Forum Supports Early Career Professors

The Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum was held at Yale Law School on May 21 and 22, 2026. The initiative was started by Stanford and Yale, and the first forum was held in 2000 to “provide a serious experience in how scholarly inquiry is conducted and to increase the sense of community among legal scholars,” according to a press release written at the time. 

Professor Christine Jolls, Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization, organized the 2026 forum, which rotates annually among the three schools. Over the two days, nine junior faculty members each presented a paper and received comments from an assigned senior faculty member from one of the three schools as well as from other participants. In this context, junior is defined as being in their first seven years of teaching. 

“Both the paper authors and the commentators fully partook in the ideal that animated the creation of the Forum — that of a closely engaged intellectual community,” said Jolls.

The junior faculty members were Alexander Arnold, UCLA Law School; Lingxi Chenyang ’20, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law; Brenda Dvoskin, Washington University Law School; Jens Frankenreiter, Washington University Law School; Chris Jaeger, Baylor Law School; Andrew Jennings, Emory University School of Law; Noah Hertz Marks, University of North Carolina School of Law; Jacob Noti-Victor ’14, Cardozo School of Law; and Alex Platt ’12, University of Kansas School of Law. The papers covered a range of topics from AI to Torts to Corporate Law.