Summer 2025 Faculty Activities

Bruce Ackerman

Lectures and Addresses

• Interview, “The American Presidential Election and its Impact on Turkey,” Aug. 23, 2024
• Interview, “How Many of Trump’s Executive Orders Will Make it Through?,” Morning Shot, Jan. 26, 2025

Publications

• “Da Academia à Prática: Diálogos sobre a Crise das Democracias Constitucionais” (Francisco José Borges Motta and Gilberto Morbach, eds.), translation of Bruce Ackerman’s original article in English, Tirant lo Blanch (November 2024)

Jack Balkin

Lectures and Addresses

• "Nino's Paradox," Conference on The Uses (and Misuses) of History in Constitutional Interpretation, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Nov. 22, 2024
• Debate on Originalism (with Akhil Amar), Austin Union Debates, University of Austin, Texas, Jan. 10, 2025
• "Casebooks, Canons, and Constitutional Memory," Conference on Constitutional Law Pedagogy, William and Mary Law School, Feb. 21, 2025
• Interview on Memory and Authority (with Jonathan Gienapp), Conference on History and Memory in Constitutional Interpretation, Texas A&M Law School, Fort Worth Texas, Feb. 28, 2025
• "How Lawyers and Judges Use the Past," The Uses and Misuses of History: The Roberts Court and its Constitutional Revolution, Boston University Law School, March 20, 2025

Publications

• “We Are All Cafeteria Originalists Now (and We Always Have Been),” 33 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 323 (2024)
• “The Law of AI Is the Law of Risky Agents without Intentions” (with Ian Ayres), U. Chi. L. Rev. Online (Nov. 27, 2024)
• “Rabbi Akiva and the Crowns: A Parable of Constitutional Fidelity,” 104 B.U. L. Rev. 1321 (2024)

Other Professional Highlights

• Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize from the Georgetown Center for the Constitution for “Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation” (Yale University Press, 2024)
• The 2024 Harry Stonecipher Award for Outstanding Research from The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for “Free Speech versus the First Amendment,” 70 UCLA L. Rev. 1206 (2023)

Guido Calabresi

Lectures and Addresses

• Speaker, the Portrait Unveiling of Hon. Sonia Sotomayor ’79, The Great Hall of Supreme Court of the United States, Nov. 15, 2024
• Guest speaker, Interview event with UPENN Law Review, University of Pennsylvania, March 5, 2025

Other Professional Highlights

• Translation of “The Future of Law & Economics (Il Futuro Del Law and Economics)” (Giuffre Editore, 2025) into Italian

Justin Driver

Lectures and Addresses

• “At the Schoolhouse Gate,” Academy for Human Rights, Buffalo, NY, Oct. 24, 2024
• “The Insignificance of Judicial Opinions,” Response to Professor David A. Strauss, Jorde Symposium, Berkeley Law School, Nov. 18, 2024
• “The Schoolhouse Gate,” Presentation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Mid-Winter Judicial Conference, San Diego, CA, Jan. 28, 2025
• “The Founding of Frederick Douglass,” America at 250: Slavery, Equality, and the American Revolution, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., Feb. 10, 2025
• Opening Remarks, Marshall-Brennan Interschool Appellate Advocacy Tournament, Yale Law School, March 7, 2025
• “A Conversation with Justice Stephen Breyer” (Noah Krieger Memorial Lecture), Brown University, April 15, 2025

Publications

• “Was Integration the Wrong Goal?: Why Some Mainstream Black Intellectuals Are Giving up on Brown v. Board of Education,” The Atlantic (April 2025)

Daniel C. Esty

Lectures and Addresses

• “Climate Change and Security Trade-offs: Transatlantic Industrial and Trade Policies in the Green Transition,” Ditchley Foundation, Ditchley Park, U.K., Nov. 7, 2024
• “Remaking Trade Project: Toward a Sustainable International Trade System,” Columbia Law School, New York, Nov. 14, 2024
• “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future,” GLOBE International Pavillion, 2024 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP29), Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 21, 2024
• “Remaking Global Trade for Nature, People, and Climate,” 2024 U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP29), Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 21, 2024
• “Europe’s Role in Reform of the International Trade System,” Brussels School of Governance, Belgium, Dec. 5, 2024
• “Unlocking the Power of the Circular Economy: A Bold Solution to Today’s Environmental Challenges,” Building Bridges Summit, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 12, 2024
• “Optimal Global Governance: A Functionalist Strategy for Redesigning International Institutions,” U.N. University Centre for Policy Research 2025 Global Governance Innovation Workshop, British Academy, London, U.K., Jan. 15, 2025
• “Decarbonizing Operations,” Business and Environment Conference, Yale School of Management, Feb. 8, 2025
• “Can Multilateral Cooperation on Trade and Climate Change Survive Trump 2.0?” France-China Climate Initiative, Paris, France, March 10, 2025
• “Advancing the Villars Framework for a Sustainable Global Trade System,” and “Assessing the Impacts of Subsidies on the Sustainable Trade Agenda,” U.N. Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile, March 20, 2025
• “10 Years After the Paris Agreement” (with Laurent Fabius), Yale School of the Environment, April 1, 2025 
• Inauguration Celebration of President Maurie McInnis, Yale University, April 5, 2025
• “Findings of the Global Commission on the Economics of Water,” Yale School of the Environment, April 9, 2025

Publications

• “Reimagining the World Trade Organization: A Blueprint for Sustainable Trade” (with Trevor Sutton, Joel Trachtman, and Jan Yves Remy), Geneva Policy Outlook (2024)
• “Is Net-Zero Banking Dead?” (with Todd Cort), Yale School of the Environment (Jan. 15, 202)
• “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future” (with Joel Trachtman and Jan Yves Remy), J. Int’l Econ. L. (2025)

Owen M. Fiss

Lectures and Addresses

• “The Arrival of the Structural Injunction in Brazil,” the Symposium on Civil Justice in Brazil, Yale Law School, Jan. 27, 2025

Other Professional Highlights

• Co-director, Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School
• Co-director, Yale Law School Middle East Legal Studies Seminar
• Co-director, Latin American Legal Studies Program (LALS) of Yale Law School
• Steering Committee, Yale Law School Alumni Network to Strengthen Democracy

Abbe R. Gluck

Lectures and Addresses

• “A Conversation with Hon. Katie Porter,” Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School, February 2025
• Keynote Address, “The Affordable Care Act at 15,” Seton Hall Law School ACA @ 15 Conference, Newark, NJ, March 2025
• “A Conversation with Zeke Emanuel,” Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School, March 2025

Publications

• “Challenging Preventive Care, the ACA’s Philosophy of Access, and Deference to Scientific Expertise: Implications for a Healthy Aging Population,” Elder L.J. (2024)
• “Situating Braidwood in Broader Conversations About Health Policy and Administrative Law,” 50 Am. J. L. & Med. 1 (2024)
• “Overruling Chevron Without a Coherent Theory of Statutory Interpretation and the Court-Congress Relationship,” 62 Harv. J. on Leg. 20 (2024)
• “The Enduring Relevance of Congress Despite the Court’s Shift to “Ordinary Reader” Statutory Interpretation” (with Laila M. Robbins), 33 J.L. & Pol. 29 (2025)
• “Physicians, The Homelessness Crisis, and Public Health – All Hands on Deck” (with Cary Gross), JAMA Internal Medicine (2024)
• “Purdue Pharma and the Sackler Family at the Supreme Court” (with Elle Rothermich), JAMA (2024)

Other Professional Highlights

• Winner of the Eisenberg Prize, American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, October 2025
• Named Co-chair of the Subcommittee on Access to Justice, New York City Bar Association Presidential Taskforce on AI

Oona A. Hathaway

Lectures and Addresses

• “Can the International Court of Justice Save the International Order in the Face of Security Council Paralysis?,” Permanent Mission of Austria to the U.N., New York, Oct. 23, 2024
• “The War in Ukraine: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead for International Criminal Law,” International Law Weekend, New York, Oct. 24, 2024
• “The Rules of War Aren't Protecting Civilians. Can They Be Enforced?,” Interview by Greg Myre, NPR, Oct. 30, 2024
• “Secrecy, Accountability and the National Security State,” Princeton University, Nov. 1, 2024
• “Russia’s Program of Coerced Adoption of Ukraine’s Children,” Just Security Podcast, Dec. 4, 2024
• “Trump, Conquest, & the Laws of War,” Power Problems Podcast, Feb. 4, 2025
• “Would a U.S. Takeover of Gaza be Against International Law?,” BBC Newshour, Feb. 6, 2025
• “The Rise of Dual Use Objects in War,” Colloquium in Global Legal Thought, Columbia Law School, Feb. 27, 2025
• “Laws of Armed Conflict,” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, March 5, 2025
• “Law Will Tear U.S. Apart Again with Oona Hathaway,” Asymmetrical Haircuts Podcast, March 6, 2025
• “Territorial Conflict in a Changing Global Order,” Vanderbilt Law School, March 24, 2025

Publications

• “Mistakes in War” (with Azmat Khan), 173 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (2024)
• We’re About to Find Out How Much America’s Leadership Matters, N.Y. Times (Nov. 18, 2024)
• “Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors’ Landmark Win Gives Hope for Alien Tort Statute Case,” Just Security (Nov. 20, 2024)
• “International Law Goes to War in Ukraine,” 38 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 569 (2024)
• “New Report Documents Russia’s Systematic Program of Coerced Adoption and Fostering of Ukraine’s Children” (with Isabel Gensler and Madeline Babin), Just Security (Dec. 4, 2024)
• “Should the Rebels be Recognized as the New Government of Syria? How International Law Could Provide a Clearer Answer” (with Justin Cole), Just Security (Jan. 6, 2025)
• “A Step in the Right Direction for Prepublication Review” (with Jack Goldsmith), Just Security (Feb. 6, 2025)

Other Professional Highlights

• Elected President-Elect of the American Society of International Law
• Reporter, Restatement (Fourth) of Foreign Relations Law

Christine Jolls

Lectures and Addresses

• Organizer, NBER Law and Economics Program Meeting, Cambridge, MA, Feb. 28, 2025

Paul Kahn

Lectures and Addresses

• “Rethinking European Constitutionalism with Paul Kahn,” IMAGINE European Constitutional Imaginaries Workshop, Prague, Jan. 6, 2025
• “Democracy in America,” Catholic University, Lisbon, Portugal, February 2025
• “Norm and Decision,” series on Foundations of Legal Thought, Yale Law School, February 2025
• “The Limits of a Liberal Understanding of the State,” New Lines Magazine, February 2025
• “How We Got Here: The Roots of the American Political Crisis,” The New York Encounter 2025, Feb. 22, 2025 

Publications 

• “Incarnation: A Political Theological Account,” Tracce (Italy, January 2025) 
• “Failure is in the Cards,“ Telos 210 (Spring 2025)
• “What is Democracy,” 1 Public Humanities 1 (2025)

Other Professional Highlights

• Translation of “Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty” (Columbia University Press) into Arabic
• Translation of “Putting Liberalism in its Place” (Princeton University Press) into Lithuanian

Jonathan R. Macey

Lectures and Addresses

• “Who Calls the Shots in Delaware? The Evolving Tug of War between Boards, Controllers, and Judges,” Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law Alumni Breakfast, Century Association, New York, Nov. 21, 2024
• Presenter, “Are Banks Obsolete?,” Italian Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting, Sapienza University of Rome, Aula Calasso, Italy, Dec. 19, 2024
• Presenter, “Threats to Delaware’s Dominance,” Columbia Law School, Feb. 26, 2025
• Presenter, “The Jurisdictional Competition for Corporate Charters: The Political Landscape,”  American College of Governance Counsel, March 12, 2025

Publications

• “Delaware Law Mid-Century: Far From Perfect but Probably Not Leaving for Las Vegas,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (Dec. 17, 2024)
• “How to Make Delaware Safe for Incorporation,” The Wall Street Journal (Feb. 24, 2025)
• “Texas is Disrupting Delaware’s Dominance through Innovation” (with Roberta Romano),  Harvard Law School Forum Corporate Governance (March 7, 2025) 

Other Professional Highlights

• Federalist Society Financial Services & E-Commerce Executive Committee
• Program Fellow, Columbia Law School Program in the Law and Economics of Capital Markets
• Members Consultative Group, American Law Institute, Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance

John Morley

Lectures and Addresses

• Co-organizer and Presenter, Annual Roundtable on Private Funds, New York University School of Law, Jan. 16, 2025
• Augustus E. Lines Chair Lecture, Yale Law School, Feb. 24, 2025

Other Professional Highlights

• Appointed Augustus E. Lines Professor of Law
• William Nelson Cromwell Foundation History Article of the Year Prize for “The Modern State and the Rise of the Business Corporation” (with Taisu Zhang), 132 Yale L.J. 1970 (2023)

Samuel Moyn

Lectures and Addresses

• “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Time,” Middlebury College, Oct. 10, 2024
• “What’s Wrong with Constitutional Law?,” University of Tulsa, Oct. 22, 2024
• “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Time,” University of Oklahoma, Oct. 23, 2024
• “Humane: The History of International Humanitarian Law,” University of Florida, Nov. 2, 2024
• “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Time,” Society for U.S. Intellectual History, Boston, Nov. 15, 2024
• “Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Time,” George Washington University, Feb. 28, 2025 

Publications

• “Reconstructing Critical Legal Studies,” 134 Yale L. J. 77–122 (October 2024)
• “Liberals Bet They Could Beat Trump with the Law — They Lost,” N.Y. Times (Nov. 22, 2024)
• “To Save Democracy from Juristocracy: J.B. Thayer and Congressional Power after the Civil War” (with Rephael G. Stern), 38 Constitutional Commentary 315–87 (2024) 
• “The Improvement Trump Could Make to U.S. Foreign Policy” (with Trita Parsi), Los Angeles Times (Jan. 8, 2025)
• “From One Crisis of Liberalism to Another,” 92 Social Research 151–72 (2025)
• “Trump Wants to Reverse America’s Imperial Decline,” The Guardian (Jan. 27, 2025)
• “Foreword,” in The New Haven School: American International Law (by Ríán Derrig, Cambridge University Press, 2025)
• “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?,” N.Y. Times (March 18, 2025)

 Nicholas Parrillo

Lectures and Addresses

• Panelist, “The Future of Administrative Law,” U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Oct. 16, 2024
• “Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy: Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators With the Industries Who Rarely Have,” ABA Section of Administrative Law Conference, Nov. 7, 2024 
• “Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy: Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators With the Industries Who Rarely Have,” University of Michigan Public Law Workshop, Nov. 26, 2024
• “Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy: Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators With the Industries Who Rarely Have,” Yale Law School Faculty Workshop, Jan. 27, 2025
• Panelist, “The Nondelegation Doctrine’s Next Good Year?” Federalist Society Teleforum, Jan. 28, 2025

Publications

• “Administrative Law: The American Public Law System” (with Jerry L. Mashaw, Peter M. Shane, Aditya Bamzai, Emily S. Bremer, and Margaret B. Kwoka, 9th ed.), Cases and Materials (West, 2025) 

Other Professional Highlights

• Published work on federal government disobedience to court orders was discussed in February and March 2025 by N.Y. Times, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, The Atlantic, and by the Congressional Research Service.
• Published work on originalism and nondelegation was discussed in the U.S. Solicitor General’s merits brief in Consumers’ Research v. FCC, No. 24-354 (U.S. S. Ct. Jan. 8, 2025)

Claire Priest

Lectures and Addresses

• “Indigenous Property Rights in the Amazon,” Property-Works-in-Progress Conference, Boston University School of Law, Nov. 9, 2024
• “Before De Soto’s ‘The Other Path’: The Emergence of Property Rights as a Housing Solution in the Shadow of the Cuban Revolution,” Yale Law School Faculty Workshop, Feb. 10, 2025
• “Before De Soto’s ‘The Other Path’: The Emergence of Property Rights as a Housing Solution in the Shadow of the Cuban Revolution,” Legal History Workshop, Helsinki University, Finland, March 25, 2025
• “Before De Soto’s ‘The Other Path’: The Emergence of Property Rights as a Housing Solution in the Shadow of the Cuban Revolution,” Turning Points Lecture, Utah Valley University, April 18, 2025 
• American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, New York University, May 16, 2025
• “Rural Myths,” Comment on Emily Prifogle’s ‘Making the Rural Midwest, A Legal History, 1920-2020,’ American Bar Foundation Legal History Roundtable, May 2, 2025

Judith Resnik

Lectures and Addresses

• Presenter, “The Problem Punishment Poses for Democratic Orders: Ruination and Rights,” Symposium on State Constitutions & The Limits of Criminal Punishments, Rutgers Law School, Oct. 24, 2024
• Panelist, “Detention, Health, and Gender, Women Faculty Forum,” The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law (co-sponsored by the SEICHE Center for Health & Justice at Yale, and the Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy), Yale Law School, Nov. 14, 2024
• Co-convenor, “Litigating Immigration in the (Second) Trump Administration,” Yale Law School, Nov. 19, 2024
• Co-convenor, Roundtable Discussion on Conditions of Supervised Release in the U.S. District of Connecticut, The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Yale Law School, Nov. 21, 2024
• Panelist, Panel Discussion with Hendrik Hartog, author of “Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and The Boys’ Brotherhood Republic,” University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Dec. 3, 2024
• Commentator, “Allocating Costs and the Impact on Access to Justice,” A Symposium on Civil Justice in Brazil, Yale Law School, Jan. 27, 2025
• Co-convenor, “Intersections: Immigration and Labor,” Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop, The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Yale Law School, Jan. 28, 2025
• Presenter, “The Capital of and the Investments in Courts, State and Federal,” Yale Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School, Feb. 3, 2025 
• Moderator, “Israel’s Constitutional Project: Past and Future,” Yale Law Students Israel Association, Yale Law School, Feb. 20, 2025
• Commentator, Alumni Achievement Award Reception Honoring Professor Melissa Murray, Yale Law Women, March 12, 2025
• Presenter (remote), “Seeing ‘the Courts’ Circa 2025: Managing What and Why?,” opening class of the Discipline Case Management and Managing the Case, UFMG Law School, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, March 18, 2025
• Panelist, “Courts: Old Constitutional Entitlements in  New Ages,” Fourth Annual Civil Access to Justice Roundtable, Vanderbilt Access to Justice Initiative, Vanderbilt Law School, March 21, 2025
• Co-convenor, 28th Annual Liman Center Colloquium: Safety and Insecurity, The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Yale Law School, April 3–4, 2025

Publications

• “The Capital of and the Investments in Courts, State and Federal,” 99 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1958 (2024)
• “Stories, Individuals, Statistics, Aggregation, Torts, and Social Justice: Deborah Hensler’s Aspirations for Law,” 17 J. Tort L. 213 (2024)
• “Globalization(s), Privatization(s), Constitutionalization, and Statization: Icons and Experiences of Sovereignty in the 21st Century,” Translation and Republication in Prisiones Revista Digital del Centro de Estudios de Ejecución Penal, 6 Universidad de Buenos Aires 21 (2025) 
• “Collecting Conditions: A Snapshot of Supervised Release in 2023 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut,” SSRN (Feb. 2025) 

Other Professional Highlights

• Testimony (co-authored) presented at the Hearing by the Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States, on the Proposed Amendments to the Forms for Seeking Fee Waivers for Federal Appeals, Feb. 14, 2025, and written comments submitted Jan. 28, 2025
• Comments (co-authored) submitted to the U.S. Sentencing Commission for its March hearings on proposed changes to its guidance on Supervised Release, Feb. 27, 2025 
• Coordinated and edited the “Amicus Curiae Brief of Law Professors,” Family Violence Appellate Project and Bay Area Legal Aid v. Superior Court of California, No. S288176 (Cal. Apr. 4, 2025) (on the constitutional and common law duty of “courts of record,” when a million proceedings a year were unrecorded in California’s Superior Courts that the state’s Constitution deems “courts of record.”)

Carol Rose

Lectures and Addresses

• “Restatement of Property IV,” Advisors and Members Consultative Group, American Law Institute, Philadelphia, Oct. 25, 2024
• Presenter, “Property Theory and the Future of Biological Markets,” Conference on Property and Health Law 35 Years after Moore v. UC Regents, George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., Feb 21, 2025 
• Presenter and Principal Commentator (remote), Workshop on Law, History, and Environment, Sydney, Australia, March 27, 2025

Publications

• “Commodity’s Propriety: A Commentary on the Work of Gregory Alexander,” 13 Brigham Kanner Property Rights Journal 35 (2024)
• “General Customs and Legal Institutions: The Short, Sad Example of Racially Restrictive Covenants in the United States” (Samuel Bray, et al, eds.), Interstitial Private Law (Oxford University Press, 2024) 
• “Property: The View from Shakespeare’s Venice” (Robert Spoo & Simon Stern, eds.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature (2025) 

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Lectures and Addresses

• Organizer and speaker (remote), Session on Comparative Administrative Law, Virtual CLE Conference on Administrative Law, ABA Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, Nov. 7, 2024
• “Democracy and Executive Power,” Yale Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty, Feb. 20, 2025
• Interview, “Passion, Craft and Method in Comparative Politics — Women’s Perspectives,” American Political Science Association Project, APSA Comparative Politics Newsletter, April 3, 2025

Publications

• “Corruption as a Problem in Public Choice” (Richard Jong-A-Pin and Christian Bjornskov, eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Public Choice (2024)
• Book review of “Rethinking Corruption: Reasons Behind the Failure of Anti-Corruption Efforts” (Cambridge University Press, 2024), in “Perspectives on Politics” (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
• “Executive Rulemaking” (Richard Bellamy and Jeff King, eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory (forthcoming 2025) 

David Schleicher

Lectures and Addresses

• “Your House Is Worth More Than They Think: The Strange Case of Property Tax Regressivity,” Syracuse-Chicago Webinar Series on Property Tax Administration and Design, Jan. 24, 2025
• “Zoning for Architects” Lecture, Yale School of Architecture, Feb. 20, 2025
• Host, moderator, and panelist, “Conference on the 20th Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London,” Yale Law School, Feb. 20–21, 2025 

Publications

• “The Failures of Urban Governance,” Vital City (Nov. 08, 2024)
• “Your House Is Worth More Than They Think: The Strange Case of Property Tax Regressivity,” 62 Harvard Journal on Legislation 85 (2025)
• “Schools and City Governments Rely on Property Taxes. What Happens When Homeowners Revolt?,” Slate (Jan. 6, 2025) 
• “Big Cities, Bigger Integrity Problems,” Vital City (Feb. 12, 2025)
• “YIMBYism Is an American Legal Tradition. Here’s How to Revive It,” Niskanen Center (March 2025)
• “The State Capacity Crisis,” Niskanen Center (March 2025) 

Tom Tyler

Lectures and Addresses 

• “Trust as a Behavioral Issue,” From Ambition to Reality Summit, Princeton University, Dec. 5, 2024
• “Legitimacy-based Policing,” University of Texas Law School, Jan. 1, 2025
• “Legitimacy-based Policing,” Center for Policing and Crime Prevention, Malmo, Sweden, Feb. 11–12, 2025 
• “Managing Disputes Online,” APLS, Puerto Rico, March 13–15, 2025
• “Legitimacy-based Legal Authority,” (remote) annual conference of judges, New Zealand, April 14, 2025

Publications

• “Online Content Moderation: Does Justice Need a Human Face?” (with Katsaros, M. and Kim, J.) 49 Int’l J. of Human-Computer Interaction 66-77 (2024)
• “The Contributions of Social/Organizational Psychology to Policing” (Bobocel and Brockner, eds.), 14(2) Organizational Psychology Rev. 307–322 (2024)
• “New Worlds Arise: Trust and Safety Online” (with Meares, T.M. & Katsaros, M), Annual Rev. of Criminology (2025)
• “Different Sides of Fairness” (with Katsaros, M. and Nobo, C.), 6(1) Technology, Mind and Behavior (2025)

Keith Whittington

Lectures and Addresses

• “Scrutinizing Universities’ Responses to Campus Protests,” University of Texas School of Law, Oct. 21, 2024
• “Should the Supreme Court be Reformed?,” Northwestern University School of Law, Nov. 4, 2024
• “The Challenge of Diversifying Voices on Campus,” Seattle University, Nov. 30, 2024
• “Impeach?,” The Remnant Podcast, Dec. 11, 2024

Publications

• “The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool” (Princeton University Press, 2024)
• “Funding with Strings Attached Risks Strangling Academic Freedom,” The Dispatch (March 19, 2025)

John Fabian Witt

Lectures and Addresses

• “Citizenship Reimagined: Legal Frameworks and Historical Contexts,” American Society for Legal History, San Francisco, California, Oct. 26, 2024
• “The Radical Fund,” American Constitution Society Workshop on Vindicating Courts and Vindicating Rights, New Haven, Oct. 30, 2024
• Yale CEO Summit, New York, Dec. 18, 2024
• “Antagonists and Enablers: A First Draft History of Biden and the Supremes,” The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden: An Assessment, Princeton University, Feb. 21–22, 2025
• “Hermeneutics in History,” Texas A&M School of Law, Feb. 28, 2025
• “Lincoln in Gaza: An American-Centric Historical View of the Laws of Armed Conflict Crisis,” keynote address at a conference on the Future of the Laws of Armed Conflict, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, March 5, 2025
• “Antagonists and Enablers: Biden, the Court, and the Democratic Crisis,” James McCormack Mitchell Lecture, University at Buffalo School of Law, March 14, 2025
• Commentor, “The Fighting Constitution: War Powers from the Revolution to Cyberconflict,” Columbia Law School, April 4, 2025
• “The Irrelevance of Originalism,” Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities Symposium, New Haven, April 11, 2025

Publications

• “The View from the U.S. Leviathan: Histories of International Law in the Hegemon” (Randall Lesaffer & Anne Peters, eds.), 1 Cambridge History of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Other Professional Highlights

• Consultant to Brennan Center Historians’ Council
• Amicus brief of experts in torts, statutory interpretation, and firearms regulation in Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, No. 23-1141