Apr. 22, 2020), available athttps://fortune.com/2020/04/22/earth-day-sustainability-ceo-summit.

Owen M. Fiss

Professional Highlights

2020 Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence by the American Philosophical Society, available at https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/owen-fiss-awarded-prize-jurisprudence
Co-director, Yale Law School Middle East Legal Studies Seminar
Co-director, Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School
Co-director, Latin American Legal Studies Program (LALS) of Yale Law School
Board of Directors, Libraries Without Borders

Heather K. Gerken

Lectures and Addresses

Duke Law School, via Zoom, “Coping with COVID panel discussion,” Apr. 23, 2020
Penn Law School, via Zoom, “Law Deans NY Bar Exam Discussion,” May 1, 2020
Yale Law School, via Zoom, “Alumni Virtual State of the School and Q&A,” May 5, 2020
ABA, via webinar, “ABA Corona Virus Webinar with General Counsels,” May 6, 2020
Yale Law School, via Zoom, “Stacey Abrams Interview,” May 6, 2020
Yale Law School, via Zoom, “Leadership Conversation with Senator Cory Booker ’97, Political Consultant Addiso Demissie ’08 and Matt Klapper ’11,” May 19, 2020
Yale Law School, via Zoom, “Faculty Leadership Conversation on Inequality and Racial Justice,” June 22, 2020

Abbe R. Gluck

Lectures and Addresses

“Health Policy in Nov. 2020,” General Internal Medicine Workshop, Yale School of Medicine, Oct. 2020
“The Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” Ropes & Gray, Oct. 2020
“Remembering Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” Florida State University College of Law, Oct. 2020
“Federalism,” The Clifford Symposium on the Opioid Litigation, May 2020
“The Congressional Bureaucracy,” Gray Center Administrative Law Roundtable, Sept. 2020
“MDL Revolution,” University of Georgia Law School (Oct. 2020) & Civil Procedure Workshop, Northwestern Law School (Oct. 2020)
“Maine Community Health Options--A Conversation with Paul Clement,” Yale Law School, Sept. 2020
Co-Convener: Covid: Law, Economics, Governance, Fall 2020 Workshop Series (with Ian Ayres)

Other Professional Highlights

Filed Amicus Brief in California v Texas with Jonathan Adler et al (May 2020)

Publications

The Affordable Care Act's Litigation Decade, 108 Geo. L.J. 1471 (2020) (with Turret and Regan)
Reading the ACA’s Findings: Textualism, Severability and the ACA’s Return to the Court, 130 Yale L.J.F. (2020)
‘Her Black Coffee Always Brewed Strong,’ N.Y. Times (Sep. 2020) (with Gillian E. Metzger)
“A scalpel rather than a bulldozer”: Severability in the spotlight as the newest ACA challenge looms, SCOTUS Blog (July 2020)
Assessment of Health Status and Barriers to Employment Among Medicaid Beneficiaries Not Meeting Work Requirements After Accounting for State Medical Frailty Exemptions, JAMA Internal Medicine (May 2020) (with David Silvestri & Joseph Ross)

Miriam Gohara

Lectures and Addresses

American Constitution Society, “Tinkering with the Machinery of Death: Resuming Federal Executions,” Panelist (July 2020)
ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice, “COVID-19 and the Compassionate Release of the Elderly, Infirm or High Risk,” Panelist, Apr. 2020

Media

Into America NBC News Podcast: “Into Resuming Federal Executions,” Guest (July 2020)

Publications

Narrating Context and Rehabilitating Rehabilitation: Federal Sentencing Work in Yale Law School’s Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic, ___ Clinical L. Rev. ___ (Nov. 2020)

Oona A. Hathaway

Lectures and Addresses

“The Future of International Cooperation,” Northeast Regional Virtual Roundtable, Council on Foreign Relations via Zoom, Oct. 14, 2020
“COVID & the Global Order: The Future of U.S. National Security,” moderated conversation with Jake Sullivan & Ambassador Victoria Nuland, Oct. 8, 2020
JIB/JAB Podcast: “The Laws of War Podcast,” Oct. 11, 2020
“The Transparency Crisis for Executive Agreements,” Columbia Comparative and International Law Workshop, Sept. 29, 2020
“Why is the US threatening the International Criminal Court?,” BBC Newshour, Sept. 10, 2018
Foreign Policy Insider Conference Call: “Will This Time Be Different?," July 31, 2020
National Security Lawyering, Chicago Law School Faculty Workshop, July 21, 2020 (via Zoom)
The Jackson McLarty Summer Series on Global Leadership: “The Future of Great Power Conflict,” Jackson Institute, July 15, 2020
“The Promise and Limits of the United Nations Institutions,” UN75 Charter Day, UNA-USA San Francisco, June 26, 2020
“International Law,” Debate for Peace Model UN (international student Model UN Group), June 8, 2020 (online)
Experts Workshop on Civilian Harm and Accountability in the Shadow Wars, The Stimson Center (May 28, 2020) (online)
“COVID-19 and Global Affairs: Cyber Threats and Opportunities in the Digital Age” (in conversation with Brad Smith, President of Microsoft), Yale University Jackson Institute’s Virtual Discussion Forum Series, May 7, 2020 (online)
Congressional Oversight of Cyber Operations Roundtable Discussion, Center for a New American Security, Apr. 29, 2020 (online)

Publications

Aiding and Abetting in International Law, 104 Cornell L. Rev. 1593 (2020) (with Srinath Kethireddy, Alexandra Francis, Alyssa Yamamoto & Aaron Haviland)
Reengaging on Treaties and Other International Agreements (Part II): A Path Forward, Just Security, Oct. 6, 2020
Reengaging on Treaties and Other International Agreements (Part I): President Donald Trump’s Rejection of International Law, Just Security, Oct. 2, 2020
Welcome to the Post-Leader World (with Scott J. Shapiro), Foreign Policy, July 4, 2020
Black Lives Matter Might Just Rescue American Democracy, Just Security, June 16, 2020

Other Professional Highlights

Co-Counsel, Amicus Brief of Professors Jack Goldsmith and Oona Hathaway as Amici Curiae in Support of Appellants and Reversal, Edgar v. Ratcliffe, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Aug. 2020) (on appeal from the U.S. District Court)
Counselor to the Dean (2017-present)

Paul W. Kahn

Lectures and Addresses

Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon) sponsored online conference: “Democracy and Pandemic,” Apr. 6, 2020
SELA: “Democracy and the Obligations of Care,” June 19, 2020

Publications

The Perils of Incrementalism (with Kiel Brennan-Marquez), The Hill, Apr. 24, 2020

Harold Hongju Koh

Lectures and Addresses

“Oxford Conferences on International Law Protections Against Cyber Operations Targeting the Health Care Sector, Vaccine Research, and Election Security,” Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, May, July & Oct. 2020
International Law Mooter, Jerome Culp Colloquium, Duke Law School, June 8, 2020
“The United States and International Courts and Tribunals: A Historical Lens from Present to Future,” ASIL Annual Meeting, June 25, 2020
Keynote Remarks, Covington & Burling Pro Bono Week, July 14, 2020
“Interference with Judicial Independence and Local Law Enforcement,” Bar of the City of New York, Rule of Law Forum, Oct. 8, 2020
Panel on Civil-Military Relations and the Insurrection Act, Council on Foreign Relations, July 7, 2020
“The Obligation of States to prevent, stop, and remedy online harms,” Rightscon panel, July 30, 2020
“History of Human Rights Pertaining to Migrants,” Lecture Series on Human Rights & Migration, Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School, Sept. 9, 2020
“Trump’s Impact on U.S. International Relations,” Branford Forum, Sept. 20, 2020 Remarks in honor of CJ Ralph Gants, Celebrating the Life of Chief Justice Ralph Gants, Northeastern University Law School, Sept. 23, 2020
“The Trump Administration and International Law,” Book Discussion, Yale Club of Michigan, Oct. 6, 2020
“Priorities for the Next Four Years: A Strategic Roadmap for Reentry,” Perry World House/Brookings Foreign Policy Program, Oct. 15, 2020

Publications

American Schools of International Law, 410 Recueil des Cours (Martinus Nijhoff 2020) (Monograph of Inaugural Keynote Lectures at first Winter Session at The Hague Academy of International Law)
Joining COVAX Could Save American Lives (with Eric A. Friedman, Lawrence O. Gostin, Matthew M. Kavanagh and John T. Monahan), Sept. 15, 2020, available at https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/15/covax-vaccine-covid-19-trump-save-lives-equitable-distribution/
The President’s Legal Authority to Commit Troops Domestically Under the Insurrection Act (with M. Loughlin), Sept. 22, 2020, American Constitution Society Issue Brief, available at https://www.acslaw.org/analysis/issue-briefs/
The Second Oxford Statement on International Law Protections of the Healthcare Sector During Covid-19: Safeguarding Vaccine Research, Just Security, Aug. 11, 2020, available at https://www.justsecurity.org/71952/the-second-oxford-statement-on-international-law-protections-of-the-healthcare-sector-during-covid-19-safeguarding-vaccine-research/ (with Dapo Akande, Antonio Coco, Talita de Souza Dias, Duncan B. HollisJames C. O’Brien and Tsvetelina van Benthem)
In Memory of Anthony P. Lester, Just Security, Aug. 11, 2020, available at https://www.justsecurity.org/71959/in-memory-of-anthony-p-lester/ (co-published with EJILTalk!)
Oxford Statement on International Law Protections Against Cyber Operations Targeting the Health Care Sector, Just Security (with D. Akande, D. Hollis & J. O’Brien), May 21, 2020, available at https://www.justsecurity.org/70293/oxford-statement-on-the-international-law-protections-against-cyber-operations-targeting-the-health-care-sector/
Trump’s Empty ‘Withdrawal’ from the World Health Organization, Just Security, available at https://www.justsecurity.org/70493/trumps-empty-withdrawal-from-the-world-health-organization/ May 30, 2020

Other Professional Highlights

Counsel of Record, Brief of Amici Curiae Former U.S. Government Officials In Support Of Plaintiffs-Appellees Cross-Appellants, El Paso County v. Trump (19-51144 5thth Circuit 2020)
Counsel of Record, Brief of Amici Curiae Former Government Officials In Support Of Respondents, Nestle & Cargill v. Doe (No. 19-416 and 19-453 U.S. 2020); Trump v. Counsel of Record, Brief of Amici Curiae Former National Security Officials In Support Of Respondents Trump v. Mazars & Trump v. Deutsche Bank AG (No. 19-175 and 19-760 U.S. 2020), available at https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Clinics/19-715_19-760bsacmazarsformernationalsecurityofficials.pdf
Signed Amicus brief of former Office of Legal Counsel Officials as Amici curiae in support of Respondents in Trump v. Vance (19-635 U.S. 2020), available at https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-635/134893/20200304104133763_Vance%2019-635%20-%20Brief%20-%20Final.pdf; ; Counsel for Ryan Goodman and Just Security in filing Request Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) seeking troop numbers in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, available at https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/rolc-files-foia-requests-seeking-troop-numbers-afghanistan-iraq-syria and https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/22/us-troop-levels-afghanistan-iraq-syria-military-foia.
Brief of Amici Curiae Former U.S. Government Officials In Support Of Appellees and Affirmance, Bollat Vasquez v. Wolf (20-1554 1th Circuit 2020)
Counsel of Record, Brief of Amici Curiae Former National Security Officials In Support Of Plaintiff-Appellees, Arab American Civil Rights League v. Trump (19-2375 6th Circuit 2020)
“Political Stripes” Podcast with Bob Rae, June 24, 2020
Interviewer, Oral History of Professor Mirjan Damaska, July 24, 2020

Douglas Kysar

Lectures and Addresses

“Sustainability in the Post-Covid Economy,” panelist, Center for Business & the Environment at Yale, May 15, 2020

Publications

Products Liability: Problems and Process (9th ed., Aspen Publishers, 2020) (with James A. Henderson, Jr., & Aaron Twerski)
Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific (Cambridge University Press, 2020) (with Jolene Lin eds.)
Uncommon Law: Adjudicating in the Anthropocene, in Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific (with Jolene Lin eds., Cambridge University Press: 2020) (with Joshua Ulan Galperin)
Charles Reich’s Unfinished Work, Yale L.J. Forum, Mar. 16, 2020

Other Professional Highlights

Yale School of Management, Executive MBA Program, Sustainability Cohort 2020 Teaching Award

John H. Langbein

Public Service

Commissioner, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws; member, drafting committee for projected uniform act on “Economic Rights of Unmarried Cohabitants"; participated in Zoom drafting sessions Aug. 5, Sept. 12, Oct. 9, 24, 2020

Yair Listokin

Lectures and Addresses

“How Can State Economic Policy Respond to the COVID-19 Macroeconomic Environment?,” State Legislative Leaders Foundation
“Law and Macroeconomics: Legal Remedies to Recessions,” Tel Aviv University Faculty Seminar
Comments on Countercyclical Corporate Governance, University of Chicago Law School Center for Law and Finance
“Efficient Legal Rules in a Cyclical World,” Third Conference on Law and Macroeconomics
Moderator, “What do Legal Academics Need to Know About Macroeconomics?,” Third Conference on Law and Macroeconomics

Publications

Law and Macro: What Took so Long? 83 Law & Contemp. Prob. 141 (2020)
Congress Must Stop Unemployment Tax Increases from Worsening Crisis, The Hill, May 12, 2020

Other Professional Highlights

Organizer, Third Conference on Law and Macroeconomics (virtual conference with more than 50 paper presentations and more than 300 attendees)
Silver Prize, Axiom Business Book Awards: Economics

Jonathan R. Macey

Lectures and Addresses

“Corporate Law at Yale Law School,” Presentation to the Yale Law School community, Apr. 24, 2020
“Market Microstructure Issues,” Presentation to the Economic Advisory Committee of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), May 28, 2020
“Crony Capitalism and Regulatory Capture,” Presentation to the Northwestern Law School Chapter of the Federalist Society, Sept. 23, 2020
“Agency Costs and the American Labor Union,” Presentation to the Law & Economics Workshop at Columbia Law School, Oct. 5, 2020

Publications

Cases and Materials on Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies (Thomson*West, Fourteenth Edition 2020) (with Douglas Moll)
Macey on Corporation Laws (2 volume treatise), originally published in 1998, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2020 (updated annually)

Other Professional Highlights

Chair, Yale University Committee on Fossil Fuel Investment Principles (CFFIP)
Member Economic Advisory Board, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Chair, Yale University Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR)
Member, Yale Faculty Committee on Athletics
Member, Provost’s Standing Advisory & Appointments Committee for the Yale School of Management

Daniel Markovits

Lectures and Addresses

Oxford Center for Policy Research, “Policy Deep Dive on the Idea of Meritocracy
Tendril, Building Personal and Business Resilience”
King’s College London, “Contract and the Philosophy of Law”
Slifka Center/Yale Hillel, “Prosperity and Suffering in a Time of Crisis”
University of North Carolina, Center for School Leadership Development, “The Meritocracy Trap”
Columbia Law School, New Challenges in Law and Economics, “Transactions Benefits”
The Rhodes Trust, Bon Voyage Weekend for American and Caribbean Scholars, “Institutional Inequality and Race” (with Eleanor Brown)
Library of Congress, National Book Festival, “The Meritocracy Trap”
Yale Law School, Faculty Workshop, “A Revolution in Denial” (with Zach Liscow)
Yale Club of New York City, “The Meritocracy Trap”
Yale Class of 1969 Colloquium, “The Meritocracy Trap”
Politics and Prose, “The Vanishing American Dream” (with Eugene Ludwig and Mary Miller)

Publications

Contract, in John Tasioulas ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Law (CUP: 2020)
Function and Form in Contract Law, in Andrew Gold, John Goldberg, Daniel Kelly, Emily Sherwin & Henry Smith eds., The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law (OUP, 2020) (with Alan Schwartz)
The Law of the Market, 83 Law & Contemp. Prob. i-xviii (2020) (with Hanoch Dagan, Roy Kreitner & Avihay Dorfman) (symposium on the law of the market)
Schooling in the Age of Human Capital, The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2020
A Wealth Tax Is the Logical Way to Support Coronavirus Relief, N.Y. Times, Apr. 21, 2020
Law and Political Economy Blog Exchange on “The Meritocracy Trap,” Mar. 2020

Media

Sam Harris, Making Sense, May 22, 2020
Top of the Mind with Julie Rose, BYU Radio/Sirius XM, 13 May 2020
Future Trends Forum with Bryan Alexander, The Future of Education, 28 May 2020
Tom Needham, The Sounds of Film, 4 June 2020
Live from the Table, Comedy Cellar, Sirius XM, June 2020
The David Pakman Show
Rob Caspar, Zoom Cast for the Library of Congress on The Meritocracy Trap
KeenOn Podcast, May 2020
The Glenn Loury Show, Oct. 2020

Tracey L. Meares

Lectures and Addresses

Dunwody Lecture, University of Florida Levin College of Law for the Florida Law Review, “Policing as Public Good: Reflecting on the Term ‘To Protect and Serve’ as Dialogues of Abolition,” Oct. 2020
LAPD Forum with Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners to present suggestions for police reform, Sept. 2020
The Helix Center, Ethics and AI, Participant, Sept. 2020
Guilty Minds: A Virtual Conference on Mens Rea and Criminal Justice Reform, Academy for Justice and the Arizona State Law Journal, Moderator, Sept. 2020
University of Arizona, Faculty Workshop, “Policing as Public Good: Reflecting on the Term ‘To Protect and Serve’ as Dialogues of Abolition,” Sept. 2020
“Can Politics Handle Police Reform in 2020? An Expert Roundtable,” Politico, Sept. 2020, available at https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/15/police-reform-politics-roundtable-421639
“Unfinished Work: Black Lives Matter and Policing after the Protests,” Panelist, Fordham’s Center on Race, Law, and Justice, Sept. 2020
“Elevating and Engaging with Black Lives on Law School Campuses,” Webinar with American Constitution Society and Michelle Goodwin, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Aug. 2020
“Anti-Blackness, Abolition, and Criminal Justice: A Conversation with Dr. Emily Wang and Professor Tracey Meares," Webinar, The Justice Collaboratory Message Summit, July 2020
“Inequality and Racial Justice,” Webinar, Yale Law School Faculty Leadership Conversation, June 2020
“The Pandemic and the Law: Legal Precedent Meets Unprecedented Times,” Panelist, American Constitution Society National Convention, June 2020
“Race and Policing in America,” Roundtable Discussion, London School of Economics, June 2020
“Racial Justice, Policing, and Protest,” Moderator, Annual Reviews, June 2020
“Social Impacts of COVID-19,” CLE Panelist, JP Morgan, June 2020
"Abolition, Defunding and Reform of Police,” Presenter, Joyce Foundation with Chicago Philanthropy, June 2020
“COVID-19’s Impacts on African American Communities,” Webinar with AARC/NAACP/ERIC Press Webinar, May 2020

Publications

The Radical Notion of the Presumption of Innocence (with Arthur Rizer), The Square One Project, July 2020, available at https://squareonejustice.org/paper/the-radical-notion-of-the-presumption-of-innocence-by-arthur-rizer-and-tracey-meares-may-2020/
Changing the Law to Change Policing: Initial Steps, Report (with B. Friedman, B. Garrett, R. Harmon, C. Lopez, M. Ponomarenko, C. Slobogin & T. Tyler), June 2020
The First Step Is Figuring Out What Police Are For (with Tom Tyler), The Atlantic, June 2020, available at https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/first-step-figuring-out-what-police-are/612793/
Defund-the-police calls aren't going away. But what do they mean practically? (with Phillip Atiba Goff & Tom R. Tyler), THINK, June 2020, available at https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/defund-police-calls-aren-t-going-away-what-do-they-ncna1231959

Other Professional Highlights

Yale Jackson Institute Global Health Advisory Board, Member, Aug. 2020 to present
New Haven Board of Police Commissioners, New Haven, CT, Member, July 2020 to present
Twitter PJ Health Initiative, Advisory Board Member, June 2020 to present
Use of Force Policy Committee, CT, June 2020 to present

Selected Media

Key Conversations Podcast with Fred Lawrence, Secretary and CEO of Phi Beta Kappa, Sept. 2020
Crucial Conversation Series with the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board regarding issues related to the police oversight and accountability, Sept. 2020
Interviewed for Decarceration Nation with Arthur Rizer about their paper "The Radical Notion of the Presumption of Innocence," Podcast, July 2020, available at
https://decarcerationnation.com/86-tracey-meares-and-arthur-rizer/
The National Institute for Social Sciences, Virtual Forum on “Current Crisis of Policing in America,” July 2020, available at https://www.socialsciencesinstitute.org/news/2020/7/24/whats-next-policing-in-crisis?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=5f1c4e668a40a2035025f893&ss_email_id=5f1c542c60663070724dd349&ss_campaign_name=Video+Recording+available+%E2%80%94+What%E2%80%99s+Next%3A+Policing+in+Crisis&ss_campaign_sent_date=2020-07-25T15%3A48%3A22Z
“Reimagining Safety: Policing, Abolition, and the Future of Democracy,” Virtual Town Hall Meeting w/The Square One Project, July 2020, available at https://squareonejustice.org/video/reimagining-safety-policing-abolition-and-the-future-of-democracy/
“Bring the Heat,” Virtual Town Hall Meeting with Rev. Ben McBride, Pastor Mike McBride and Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt, July 2020
“What’s behind racial disparities in American policing — and how to solve them,” Podcast with Amna Nawaz, PBS, June 2020, available at https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/whats-behind-racial-disparities-in-american-policing-and-how-to-solve-them
“Do Police Need Guns,” WBUR, Interview, June 2020, available at
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/06/23/do-police-need-guns
“The First Step Is Figuring out What Police Are For,” Podcast with MONOCLE, June 2020, available at https://monocle.com/radio/shows/the-urbanist/
“The Impact of Police Violence on Health,” Podcast, WHYY, PBS, June 2020, available at https://whyy.org/episodes/the-impact-of-police-violence-on-health/
“Q&A with the Justice Collaboratory on Police Reform and Procedural Justice,” Yale Daily News with Tom Tyler and Caroline Sarnoff, June 2020, available at https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/qa-justice-collaboratory-police-reform-and-procedural-justice?utm_source=YaleToday&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=YT_YaleToday-Staff_6-5-2020
“Residents Call for Police Reform, Dismantling Systemic Racism in Connecticut,” Podcast, WNPR, This American Life, June 2020, available at https://www.wnpr.org/post/residents-call-police-reform-dismantling-systemic-racism-connecticut
“Crisis in America” hosted by Lester Holt, NBC News, June 2020
Euronews Newsdesk with Tokunbo Salako re: ongoing violence/protests and recommendations of the Obama Task Force, June 2020
Podcast with Miranda Kerr, Kora Organics, regarding The Justice Collaboratory, June 2020
“Camden's Turn: A Story of Police Reform and Progress,” WebEx, Panel Discussant, Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy, Central Connecticut State University, June 2020

Samuel Moyn

Lectures and Addresses

“Human Rights between Welfare and Neoliberalism,” Muwatin Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, Sept. 27, 2020

Publications

Preface, in Sarah Shortall and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins eds., Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Foreword, in Judith N. Shklar, After Utopia: The Decline of Political Faith (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)
The Irrelevance of the Pandemic, in Paul Kahn and Miguel Poiares Maduro eds., Democracy in Times of Pandemic: Different Futures Imagined (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Flaming Letters in the Sky of Europe, German Quarterly 93, 3 (Summer 2020): 406-408
T.H. Marshall, the Moral Economy, and Social Rights, Humanity 11, 2 (Summer 2020): 235-40
Beyond Humanity: How to Control America’s Use of Force, Quincy Institute Brief No. 5 (2020)
Christianity and Human Rights, in Rafael Domingo and John Witte, Jr., Christianity and Global Law (New York Routledge, 2020)
How to Make the Supreme Court Safe for Democracy (with Ryan D. Doerfler), The New Republic, Nov. 2020
The Guardians, The Nation, Sept. 7, 2020
Kamala Harris Is Obama’s Natural Heir, (with Thomas Meaney), The Guardian, Aug. 23, 2020; in French as Kamala Harris et Barack Obama: même heritage, même combat?, Courrier international, Sept. 19, 2020
Reform the Court, but Don’t Pack It, (with Ryan D. Doerfler), The Atlantic, Aug. 7, 2020
Center Stage, The New Republic, Sept. 2020
Is Free Speech under Threat from ‘Cancel Culture’?, The Guardian, July 8, 2020
The Trouble with Comparisons, New York Review of Books Daily, May 19, 2020
On Killing, Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr. 14, 2020
Tolstoy’s Case against Humane War, Plough Quarterly, Mar. 2020

Douglas NeJaime

Publications

Family Law in a Changing America (Wolters Kluwer 1st ed. 2020) (with Ralph Richard Banks, Joanna Grossman & Suzanne Kim)
Concurring Opinion (with Reva Siegel), in What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said (Jack M. Balkin ed., Yale Univ. Press 2020)
Conscience Wars in the Americas, 5 Latin American L. Rev. 1 (2020) (with Reva Siegel) (available in English and Spanish)

Nicholas R. Parrillo

Lectures and Addresses

“A Critical Assessment of the Originalist Case Against Administrative Regulatory Power: New Evidence from the Federal Tax on Private Real Estate in the 1790s,”
Fordham Constitutional History Workshop, Apr. 1, 2020 (remote)
George Mason University Nondelegation Roundtable, May 2020 (online)
University of San Diego Faculty Workshop, Oct. 2, 2020 (remote)
“The Administrative Law of Central Banking” (with Peter Conti-Brown and Yair Listokin)
Yale Law School Faculty Workshop, Apr. 20, 2020 (remote)
Conference Organizer and Commentator, Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable (Session 2), Sept. 18, 2020 (remote)

Robert C. Post

Lectures and Addresses

“Dignitary Privacy and Data Privacy,” Santa Fe Research Institute, May 20, 2020
“Prohibition and the Taft Court,” NYU Legal History Colloquium, Sept. 21, 2020

Publications

The First Amendment and the Right(s) of Publicity (with Jennifer Rothman), 130 Yale L. Rev. Journal 85 (2020)
Tension in the Unitary Executive: How Taft Constructed the Epochal Opinion of Myers v. United States, 45 Journal of Supreme Court History 168 (2020)
The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft, 2020 Michigan State Law Review 1
Rebellion, Authority and Knowledge, 106 Academe 10 (Spring 2020), available at https://www.aaup.org/article/rebellion-authority-and-knowledge?link_id=5&can_id=fc133b165e8b4545ab19980ada9cc159&source=email-the-politics-of-knowledge&email_referrer=email_790577&email_subject=the-politics-of-knowledge#.XrFwR0BFw_Y
Covid-19 and Higher Education, in Network of Concerned Academics, Apr. 18, 2020, available at https://www.networkofconcernedacademics.org/covid-19-and-higher-education

Other Professional Highlights

Appointed Legal Advisor to the ACLU-CT

George L. Priest

Lectures and Addresses

Keynote Speaker at the dedication of the Robert H. Bork Law and Economics Room at Capitol
Participated in a panel discussion on the paper, “Between the Times of Cholera and the Times of Coronavirus: Pandemics, Imperialism, and Authoritarianism in Saudi Arabia,” by Sultan Alamer and Nora Doaiji, Yale Law School’s Middle East Legal Studies Seminar
Participated in a panel discussion, “Lebanon at the Crossroads,” Yale Law School’s Middle East Legal Studies Seminar

Publications

Suing Google Won’t Help Consumers, Wall St. J., Oct. 20, 2020
The Political Order and the Market Order (forthcoming).

Other Professor Highlights

Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Bork Foundation

W. Michael Reisman

Lectures and Addresses

Foreign Policy Association Annual Dinner (via Zoom), June, 2020
Foreign Policy Association Board Meeting (via Zoom), Oct., 2020

Publications

Will a Policy of Preemptive Self-Defense Make Us All Safe?, in America in the World: Visionaries Speak (Noel Lateef ed.), Foreign Policy Association Centennial Series 2020 at pp. 63-80; published earlier as “Will a Policy of Preemptive Self-Defense Make us All Safer?,” available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3162033

Judith Resnik

Lectures and Addresses

Participant: Exploring (Virtual) the Links between Public Finance and Court Debt, Apr. 17, 2020
Presenter: “Partial “Global Peace”: Federalism and the Long Tail of Remedies in Opioid Litigation” for The Opioid Crisis: Where Do We Go From Here?, The 26th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, IL, May 27, 2020
Moderator and Discussant: “Judicial Responses to COVID-19 in Prisons and Other Custodial Settings,” webinar hosted by the International Association of Women Judges, May 27, 2020
Presenter: “Prisoners in Pandemics,” at the State/Federal Judicial Education Program of the State and Federal Courts of Illinois, hosted in Springfield, Illinois, July 16, 2020
Time-in-Cell 2019: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems, Webinar with the Correctional Leaders Association and the Liman Center, Aug. 17, 2020
Panelist: “Prisoners in Pandemics,” at the workshop COVID-19: Law, Economics, and Governance, sponsored by the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy of Yale Law School, Aug. 26, 2020
Moderator: 2020-2021 Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship Lecture, “Judges in the Public Eye,” a conversation with the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor and the Right Honorable The Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond, Yale Law School, Sept. 9, 2020
Chair: Seeking Safety, Knowledge, and Security in a Troubling Environment, Yale Global Constitutionalism Seminar, A Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, Sept. 10-12, 2020, and co-convenor of the session: “Women, Gendered Violence, and the Construction of the ‘Domestic,’” Sept. 12, 2020
Convenor: 23rd annual Liman Colloquium, After Ferguson: Money and Punishment, Circa 2020: Moderator for the opening segment, “From Ferguson to Now: Race, Punishment, and Protest,” Yale Law School, Sept. 14, 2020; presenter, “Seeing Inequality,” Yale Law School, Oct. 1, 2020
Presenter: “Punishment in Prison: Constituting the “Normal” and the “Atypical” in Solitary and Other Forms of Confinement,” for the American Constitution Society Progressive Scholarship Workshop, Yale Law School, Sept. 24, 2020
Presenter: “Time-In-Cell 2019: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems,” Arthur Liman Center, Yale Law School, Oct. 8, 2020
Podcast Guest: “Mass Incarceration During COVID-19 & Reimagining the Criminal Justice System,” Nov. 4, hosted by Toby Moffett and Abigail Omojola, Oct. 8, 2020
Podcast Guest: How does the current state of Congress and the presidency impact the federal judiciary?, Politics in Question hosted by Julia Azari, Lee Drutman, and James Wallner, Oct. 9, 2020
Presenter: “Prisoners in a Pandemic: Litigating Health, Safety, and COVID for Incarcerated People,” Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Yale Law School Oct. 15, 2020

Publications

Money and Punishment (co-editors Anna VanCleave, Brian Highsmith, Jeff Selbin, Lisa Foster, Hannah Duncan, Stephanie Garlock & Molly Petchenik, Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law Colloquium, 2020), available at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3706529
Time-In-Cell 2019: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems (co-authored with staff from Correctional Leaders Association and the Liman Center), available at https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/liman/document/time-in-cell_2019.pdf
Seeking Safety, Knowledge, and Security in a Troubling Environment (Yale Global Constitutionalism Seminar, A Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, 2020), available at https://documents.law.yale.edu/news/global-constitutionalism-2020-seeking-safety-knowledge-and-security-troubling-environment; Chapter editor: Women, Gendered Violence, and the Construction of the ‘Domestic,’ co-edited with Susanne Baer and Marta Cartabia
Puzzles of Prisoners and Rights: An Essay in Honor of Frank Johnson, 71 Alabama L. Rev. 665 (2020)
Collective Preclusion and Inaccessible Arbitration: Data, Non-Disclosure, and Public Knowledge (with Stephanie Garlock and Annie J. Wang), 24 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 611 (2020)
Punishment in Prison: Constituting the “Normal” and the “Atypical” in Solitary and Other Forms of Confinement (with Hirsa Amin, Sophie Angelis, Megan Hauptman, Laura Kokotailo, Aseem Mehta, Madeline Silva, Tor Tarantola & Meredith Wheeler), 115 Northwestern L. Rev. 45 (2020)
Translated and republication of (Un)Constitutional Punishments: Eighth Amendment Silos, Penological Purposes, and People’s “Ruin,” 129 Yale L.J. Forum 365 (2020); Spanish translation in Revista del Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, v. 11, 2020. ISNN 24486965
The size of the Supreme Court is only part of the problem, CNN.com, Oct. 14, 2020

Other Professional Highlights

Brief of Amici Curiae, Scholars of the Law of Prisons, the Constitution, and the Federal Courts in Support of the Appellants and in Support of Reversing the Dismissal of the Fourth Amendment Claim, Delores Henry, et al., v. Melody Hulett, et al., No. 16-4234, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, No. 12-CV-3087; 969 F.3d 769 (7th Cir. 2020) (en banc reversal of the prior ruling)
Of Counsel on Unopposed Motion for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Statement of Correctional Expert Rick Raemisch, in Coleman v. Newson (No. 2:90-CV-00520-KJM-DB), and in Plata v. Newsom (No. 01-cv-01351 JST) (2020), filed Mar. 30, 2020, granted Apr. 17, 2020, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70271
Of Counsel on Motion for Leave to File Amicus Curiae Statement of Correctional Expert Rick Raemisch, Savino v. Hodgson, 1:20-cv-10617-WGY, motion granted,2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70406 (D. Mass, 2020)
Regarding Enlargement and the Use of Provisional Remedies for Detained Individuals, submitted in Martinez-Brooks v Easter, (Civ. No. 3:20-cv-00569-MPS - 459 F. Supp. 3d 411 (D. Conn. 2020)), and also submitted in other lawsuits requesting remedies for people in immigration or in criminal detention and at risk of COVID-19
Of Counsel on Brief of Amici Law Professors on the Remedial Powers of Federal Courts, Kelvin Hernandez Roman, et. al. v. Chad Wolf, et. al., On Appeal from the United States District Court, Central District of California, Case No. 5:20-cv-00768-TJH-PVC, filed Aug. 17, 2020, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 30510 (9th Cir. 2020)
Of Counsel on Brief of Amici Law Professors on the Remedial Powers of Federal Courts, Roman Vazquez Barrera, et al. v. Chad Wolf, et al., U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Case No. 4:20-cv-01241-KPE, filed Sept. 9, 2020, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 172231 (S.D. Tex. 2020)
Appointed to Class 3 Committee on Membership of the American Philosophical Society, Aug. 2020
Appointed to Advisory Board for the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg’s global project on “Comparative Procedural Law and Justice,” Summer, 2020
Reappointed to the Standing Advisory & Appointments Committee for the Arts Schools of Yale University, 2020-2021

Carol M. Rose

Publications

Rations and Takings, in Symposium on Andrew Coan’s Rationing the Constitution, 2019 Wisconsin L. Rev. 344 (2020)
Thinking about the Commons, 14 Int’l J. of the Commons 557 (2020)

Lectures and Addresses

“Modularity, Modernist Property, and the Modern Architecture of Property,” a comment on the property scholarship of Henry Smith, Brigham Kanner Property Rights Conference and Prize Presentation, hosted by William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, Virginia, Oct. 1, 2020
Attended Advisers and Members Consultative Group, Restatement Fourth of Property, hosted by American Law Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 2, 2020

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Lectures and Addresses

Spoke at the launch of our book’s translation at a Zoom conference, “Law and Systemic Corruption,” organized by the Law School of the Foundation Guilio Vargas, São Paulo
Talk in Intellectual Trajectories Series at the Koerner Center for retired faculty, Oct. 5, 2020

Publications

Corruption in Brazil: Beyond the Criminal Law, in Paul Lagunes and Jan Svenjnar eds., Corruption and the Lava Jato Scandal in Latin America, Routledge, 2020 (with Raquel de Mattos Pimenta)
Corrupção e Governo, FGV Editions, São Paulo, 2020 [Portuguese translation of Corruption and Government, 2d edition] (with Bonnie J. Palifka)

Media

Interview with Diego Viana, “Lava-Jato e Brasil en risco,” Valor Econômico, Oct. 16, 2020
Other Professional Highlights
Coordinator of Accountability and Anti-Corruption cluster of the Financial Accountability, Transparency, and Integrity [FACTI] Panel for Achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

David N. Schleicher

Lectures and Addresses

“Law, Justice, and COVID Seminar,” Yale Law School, Apr. 16, 23, 30, 2020
“Hamilton, the Constitution, and State Financial Solvency,” Columbia/Yale Clubs of DC, June 10, 2020
“The Latest Push Toward Statehood for Washington, DC,” NPR 1A: June 29, 2020
“Coping with State and Local Fiscal Distress,” Manhattan Institute, July 23, 2020
“The Municipal Trilemma and its Implications for the Current Crisis,” Macro Musings Podcasts, Aug. 10, 2020
“Hands On! The History of Federal Responses to State and Local Fiscal Crises,” State and Local Government Law Works in Progress Conference, Sept. 24, 2020
“Hands On! The History of Federal Responses to State and Local Fiscal Crises,” Tax Economist Forum, Sept. 30, 2020
“Housing Affordability,” CityScope Podcast, Oct. 1, 2020
“COVID, Federalism, and Localism,” Yale COVID Workshop, Oct. 14, 2020
“Hands On! The History of Federal Responses to State and Local Fiscal Crises,” Law and Macroeconomics Conference, Yale Law School, Oct. 15, 2020

Publications

Work reviewed in Lee Fennell, Building Coalitions Out of Thin Air: Transferable Development Rights and “Constituency Effects” in Land Use Law, Jotwell, Aug. 12, 2020
The States Are Toast, Slate, Apr. 27, 2020
Reasonable Conditions for State and Local Aid, Niskanen Center, May 11, 2020
Building Coalitions out of Thin Air: Transferable Development Rights and “Constituency Effects” in Land Use Law, 12 J. Legal Analysis 79 (2020)

Other Professional Highlights

Started Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast with Prof. Sam Moyn, Fall 2020 (available weekly)

Kate Stith

Lectures and Addresses

“Judge Britt Grant” (interviewer), Yale Law School Federalist Society, Oct. 26, 2020
“Women at Yale Law School: Then and Now,” Moderator, Class of 1965 Reunion, Oct. 17, 2020
“Apprendi at 20: Due Process and the Sixth Amendment,” North Carolina Law Review Symposium presentation, Oct. 16, 2020
Federal Funding Issues Workshop: The Appropriations Power in Current Debates (national Zoom symposium presentation), Oct. 7, 2020
“Creating Your Law School Curriculum,” Yale Law School (annual presentation)
“Welcome to Transfer Students,” Yale Law School (annual presentation)
“Welcome to First Generation Professionals,” Yale Law School (annual presentation)
Interviewed in Leo Eaton & Richard Brookhiser documentary, John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, New Haven, CT and Hanover, NH (Aug. and Sept. 2019, released May 2020)
“James Comey: Have at Him,” Yale Law School National Security Group, Oct. 8, 2019
“The Dartmouth College Case: Historical Disputations” and “The Case’s Significance in the Founding of Women’s, Catholic, and Black Colleges in the Nineteenth Century,” Symposium presentations at Dartmouth College, Sept. 29-30, 2019
“Collateral Consequences of Non-Conviction Records,” University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, MI, Aug. 15-16, 2019
“The Founder of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale,” President’s House, New Haven, CT, June 17, 2019
“The Supreme Court and Criminal Law, Oct. Term 2018,” presentation at New Haven Lawn Club, May 30, 2019
“Ben Wittes on Robert Mueller” (moderator), Yale Law National Security Group, Apr. 16, 2019
“Please Talk with Will Levi, YLS 2009: On Lawyers, The Senate, and the DOJ,” Yale Law School, Mar. 26, 2019
“Congress’s Power of the Purse: The Last Thirty Years,” Symposium presentation, U.C. Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, CA, Mar. 14, 2019
“Setting the Stage for The Dartmouth College Case: A Reenactment,” United States Supreme Court Courtroom, Washington, DC, Jan. 31, 2019
“Michael Mattis and Police Use of Deadly Force: A Telling Story from the 1970s,” SMC, Hamden, CT, Jan. 19, 2019
“Judge Richard Sullivan and the Law,” student-sponsored event with Judge Sullivan, Yale Law School, Dec. 13, 2018

Publications

Apprendi’s Two Constitutional Rights, 99 North Carolina L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021)
Weinstein on Sentencing II, 32 Federal Sentencing Reporter (forthcoming 2020)
The Dartmouth College Case and the Founding of Historically Black Colleges, 18 U.N.H. L. Rev. 27 (2019) (with C. Blumenthal)

Other Professional Activities

Board of Directors, Collateral Consequences Resource Center, Washington, DC
ABA Task Force on Sentencing Reform, Washington, DC
American Law Institute, Adviser to Model Penal Code: Sexual Assault, and Consultative Member, Student Sexual Misconduct—Procedural Frameworks for Colleges and Universities
Board of Directors, Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society
Committee on Professional Ethics (Vice-Chair), Connecticut Bar Association
Faculty Sponsor and member of the Board of Directors, The Campaign School at Yale, New Haven, CT (formerly the Women’s Campaign School at Yale)
Editorial or Advisory Board member of The Green Bag, The Federal Sentencing Reporter, and The Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law

Tom R. Tyler

Lectures and Addresses

Reimagining American policing, Conference on: From police reform to a new public safety model, Law School, University of California, Irvine, Aug. 17, 2020
The role of psychology in comparative law, Conference on the role of comparative law in the social sciences, hosted by the American Society of Comparative Law, Sept. 12, 2020
Changing policing to reduce the excessive use of force, Conference on the paradox of the rational use of police force, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Columbia, Oct. 6, 2020

Publications

Building popular legitimacy with reconciliatory gestures and participation (with T.C. O’Brien & T.L. Meares), Regulation and governance, 14, 821-839 (2020)

James Q. Whitman

Lectures and Addresses

Workshops: "From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands," Michigan Law School, Stanford Law School, Penn Law School
Comparative Law and Legal History, American Society for Comparative Law

Other Professional Highlights

Honorary Doctorate of Laws, Università di Roma Tre

Michael J. Wishnie

Professional Highlights

Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, 140 S.Ct. 1891 (2020) (in consolidated cases including Batalla-Vidal v. Wolf, holding termination of DACA was arbitrary and capricious in violation of APA)
Savino v. Souza, 459 F.Supp.3d 317 (D.Mass. 2020) (granting preliminary injunction to class of immigration detainees, ordering testing of detainees and staff, prohibiting admission of new immigration detainees, and affirming decision temporarily to release approximately 50 persons), reconsideration denied, 2020 WL 3529664 (D.Mass. June 18, 2020)
Da Graca v. Souza, 2020 WL 2616263 (D.Mass. May 22, 2020) (granting habeas petition of immigration detainee and ordering bond hearing before Immigration Judge)
Monk v. Wilkie, 2020 WL 2461722 (Vet.App. May 13, 2020) (holding Board of Veterans Appeals ignored arguments of disabled Vietnam veteran regarding effective date of his claim for disability benefits and remanding)
Recipient of 2020 Carol Weiss King Award, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild

John Fabian Witt

Lectures and Addresses

“American Contagions,” The Legal History of Epidemics: A Colloquium, David Berg Foundation Institute for Law & History, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, May 25, 2020
“How to Make Law with Ideas,” Yale Law School Orientation Program, Aug. 2020
“James Weldon Johnson’s Radical Philanthropy,” Fordham Law School Faculty Workshop, Oct. 1, 2020

Publications

Tort as Private Administration, 105 Cornell L. Rev. 1093 (2020) (with Nathaniel Donahue)
To Save the Country: Reason and Necessity in Constitutional Emergencies, in Gary Gerstle & Joel Isaac eds., States of Exception in American History (University of Chicago Press, Oct. 2020)
Contract’s Revenge: The Waiver Society and the Death of Tort, 41 Cardozo L. Rev. 1265 (2020) (with Ryan Martins & Shannon Price)
Republican Judges are Quietly Upending Public Health Laws, N.Y. Times, Oct. 15, 2020
Why We Don’t Need COVID-19 Immunity Legislation, Balkinization Blog, Sep. 26, 2020
Torts & Regulation: Cases, Principles, and Institutions (CALI, 2d ed. 2020)

Other Professional Highlights

“Salus Populi,” a 5-Part Panopto Lecture, Yale Law School, Apr. 2020, available at https://yalelaw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=84a0dbb7-140c-47e5-8df9-aba200d89659
“COVID-19 in Connecticut and Beyond,” a Conversation with Dr. Albert Ko of the Yale School of Public Health, Davenport College at Yale, Sept. 2, 2020
“Life in Cable News in the Trump Era,” a Conversation with Asha Rangappa, Davenport College at Yale, Sept. 30, 2020
“About Breonna Taylor,” a Conversation with Dwyane Betts, Davenport College at Yale, Oct. 7, 2020
“Hate and Forgiveness: Reflections from Rwanda,” a Conversation with Louisa Lombard and Hyppolite Ntigurirwa, Davenport College at Yale, Oct. 15, 2020