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Summer 2024 Faculty Activities

Faculty Activities by Season

Yale Law School’s renowned and distinguished faculty members consistently engage in an extraordinary range of activities and scholarship. Read the extensive list of faculty activities and accomplishments —from lectures given to books published to honors and awards received—by browsing our academic archives on the right, reading our faculty news feed below, or viewing the Yale Law Report. Read commentaries in the popular press and other news clips on our In the Press page. 

Summer 2024 Faculty Activities

Bruce Ackerman

Publications 

Other Professional Highlights

  • Amicus Brief in Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. in the Colorado Supreme Court decision focusing on the relationship between the Disqualification Clause of the 14th Amendment and the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment
  • Amicus Brief in Charles G. Moore and Kathleen F. Moore v. United States of America focusing on the constitutionality of wealth taxation under the 16th Amendment

Anne Alstott

Publications

Jack Balkin

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Memory and Authority,” Roundtable on Memory and Authority, AALS, Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, 2024
  • “Originalism, Colorblindness, and Constitutional Memory,” Conference on the Second Founding, Tulane Law School, Mar. 16, 2024

Publications

  • Frederick Douglass as Constitutionalist (with Sanford Levinson), 83 Md. L. Rev. 260 (2023)
  • Free Speech versus the First Amendment, 70 UCLA L. Rev. 1206 (2023)
  • Memory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation (Yale University Press, 2024)
  • Abortion, Partisan Entrenchment, and the Republican Party, in Roe v. Dobbs: The Past, Present, and Future of a Constitutional Right to Abortion (Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone eds., 2024)

Femi Cadmus

Lectures and Addresses

  • Panelist, “Global Online Access to Legal Information,” 41st Annual Course of the International Association of Law Libraries, U.N. Geneva Office, Oct. 9, 2023
  • Panelist, “AI & Jurisprudence: Challenges, Risks, & Opportunities,” American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Jan. 3, 2024

Other Professional Highlights

  • Led the development and launch of Law Archive, a free open access legal scholarship repository, Apr. 1, 2024

Guido Calabresi

Lectures and Addresses

  • Conversation with Antonio Monda and Norman Silber about Outside In at the residence of the Italian Ambassador (Mariangela Zappia), Washington, D.C., Nov. 29, 2023
  • “Let’s Talk About it,” Discussion with David Wells, Saint Thomas More, New Haven, Dec. 7, 2023
  • Spoke on behalf of Ken Abraham who received the Prosser Award, AALS Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., Jan. 3, 2024
  • Podcast with Dean Heather Gerken celebrating Yale Law School’s bicentennial, Jan. 2024
  • Yale Law School Library talk about Outside In with Norman Silber, Feb. 6, 2024
  • “Holocaust Tales,” Whitney Center Lecture, Mar. 11, 2024
  • “The Promise and Peril of ‘Law and…,’” Inaugural Karl Llewellyn Lecture, Columbia Law School, Mar. 19, 2024 
  • Yale Law Christian Fellowship talk, Mar. 30, 2024
  • Spoke at Yale Law Women+ Alumni Event honoring Judge Holly Thomas, Apr. 8, 2024 
  • Opening Ceremony, 125th Anniversary of Yale Swimming and Diving, Apr. 20, 2024

Other Professional Highlights

  • Received Doctorate, Honoris Causa from the Universidad de Palermo, Buenos Aires, Yale Law School, Feb. 6, 2024

Amy Chua

Lectures and Addresses

  • Buckley Institute Lux and Veritas Award Lecture, New Haven, Oct. 26, 2023 
  • “Ode to Outsiders,” Chinese American Museum of D.C., Nov. 3, 2023
  • “The Golden Gate,” Miami Book Fair, Nov. 19, 2023
  • “My Personal Journey,” JP Morgan CEO Dinner, N.Y.C., Dec. 11, 2023
  • “Personal Reflections and The Golden Gate,” The Asia Society of Hong Kong, Dec. 14, 2023
  • Keynote Address, The East Asian Library of America — Opening Ceremony, Boston, Dec. 23, 2023
  • “My Personal and Professional Journey,” Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, Jan. 9, 2024
  • “A Long Story Short,” Seriously Entertaining, The House of Speakeasy, Joe’s Pub, Public Theater of N.Y., Jan. 9. 2024
  • “My Personal and Professional Journey,” Bath and Body Works Headquarters, Ohio, Feb. 15, 2024
  • “Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance — and Why They Fall,” Fudan University EMBA Program, Yale School of Management, Mar. 15, 2024

Justin Driver

Lectures and Addresses

  • Guest Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, Philadelphia, Nov. 9, 2023
  • Panelist, “The Future of Constitutionalism,” Yale Law School, Jan. 19, 2024
  • Panelist, “Speech at 21st Century Schools and Universities,” Stanford Law School, Feb. 17, 2024
  • “The Affirmative Action Wars,” Yale School of Management, Feb. 27, 2024
  • “The Affirmative Action Wars,” Princeton University, Mar. 29, 2024
  • Panelist, “Charting the Aftermath of Equality: Brown, SFFA, and the Continuing Struggle for Racial Justice,” Harvard Law School, Apr. 11, 2024

Other Professional Highlights

  • Consulted with President Biden’s Working Group on Debt Ceiling Reform, Oct. 20, 2023
  • Marshall Scholar Selection Committee, New England Region, Nov. 16–17, 2023
  • Amicus Brief in Mahmoud v. McKnight, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit case involving public schools and the Constitution, Nov. 2023

Daniel C. Esty

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Rethinking Globalization,” Peterson Institution for International Economics, Washington, D.C. (virtual), Oct. 30, 2023
  • “Trade and Biodiversity,” IUCN Global Leaders Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 11, 2023
  • “New Science and Economics of Water: Emerging Conclusions from The Global Commission on the Economics of Water,” OECD, Paris, France, Oct. 16, 2023
  • “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future,” Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris, France, Nov. 5, 2023, and Trade System Reform, Int’l Chamber of Commerce, Paris, France, Nov. 7, 2023
  • “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future,” WTO, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 16, 2023
  • “Trade and Sustainable Agrifood Systems,” Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 16, 2023
  • “Villars Framework for a Sustainable Trade System,” Geneva Policy Outlook, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 16, 2023
  • “Towards a Sustainable Trade System,” SciencesPo, Paris, France, Nov. 20, 2023
  • “Villars Framework Discussion in 22nd WTO and China Annual Conference,” University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China (virtual), Nov. 28, 2023
  • “Role of Public-Private Partnerships in the Green Energy Transition,” World Green Economy Summit, COP28, Dubai, U.A.E., Nov. 29, 2024
  • “Radical Partnerships for Climate Change Action,” World Business Council for Sustainable Development, COP28, Dubai, U.A.E., Nov. 29, 2023
  • “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future,” WTO Chairs Program, Geneva, Switzerland, Nov. 29, 2023
  • “Financing the Green Transition,” U.A.E. Sustainability Summit, COP28, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., Nov. 30, 2023
  • “Trade Leverage for Climate Change Progress,” Arizona State University Global Futures Pavilion, COP28, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., Dec. 2, 2023
  • “Trading for Tomorrow: Ensuring Food Systems Trade Contributes to a Successful Climate Crisis Response,” COP28, Dubai, U.A.E., Dec. 4, 2023
  • “Towards a Sustainable Global Trade System: Villars Framework and the Remaking Global Trade Project,” COP28, Dubai, U.A.E., Dec. 4, 2023
  • “Remaking the Global Trade System for a Sustainable Future: From COP28 to MC13,” 28th Conference of the Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), Dubai, U.A.E., Dec. 10, 2023
  • “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future,” Institute for European Environmental Policy, Brussels, Belgium (via Zoom), Dec. 15, 2023
  • “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future,” World Economic Forum Climate Sprint, Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 16, 2024
  • “Calming Green Trade Tensions,” World Economic Forum 2024, Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 17, 2024
  • “Rethinking Global Trade and Finance for a Sustainable Future,” Sustainable Development Goals Tent, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 17, 2024
  • “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future,” Imagination in Action Program, Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 17, 2024
  • “Trade as a Policy Lever for Climate Change Action: Introducing the Villars Framework for a Sustainable Trade System,” Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024
  • “Designing Effective Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes,” Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C. (virtual), Feb. 6, 2024
  • “Remaking Trade,” Georgetown Law School, Washington, D.C., Feb. 8, 2024
  • “Trade and Environment,” WWF Global Symposium, Feb. 8, 2024
  • “Remaking Global Trade for a Sustainable Future,” Environmental Defense Fund, New York, Feb. 22, 2024
  • “Can Climate Change-Related Subsidies Be Reconciled with the Principles of the World Trading System?,” WTO Ministerial Conference, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., Feb. 27, 2024
  • “Remaking the Global Trade System for a Sustainable Future: Key Outcomes and Action Items,” WTO Ministerial Conference, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., Feb. 28, 2024
  • “Tensions Between Trade and Sustainability,” American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., Apr. 4, 2024

Publications

  • From Pledge to Practice: Delivering Corporate Net-Zero Emissions (with Alyssa Menz), 3 Management and Business Rev. 2–15 (2023)
  • America’s Climate Change Policy: Federalism in Action, 1 Fr. Yearbook of Pub. L. (2023)
  • Environmental Law for the 21st Century (with E. Donald Elliott), 40 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 454 (2023) 
  • Sustainability Policies Complicate the WTO’s Work — and Make it More Indispensable than Ever, Fortune, Feb. 26, 2024
  • Reshaping WTO Subsidy Rules for a Sustainable Future (with Elena Cima), TESS Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs, Apr. 8, 2024

Other Professional Highlights

  • “Best Paper” Award, 2023 International Conference on Sustainable Development for From Pledge to Practice: Delivering Corporate Net-Zero Emissions Commitments (with Alyssa Menz) 

Owen M. Fiss

Lectures and Addresses

  • “My Tutorials with Spiros,” Trauerfeier für (Funeral for) Spiros Simitis, Frankfurt, 2023
  • “What is Global Legal History?,” Symposium on “Latin American Law in Global Perspective” (Thomas Duve and Tamar Herzog eds., Cambridge University Press, 2024), Yale Law School, Feb. 14, 2024

Publications

  • Why We Vote (Oxford University Press, 2024)

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
  • Board of Directors, Libraries Without Borders

Miriam Gohara

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

  • Moderator, The Impact of Allen v. Milligan (2023): Race, Redistricting, and the Right to Vote, Yale Law School, Jan. 23, 2024
  • Appointed to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Science, Technology, and Law consensus study committee, “Advancing the Field of Forensic Pathology: Lessons Learned from Death in Custody Investigations”

Oona Hathaway

Lectures and Addresses 

  • America Is Eroding the International Order,” Power Problems Podcast, Oct. 17, 2023
  • “Russia and Ukraine: A Springboard or a Setback for International Accountability?” International Law Weekend, ABILA, Oct. 20, 2023
  • “Yale: For Humanity,” Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., Oct. 24, 2023 
  • Congressional Briefing, “War Powers Reform,” Bipartisan Policy Working Group, Washington, D.C., Oct. 24, 2023
  • “The Security Council as Guardian of the U.N. Charter?,” U.N., New York, Oct. 25, 2023
  • “International Law Goes to War in Ukraine,” Order of the Coif Lecture, Emory Law School, Oct. 26, 2023 
  • “The Development of Rules of International Law in Cyberspace, The Oxford Process,” Yale Law School, Oct. 28, 2023
  • What International Law Says About the Israel-Hamas War,” NPR Here and Now, Oct. 30, 2023
  • The History of War Crimes,” MSNBC Velshi, Nov. 4, 2023
  • Keynote address, “The Role of International Law in Contemporary Times,” The Nuclear Weapons and International Law Conference, New York State Bar Association, Nov. 8, 2023
  • “Major Questions About International Agreements,” ASIL Mid-year Meeting, Pittsburgh, Nov. 10, 2023
  • “Covering National Security Law” (in conversation with Charlie Savage, N.Y. Times), ABA Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law, Washington, D.C., Nov. 16, 2023
  • Congressional Briefing on the REPO Act, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington, D.C., Nov. 16, 2023
  • “New Questions on the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression,” Advisory Committee on International Law, Dept. of State, Washington D.C., Dec. 1, 2023
  • “Israel/Palestine: Legal and Humanitarian Considerations,” Yale University Jackson School of Global Affairs, Dec. 4, 2023
  • The International Legal Order: Radical Speculation, “Stand Tall for the Rule of Law in Ukraine,” Lviv, Ukraine, Dec. 7–10, 2023
  • Houthi Strikes in Yemen: Deterrent or Escalation?,” BBC NewsHour, Jan. 11, 2024
  • “South Africa Accuses Israel of Genocide Against Palestinians at Top International Court,” PBS News Hour, Jan. 11, 2024
  • MSNBC Velshi (discussing ICJ case filed by South Africa against Israel under the Genocide Convention), Jan. 12, 2024 
  • Biden Launches Air Strikes Against Houthis in Yemen,” Pod Save the World, Jan. 17, 2024
  • ICJ Provisional Measures in South Africa v. Israel,” Just Security Podcast, Jan. 26. 2024
  • “The Past, Present and Future of the Global Legal Order,” Mark Zacher Distinguished Visitor Lecture, University of British Columbia, Feb. 27, 2024
  • “Celebrating the Work of W. Michael Reisman,” Yale Law School, Mar. 8, 2024
  • “War Reparations,” Office of Legal Affairs, NATO Headquarters (remote), Mar. 12, 2024

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

  • Conference Organizer and Moderator, “The Yale Journal of International Law’s 50th Anniversary”
  • Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 2023–present
  • Co-organizer, “The U.N. Security Council and the Rule of Law” Panel Series 2023–26, with the Permanent Mission of Austria to the U.N. in New York
  • Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor, 2023
  • Reporter, Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States, appointed 2023

Christine Jolls

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Race, Administrative Action, and Disclosure Rules,” 2023 American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting
  • “Disclosure Rules and Race,” 2023 University of Michigan Law and Economics Workshop

Other Professional Highlights

  • Organizer, NBER Law and Economics Program Meeting, March 2024

Issa Kohler-Hausmann

Publications

Doug Kysar

Lectures and Addresses 

  • Panelist, “Fifty Years of Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation,” New York University, Nov. 3, 2023
  • Commenter, “Reasonableness and Risk: Right and Responsibility in the Law of Torts,” University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Jan. 22, 2024
  • “Tort as Regulation,” S. J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Jan. 25, 2024
  • “Strategic Directions and Developments in the Practice, Teaching, and Scholarship of Animal Law,” 2024 Brooks Congress, Miami, Feb. 4, 2024

Publications

  • State Public Morality Regulation and the Dormant Commerce Clause, 19 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y (2024)
  • The Duty of Climate Care, DePaul L. Rev. (2024)
  • The Constitutional Claim to Individuation in Tort — A Tale of Two Centuries, Part 2, Brook. J. Corp. Fin. & Com. L. (2024)

Tracey Meares

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Project Unloaded,” IG Live Interview, October 2023
  • Policing Forum, Harper’s Magazine, November 2023
  • “Uncovering Police,” Colloquium at New York University, April 2024

Other Professional Highlights

  • Diversity and Inclusion Award, University of Illinois Alumni Association, October 2023

Samuel Moyn

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Yale Workshop on the Future of Constitutionalism,” Jan. 19, 2024
  • “The Future of Liberalism,” Annual Global Affairs Lecture, National University of Singapore
  • “Donald Trump in the Supreme Court,” Université de Paris-Panthéon/Assas
  • “Entangled Domains,” Roundtable on Rabiat Akande, Osgoode Hall Law School
  • “Reconstructing Critical Legal Studies,” UCLA Law School, National University of Singapore Law School
  • “To Save Democracy from Juristocracy: J.B. Thayer and Congressional Power after the Civil War,” University of Texas Law School, Feb. 15, 2024
  • “Humanizing War: The Cases of Ukraine and Gaza,” Yale Law School, Feb. 16, 2024
  • “After Courts: Democratizing Statutory Law,” Harvard Law School, Mar. 25, 2024

Publications 

  • Critical Theory’s Generational Predicament, 4 Constellations 419–21 (2023)
  • Democracy and Elitism on the Left and Right, 7 American Affairs 205–212 (2023)
  • Liberal Ranting, 11 The Drift 26–27 (2023)
  • We Are Already Defying the Supreme Court (with Ryan Doerfler), Dissent, 2023
  • Jews Can Be Humanists, The New Statesman, Dec. 1, 2023
  • The Liberal Plot Against Democracy, Compact, Dec. 20, 2023
  • Barring Trump from the Ballot Would Be a Mistake, N.Y. Times, Dec. 22, 2023 
  • Postscript, Social Justice in 20th-Century Europe (Martin Conway and Camilo Erlichman eds, Oxford University Press, 2024)
  • The Trouble with Old Men, Granta 166 (2024)
  • America’s Undoing, Prospect (cover story), January 2024
  • Liberal Originalism, Rest in Peace, Balkinization, Feb. 12, 2024

Nicholas Parrillo

Lectures and Addresses 

  • “Federal Agency Guidance and the Power to Bind,” ABA Administrative Law Conference, Dec. 1, 2023
  • Commentator, Conference on Administering a Democratic Political Economy, Yale Law School, Feb. 2, 2024
  • Commentator, “Legislation Roundtable,” Georgetown University Law Center, Mar. 8, 2024

Robert Post

Publications

  • 1 The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
  • 2 The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
  • The Press and American Democracy, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Jan. 8, 2024
  • Response to Commentators, Balkinization, Feb. 26, 2024

Presentations and Lectures 

  • Discussion, The Taft Court: Making Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930 (Cambridge University Press), National Constitution Center, Dec. 11, 2023
  • “Managing the Free Speech Rights of Students,” Stanford Law School, Feb. 16, 2024
  • “Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech,” New York City Bar Association, Feb. 29, 2024
  • “Institutional Neutrality,” Radcliffe Institute at Harvard, Mar. 5, 2024
  • “Limitations on Speech in the Academic and Clinical Setting,” Program for Biomedical Ethics, Yale Medical School, Mar. 6, 2024
  • “Reflections and Critiques on Democratic Constitutional Challenges in the 21st Century,” University of Buenos Aires, Mar. 16, 2024
  • “Academic Freedom,” University of Pennsylvania, Mar. 20, 2024
  • Address on the Internet and Democracy, Senior Court Judges’ Conference in New Zealand, Mar. 26, 2024

George Priest

Publications

Judith Resnik

Lectures and Addresses

  • Speaker, “Conclusions and Future Directions,” in the conference Legitimacy in an Online World, Yale Law School, Nov. 4, 2023
  • Co-Convener, Arlington Heights Roundtable, Liman Center, Yale Law School, Nov. 17, 2023
  • Presenter, In Search of Remedies 2024, panel discussion Constitutional Remedies, AALS 2024 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
    • “In a Transformed Judiciary,” Section on Remedies, Jan. 5, 2024
    • Speaker, Recipient of Award, Section on Federal Courts, Jan. 5, 2024 
    • Presenter of Award, Junior Faculty Papers, Section on Civil Procedure, Jan. 6, 2025
  • Presenter, “Seeing ‘the Courts’: Managerial Judges, Empty Courtrooms, Chaotic Courthouses, and Judicial Legitimacy from the 1980s to the 2020s,” Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School, Jan. 29, 2024
  • Presenter, “The Capital and the Investment in Courts, State, and Federal,” on the panel “State Constitutional Obligations: Access to Courts, Remedies, and Civil Rights in Civil and Criminal Cases,” for the Symposium The Promise and Limits of State Constitutions, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law, Feb. 8–9, 2024
  • Presenter, Seminar on Public Access to Court Electronic Records, discussion of the paper, “Seeing “the Courts”: Managerial Judges, Empty Courtrooms, Chaotic Courthouses, and Judicial Legitimacy from the 1980s to the 2020s,” Berkeley Law (virtual), Feb. 13, 2024 
  • Moderator, Panel on “Lawyering on Behalf of Public School Systems: From Equitable Financing to School Discipline Reform,” a Quinnipiac-Yale Dispute Resolution Workshop, co-sponsored by The Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, The Center on Dispute Resolution, Quinnipiac University School of Law, The Law and Racial Justice Center, Yale Law School, Mar. 5, 2024
  • Moderator, “The Law and Political Economy of Civil Procedure,” The Law and Political Economy Project at Yale Law School, Mar. 12, 2024
  • Presenter, “Seeing “the Courts”: Managerial Judges, Empty Courtrooms, Chaotic Courthouses, and Judicial Legitimacy from the 1980s to the 2020s,” Center for Law and Social Science Workshop, USC Gould School of Law, Mar. 18, 2024
  • Co-Convener, “The 27th Annal Liman Colloquium: Incarceration and Public Health,” Yale Law School, Apr. 4–5, 2024
    • Moderator, “Detention’s Toxicity,” Apr. 4, 2024
    • Moderator, “Gender and Incarceration’s Health Harms,” Apr. 5, 2024 
  • Introduction of recipient of the YLW+ Alumni Achievement Award (the Hon. Holly Thomas), Yale Law School, Apr. 8, 2024

Publications 

  • Procedure, Contract, Public Authority, Autonomy, Aggregate Litigation, and Power (with Helen Hershkoff), in Contractualisation of Civil Litigation in the United States (Anna Nylund & Antonio Cabral eds., Intersentia, 2023)
  • Constraining and Licensing Arbitrariness: The Stakes in Debates about Substantive-Procedural Due Process (with Helen Hershkoff), 76 SMU L. Rev. 613 (2023)
  • Courts in the United States: A Template and a Site of Transitional Justice Collapsing as a Model, in The Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice (online and print, 2024)

Other Professional Highlights 

  • Appointment as Advisor, American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law, High-Volume Civil Adjudication Project, 2023 to present 
  • Appointment as Advisory Committee Member, European Law Institute, ELI Third-Party Funding of Litigation, 2023 to present 
  • Brief of Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondent’s Opposition to Petition for Expedited Rehearing En Banc, In re: Space Exploration Technologies, 24–40103 (5th Cir. Mar. 5, 2024)
  • Award: Recipient with Professor Vicki Jackson, of the AALS Federal Courts Section’s triannual Meltzer Award, AALS Annual Meeting Washington, D.C. Jan. 6, 2024 

Carol Rose

Lectures and Addresses 

  • “Commodity’s Propriety,” 20th Annual Brigham Kanner Annual Property Rights Conference, William and Mary Law School, Oct. 27, 2023
  • Opening address, “Traditional Knowledge and the Limits of Property Law,” Conference on Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, and Intellectual Property in International Law, Harvard Law School, Feb. 15, 2024
  • “The Case of Racial Covenants,” Dignity Takings and Dignity Restoration Conference, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Mar. 8, 2024

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Lectures and Addresses

  • Comparative Administrative Law: Is the U.S. an Outlier?“ (with Oren Tamir), Symposium on Balkinization, 2023
  • Keynote Speech, “Public Integrity, Corruption, and Public Contracts: Anti-Corruption Strategies and the Role of Multinational Business,” National Autonomous University, Mexico City
  • “Public Integrity, Corruption, and Public Contracts: Anti-Corruption Strategies and the Role of Multinational Business,” U.N. on the Sustainable Development Goals, Brazil, October 2023
  • Memorial event for Pablo Sandoval Ramírez, Acapulco, Mexico, Oct. 21, 2023
  • Democracy and Executive Power (Yale University Press, 2021), Roundtable (with Kate Baldwin, Isabela Mares, and Rohini Pande), Yale Department of Political Science, Feb. 14, 2024
  • “Public Integrity, Corruption, and Public Contracts: Anti-Corruption Strategies and the Role of Multinational Business,” The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Apr. 8, 2024
  • Panelist, “2024 CLS Brazilian Association Forum on the Legacy of the ‘Car Wash’ Anti-Corruption Efforts,” Columbia Law School, Apr. 12, 2024

Publications

  • Corruption and Government (with Bonnie Palifka, 2d ed., Twana Smael trans., Tabayi 2024)

David Schleicher

Lectures and Addresses

  • Co-Host, Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast (with Prof. Samuel Moyn)
  • “Your House is Worth More Than They Think: The Strange Case of Property Tax Assessment Regressivity,” Northwestern University School of Law, October 2023
  • “In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises,” Yale Law School Library Book Series, Nov. 16, 2023
  • “Your House is Worth More Than They Think: The Strange Case of Property Tax Assessment Regressivity,” University of Texas School of Law, Jan. 18, 2024
  • “Your House is Worth More Than They Think: The Strange Case of Property Tax Assessment Regressivity,” Duke University School of Law, Feb. 21, 2024
  • “Your House is Worth More Than They Think: The Strange Case of Property Tax Assessment Regressivity,” New York University School of Law, Mar. 4, 2024
  • “In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises,” Dartmouth College, Apr. 9, 2024

Publications

  • Dukeminier and Krier’s Property: Concise Edition (with Gregory S. Alexander and Lior Jacob Strahilevitz)

Reva Siegel

Lectures and Addresses

  • “The History of History and Tradition: The Roots of Dobbs’s Method (and Originalism) in the Defense of Segregation,” American Society for Legal History Convention, Oct. 28, 2023 
  • “Gun Rights and Domestic Violence in Rahimi — Whose Traditions Does the Second Amendment Protect?,” Conference on History and Tradition in Analogical Reasoning, Notre Dame Law School, Nov. 3, 2023
  • Presented manuscript of “Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance.” Brooklyn Law School, Nov. 8, 2023
  • “The Law and History of Disparate Impact,” Arlington Heights Roundtable, Yale Law School, Nov. 17, 2023
  • Commentator, “Author Meets Reader: Ann Southworth’s Big Money Unleashed,” American Association of Law Schools, Jan. 6, 2024
  • Discussant, “Dobbs and Democracy,” Scholars Roundtable, New York University Law School, Jan. 26, 2024 
  • Presented manuscript of “The History of Tradition: The Roots of Dobbs’s Method (and Originalism) in the Defense of Segregation.” Cardozo Law School, Feb. 15, 2024
  • “The ‘Levels of Generality’ Game, or ‘History and Tradition’ as the Right’s Living Constitution.” Harvard Law School, Feb. 17, 2024
  • Commentator, “Liberty, Equality, and Animus,” National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars, University of Arizona Law, Feb. 24, 2024
  • “The ‘Levels of Generality’ Game, or ‘History and Tradition’ as the Right’s Living Constitution,” Law and Humanities Workshop, Mar. 1, 2024
  • “We Are All Originalists/Living Constitutionalists Now, The Supreme Court and The Constitution,” Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, University of Oklahoma, Mar. 4, 2024
  • “The ‘Levels of Generality’ Game, or ‘History and Tradition’ as the Right’s Living Constitution,” Yale Law School, Apr. 3, 2024

Publications

Tom R. Tyler

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Is Legitimacy-Based Compliance a Viable Model for Conflict Management?,” Netherlands Academy for graduate study in empirical legal research, Utrecht, Sept. 27, 2023
  • Keynote address, “Procedural Approaches to Community Level Conflict Management,” Conference on Just Institutional Approaches to Conflict Prevention and Resolution, Utrecht, Sept. 28, 2023
  • “Is Ideological Polarization a Threat to Procedural Justice-Based Legitimacy?,” Research Conference on Conflict Management, Utrecht, Sept. 29, 2023
  • “Trust-Based Governance in Polarized Societies. Regulation and (Dis)Trust” (with Maman, L. and Feldman, Y.), European University Institute, Florence, Jan. 25, 2024
  • “Trust in the Courts,” Supreme Court of Mexico, Mexico City, Mar. 14, 2024
  • “Process Based Legitimacy,” American Psychology-Law Society, Los Angeles, Mar. 22, 2024
  • “Behavioral Approaches to Social Justice in Business and Law,” Northeastern University, Boston, Apr. 2, 2024

Publications

  • The Organizational Underpinnings of Social Justice Theory Development, 36 Soc. Just. Res. 371–384 (2023)

Michael Wishnie

Other Professional Highlights

  • Monk v. United States, 2024 WL 1344712 (D. Conn. Mar. 29, 2024) (denying motion to dismiss civil rights action challenging historic racial disparities in veterans’ benefits)
  • In re Transgender American Veterans Association, No. 2024–108 (Fed. Cir.) (filed petition for writ of mandamus to compel response to 2016 rulemaking petition requesting VA provide gender-confirmation surgery to transgender veterans)
  • Equity and Justice Award, Black Veterans Project, 2023 (to Veterans Legal Services Clinic)

John Fabian Witt

Lectures and Addresses

  • Discussant, Conference in Honor of Sarah Barringer Gordon, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, Oct. 26, 2023
  • Commentator, “Law, History, and Political Economy,” American Society for Legal History, Philadelphia, Oct. 28, 2023
  • “American Legal Thought in Three Big Ideas,” Yale Foundations of American Legal Thought Series, Jan. 17, 2024
  • “See the Millennium: A History of the Garland Fund,” University of Chicago Public Law Workshop, Jan. 30, 2024

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

  • Convenor, Yale Law School Faculty Workshop, spring 2024
  • Brief of American Historians (with Jill Lepore, David Blight, and Drew Gilpin Faust), in Trump v. Anderson, U.S., Jan. 29, 2024