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Fall 2022

• July 27, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CTLB Workshop)

  Speaker: Panel Discussion
  Title: "New Developments for Antitrust Enforcement in Asia and the EU"
  

• August 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Kathy Zeiler (Boston)
  Title: The Transparency of Quantitative Empirical Legal Research (2018–2020)
  

• August 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Lewis Kornhauser (NYU)
  Title: "A Tale of Two Models"
  

• August 25, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Maya Sen (Harvard Kennedy School)
  Title: “The ‘Old Party Out’ Theory Certiorari”
  

• August 29, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Melissa F. Wasserman (Texas)
  Title: “Deadlines versus Continuous Incentives: Evidence from the Patent Office.”
  

• September 01, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Maeve Glass (Columbia Law School)
  Title: “Killing Precedent: The Slaughterhouse Constitution.”
  Jointly with CLHC.
  

• September 08, 12:10 PM - 1:14 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Eyal Zamir (Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould)
  Title: “Exponential Growth Bias and the Law: Why Do We Save too Little, Borrow too Much, and Fail to React on Time to Deadly Pandemics and Climate Change?”
  Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould
  

• September 12, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Emily Ryo (USC)
  Title: “Judicial Independence in Immigration Courts”
  

• September 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Leslie Kendrick (UVA)
  Title: “Contemporary Problems and Autonomy Justifications for Freedom of Speech”
  

• September 15, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: David Landau (Florida State Univ. School of Law)
  Title: “Restorative Constitutionalism”
  

• September 19, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Matt Shaffer (Marshall)
  Title: “Contentious Valuations: Financial Reports as Schelling Points.”
  

• September 21, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Stephanie Jones-Rogers (UC Berkeley)
  Title: “She had…a Womb Subjected to Bondage”: Reconsidering the Origins of British Colonial Descent Law.
  

• September 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Avihay Dorfman (Tel Aviv)
  Title: "The Conflict Theory of Tort Law"
  

• September 29, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Brad Wendel (Cornell)
  Title: “Canceling Lawyers: Case Studies of Criticism, Accountability, and Regret.”
  

• October 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Eyal Zamir (Hebrew University, visiting at USC Gould)
  Title: “Biases in Legal Decision Making: Comparing Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Law Students, and Laypersons”.
  

• October 06, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Orly Lobel (University of San Diego School of Law)
  Title: “The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future”
  

• October 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Daria Roithmayr (USC)
  Title: “Detecting the Network Spread of Police Shooting in the Chicago Police Department”
  

• October 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Courtney Cox (Fordham)
  Title: "The Uncertain Judge"
  

• October 13, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CTLB Workshop)

  Speaker: Panel Discussion
  Title: "Digital Privacy Hot Topics"
  

• October 13, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Brandon Garrett (Duke) and Nicholas Scurich (UCI)
  Title: “Judging Firearms Evidence.”
  

• October 17, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Stephanie Tully (USC Marshall)
  Title: "Psychological Ownership of Money"
  

• October 20, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Mark Fenster (Florida)
  Title: “How Reputational NDAs Fail (Or, In Praise of Breach).”
  Jointly with CLHC
  

• October 24, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Angela Zhang (Hong Kong University)
  Title: "HAPPY: How China Regulates Tech and Beyond"
  

• October 24, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Angela Zhang (Hong Kong)
  Title: "HAPPY: How China Regulates Tech and Beyond"""
  

• October 26, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Mona Oraby (Howard University)
  Title: “Historical Fiction as Legal Archive: Horizontal Law in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Frankenstein in Baghdad”
  

• October 27, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Scott Altman (USC)
  Title: "A Right to Adopt and Parental Licensing"
  

• October 31, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Hillel Bavli (SMU Dedman School of Law)
  Title: "Character Evidence as a Conduit for Implicit Bias"
  

• November 02, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Kate Klonick (St. John's Univ. School of Law)
  Title: “Big Speech”
  

• November 07, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jeffery Zhang (Michigan)
  Title: "Protecting the Sovereign's Money Monopoly."
  

• November 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Nick Sage (LSE)
  Title: “Is Contract Law Liberal?”
  

• November 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Mugambi Jouet (USC)
  Title: “A History of Post-Roe America and Canada: From Intertwined Abortion Battles to American Exceptionalism.”
  

• November 10, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Michele Goodwin (UCI)
  Title: "Involuntary Servitude: Pregnancy, Abortion, and The Thirteenth Amendment""
  

• November 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Dolores Albarracin (Penn)
  Title: “Communicating Behavior: Bottom-Up Processes of Social Influence”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Science/ Psychology Workshop Brown Bag Series
  

• November 16, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University)
  Title: “Slavery and the pursuit of freedom in later medieval Mediterranean Europe”
  Co-sponsored with the Center for the Premodern World
  

• November 17, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CTLB Workshop)

  Speaker: Asheesh Agarwal (Agarawl Strategies), Kelly Fayne (Latham & Watkins) and Daniel O'Brien (Compass Lexecon)
  Title: Nascent Competition
  

• November 17, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Amna Akbar (Ohio State University)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• November 28, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Colleen Chien (Santa Clara)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• November 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Jessica Marglin (USC) Book Talk
  Title: "The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean"
  Co-sponsored by the Casden Institute and Levan Institute for the Humanities
  

• December 08, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM (Via Zoom Only) (CTLB Workshop)

  Speaker: Panel Discussion
  Title: “The Meaning of Section 5 of the FTC Act”
  

• December 08, 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Sarah Mayeux (Vanderbilt)
  Title: "TBA"
  

Spring 2023

• December 01, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Olatunde Johnson (Columbia)
  Title: "The Missing Half: Revisiting Monetary Remedies to Address Segregation"
  

• January 09, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM (Via Zoom Only) (CTLB Workshop)

  Speaker: Panel Discussion
  Title: “Antitrust and Private Equity: New Risks”
  

• January 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Anthony Moffa (Maine)
  Title: “Strength in Numbers (of words): Empirical Analysis of Preambles and Public Comments”
  

• January 23, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: David Hirshleifer (USC Marshall)
  Title: “A Tour of Behavioral Finance.”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Science/ Psychology Workshop Brown Bag Series
  

• January 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Ari Bryen (Vanderbilt)
  Title: “Law Among the Degraded: Three Legal Stories from the Roman Provinces.”
  Co-sponsored with Classics.
  

• January 26, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Robin Craig (USC)
  Title: “Eco-Necrotourism and Public Land Management: Last Chance Tourism, Ecological Grief, and the World's Disappearing Natural Wonders”
  

• January 30, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Barak Richman (Duke)
  Title: Statelessness in an Era of Nationalism: The Diamond Cartel and the Nazi War Machine”
  

• February 01, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Oscar Pedreza Vargas (USC)
  Title: "The threshold of expertise: visual evidence, police violence and emergent forms of counterinsurgency in Colombia."
  

• February 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Abby Wood (USC)
  Title: “Institutions, Risk, and Categories: The Political Economy of Essential Work”
  

• February 09, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Erin Miller (USC)
  Title: “Quasi-State Agents in First Amendment Doctrine”
  Commentator: Rebecca Brown
  

• February 13, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Dorothy Lund (USC)
  Title: “Corporate Purpose in a Second-Best World."
  

• February 14, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Alan Schwartz (Yale)
  Title: “Midstream Contract Interpretation”
  

• February 23, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Doheny Library, Rm. 240) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
  Title: “The Legacy of Family Separation and Black Mothers’ Radical Resistance.”
  20th Annual CLHC Law and Humanities Distinguished Lecture
  

• February 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Roseanna Sommers (Michigan)
  Title: “Virtuous Victims and Adjacent Consent”
  CONTENT WARNING**CONTENT WARNING Sexual Violence will be discussed
  

• February 28, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Video Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Nils Jansen (Münster)
  Title: “The Point of View of Legal Science”
  

• March 06, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Mike Simkovic (USC)
  Title: "Natural-Person Shareholder Voting"
  

• March 08, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Penelope Andrews (NY Law)
  Title: #MeToo and #Black Lives Matter: Mutual Lessons or Mutually Exclusive?
  

• March 20, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Peter Ditto (UCI)
  Title: “Partisan Bias and Its Discontents”
  *Jointly sponsored by Social Science/ Psychology Workshop Brown Bag Series
  

• March 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Brandon Bourgeois
  Title: “Fictions Made ‘Elsewhere than at Rome’: the Dies Imperii and Lex de imperio of Vespasian”
  

• March 27, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Katerina Linos (Berkeley)
  Title: "Dynamic Diffusion"
  

• March 30, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Nomi Stolzenberg (USC) Book Talk
  Title: American Shtetl
  

• April 03, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Yaron Nili (Wisconsin)
  Title: “Peer Group Governance”
  

• April 10, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Jordan Barry (USC) & Danny Sokol (USC)
  Title: “Data Valuation and Law”
  

• April 11, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Mala Chatterjee (Columbia)
  Title: “The Extended Self: A Framework for Information Rights”
  

• April 17, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Nan Jia (Marshall)
  Title: Forced to Innovate: Consequence of U.S. Anti-Dumping Sanctions on Chinese Exporters’ Innovations
  

• April 19, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Room 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Matthew Fletcher (Michigan)
  Title: “The Three Lives of Mamengwaa: Toward an Indigenous Canon of Construction”
  Indigenous Law & Policy Lecture
  

• April 20, 12:10 PM - 1:15 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (Faculty Workshop)

  Speaker: Angel Diaz (Visiting assistant professor at USC)
  Title: “Online Racialization and the Myth of Colorblind Content Policy”
  

• April 24, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLASS Workshop)

  Speaker: Dan Klerman (USC)
  Title: “Diversity Jurisdiction: An Experiment”
  

• April 25, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Via Zoom Conferencing) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Diego Papayannis (Girona)
  Title: "TBA"
  

• April 26, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Faculty Lounge, Rm 433) (CLHC Workshop)

  Speaker: Author: Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University)
  Title: 19th Annual West Coast Law and Literature Book Panel
  Book: Law as Performance Panelist: Simon Stern (University of Toronto), Rebecca Lemon (USC)
  

• May 05, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Via Zoom Only) (CLP Workshop)

  Speaker: Greg Book Conference: Greg Keating (USC)
  Title: "Reasonableness and Risk"
  

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