January 23
Gregory Keating (USC) and Dilan Esper (USC Graduate), Topic: "Abusing Duty", Commentator: Jody David Armour (USC)
February 6
Gillian Hadfield (USC), Topic: "Most Cases Don't Settle, There's More (Non-Trial) Adjudication Than Ever and the Haves May Be Coming Out Ahead: Some Preliminary Observations on The Changing Disposition of Federal Cases", Commentator: Daniel Klerman (USC)
February 13
Andrei Marmor (USC), Topic: "Constitutional Interpretation", Commentator: Michael Shapiro (USC)
February 27
Brian Leiter (University of Texas), Topic: "Why Evolutionary Biology is (so far) Irrrelevant to Law", Time: 11:45 a.m. (Lunch time workshop)
March 12
W. Bentley MacLeod (USC), Joint with CLEO, Topic: "On the Efficiency and Enforcement of Stanford Form Contracts: The Case of Construction" co-authored with Surajeet Chakravorty, Commentator: Eric Talley
March 26
Jody Freeman (UCLA) & J.R. DeShazo (UCLA), Topic: "Public Agencies as Lobbyists"
April 9
Leslie John Green (York University in Canada, Visiting at University of Texas Law School), Topic: "Law and the Causes of Judicial Decisions"
April 23
Nomi Stolzenberg (USC), Topic: "Spiritual Custody": Fighting for Religious Freedom and Control in the Family , Commentator: Scott Altman (USC)
April 30
Richard Pildes (New York University), Topic: "Emergency Contexts without Emergency Powers: The United States’ Constitutional Approach to Rights During Wartime"
Fall 2003
August 29 .
Ronald Garet (USC), Topic: "Mouth to Mouth, Person to
Person", Commentator: Daniel Klerman (USC)
September 12
Lynn LoPucki, (UCLA School of Law), Topic: "A Team-Production Theory of Bankruptcy Reorganization
September 19
Dan Simon (USC), Topic: "A Third View of the Black Box: Coherence Based Reasoning in Law", Commentator: Eric Talley (USC)
October 17
David Slawson (USC), Topic: "UNILATERAL CONTRACTS OF EMPLOYMENT: Does Contract Law Conflict with Public Policy?", Commentator: Catherine Fisk (USC)
October 24
Daniel Klerman (USC) and Paul Mahoney (University of Virginia Law School), Topic: "The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from Eighteenth-Century England.", Commentator: Edward McCaffery (USC)
November 21
Michael Shapiro (USC), Topic: "Choosing Conceptual Systems in Constitutional Law, and Some Other Locations", Commentator: Ronald Garet (USC)
December 5
Thomas Griffith (USC), Topic: "Gangs, Schools and Stereotypes" with Linda Beres, Commentator: Jody David Armour (USC)
