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Public Law Workshop
The Public Law Workshop is a year-long faculty and student seminar at which leading scholars from across the country are invited to present works in progress. The topics of the presentations range broadly, but are generally in the areas of administrative law, constitutional law, federal courts, and law and politics. Faculty from outside the Law School are welcome.
Public Law Lunch Series- Summer 2009 The schedule for the Public Law Lunch Series appears below. They will take place on Tuesdays at noon in Case Lounge.
Summer 2009 Schedule:
June
Tuesday June 9, 2009 12:00 p.m Case LoungeJeff Fagan on current debates concerning life without parole. Tuesday June 16, 2009Richard Briffault on the Supreme Court's campaign finance cases.Caperton v. Massey
Tuesday June 23, 2009 12:00 p.m Case LoungeSuzanne Goldberg on the Iowa same-sex marriage case and related developments.Same-sex marriage readings
Tuesday June 30, 2009Jack Coffee and Harvey Goldschmid on the financial crisis and related reforms.Financial Regulatory Reform: A New Foundation: Rebuilding Financial Supervision and Regulation White House Press Office
July
Tuesday July 7, 2009Nate Persily, Heather Gerken, and Rick Pildes on the Supreme Court's Decision on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District Number One v. Holder, Attorney General
Tuesday July 14, 2009Gillian Metzger on the Court's recent preemption cases.Cover Note- Please read first Wyeth v. Levine Cuomo v. Clearing House Altria Group v. Good
Tuesday July 21, 2009Steve Shapiro on the Court's recent strip search case.Redding Opinion Redding Brief School Brief SG Brief
Tuesday July 28, 2009Olati Johnson on the Ricci v. De Stefano case.Ricci v. De Stefano Trial By Firefighters, Guinier & Sturm
August
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 JGH 940Henry Monaghan on Ashcroft v. IqbalPleadings and Motions Ashcroft v. Iqbal
Tuesday August 18, 2009- Cancelled Peter Strauss on the Court's recent statutory decisions.
Papers for the Workshop:
Thursday April 23rd, 2009 4:10-6:00 Case LoungeProf. David Epstein, Prof. Massimo Morelli, Prof. Sharyn O'Halloran, Columbia University"Caucuses and Primaries under Proportional Representation"
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Prof. Daryl Levinson, Harvard Law SchoolLaw for States: International Law, Constitutional Law, Public Law "
Thursday March 26th, 2009Prof. Claudine Gay, Harvard University, Dept. of Political ScienceMoving Up Moving Out "
Thursday February 19th, 2009Prof. Elizabeth Garrett, University of Southern California"Direct Democracy and Public"
Thursday February 5th, 2009Prof. David Strauss, University of Chicago Law School"Do It But Don't Tell Me"
Thursday, November 6th, 2008Prof. Reva Siegel, Yale Law School"Dead or Alive- Originalism as Popular Constitutionalism in Heller"
Thursday, October 23, 2008Prof. Matthew Stephenson, Harvard University Law School "Political Accountability Under Alternative Institutional Regimes" Prof. Jacob E. Gerson, University of Chicago "The Unbundled Executive" Prof. Mitchell Berman, University of Texas at Austin "Originalism is Bunk" 4:10-6:00 Case Lounge Prof. Caleb Nelson, University of Virginia School of Law " Judicial Review Of Legislative Purpose"
Thursday, December 4th, 2008Prof. Judith Resnik, Yale Law Schoolhttp://www.law.columbia.edu/null/missouri+internationalism+american+federalism-+Resnik?exclusive=filemgr.download&file_id=16818&showthumb=0
Thursday November 13th, 2008 Prof. Goodwin Liu, UC Berkeley "Rethinking Constitutional Welfare Rights"
