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Fall 2005

See below or click here for the Tuesday Faculty Lunch series.

Fall 2005 Thursday Faculty Lunches

The Thursday Faculty Lunches will be held in the Case Lounge on the seventh floor of Jerome L. Greene Hall. A catered lunch will begin at 12:00 p.m. The presentation will begin at 12:15 p.m., with discussion to follow until 1:20 p.m.

Thurs, Sept 8, 2005 -- Michael Dorf

Prof. Michael Dorf presents an excerpt of his forthcoming book, No Litmus Test: Law and Politics in the Twenty-First Century, with commentary by Prof. Thomas Merrill.

Thurs, Sept 15 2005 -- Alex Raskolnikov

Prof. Alex Raskolnikov presents his paper, An Economic Analysis of Tax Enforcement and the Self-Adjusting Penalty, with commentary by David Schizer.

Thurs, Sept. 22, 2005 -- Katharina Pistor

Prof. Katharina Pistor presents her paper, Who is Tolling the Bells to Firms? Lessons from Transition Economies with commentary by Prof. Edward R. Morrison.

Thurs, Sept. 29, 2005 -- John Witt

Prof. John Witt presents his paper, The King and the Dean: Private Administraton in the Common Law Polity, with commentary by Charles Sabel.

Thurs, Oct. 6, 2005 -- Ariel Porat

Prof. Arial Porat presents Total Liability for Excessive Harm, coauthored by Robert Cooter, UC Berkeley. Prof. Catherine Sharkey acts as commentator.

Thurs, Oct 13, 2005 -- No Faculty Workshop

There will be no faculty lunch/workshop on Thursday, October 13, 2005 (Yom Kippur)

Thurs, Oct 20 2005 -- Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee presents his paper, The Safe-Conduct Theory of the Alien Tort Statute. Michael Dorf comments.

Thurs, Oct 27, 2005 -- Gillian Metzger

Gillian Metzger presents Congress, Interstate Relations, and Article IV, with commentary by Thomas Lee.

Thurs, Nov 3, 2005 -- Peter Strauss

Peter Strauss presents Rulemaking in the Ages of Globalization and Information: What America Can Learn From Europe, and Vice Versa with commentary from Professor Francesca Bignami of Duke Law School.

Thurs, Nov 10, 2005 -- Sarah Cleveland

Sarah Cleveland presents Our International Constitution, with commentary by Gillian Metzger.

Thurs, Nov 17, 2005 -- W. Bentley McCleod

W. Bentley McCleod presents Contingency and Control: A Theory of Contracts (co-authored with Lewis Kornhauser). Avery Katz comments.

Thurs, Nov 24, 2005 -- No Faculty Workshop

There will be no faculty workshop lunch on Thursday, November 24 (Thanksgiving Day)

Thurs, Dec 1, 2005 -- Grainne De Burca

Grainne De Burca presents Democratizing transnational governance: Lessons from the EU, with commentary by Bill Simon.

Thurs, Dec 8, 2005 -- George Fletcher

George Fletcher presents Victims And Victims: The Theological Foundations Of Criminal Law

Fall 2005 Tuesday Faculty Lunches

Catered lunch will begin at 12:15 p.m. Discussion to follow from 12:25 p.m. until about 1:20 p.m. Presentations will generally be no more than ten minutes.

Tues, Sept. 13, 2005 -- John Witt

Nationalism and American Law

Tuesday, September 20, 2005 -- Katherine Franke

Prof. Katherine Franke presents a draft paper, The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage Politics

Tues, Sept. 27, 2005 -- New IT Applications

Harry Kavros, Frantz Merine, and Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin will demonstrate a few new IT applications that faculty requested and that might make our lives a bit easier. The demos will culminate with a new application requested by Bill Sage, which invites collaboration between faculty and student services.

Tues, Oct 4, 2005 -- No Faculty Lunch

There will be no faculty lunch on Tuesday, October 4 (Rosh Hashanah)

Tues, Oct 11, 2005 -- Peter Strauss

Prof. Peter Strauss will discuss his visit to McGill, the McGill law teaching method, and transsystemic legal education.

Tues, Oct 18, 2005 -- Michael Heller

Michael Heller will present a draft introduction for a Yale Law School Conference celebrating the career of Prof. Carol Rose.

Tues, Oct 25, 2005 -- Michael Dorf

Michael Dorf presents The Constitutional Status of Substitutive Fallback Law.

Tues, Nov 1, 2005 -- Hans Smit

Hans Smit presents The Class Action in International Commerce.

Tues, Nov 8, 2005 -- Benjamin Liebman

Benjamin Liebman presents Judges Becoming Judges?

Tues, Nov 15, 2005 -- Thomas Lee

Thomas Lee presents Federal Court Review of Federal Law Voluntarily Incorporated into State Law.

Tues, Nov 22, 2005 -- Jonathan Nash

Tues, Nov 29, 2005 -- Katarina Pistor

Tues, Dec 6, 2005 -- no presentation

There will be no faculty presentation on Tuesday, December 6 (staff party).