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Public Law Workshop

Public Law Workshop - Law 6-906
Instructor: Jill Hasday

The Public Law Workshop will bring nationally recognized scholars to Minnesota to present their current research on public law topics, such as constitutional law, administrative law, anti-discrimination law, criminal law, environmental law, and family law. Each session of the workshop will be devoted to the presentation and discussion of an unpublished work-in-progress. The sessions are open to Minnesota faculty and to students enrolled in the affiliated seminar.

All meetings take place in Room 471. To download selected workshop papers, please visit Inside.Law. (requires login)

FALL 2012 WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Thursday
9/6/12
4:05-6:00 p.m.		 Introductory Meeting for Students
Thursday
9/13/12
4:05-6:00 p.m.		 Practice Workshop
Thursday
9/20/12
4:05-6:00 p.m.		 Claire Finkelstein
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Paper: "Contracts Under Coercion: Should One Keep an Agreement with a Robber?"
Thursday
9/27/12
4:05-6:00 p.m.		 John Borrows
University of Minnesota Law School
Paper: "(Ab)Originalism and Canada's Constitution"
Monday
10/1/12
12:15-1:15 p.m.		 Richard Painter
University of Minnesota Law School
Paper: "Selective Disclosure by Federal Officials and the Case for an FGD (Fairer Government Disclosure) Regime"
Monday
10/8/12
12:15-1:15 p.m.		 Toby Heytens
University of Virginia Law School
Paper: "Reassignment"
Thursday
10/18/12
4:05-6:00 p.m.		 David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
Paper: "Public Regulation of Private Enforcement"
Monday
10/29/12
12:15-1:15 p.m. 		H. Jefferson Powell
Duke Law School
Paper: "The Constitution and the Commander in Chief"
Thursday
11/8/12
4:05-6:00 p.m.		 Deborah Hellman
University of Virginia Law School
Paper: "Liberty, Equality and Discrimination"
Thursday
11/15/12
4:05-6:00 p.m.		 Laura Cooper
University of Minnesota Law School
Paper: "Letting the Puppets Speak: Employee Voice in the Legislative History of the Wagner Act"
Monday
11/19/12
12:15-1:15 p.m.		 Anthony Bellia Jr.
Notre Dame Law School
Paper: "General Law in Federal Court"
Thursday
11/29/12
4:05-6:00 p.m.		 Bert Huang
Columbia Law School
Paper: "The Problem of Shallow Signals"
Tuesday
12/4/12
4:05-6:00 p.m.		 Concluding Meeting for Students