Bruce Ackerman
Lectures and Addresses
- Interview, “How Many of Trump’s Executive Orders Will Make it Through?,” Morning Shot, Jan. 26, 2025
- Interview with Omar Jimenez, CNN, April 16, 2025
- Interview, “Trump is Acting in a Profoundly Unconstitutional Fashion,” Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, May 2, 2025
- Interview, “Argentina Will Be Used as a Paradigm to Discipline American Irresponsibility,” Perfil, May 17, 2025
Publications
- “Trump Won, but Trumpism Did Not,” Project Syndicate (Nov. 18, 2024); republished in different languages, including in Le Monde
- “Can U.S. Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?,” Project Syndicate (Jan. 16, 2025)
- “Trump’s Illegitimate Power Grab Brings U.S. Closer to Dictatorship,” The Guardian (Feb. 13, 2025)
- “We Are in a Constitutional Crisis,” statement of law professors and law teachers (Feb. 26, 2025); republished in different languages, including in Jus Publicum (March 8, 2025) and Diario Red (March 17, 2025)
- “The Drafters of a Key 1940s Law Feared an American Dictator. Trump Is Blowing That Law Up,” Slate (May 12, 2025)
- “Reagan Judges Are Unrestrained Critics of Trump’s Legal Moves,” Bloomberg (Oct. 14, 2025)
- “Three Pathways: Reflections on the Asian Experience” (Kentaro Matsubaru, Jaclyn Neo, and Bryan Dennis Tiojanco, eds.), Elgar (forthcoming)
Jack Balkin
Lectures and Addresses
- "Nino's Paradox," University of Minnesota Law School, April 3, 2025
- "Framework Originalism," Georgetown Originalism Workshop, Washington, D.C., May 20, 2025
- Interview, "Memory and Authority," Kansas First Amendment Foundation, June 16, 2025
- "Reconstruction Republicans and Competitive Authoritarians," Conference on Mark Graber's "Reward Loyalty, Punish Treason," New York University Law School, Oct. 10, 2025
Publications
- “Nino’s Paradox,” 173 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1871 (2025)
- “Moody v. NetChoice — The Supreme Court Meets the Free Speech Triangle,” Sup. Ct. Rev. 127 (2025)
Guido Calabresi
Lectures and Addresses
- Speaker, “Memory of Guido Alpa and Anna De Vita” (online), Comparative Law in the Age of Disorder conference, Universita’ degil Studi di Palermo, May 29, 2025
- Speaker, international conference in memory of Guido Alpa (online), Sapienza Universita’ di Roma, June 23, 2025
- Speaker, plenary panels on “The Costs of Accidents” and “The Role of Judges,” 11th Annual Conference of Law of Obligations, Harvard Law School, July 9–11, 2025
- Spoke and administered the oath to incoming students (J.D. & LL.M.), Yale Law School, Aug. 19, 2025
- Delivered toast, Yale Law School faculty celebration honoring Heather Gerken, Sept. 29, 2025
- Spoke at the swearing in of Sparkle Sooknanan (U.S. District Judge), Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2025
- Speaker, Deans’ Panel, Yale Law School Alumni Weekend, Oct. 17, 2025
Publications
- Foreword, “Honoring Michael Faure,” By the End of the Day (Liber Amicorum, Michael Faure) (Wolters Kluwer, 2025)
- “The Proper Role of Equality in Constitutional Adjudication: The Cathedral’s Missing Buttress,” 134 Yale L.J. 2645–3072 (June 2025)
- “Outside In: The Oral History of Guido Calabresi,” (“Outsider Dentro E Fuori Storia di Guido Calabresi,” Italian translation), Mondadori (July 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Attended the 11th Annual Conference of Law of Obligations, Harvard Law School, July 9–11, 2025
- Received “The Mory’s Cup” Award for “Conspicuous Service to Yale,” Mory’s, Oct. 20, 2025
- Awarded the 2025 Henry M. Phillips Prize in Jurisprudence, American Philosophical Society
Justin Driver
Lectures and Addresses
- Moderator, Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture with Justice Stephen Breyer, Brown University, April 15, 2025
- Panelist, "Pierce v. Society of Sisters: The 100th Anniversary," Stanford Law School, May 3, 2025
- Panelist, Supreme Court Review, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Conference, Landsdowne, VA, June 24, 2025
- “Students’ Speech Rights,” National History Day, Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia, PA, July 18, 2025
- “The Warren Court” Lecture and Discussion, Hertog Foundation, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2025
- Panelist, “The Future of Affirmative Action,” New York Public Library, Sept. 9, 2025
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO, Sept. 16, 2025
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” St. Louis County Library, St. Louis, MO, Sept. 16, 2025
- Keynote Address, “Constitution Day, The Fall of Affirmative Action,” St. Louis University, Sept. 17, 2025
- Panelist, Supreme Court preview, SCOTUSBlog Summit, Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2025
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action” (in conversation with former Attorney General Merrick Garland), Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2025
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2025
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action” (in conversation with Professor Kate Andrias), Columbia Law School American Constitution Society & Federalist Society, Oct. 8, 2025
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” Northwestern University Law School American Constitution Society & Black Law Students Association, Oct. 13, 2025
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action,” Northeastern Illinois University, Oct. 13, 2025
- “The Fall of Affirmative Action” (in conversation with David A. Strauss), Seminary Coop Bookstore, Chicago, IL, Oct. 14, 2025
Publications
- 2023 The Supreme Court Review (with David A. Strauss, Geoffrey R. Stone, and William Baude), (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
- The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education (Columbia Global Reports, 2025)
- “Seismic Shift: Review of Thomas Chatterton Williams’s Summer of Our Discontent,” The New York Times Book Review (Sept. 7, 2025)
- “Applying to College While Black,” The New York Times (Sept. 14, 2025)
- “Action After Affirmative Action,” The Chronicle Of Higher Education (Sept. 15, 2025)
- “Take Her Out to the Ballgame — and Put Her in Charge,” The Washington Post (Sept. 20, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Co-authored an amicus brief (with Eugene Volokh) in Mahmoud v. Taylor, which Justice Sotomayor cited in dissent. Justice Thomas also cited The Schoolhouse Gate in his concurrence
- The Fall of Affirmative Action was selected as an Editors’ Choice of The New York Times Book Review, and was reviewed favorably in NYTBR by Wesleyan University President Michael Roth
- Appeared as a guest on several podcasts to promote The Fall Of Affirmative Action, including “Advisory Opinions”, “Amicus”, “Divided Argument”, “Stay Tuned With Preety Bharara”, and “Strict Scrutiny”
Daniel C. Esty
Lectures and Addresses
- “Rethinking Climate Governance: Lessons and Models for the Future,” U.N. University Centre for Policy Research, New York, May 1, 2025
- “Trade System Reform for Sustainable Development: Debt, Finance, and Climate Change,” University of Cape Town, Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, South Africa, May 27, 2025
- “The New Nature of Business: Toward a Sustainable Future for Capitalism,” LUMA, France, June 10, 2025
- “Climate Change Challenges (and Opportunities) During the Trump II Presidency,” University Aix, Marseille, France, June 12, 2025
- “Future of Trade Research,” University of Geneva, Switzerland, June 18, 2025
- “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future, Thoughts for Food: Sustainability, Climate Change, and Trade,” Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, June 19, 2025
- “What’s Next for Green Trade in an Evolving Global Landscape?,” The Climate Group, Climate Week, New York, Sept. 23, 2025
- “Remaking Trade for Climate Change Action,” Climate Capital Summit, Climate Week, New York, Sept. 23, 2025
- “After the Deluge: Reconfiguring International Trade for a Sustainable Future,” Climate Week, Yale Planetary Solutions, New York, Sept. 23, 2025
- “Climate Change Obligations in International Organizations,” Climate Week, Yale Planetary Solutions, New York, Sept. 24, 2025
- “Opportunities in Global Trade to Accelerate Climate Action,” Climate Week, Oxford University, New York, Sept. 25, 2025
- “Frontier Issues in AI” and “Climate Change: Seizing the Opportunity, Meeting the Challenge,” Climate Week, Yale Planetary Solutions, New York, Sept. 25, 2025
- “From Pledges to Action: Advancing the COP29 Legacy through Corporate Sustainability” (online), Baku Climate Action Week, Azerbaijan, Sept. 29, 2025
Publications
Owen M. Fiss
Lectures and Addresses
- “Another Side of George,” “Celebrating the Legacy of Professor George L. Priest,” Federalist Society, Yale Law School, Sept. 10, 2025
Publications
- “The Education of George Priest,” Yale J.L.Reg. (2025)
- “A Origem do Processo Estrutural/The Civil Rights Injunction” (trans. ed. Edilson Vittorelli), Editora Juspodivm (Brazil, 2025)
- “Uma Outra Igualdade: teoria da antissubordinação e o potencial transformador do Direito” (trans. ed. Taís Penteado), Editora Contracorrente LTDA (Brazil, 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
- Board of Directors, Libraries Without Borders
- Steering Committee, Yale Law School Alumni Network to Strengthen Democracy
Miriam Gohara
Lectures and Addresses
- “The Black Panther Party’s Structural Vision of Crime, Victimization, and Justice,” Justice Collaboratory Panel, Law and Society Association Meeting, Chicago, May 2025
Publications
- "Strengthening the U.S. Medicolegal Death Investigation System," Lessons from Death in Custody (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Member; Committee on Deaths in Custody; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; since June 2024
- Joined the board of directors of the Atlantic Center for Capital Representation
- Named Deputy Dean for Experiential Education and a member of the Dean’s Search Committee, Yale Law School
- Barbour v. Hamm, No. 2:2001cv00612 (M.D. Ala. 2025)(Capital case in which the district court issued an order granting habeas relief to client, who was exonerated by DNA evidence, on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct)
Oona A. Hathaway
Lectures and Addresses
- “Does the Law of War Still Work?” (online), Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law, April 23, 2025
- “Talking Foreign Policy: President Trump’s International Policy Shifts,” Sound of Ideas podcast, June 23, 2025
- “As Trump Uses War and the Threat of War, He Ignores the U.N. and the U.S. Congress,” Background Briefing with Ian Masters, July 2, 2025
- Organizer and Moderator, “Are We Witnessing the End of the Prohibition on the Use of Force?,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, June 23, 2025
- “Civilian Agency in the Digital Realm,” Beyond Compliance podcast, July 14, 2025
- “Oona Hathaway on the Collapse of Norms Against the Use of Force,” Lawfare Daily, Aug. 6, 2025
- “Might Unmakes Right with Professor Hathaway,” The Ballpark podcast, Aug. 26, 2025
- Clearer Than Truth podcast, Sept. 10, 2025
- Keynote Address, “The Past, Present, and Future of the Global Legal Order,” Hertie School, Berlin, Germany, Sept. 10, 2025
Publications
- “The New Transparency Rules and the El Salvador Detention Agreement” (with Curtis Bradley & Jack Goldsmith), Just Security (April. 17, 2025)
- “Trump’s Strikes on Iran Were Unlawful. Here’s Why That Matters,” N.Y. Times (June 23, 2025)
- “Might Not Right” (with Scott J. Shapiro), Foreign Affairs (June/July 2025)
- “Is the Prohibition on the Use of Force Collapsing?” (with Stewart Patrick), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Aug. 26, 2025)
- “The Dangerous Rise of 'Dual-Use' Objects in War: History, Evidence, and the Case for Reform” (with Azmat Khan & Mara Revkin), 134 Yale L. J. 2645 (2025)
- “Recognition Rules” (with Justin Cole & Alaa Hachem), 100 N.Y.U. L. Rev 785 (2025)
- “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 Anti-Satellite Threat — And How States Can Respond,” 100 N.Y.U. L. Rev 161 (online, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Recipient of the Berlin Prize, American Academy of International Law, Fall 2025
- Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for “War Unbound,” 2025–2026
Christine Jolls
Publications
- “Disclosure Rules and Educational Background” (Lucia A. Reisch and Cass R. Sunstein, eds.), in Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (2025)
Other Highlights
- Organizer, NBER Summer Institute Law and Economics Workshop, Cambridge, MA, July 23–24, 2025
Doug Kysar
Lectures and Addresses
- “A Star is Born: GWP*, Climate Change, and the Politics of Metrics,” Climate Change Law and Policy Works-in-Progress Symposium, Boulder, CO, Aug. 14–15, 2025
- “Climate Change and Products Liability,” Cornell Law School faculty workshop, Sept. 26, 2025
Publications
- “When Aging America Collides with Climate Change” (with Eugene Rusyn), Salon, Aug. 7, 2025
- “A Reset for Bioethics: A Statement from the Global Observatory for Genome Editing (with Sheila Jasanoff, et al.), 8 CRISPR J. 232 (2025)
- “Weathering the 100-Year Life” (with Eugene Rusyn), Law and the 100-Year Life (Anne L. Alstott, Abbe R. Gluck, and Eugene Rusyn, eds.; Cambridge University Press; 2025)
- “Ways Not to Think About Climate Change” (Chiara Cordelli and Melissa Lane, eds.), Nomos 67 (New York University Press, 2026)
Other Professional Highlights
- Organizing Committee, Global Observatory for Genome Editing International Summit, Harvard University, May 21–23, 2025
Jonathan Macey
Lectures and Addresses
- “What Has Been Going On in Delaware?,” American Bar Association Working Group on Legal Opinions, New York, May 5, 2025
- Remarks, Business and Tax Roundtable for Upcoming Professors, UCLA School of Law, June 15, 2025
- “Heading for the Dexit? (Re)considering Delaware Incorporation; Considering Other States,” Presentation at Stafford Seminars/BARBRI Legal Education for Lawyers Program, July 15, 2025
- “From First Best to Least Worst: Seven Emerging Threats to Delaware’s Dominance That the Legislature Can’t Fix,” Journal of Corporation Law annual symposium, Sept. 19, 2025
Publications
- “Macey on Corporation Laws,” Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, (or. 1998, ed. 2025)
- “Are Banks Obsolete?,” Regulation (Summer 2025)
- “Delaware Law Mid-Century: Far from Perfect but Probably Not Leaving for Las Vegas,” 50 J. of Corp. L. 1111 (2025); Excerpted in 39 Insights, The Corporate and Securities Law Advisor 3 (March 2025)
- “Fair Is Fair: Reforming Fairness Review,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (April 7, 2025)
- “Staggered Board Shenanigans at Phillips 66,” Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (April 15, 2025)
- “Presentation of Arguments in a Brief of Current and Retired Practitioners and Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of Reversal of the Opinion of the Delaware Court of Chancery in In Re Tesla, Inc. Derivative Litigation," Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (April 24, 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
- Amicus Brief in support of reversal of the opinion of the Delaware Court of Chancery in In Re Tesla, Inc. Derivative Litigation
- Amicus Brief in support of appellees and the state of Delaware and in support of upholding the constitutionality of Section 1 of Senate Bill 21
- Amicus Brief in support of reversal of the opinion of the Delaware Court of Chancery in Moelis & Company v. West Palm Beach Firefighters Pension Fund
Joshua Macey
Lectures and Addresses
- “Utility Governance,” Summit on the State of the PJM Interconnection, Philadelphia, PA
- “Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation,” Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics, Aspen, CO
- “Transmission Cost Allocation” (online), PJM Area Relevant State Entities Committee
- “Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation,” Electricity Camp in the Rockies, Banff, Alberta, Canada
- “Against General Law Constitutionalism,” Junior Federal Courts Conference, Cornell University
- 2025 National Conference of Constitutional Law Scholars, Tucson, AZ
- “Contemporary Law and Economics,” Symposium on the Relationship Between Law and Economics and Law and Political Economy, University of Chicago Law Review
- "Bankruptcy and Climate Change," The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Private Law: Workshop Conference, Yale Law School
Publications
- “Towards a National Transmission Planner,” Harvard Env’t. L. Rev.
- “Structural Indeterminacy and the Separation of Powers,” Cal. L. Rev.
- “Purdue Pharma and the New Bankruptcy Exceptionalism,” Sup. Ct. Rev. (2024)
- “Private Profit and Public Business,” 103 Tex. L. Rev.
- “The Public Law of Public Utilities,” 42 Yale J. on Reg.
- “The Law and Economics of Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation,” 45 Energy L. J. 209
- “Don’t Let Connecticut Utilities Bully CT’s Energy Regulators,” Hartford Courant (Sept. 28, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Winner of Berkeley Center for Law and Business Best Paper Award (junior category) for “Private Profit and Public Business”
Samuel Moyn
Lectures and Addresses
- “After Courts: Democratizing Statutory Law,” Cornell University Law School, March 14, 2025
- “From One Crisis of Liberalism to Another,” University of California, Berkeley, April 18, 2025
- “Liberalism against Itself,” Universität de Barcelona, May 22, 2025; Peking University Law School, June 2, 2025
- “International Law and the Problem of History,” Peking University Law School, June 4, 2025
- “Humane: How International Humanitarian Law Changed,” Peking University Law School, June 5, 2025; Renmin University, Beijing, June 6, 2025
- “Alasdair Macintyre on Human Dignity,” International Society for Macintyrean Enquiry Annual Lecture, Philadelphia, July 12, 2025
- “Gerontocracy in America,” Duke University Law School, Sept. 11, 2025
- “Are Our Times Unprecedented?” debate, Brown University, Oct. 10, 2025
Publications
- “Don’t Count on the Courts to Save Democracy” (with Ryan D. Doerfler), The Washington Post (March 20, 2025, online; March 23, 2025, print)
- “Response,” Boston Rev. (Spring 2025)
- “America Is Over Neoliberalism and Neoconservatism — Trump Is Not,” The Guardian (July 3, 2025)
- “Why America Got a Warfare State, Not a Welfare State,” The New Republic (July/Aug. 2025)
- “Free from What?,” The Nation (July/Aug. 2025)
- “The U.S. Presidency in the Human Rights Era,” Foreign Policy (Summer 2025)
- “Casus Belli,” Harper’s (Aug. 2025)
- “The Imagined Predecessor: Contributionism and Latin America’s Place in Global Legal History” (with Mariana Díaz Chalela), Oxford Handbook on International Law and the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2025)
- “John Stuart Mill and Judith Shklar,” Contemporary Political Theory (2025)
- “A Big Part of the Problem, Not the Solution,” 422–27 Am. Political Thought 14:3 (Summer 2025)
- “Voting Our Way Out of Gerontocracy,” The Democracy Project (Sept. 24, 2025)
Douglas NeJaime
Lectures and Addresses
- “True Parenthood,” Wayne State University Law School Faculty Workshop, April 2025
- “Parentage Law,” National College of Probate Judges Spring Conference, May 2025
- “True Parenthood,” Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, June 2025
- “True Parenthood,” Nonmarriage Roundtable, Sept. 2025
Publications
- “Before Losing,” 135 Yale L. J. Forum 63 (2025)
- “The High Stakes of Gamete Regulation in a Post-Dobbs World” (with Courtney Joslin & Katherine Kraschel), in Seminal: On Sperm, Health, and Politics 243 (Rene Almeling, Lisa Campo-Engelstein, and Brian Nguyen, eds., New York University Press, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- National Conference of Bar Examiners, Fam. L. Rev. Board
Nicholas Parrillo
Lectures and Addresses
- Invited panelist, “Lessons From History,” New York University Law Review Symposium, April 11, 2025
- “Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy: Comparing the Industries Who Have Routinely Sued Their Regulators With the Industries Who Rarely Have,” Columbia Public Economic Law Colloquium, April 22, 2025
- Invited Commenter, ABA Section of Administrative Law conference, Washington, D.C., May 8, 2025
- Invited Commenter, Administrative Law New Scholarship roundtable, University of Michigan Law School, May 19–20, 2025
- Conference Co-organizer, “Politics and Law in the Administrative State,” Yale Institution for Social & Policy Studies and Yale Law School, June 17–18, 2025
- “Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy,” Emory Law Faculty Colloquium, Sept. 10, 2025
- “Administrative Law as a Choice of Business Strategy,” New York University Constitutional Law Colloquium, Sept. 22, 2025
Publications
- “Bank Supervision and the Lost Century of Federal Administrative Law,” Notice & Comment blog, Sept. 16, 2025
Other Professional Highlights
Robert Post
Lectures and Addresses
- “Universities and Free Speech: What is the Relationship Between Free Speech and Academic Freedom,” University of Delaware Dept. of Philosophy, Oct. 18, 2024
- Spoke on academic freedom and freedom of speech, American Society of Legal History, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 25, 2024
- Keynote Address, “The Enigma of Gitlow,” “Revolutionary Incitement and Free Speech,” Arizona State University, Nov. 2, 2024
- Spoke on the state of free speech on campus, Georgetown Law School, Nov. 7, 2024
- “The Supreme Court’s Crisis of Authority and the Judiciary Act of 1925,” Legal History Workshop, New York University Law School, Dec. 3, 2024
- “Making Law for a Divided Nation: The Taft Court, 1921–1930,” Supreme Court Historical Society, Dec. 16, 2024
- “Institutional Neutrality,” Federalist Society faculty conference, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 9, 2025
- Spoke on threats to public accommodation laws, national conference of the American Association of Law Schools, Jan. 10, 2025
- Spoke on institutional restraint, University of Illinois College of Law, Jan. 24, 2025
- Spoke on antisemitism on campus, Arizona State School of Law, Jan. 30, 2025
- Spoke on the crisis of authority in the modern Supreme Court, UCLA School of Law, Jan. 31, 2025
- Spoke on the Judiciary Act of 1925, Notre Dame School of Law, Feb. 7, 2025
- “The Nature of Academic Freedom,” University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Feb. 2, 2025
- “The Rise of Institutional Neutrality: Trends, Debates, and Implications for Higher Education,” Heterodox Academy, March 12, 2025
- Spoke on Gitlow v. New York, New York University Legal History Colloquium, March 12, 2025
- “Is There a Constitutional Crisis?,” Institute for Strategic Studies, March 25, 2025
- “Historical Background of Pierce v. Society of Sisters,” Stanford Law School, May 2, 2025
- “The First Amendment and Obscenity Law,” conference of 2nd Circuit Judges, June 4, 2025
- “Misunderstanding Campus Speech: The Woodward Report,” George Washington Law School, Oct. 10, 2025
Publications
- “In Memory of the Murdered,” Ha’aretz (Oct. 26, 2024)
- “A Conversation on Academic Freedom and Freedom of Expression at the University” (with Jordi Pujol), 9 Church, Communication, and Culture (2024)
- “Falling Far and Fast: The Turn Against Free Speech in America,” Verfassungsblog (Sept. 21, 2025)
- “A Compact for Control” (with Tom Ginsburg), Inside Higher Education (Oct. 7, 2025)
- “The Press and American Democracy” (Ronnell Andersen Jones & Sonja R. West, eds.), The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times 17–27 (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
- “The Internet, Democracy, and Misinformation” (Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., András Koltay, & Charlotte Garden eds.), Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democracy: Legal Approaches in Comparative Context 37–49 (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Appointed to the Ethics Commission of the City of New Haven, Jan. 2025
Claire Priest
Lectures and Addresses
- “Before De Soto’s "The Other Path": The Emergence of Property Rights as a Housing Solution in the Shadow of the Cuban Revolution,” Helsinki Legal History Workshop, Helsinki University, 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,” Utah Valley University, April 18, 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
- “Before De Soto’s "The Other Path": The Emergence of Property Rights as a Housing Solution in the Shadow of the Cuban Revolution,” American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, May 16, 2025
- “Before 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 Faculty Workshop, Oct. 8, 2025
Other Professional Highlights
- Appointment, Yale Faculty Advisory Council, Yale Center for Civic Thought
- Appointment, Yale Citizens' Assembly Governance Committee
Judith Resnik
Lectures and Addresses
- Lecture, “Structures and Rights in the United States Constitution,” prepared for the class European and Italian Constitutional Law, Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, May 14, 2025
- Keynote address, “Courts, Democratic Institutions, and Political Identity,” for The Venice Commission 1990–2025, “Taking Stock of 35 Years of Democracy Through Law,” Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, May 16, 2025
- Presenter, “’Seeing ‘The Courts’: Managerial Judges, Empty Courtrooms, Chaotic Courthouses, and Judicial Legitimacy From the 1980s to the 2020s,” panel discussion at Law & Society Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 24, 2025
- Commentator, “Nobody’s Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and The Boys' Brotherhood Republic,” Author Meets Reader session with Hendrik Hartog, Law & Society Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, May 24, 2025
- Participant, “Innovation Day on Ability to Pay Fines & Fees,” hosted by The National Center for Access to Justice & The Stein Center for Law and Ethics, Fordham Law School, June 2, 2025
- Panelist (via Zoom), “Access — Financing, Private Enforcement, and Aggregation,” The Evolving State of American Exceptionalism, University of California, San Francisco Law School (UCSF), June 4, 2025
- Presenter, “Baselines and Metrics: What Should the ‘Future’ Produce for ‘Justice,’” for the discussion on “Digitisation, Lawyers and the Public,” a panel in at the Future of Justice International Conference, University of College London (UCL) Faculty of Laws, London, U.K., June 17, 2025
- Moderator and presenter, “Health and Incarceration,” The 9th Circuit Judicial Conference, “Floating on the Waves of Change,” Monterey, CA, July 23, 2025
- Panelist, "The Search for Capital," a panel discussion on “What are paths to reform in an entrenched system?” prepared for the Conference on New Directions for Civil Procedure: Exploring the Potential of Markets and Technology to Promote Access to Civil Justice, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, July 25, 2025
- Presenter, “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy,” a book talk prepared for Yale Law School’s Global Constitutionalism Seminar 2025: A Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, Yale Law School, Sept. 10–13, 2025
- Presenter, “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy,” book talk co-sponsored by the Program in Law and Normative Thinking, the University Center for Human Values, and the Program in Law and Public Policy, Princeton, NJ, Sept. 15, 2025
- Presenter, “The Search for Capital,” prepared for a panel discussion on Fines and Fees and Court Funding, for the International Access to Justice Forum 2025, hosted by Fordham University School of Law and New York University School of Law, New York, NY, Sept. 26, 2025
- Presenter, “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy,” a Book Talk with Judith Resnik at the Brennan Center for Justice, New York, NY, Sept. 29, 2025
- Presenter, “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy,” in Constitutional Conversations, co-sponsored by the Stanford Constitutional Law Center and the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, with comments by Professors Pam Karlan and David Sklansky, Stanford, CA, Oct. 8, 2025
- Panelist, “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy,” at UC Berkeley’s Criminal Law and Justice Center, with comments by Director Chesa Boudin and Professors Ryan Sakoda and Jonathan Simon, Berkeley, CA, Oct. 9, 2025
- Panelist, “The Ethics of Mixing Litigation with Arbitration,” at Complex Litigation Ethics Conference, sponsored by the Center for Litigation and Courts, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 9, 2025
- Presenter, “The Search for Capital and the Potential for Regulation in Federal Courts, State Courts, and in Arbitration: Glimpsing Filings, Funding, and Disputants, Individual and Aggregated,” at the Complex Litigation Ethics Conference, sponsored by the Center for Litigation and Courts, UCSF, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 10, 2025
- The Paulus Lecture: “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy,” Willamette University School of Law, Salem, OR, Oct. 13, 2025
Publications
- “Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy” (University of Chicago Press, 2025)
- “Why Care About Courts,” an essay part of collection “Why Justice Matters” (Nuffield Foundation, 2025)
- “Femmes, genre et (re)définition des obligations juridiques — passées et présentes” (Women, Gender, and the Construction and Contestation of Law’s Obligations — Now and Then), 3 Intersections (Universite Paris Nanterre, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Recipient of the 2025 Elga R. Wasserman Courage, Clarity, and Leadership Award, on behalf of The Yale Women Faculty Forum, Yale Schwarzman Center, Sept. 16, 2025
- Recipient of the 2025 Award for Excellence for an Academic, in Ethics in Complex Litigation, on behalf of the Complex Litigation Ethics Center at University of California San Francisco College of Law, San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2025
- Amici Curiae Brief of Law and History Professors in support of defendants, The United States of America v State of New York, et al, No. 1:2025cv00744 (NY. Aug. 11, 2025) (on the privilege of state courts to be free from physical intrusion by federal officials; dismissed as requested by the defendants), Nov. 11, 2025
- Reappointment to Yale University’s Committee on Art in Public Spaces, Sept. 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026
- “How Should Criminals be Punished? From Bentham's ‘Enlightened’ Panopticon to the Universal Human Rights of Prisoners,” an interview with Andrew Keen from “Keen On America,” episode 2556, Sept. 14, 2025
- “The Recent Past of Prison Punishment,” a podcast interview with Emily Bazelon from “Gabfest Reads,” hosted by Slate, Sept. 20, 2025
- “Impermissible Punishments,” an interview with Teneé Frazier from “The Hearing” podcast hosted by Thomson Reuters, episode 181, Sept. 23, 2025
Carol Rose
Lectures and Addresses
- “The Road to Shelley v. Kraemer,” Seminar on Constitutional Change, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Political Science, April 14, 2025
- Plenary Address, “Standardization and the Public Law Infrastructure of Private Law,” 11th Conference on “Law of Obligations: Private Law Inside and Out,” Harvard University, July 10, 2025
Publications
- “Property Law,” Encyclopedia of New Institutional Economics (2025)
- “Traditional Knowledge and the Limits of Property,” 66 Harv. Int’l L.J. (Special Edition) 82 (2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Attended the Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoria Constitucional y Politica (SELA), Mexico City, Mexico, June 13–15, 2025
- Attended (via Zoom) the American Law Institute’s advisers and members consultative group meeting on the restatement of Property IV, Preliminary Draft No. 12; Philadelphia, PA; Oct. 10, 2025
David Schleicher
Lectures and Addresses
- “The Promises and Challenges of Governance in Blue Trifectas,” Berkeley Economy & Society Initiative and the American Political Science eXchange (APEX), May 19, 2025
- Webinar on state-level housing reform, Federalist Society, Sept. 9, 2025
- “Short Circuits” podcast discussion of land use cases, New Haven, Sept. 15, 2025
- “How the Gentry Won,” 2025 Philosophy, Politics, and Law Visiting Scholar Lecture, Binghamton University, Oct. 10, 2025
- “On the Ballot: New York City's Charter Revision Commission Proposals” Furman Center, New York University School of Law, Oct. 15, 2025
Publications
- “Why Does Everything Cost So Much?,” Vital City (April 18, 2025)
- “YIMBYism Is an American Legal Tradition We Should Embrace” (with Roderick Hills), Hypertext: Niskanen Center (May 23, 2025)
- “YIMBYism Started as a Single-Issue Movement. It’s Time To Think Bigger.” (with Christopher Elmendorf), Hypertext: Niskanen Center (July 23, 2025)
- “The Priority List,” Brookings-AEI Project on Transportation Reform (Aug, 7, 2025)
- “YIMBYs Beat the Politicians. Now They Have To Beat the Judges,” The Argument (Sept. 1, 2025)
- “Mamdani’s Facilitators, Frenemies, or Foes,” Vital City (Sept. 3, 2025)
- “Local Democracy Is Land-Use Policy,” Vital City (Sept. 17, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- 2025 Philosophy, Politics & Law Visiting Scholar, Binghampton University
James Whitman
Lectures and Addresses
- “The Apparatus of Abasement and Elevation: Death and Transfiguration of Rank,” University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Keynote Address, “Crises of the Rule of Law, the 1930s and Today,” American Society of Comparative Law
Publications
- “From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands” (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Other Professional Highlights
- Joined the board of the American Council of Learned Societies
