Seminar in Private Law - Gabrielle Blum & John Goldberg - The Unable or Unwilling Doctrine: A View from Private Law

For its second session on 8 February, the Seminar in Private Law is delighted to host Professors Gabrielle Blum and John Goldberg (both Harvard Law).

Professors Blum and Goldberg will present and discuss their paper "The Unable or Unwilling Doctrine: A View From Private Law" (available here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3954321)

There will be ample time for discussion and exchange with members of the audience.

To receive the zoom-link, please write an email with the subject line "Registration Blum - Goldberg" to private.law@yale.edu

About the Seminar: The 2022 Seminar in Private Law will devote itself to examining questions about the relationship between private orderings and public justice. We hope to explore how private law and the private arrangements that it enables and facilitates—e.g., through contracts, property rights, or corporate law—relate to (public) concerns with justice. This includes examining how public justice goals may be promoted or hampered through private arrangements, questioning the limits of private ordering, and reflecting critically on the interaction between private and public institutions more broadly. Our ambition is to study the subject from both theoretical and empirical perspectives and to engage champions, as well as critics, of private law. The Seminar will bring together lawyers with scholars from economics, sociology, history, and philosophy.