Bruce Ackerman
Lectures and Addresses
Publications
- “The Roberts Court’s Unprecedented Abuse of Precedent,” SSRN (Dec. 7, 2025)
- “Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Remarkable Contribution to the Debate Over ‘Independent’ Agencies,” American Progress (Jan. 8, 2026)
- “Barrett’s Red Flag: Why the Court Should Order Re-Argument in Trump v. Slaughter,” 20 SSRN U.S. Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers & Federalism eJournal 21 (2026)
- “Justice Barrett’s Remarkable Contribution to the Debate Over ‘Independent’ Agencies,” Yale Journal on Regulation (Mar. 18, 2026)
Ian Ayres
Lectures and Addrresses
- “Wolford and the Future of the Second Amendment,” University of Alabama School of Law, Howard University School of Law
- “A Pedagogical Experiment of AI Avatars,” Cornell Law School, UCLA School of Law
- “The Leveraged Lifecycle Revisited,” University of Southern California School of Law
- “Prosecutor Juries as a Way to Stop Lawfare,” Harvard Law School Center for Rule of Law
Publications
- “Second Chances and the Second Amendment: A Smarter Way to Reboot § 925(c),” U. Chi. L. Rev. (2025)(with Fredrick Vars)
- “Tell Me What You Want: An Affirmative-Choice Answer to the Constitutional Concern About Concealed-Carry on Private Property,” 17 J. L. Analysis 1 (2025)(with Fredrick Vars)
- “How to Use the New Restatement of Consumer Contracts: A Guide for Judges,” 15 Harv. Bus. L. Rev. 1 (2025)(with Gregory Klass)
- “A Better Way to Democratize Retirement Investment Options,” Pensions & Investments (Aug. 25, 2025)(with Quinn Curtis)
- “Why Psychiatric Holds Don’t Stop People from Buying Guns,” L.A. Times (Aug. 28, 2025)
- “Are U.S. Democrats Really Soft on Crime?,” Project Syndicate (Sept. 26, 2025)(with Jacob Slaughter)
- “We Ban Guns for Marijuana but Not for Alcohol Abuse — That Makes No Sense,” The Hill (Nov. 16, 2025)(with Fredrick Vars)
- “Lawfare Is a Downward Spiral. Here’s an Escape Hatch,” The Washington Post (Nov. 28, 2025)(with Saikrishna Prakash)
- “The Law and Economics of Guilt and Shame,” U. Chi. L. Rev (2026)(with Joseph Bankman & Daniel Hemel)
- “Legal Overfitting,” Am. L. Econ. Rev. (2026)(with Yair Listokin)
Other Professional Highlights
- Submitted amicus brief in Wolford v. Lopez
Jack Balkin
Lectures and Addresses
- "Sex Equality and Equal Citizenship During Reconstruction," San Diego Originalism Works in Progress Conference, Feb. 7, 2026
- "Memory Entrepreneurs," Conference on Richard Primus, Ann Arbor, MI, Feb. 27, 2026
- "How Should We Honor the Declaration of Independence?,” University of Maryland Constitutional Law Conference, Mar. 6, 2026
Publications
- "Casebooks, Canons, and Constitutional Memory," 34 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 337 (2025)(with Sanford Levinson)
- "Constitutional Interpretation as Problem Solving: How the Modalities Work," 13 Texas A&M L. Rev. 509 (2026)
Guido Calabresi
Lectures and Addresses
- “I Martedi dei Civilisti Italiani (Tuesday Discussion by Italian Civil Law Professors)” on Dentro e fuori (Mondadori, 2025) and the 2nd edition of Il mestiere di giudice,. Pensieri di un academico americano, a cura di Benedeta Barbisan (2nd ed., il Mulino, 2025), Online Conference
- “Originalism and Structuralism,” Duquesne University, Nov. 20, 2025
- Panelist, “Outside In: Legal Biography through Oral History,” Legal Memoir Conference, CUNY, Mar. 27, 2026
- “Forging a Bright Future” Yale Law School Alumni Reception, N.Y.C., Mar. 31, 2026
- Participant, History of the Common Law: Institutions, Ideas, and Problems (online), Berkley Law School, Apr. 1, 2026
- “Pensieri di un Accademico Sul Mestiere di Giudice (thoughts of an academic on the job of a judge),” (online) Comparative Constitutional Law, University of Padova, Apr. 15, 2026
Publications
- “Guido Calabresi: The Profession of Judge (Il mestiere di guidice),” edited by Benedetta Barbisan and published by il Mulino, (2nd ed., Nov. 2025)
- “Foreword,” PS Atyah: An Academic Autobiography (James Goudkamp, ed.)(Edinburgh University Press, 2026)
Other Professional Highlights
- Received the Dr. John and Liz Murray Excellence in Scholarship Award from Duquesne University, Nov. 20, 2025
- Received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award (DESA) from the National Eagle Scout Association (the award recognizes Eagle Scouts who achieve extraordinary national level recognition, fame, or eminence within their profession and/or service to the nation and have a strong record of voluntary service to their community)
Justin Driver
Lectures and Addresses
- “America at 250: The Pursuit of Liberty” (in conversation with Jeffrey Rosen ’91), Harrisburg Book Festival, Harrisburg, PA, Oct. 19, 2025
- “Educational Opt-Outs after Mahmoud v. Taylor” (with Professor Douglas Laycock), Harvard Law School Rappaport Forum, Oct. 29, 2025
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” University of Connecticut School of Law, Nov. 10, 2025
- “Executive Branch Dealmaking and the Future of Higer Education” (with Danielle R. Holley & Lawrence H. Summers), In Conversation Series, University of Connecticut School of Law, Nov. 10, 2025
- Book Talk, “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” Jenner & Block, Washington, D.C., Jan. 15, 2026
- Book Talk & Faculty Workshop, “The Fall of Affirmative Action” (with commentary by Professors Stephen Rich & Jessica Clarke), University of Southern California, Jan. 29, 2026
- Derrick Bell Lecture, “Action After Affirmative Action,” University of Oregon School of Law, Feb. 19, 2026
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” Let’s Talk Politics lecture series, California Polytechnic State University, Feb. 20, 2026
- Thomas F. Ryan Lecture, “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” Georgetown University Law Center, Feb. 25, 2026
- Book Talk, “The Fall of Affirmative Action” (in conversation with Professor Rosalind Dixon), University of New South Wales, Australia, Mar. 11, 2026
- The Steven S. Goldberg and Jolley Bruce Christman Bi-Annual Lecture in Education Law, “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” University of Pennsylvania Law School, Mar. 25, 2026
- Public lecture, “The Fall of Affirmative Action” Amherst College, Apr. 1, 2026
- Lecture, “The Constitution Goes to School,” Deerfield Academy, Apr. 8, 2026
- Brainerd Currie Memorial Lecture, “Judging Requires Judgment,” Duke Law School, Apr. 9, 2026
Publications
- “The Founding of Frederick Douglass, in Slavery, Equality, and the American Revolution” (Yuval Levin, Adam J. White, & John Yoo, eds.)(AEI Press, 2025)
- “The Insignificance of Judicial Opinions,” 113 California Law Review 2181 (2026)
Other Professional Highlights
- Convened the Yale Law School faculty workshop, Spring 2026
- Completed four-year term selecting Marshall Scholars for the New England Region in Boston
Wiliam Eskridge
Lectures and Addresses
- “From Common Law Formalism to Legal Realism to Legal Process,” Foundations of American Legal Thought, Yale Law School, Jan. 28, 2026
- “No Vehicles in the Park,” Admitted Students Day, Yale Law School, Apr. 2026
Publications
- “Super-Canons,” 78 Vand. L. Rev. 727 (2025)
- “Trump 2.0 Removal Cases and the New Shadow Docket,” U. Chi. L. Rev. On-Line (2025)
- “The Unitary Executive and the Due Process State,” Notre Dame L. Rev. Reflections (2026)(with Emily Bremer)
Other Professional Highlights
- First Lifetime Achievement Award, AALS Section of Legislation, Jan. 2026
Daniel C. Esty
Lectures and Addresses
- “The Role of the Attorney General in 2025,” a conversation with CT Attorney General William Tong, Yale Law School, Oct. 22, 2025
- “Political Realities and Prospects for Trade System Cooperation: National and Regional Perspectives,” Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, Oct. 23, 2025
- "Financing Trade and Investment for the Bioeconomy," Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future, St. Lucia, Oct. 30, 2025
- “Complexity Science and the Governance of International Institutions for Managing Climate Change,” Princeton University, Nov. 21, 2025
- "The 21st-Century Sustainability Imperative," Langer Engineering Symposium, Yale University, Dec. 12, 2025
- “A Globally Interoperable System, Tariffs, Disclosure Mandates, and the Politics of Carbon Accounting,” Aspen Institute, Feb. 26, 2026
- “The Right to Nature: Equity, Markets and Restoration,” Yale Law School, Mar. 4, 2026
- “Opportunities for Trade System Reform: MC14 and Beyond,” Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, Mar. 18, 2026
- “Beyond Borders: Trade, Spillovers, and the Next Phase of the Green Transition,” Villars Institute Summit, Switzerland, Mar. 20, 2026
- “WTO Reform for a Sustainable and Inclusive Future,” Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Mar. 24, 2026
- “Trade System Reform: Issues of our Time,” Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Mar. 25, 2026
- “Driving Decarbonization for Development: The Role of Industrial Policy and Regional Trade Agreements,” World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Mar. 27, 2026
- “Reimagining Global Trade Governance for an Inclusive and Sustainable Future,” World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference, Yaoundé, Cameroon, Mar. 28, 2026
Publications
- “Do ESG Frameworks Capture Corporate Health Impacts? An Analysis of the Food and Beverage Industry,” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Dec. 2025)(with Raquel Burgess, Kenneth Chen, Savas (Jitae) Kim, Naisha Dharia, Christine Lin, Tanja Srebotnjak, Lawrence Grierson, Nicholas Freudenberg, & Yusuf Ransome)
- “America’s Withdrawal (Again) from the Paris Agreement: A Challenging New Era for the Global Response to Climate Change” Revue Europeenne du Droit (Fall 2025)(with Alexandria C. Miskho)
- Advanced Introduction to U.S. Environmental Law (Elgar, 2nd ed. 2026)(with E. Donald Elliott & Adam Babich)
Owen M. Fiss
Lectures and Addresses
Publications
- “Do Something / Por qué hacer algo,” La Crítica del Derecho (Dec. 12, 2025)
- “Pillars of Justice,” (trans. Bin Ling)(Peking University Press, 2026)
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
Miriam Gohara
Lectures and Addresses
- Panelist on Academic Freedom and Clinical Education, Conference on Access and Accountability, Yale Law School, Nov. 2025
Other Professional Highlights
- Elected as a member-at-large of the American Civil Liberties Union national board, Jan. 2026
- Served as an expert consultant for the purpose of helping develop death penalty mitigation guidelines, Square Circle Clinic of NALSAR University of Law, New Delhi, India, Feb. 2026
Oona A. Hathaway
Lectures and Addresses
- “War Unbound,” American Academy in Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Oct. 23, 2025
- “Customary International Law: What Role Can It Play in Responding to Contemporary Global Crises?,” International Law Weekend, NY, Oct. 24, 2025
- “War Unbound,” Thomas Franck Lecture, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Oct. 27, 2025
- Keynote Address, “The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Legal Order, The U.S. and International Law in a Changing World,” London, England, Nov. 5, 2025
- “War Unbound,” PIL Discussion Group, Oxford University, England, Nov. 6, 2025
- Keynote Address, “The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Legal Order,” One NATO Legal Adviser’s Conference, Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 11, 2025
- “War Unbound,” Nuremberg Academy, Germany, Nov. 13, 2025
- Keynote Lecture, “War Unbound,” JurDem Conference, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany, Nov. 17, 2025
- “The State of International Humanitarian Law” (online), Protection Capacity (ProCap) Project, Norwegian Refugee Council, Dec. 4, 2025
- “Protecting People from War: Towards the Full Protection of Civilians,” Lex International, Switzerland, Dec. 10, 2025
- “Democracy and the Rule of Law Under Pressure,” Berlin, Germany, Dec. 11, 2025
- “Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine: Where Do We Stand?,” American Society of International Law, Feb. 24, 2026
Selected Media Appearances
- “Holding the Line,” EJIL: The Podcast, Nov. 14, 2025
- Interview with Isaac Chotiner, “The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Intervention,” The New Yorker, Jan. 3, 2026
- Interview, CNN with Wolf Blitzer, Jan 5, 2026
- “Leader in Court: The CBC’s Andrew Nichols Talks with Yale Law Professor Oona Hathaway,” CBC News, Jan. 6, 2026
- “A Former Special Counsel at the DoD on Trump’s Great Unraveling of International Law,” Background Briefing with Ian Masters, Jan. 7, 2026
- “The U.N. Charter Used to Prevent War,” Think from KERA, Jan. 28, 2026
- “The Unwillingness to Call This Illegal Is a Terrible Mistake”: Five Questions to Oona A. Hathaway, Verfassungsblog, Mar. 6, 2026
- Interview with Isaac Chotiner, “The Lawlessness of Trump’s War in Iran,” The New Yorker, Mar. 10, 2026
- “Pentagon Probe Points to U.S. Missile Hitting Iranian School,” Morning Edition, NPR, Mar. 11, 2026
- “Did Trump Kill International Law — Or Was It Already Dead?,” World Unpacked, Mar. 13, 2026
- “Was the Air Strike on an Iranian School a War Crime?,” BBC News: The Global Story, Mar. 15, 2026
- “Iran War: Did the U.S. and Israel Break International Law?,” DW News, Apr. 3, 2026
- “Is the Iran War Illegal? Oona Hathaway on Trump, International Law & the UN Charter,” Frontlines & Backrooms, Apr. 5, 2026
- “If You Can Keep It: The U.S., Iran, and War Crimes,” 1A, NPR, Apr. 6, 2026
- “If Carried Out, Trump’s Plans to Bomb Power Plants, Bridges, and Civilians Could be War Crimes,” Here and Now, NPR, Apr. 7, 2026
- “Experts Flag Legal Breaches and Escalating Rhetoric in Conflict,” Radio New Zealand, Apr. 8, 2026
- “International Law Expert Says Trump’s Threatened Attacks on Iran’s Infrastructure Could Be a War Crime,” Australia Broadcasting Corporation, Apr. 8, 2026
- “Where is Congress?,” PBS Firing Line, Apr. 11, 2026
Publications
- “The Anti-Satellite Threat — And How States Can Respond,” 100 NYU L. Rev. 161 (2025)
- “The Dangerous Rise of “Dual-Use” Objects in War: History, Evidence, and the Case for Reform,” 134 Yale Law Journal 2645 (2025)(with Azmat Khan & Mara Revkin)
- “Recognition Rules,” 100 NYU L. Rev. 785 (2025)(with Justin Cole & Alaa Hachem)
- “Crowdsourced War,” 100 NYU L. Rev. 1561 (2025)(with Inbar Pe’er & Catey Vera)
- “The New Transparency Rules and the El Salvador Detention Agreement,” Just Security (Apr.. 17, 2025)(with Curtis Bradley & Jack Goldsmith)
- “The Rise of ‘Self-Defense’ and the Fall of Constraints on the Use of Force,” in Perpetual War and International Law: Enduring Legacies of the War on Terror (2025)
- “The World Court Enforcement Dilemma — and How to Solve It,” 113 G. L. Rev. 63 (2025)
- “The U.S.-Ukraine Agreement: Legality and Transparency,” Just Security (May 6, 2025)(with Curtis Bradley and Jack Goldsmith)
- “Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters,” N.Y. Times (June 23, 2025)
- “Might Not Right,” Foreign Affairs (June 24, 2025)(with Scott J. Shapiro)
- “Is the Prohibition on the Use of Force Collapsing?,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Aug. 26, 2025)(with Stewart Patrick)
- “The Great Unraveling,” N.Y. Times (Jan. 6, 2026)
- “A World Without Rules,” Foreign Affairs (Jan. 13, 2026)(with Scott Shapiro)
- “Report Offers New Evidence of Starvation Crimes in Darfur,” Just Security (Mar. 10, 2026)(with Tom Dannenbaum)
Other Professional Highlights
- President-Elect, American Society of International Law
- Guggenheim Fellow, Spring 2026
Doug Kysar
Lectures and Addresses
- Panelist, “Torts and Retribution: The Case for Punitive Damages,” Denver University Sturm College of Law, Oct. 24, 2025
- Participant, Roundtable on the Ethics of Achieving Net Zero Emissions, UC San Diego Department of Philosophy, Dec. 4–7, 2025
- “Systems So Perfect: Alternative Proteins and the Dream of Abundance,” Visiting Tan Ah Tah Professorial Lecture in Environmental Law, National University of Singapore, Jan. 29, 2026
Publications
- “Ways Not to Think About Climate Change,” Nomos LXVII (Chiara Cordelli and Melissa Lane, eds.)(New York University Press, 2026)
- “Products Liability: Problems and Process” (10th ed., Aspen Publishers, 2026)(with James A. Henderson Jr. and Aaron Twerski)
Other Professional Highlights
- Served as the Tan Ah Tah Visiting Professor in Environmental Law at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law during Jan. 2026
Jonathan R. Macey
Lectures and Addresses
- “Infamous Boardroom Battles, The 2001 Enron Scandal and Corporate Law,” Bruno’s Court podcast, Brown University, Nov. 3, 2025
- Books and More with William Cooper podcast, Dec. 8, 2025
- “The Jurisdictional Competition for Corporate Charters: Challenges and Opportunities in Delaware, Nevada, and Texas,” Texas A&M Law School Conference on Competition for Corporate Charters, Feb. 18, 2026
Publications
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
- Faculty Committee on Athletics, Yale University
- Provision of Expert Witness Testimony to the Tax Court of Canada, Toronto, Canada, Mar. 2, 2026
Joshua Macey
Lectures and Addresses
- “Regulating Around Lochner,” Virginia Public Law Workshop
- “Utility Filing Rights and the Grid’s Governance Problem,” Columbia Public Economics Workshop, NYU Faculty Workshop
- “A Framework for Antitrust in Public Utility Industries,” Heath Lecture, University of Florida
- Clean Air Task Force, Public Financing for Transmission, Boston, MA
- Quarantining Electric Utilities, Law of Abundance Conference, Yale Law School
Publications
- “The Law and Economics of Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation,” 45 Energy L. J. 209 (2024)(with Jacob Mays)
- “Revisiting Capacity Market Fundamentals,” 150 Energy Econ. 1 (2025)(with Ke Xin Zuo and Jacob Mays)
- “Purdue Pharma and the New Bankruptcy∂ Exceptionalism,” 2024 Sup. Ct. Rev. 365 (with Tony Casey)
- “Private Profit and Public Business,” 103 Tex. L. Rev. (2025)(with Aneil Kovvali)
- “Towards a National Transmission Planning Authority,” 49 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 79 (2025)(with Elias van Emmerick)
- “The Public Law of Public Utilities,” 42 Yale J. on Reg. 179 (2025)(with Brian Richardson)
- “Does ESG Crowd Out Support for Government Regulation?,” 25 Am. L. Econ. Rev. (2025)(with Hajin Kim and Kristen Underhill)
- “Contemporary Law and Economics,” U. Chi. L. Rev. (2026)(with Adam Chilton and Mila Versteeg)
- “Against General Law Constitutionalism,” U. Chi. L. Rev (2026)(with Ketan Ramakrishnan and Brian Richardson)
- “Governance Challenges Preventing a More Integrated Grid,” 11 Nature Energy (2026)(with Shelley Welton)
- “Utility Filing Rights and the Grid’s Governance Problem,” 136 Yale L. J. (forthcoming 2027)(with Elias van Emmerick)
- “Too Liable to Regulate: The Hidden Costs of Fossil Fuel Decommissioning and Remediation,” 115 Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2027)(with Terra Baer and Pranjal Drall)
- “A Framework for Antitrust in Regulated Utility Markets,” 175 U. Pa. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2027)(with Jim Rossi)
- “The Case Against Single-Value Grid Planning,” 44 Yale J. on Reg. (forthcoming 2027)
Other Professional Highlights
- “Private Profits and Public Business” (2025) was selected as one of the Top 10 Corporate and Securities Articles of 2025 by Georgetown Law and will be published in the Corporate Practice Commentator. It was also the winner of Berkeley Center for Law and Business Best Paper Award (junior category).
- “Equivocal ESG Effects: How Corporate Voluntary Efforts Influence Support for Regulation” was selected as the 2026 Best (Empirical) Paper Prize of the American Law and Economics Review.
- “Bankruptcy Tribunal,” 96 Am Bankruptcy L. J. (Winter 2022) was cited in Goldman Sachs Bank Usa, D/B/A Marcus By Goldman Sachs, Appellant v. Rhea Ann Brown (4th Cir. 2026)
Samuel Moyn
Lectures and Addresses
- “Liberalism against Itself,” Western Washington University, Nov. 6, 2025; University of Chicago, Mar. 2, 2026
- “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War,” Mar. 26, 2026
- “Gerontocracy in America,” 60th Annual William H. Leary Lecture, University of Utah Law School, Apr. 10, 2026
Publications
- Xxxiii & 611 The Cambridge History of Rights 5: The 20th and 21st Centuries (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
- “Resistance to Trump Isn’t Enough,” N.Y. Times (Oct. 31, 2025)
- “Radical Centrism in Contemporary Legal Thought,” Balkinization (Dec. 7, 2025)
- “It’s Time to Accept the U.S. Supreme Court Is Illegitimate,” The Guardian (Dec. 19, 2025)(with Ryan Doerfler)
- “The World After Trump’s Venezuela Gambit,” New Statesman (Jan. 7, 2026)
- “Afterword,” Cold War Liberalism: Power in a Time of Emergency (Daniel Bessner & Michael Brenes, eds.)(Cambridge University Press, 2026)
- “What a Comparison with Roosevelt Reveals about Trump,” N.Y. Times (Feb. 2, 2026)(with Jack Goldsmith)
Douglas NeJaime
Lectures and Addresses
- Keynote lecture, “Care and Filiation,” University of Turin, Jan. 2026
- “Birth Certificates, Parentage, and (In)Equality,” Cardozo Law School, Feb. 2026
- Opening Panel, “Table Setting with Scholars: Democracy and Reproductive Rights and Justice,” NYU School of Law, Mar. 2026
- Invited lectures, “Conscience Wars in Comparative Perspective: Religious Exemptions and Third-Party Harm,” “Queering Parenthood,” and “Democracy Promoting Judicial Review: an American Perspective,” University of Turin, Mar. 2026
Publications
- Cases and Materials on Sexuality, Gender Identity, and the Law (West, 8th ed. 2026)(with Carlos Ball & Jane Schacter)
- “Not Lochner!: Substantive Due Process as Democracy-Promoting Judicial Review,” 112 Cal. L. Rev. 2199 (2026)(with Reva Siegel)
- “Before Losing,” 135 Yale L. J. F. 63 (2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Family Law Review Board, National Conference of Bar Examiners
- Uniform Law Commission, Uniform Parentage Act (2017), Enactment Committee
Nicholas Parrillo
Lectures and Addresses
- Panel Chair, “Unitary Executive, Civil Service, and Congressional Administration,” Reimagining Administrative Law Initiative conference, UCLA Law School, Oct. 24, 2025
- Commenter on Mark Thomas’s “Unlocking Other Transactions,” Law of Abundance Conference, Yale Law School, Jan. 23, 2026
- Commenter on Matthew Stephenson’s “The Gray Area: Finding Implicit Delegation to Agencies after Loper Bright,” Legislation Roundtable, Yale Law School, Feb. 27, 2026
Publications
- “Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy: Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators with the Industries Who Rarely Have,” 93 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1031 (2025)
- “Why Do Some U.S. Industries Sue Their Regulator Routinely While Others Hardly Ever Do?,” Oxford Business Law Blog (Nov. 25, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
Robert Post
Lectures and Addresses
- “Cosmopolitanism and the Internet,” First International Indigenous Judges Conference (Tuia Ki Te Muka Tāngata: Bound together by our indigeneity), Hamilton, NZ, Oct. 24, 2025
- Address, “Assaults on Academic Freedom During the Time of Trump,” Conference on Academic Freedom in the University Democracy, Nantes Université, Nov. 18, 2025
- Speaker on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech, AALS annual convention, New Orleans, Jan. 7, 2026
- “The Threat to Free Speech and Academic Freedom in Higher Education,” Albany Law Review Conference, Feb. 13, 2026
- “Recent Attacks on Academic Freedom,” University of Southern California School of Law, Mar. 5, 2026
Publications
- “The Enigma of Gitlow: Positivism, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech,” 6 Journal of Free Speech Law 569 (2025)
- “Our Politics Differ, But We Agree: Trump’s ‘Compact’ Violates Academic Freedom,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (Oct. 16, 2025)(with Robert P. George, Tom Ginsburg, David M. Rabban, Jeannie Suk Gersen, & Keith E. Whittington)
Claire Priest
Lectures and Addresses
- “Before Hernando de Soto’s ‘The Other Path’: The Emergence of Property Rights as a Housing Solution in the Shadow of the Cuban Revolution,” Duke Law School, Oct. 8, 2025; NYU School of Law, Feb. 9, 2026
- “From Housing to Capital Creation and Writing, ‘The Other Path’ in Peru, 1979–1988,” Property Works in Progress conference, University of California Berkeley School of Law, Oct. 17, 2025
- “Economic and Political Foundations of the U.S.: Two Perspectives on What We Learn From the Founding Era,” NYU Law and Political Economy Panel, Mar. 3, 2026
Publications
- “Introduction to Conference for George Priest,” 42 Yale J. on Reg. 907 (2025)
- “Before Hernando de Soto’s ‘The Other Path’: The Emergence of Property Rights as a Housing Solution in the Shadow of the Cuban Revolution,” 42 Yale J. on Reg. 1145 (2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Connecticut Citizens’ Assembly Interim Expert Governance Committee
- Office of the Provost Standing Advisory & Appointments Committee for the School of Management and Jackson School of Global Affairs (2024–25, 2025–26)
- Yale Center for Civic Thought, Faculty Advisory Council (2025–)
- Yale Citizens’ Assembly Governance Committee (2025–)
- Visiting professor of law, NYU School of Law, Spring 2026
Carol Rose
Publications
- “Advanced Capitalism and Advanced Democracy: Of Modules, Marshmallows, and (maybe) Monarchs,” 42 Yale J. on Reg. 1209 (2025)
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Lectures and Addresses
- Public talks on political corruption, 92d St. Y, N.Y.C., Nov. 19 and Dec. 10, 2025
- Panel on theory in economics and political science, Koerner Center for Retired Yale Faculty, Dec. 4, 2025
- Workshop presentation with Tina Søreide, “Cop or Coach? Alternatives Routes to Preventing Money-Laundering and Promoting Efficient Markets,” Yale Center for the Study of Corporate Law
- “Cop or Coach? Alternatives Routes to Preventing Money-Laundering and Promoting Efficient Markets,” Institute of Social Investigations, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mar. 18, 2026
Publications
David Schleicher
Lectures and Addresses
- “Should the Feds Bail Out Chicago?,” Statecraft Podcast, Nov. 24, 2025
- “New York City Politics,” Yale Law School, Nov. 18, 2025
- Law of Abundance Conference, Yale Law School, Jan. 23, 2026
- Conference on housing supply and diversity, JHU Center for Economy and Society, Albuquerque, NM, Apr. 3, 2026
Publications
- Dukeminier & Krier's Property (11th ed.)(with Gregory Alexander and Lior Strahilevitz)
Reva Siegel
Lectures and Addresses
- Presented manuscript, “It’s Alive! When the Original Meaning of ‘Person’ Protected by the 14th Amendment Is Not a Fixed but Living Word,” Symposium on Personhood, U.C. Davis Law School, Oct. 17, 2025
- Presented manuscript, “History or Memory?: Claims on the Past in Constitutional Argument over Originalism, Civil War/Reconstruction, and MAGA,” Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School, Nov. 3, 2025; Faculty Workshop, Syracuse Law School, Feb. 12, 2026
- Panel on Abortion Restrictions, “Abolitionist and Originalist Fetal Personhood Claims in the Era of Dobbs,” Co-sponsored by the Reproductive Freedom Project of Columbia Law School and Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, Nov. 7, 2025
- Discussion on the relationship of constitutional memory and constitutional history with Greg Ablavsky, Stanford Law School, Nov. 19, 2025
- “Originalism(s) and Personhood,” U.C. Davis Law School, Mar. 6, 2026
- Opening conversation with Melissa Murray and Douglas NeJaime, Democracy and Reproductive Rights and Justice 2026, NYU School of Law, Mar. 10, 2026
- Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture, “The Mystic Chords of Memory: How Constitutional Memory Enables Constitutional Democracy,” Center for Law, History, and Culture at the University of Southern California, Mar. 12, 2026
- “The New Sex Wars: How United States v. Skrmetti’s Exception for ‘Biological Sex’ Threatens Equal Protection,” Reproductive Rights and Justice Roundtable, Mar. 27, 2026
- “The Slavery and Suffrage Debates Were Debates over Family Freedoms.” America at 250: Women, Family/Reproductive Rights, and Political Participation, NY State Bar Association, Mar. 30, 2026
- Moderator, “Being an Academic, 2026: Scholarly Methods, Resources, and Worldly Engagement,” 29th Annual Liman Colloquium: The Complex Academy, circa 2026, Yale Law School, Apr. 10, 2026
Publications
- “Abortion’s New Criminalization — A History-and-Tradition Right to Healthcare Access After Dobbs,” 111 Va. L. Rev. 413 (2025)(with Mary Ziegler)
- Foreword, “Democratizing Constitutional Memory,” 123 Mich. L. Rev. 1011 (2025)
- “History or Memory?: Claims on the Past in Constitutional Argument Over Originalism, Civil War/Reconstruction, and MAGA,” 36 Yale J. L. & Hum. 479 (2025)
- “Not Lochner!: Substantive Due Process as Democracy-Promoting Judicial Review,” 113 Cal. L. Rev. 2199 (2026)
- “Neutral Principles?: The Substance of Substantive Due Process,” Balkinization (Mar. 10, 2026)(with Douglas NeJaime)
- Processes of Constitutional Decision Making (9th ed., 2026) (with Sanford Levinson, Jack Balkin, Akhil Amar, & Cristina Rodríguez)
Garrett West
Lectures and Addresses
- Panel presentation, “Abstract Review in Article III Courts,” Judicial Review in Jeopardy Symposium, Harvard Law School, Oct. 2025
- “The Takings Clause Cause of Action” and “Taming the Shadow Docket,” roundtable on public law remedies, University of Chicago, Nov. 2025
- Panel presentation, “Judicial Oversight District Courts after CASA,” Federalist Society 2025 National Lawyers Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2025
- Roundtable, “Taming the Shadow Docket,” C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, Nov. 2025
- “A Functional Theory of State Action,” Legal Theory Colloquium, University of Toronto, Dec. 2025
- Debate, “The Shadow Docket,” Federalist Society, University of Florida, Feb. 2026
- “A Functional Theory of State Action,” Originalism Seminar, University of Florida, Feb. 2026
- “An Examination of the Jurisprudence of Justice Samuel Alito,” Federalist Society, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Mar. 2026
- “A Functional Theory of State Action,” Federal Courts Junior Scholars Conference at University of Kansas, Apr. 2026; Faculty Workshop at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, Apr. 2026
Publications
Michael J. Wishnie
Lectures and Addresses
- “State Innovation in Employment Law: The Connecticut Example,” University of Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal Symposium
Other Professional Highlights
- Monk v. United States, 2026 WL 171984 (D.Conn. Jan. 22, 2026)(denying government motion for protective order and directing production of VA archival materials in suit alleging racial bias against Black veterans in benefits adjudications since 1945)
- SEIU v. Scott, No. 1:26-cv-11251-PBS (D.Mass. filed Mar. 13, 2026)(suit challenging wrongful termination of thousands of immigrant airport workers nation-wide)
- Connecticut Veterans Legal Center et al. v. Dept. of Defense, 2026 WL 905164 (D.Conn. Apr. 2, 2026)(granting in part and denying in part cross-motions for summary judgment and allowing depositions of government officials in Freedom of Information Act litigation for disclosure of records related to service members’ exposure to toxic chemicals at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base (K2) in Uzbekistan during the war in Afghanistan)
James Whitman
Lectures and Addresses
- Keynote Address, "The Crisis of the American Rule of Law,” American Society for Comparative Law Annual Meeting, Montreal
John Fabian Witt
Lectures and Addresses
- “The Garland Fund: Liberal Funding Before the Professional Managerial Class,” American Law Institute Conference on Nonprofit Law, Philadelphia, June 3, 2025
- “The Fate of the American Constitution, 1787–1937,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Lectures, June to Sept. 2025
- Remarks on Akhil Amar’s “Born Equal,” Rosenkranz Originalism Symposium, Yale Law School, Sept. 19, 2025
- “The Radical Fund,” Book Talks and Lectures:
- Program in Law & Public Policy, Princeton University, Oct. 1, 2025;
- New York Historical, Oct. 14, 2025;
- Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, D.C., Oct. 16, 2025 (with David Cole);
- Yale Library Book Talk, Oct. 29, 2025 (with James Forman);
- NYC Legal History Group, Oct. 30, 2025 (with Jeremy Kessler & Sara Seo);
- Fraser Center at Wayne State University, Nov. 12, 2025;
- Possible Futures Bookstore, CT, Dec. 3, 2025 (with Kica Matos);
- Friends Free Library, PA, Dec. 4, 2025;
- Germantown Friends School, PA, Dec. 5, 2025;
- Harvard Book Store, Dec. 9, 2025 (with Noah Feldman);
- Greenwich Breakfast Association, Jan. 7, 2026;
- Boston University Law School, Jan. 21, 2026;
- Shabtai, CT, Feb. 2, 2026;
- Branson School, Marin, CA, Feb. 5, 2026;
- Stanford Law School, Feb. 5, 2026;
- College Preparatory School, Oakland, CA, Feb. 6, 2026;
- New Haven LEAP Dinner, Feb. 28, 2026
- “The Radical Fund and the Making of 20th-Century Liberalism,” Hon. Arlin M. Adams Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 21, 2025
- Moderator, “Israel and the Palestinian Authority,” Academic Exchange, Tel Aviv, Dec. 15–22, 2025
- “War and Liberty: A Hidden Story of Money, Justice, and Power from the Aftermath of World War I,” World War I Museum, Kansas City, MO, Feb. 26, 2026
- “Presidents and Social Movements: Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Worlds that Made Them,” 2026 Lincoln Lecture, Northwestern Pritzker Law School, Mar. 4, 2026
- “Radical Philanthropy in America,” Yale Program on Civic Thought, Mar. 5, 2026
- “The Roots of 20th-Century American Liberalism,” University Lecture, Wesleyan University, Apr. 7, 2026
Publications
- “Free Speech Is the Antidote to Political Violence,” The New Republic (Sep. 24, 2025)
- “How to Save the American Experiment,” N.Y. Times (Oct. 6, 2025)
- The Radical Fund: How a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon & Schuster, 2025)
- Torts: Cases, Principles, and Institutions (CALI, 7th ed. 2025)(with Karen Tani)
- “Hermeneutics in History,” 13 Texas A&M L. Rev. 707 (2025)
- “The Idea that Once Held America Together Died in 2025,” N.Y. Times (Dec. 24, 2025)
- “Antagonists and Enablers: The Tragic Dance of Biden and the Supremes,” The Presidency of Joseph R. Biden: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2026)(Julian Zelizer ed.)
- “The Obsolescence of the Originalism Battles,” Yale J.L. & Human. (forthcoming 2026)
Other Professional Highlights
- Finalist, Silver Gavel Award for The Radical Fund, American Bar Association
