The Public Law Workshop is intended to expose students to current scholarship in the public law area and to offer students an opportunity to learn about the scholarly enterprise more generally. Past PLWs have focused on issues such as federalism, the presidency, democratic institutions in an age of polarization, and income inequality. The focus for Fall 2025 is “Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Constitutional Governance.”

The Workshop is structured around presentations of working papers by leading public law scholars. In some weeks, we will read cases, scholarship, and other materials and discuss these materials in a standard seminar format. For the presentations by outside scholars, students are expected to read the paper and to participate in the discussion, which may be joined by other faculty members. All meetings will be in the Case Lounge.

Thursday, September 18, 2025
Samuel Issacharoff, NYU Law School

Thursday, September 25, 2025
Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia SIPA

Thursday, October 9, 2025
Suzanne Mettler, Cornell Department of Government

Thursday, October 16, 2025
Aziz Huq, University of Chicago School of Law

Thursday, October 23, 2025
Madhav Khosla, Columbia Law School

Thursday, October 30, 2025
Nick Bednar, University of Minnesota Law School

Thursday, November 6, 2025
Rebecca Ingber, Cardozo Law School

Thursday, November 13, 2025
Jon Gould, NYU Law School

Thursday, November 20, 2025
Evelyn Douek, Stanford Law School

Friday, February 5, 2021
Professor David Lewis, Vanderbilt University

Friday, February 19, 2021
Professor Wilfred Codrington III, Brooklyn Law School

Friday, March 12, 2021
Professor Kate Shaw, Cardozo Law School

Friday, March 19, 2021
Professor Daphna Renan, Harvard Law School

Friday, March 26, 2021
Professor Cristina Rodríguez, Yale Law School

Friday, April 2, 2021
Professor Zachary Price, UC Hastings Law School

 

Friday, February 5, 2016
Sabeel Rahman, Brooklyn Law
11:30 a.m., Case Lounge

Friday, February 12, 2016
Kate Andrias, Michigan Law
11:30 a.m., Case Lounge

Friday February 26, 2016
Ganesh Sitaraman, Vanderbilt Law
11:30 a.m., Case Lounge

Friday, March 11, 2016
Jedediah Purdy, Duke Law
11:30 a.m., Case Lounge

Friday, April 8, 2016
Karen Tani, Berkeley Law
11:30 a.m., Case Lounge

Friday, April 15, 2016
David Super, Georgetown Law
11:30 a.m., Case Lounge

Friday, April 15, 2016
Bertrall Ross, Berkeley Law
11:30 a.m., Case Lounge