Faculty Works in Progress
Faculty Works in Progress (FWIP) lectures are held in the Lindquist and Vennum Conference Room, Room 385, from 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. on each Thursday listed below. These events are open to the public, but you must RSVP to Stephanie McCauley at 612-625-9073 or mccau061@umn.edu.
JANUARY
Thursday
1/26/12 |
Ray Madoff, Boston College Law School
A Tale of Two Countries: Comparing the Law of Inheritance in Two Seemingly Opposite Systems
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FEBRUARY
Thursday
2/2/12 |
Tom Cotter, University of Minnesota Law School
A Research Agenda for the Comparative Law and Economics of Patent Remedies
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Thursday
2/9/12 |
Hari Osofsky, University of Minnesota Law School
Suburban Climate Change Efforts: Possibilities for Small and Nimble Cities Participating in Regional, State, National, and International Networks
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Thursday
2/16/12 |
Michele Goodwin, University of Minnesota Law School
Baby Cooperatives: Rethinking the Nature of the Family
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Thursday
2/23/12 |
Rick Hills, New York University Law School
Coalition-Building and Constitutional Law: The Case of 19th Century American Federalism
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MARCH
Thursday
3/1/12 |
Helga Leitner, University of Minnesota Institute for Global Studies
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Thursday
3/8/12 |
Julie Cohen, Georgetown University Law Center
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Thursday
3/22/12 |
Paul Vaaler, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
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APRIL
Thursday
4/12/12 |
Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics and Political Science
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SEPTEMBER
Thursday
9/8/11 |
Oren Bar-Gill, New York University Law School
The Law, Economics and Psychology of Consumer Contracts
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Thursday
9/15/11
4-5:00pm
Room N204 |
Ruth Okediji, University of Minnesota Law School and Jerry Reichman, Duke University School of Law
When Copyright and Science Collide: Empowering Digitally Integrated Research Methods on a Global Scale
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Thursday
9/22/11 |
Mitu Gulati, Duke University School of Law
Collective Action Clauses for the Eurozone: An Empirical Analysis
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Thursday
9/29/11 |
Robert Keohane, Princeton University and David Victor, University of California, San Diego
The Regime Complex for Climate Change
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OCTOBER
Thursday
10/13/11 |
Bert Kritzer, University of Minnesota Law School
Change in State Supreme Court Elections: Is Voting Becoming More Partisan?
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Thursday
10/20/11 |
Guy Charles, Duke University School of Law
Superstatute Interpretation
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Thursday
10/27/11 |
Bill Henderson, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
The Hard Business Problems Facing U.S. Law Faculty
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NOVEMBER
Thursday
11/3/11 |
Jide Nzelibe, Northwestern University School of Law
Our Partisan Foreign Affairs Constitution
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Thursday
11/10/11 |
David Gerber, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Economic Development and Global Convergence Strategies: The Competition Law Example
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Thursday
11/17/11 |
Vicki Jackson, Harvard Law School
"Extra-Territorial" Constitutional Interpretation: Outsider Interventions in Domestic Constitutional Contests
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DECEMBER
Thursday
12/1/11 |
Dan Gifford, University of Minnesota Law School
The Atlantic Divide in Antitrust: An Examination of US and EU Competition Policy
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Thursday
12/8/11 |
Alex Klass, University of Minnesota Law School and Elizabeth Wilson, Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Renewable Energy and Transmission Challenges
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JULY
Wednesday
7/13/11 |
Myron Orfield, University of Minnesota Law School
"Federal Law Reform and America’s Fully Developed Suburbs"
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JANUARY
Thursday
1/27/11 |
Leigh Payne, University of Minnesota
"Amnesty under Siege: The Impact of Amnesty for Past Political Violence on Democracy and Human Rights"
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FEBRUARY
Thursday
2/3/11 |
Anita Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School
"Privacy Torts: Unreliable Remedies for LGBT Plaintiffs"
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Thursday
2/10/11 |
Amy Kristin Sanders, University of Minnesota
"Re-defining Defamation: Psychological Sense of Community in the Age of the Internet"
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Thursday
2/17/11 |
Kermit Roosevelt, University of Pennsylvania Law School
"Choice of Law in Federal Courts: From Erie and Klaxton to CAFA and Shady Grove"
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Thursday
2/24/11 |
Cary Coglianese, University of Pennsylvania Law School
"Performance Track’s Postmortem: What Can We Learn from the Rise and Fall of EPA’s “Flagship” Voluntary Program?"
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MARCH
Thursday
3/3/11 |
Lior Strahilevitz, University of Chicago Law School
"Judicial Takings or Due Process?"
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Thursday
3/10/11 |
Daniel Ho, Stanford Law School
"Did a Switch in Time Save Nine?"
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Thursday
3/24/11 |
Brett McDonell, University of Minnesota Law School
"Don't Panic! Defending Cowardly Interventions During and After a Financial Crisis" |
Thursday
3/31/11 |
Michael Tonry, University of Minnesota Law School
"Moral Luck, Wrongful Acquittals, Legal Luck, Lenient Sentences, and Plain Luck"
Note: This FWIP will be held in Courtroom 170, same time. |
APRIL
Thursday
4/7/11 |
Jerry Postema, University of North Carolina School of Law
"Justice Holmes: A New Path for American Jurisprudence"
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Thursday
4/14/11 |
Kim Scheppele, Princeton University
"Fixing the Architecture" - Judging After 9/11
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Thursday
4/21/11 |
Brian Tamanaha, Washington University Law
"What is 'General' Jurisprudence?: A Critique of Universalistic Claims by Philosophical Concepts of Law"
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OCTOBER
Thursday
10/21/10 |
Brian Bix, Law School
"Private Ordering and Family Law"
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NOVEMBER
Thursday
11/4/10 |
Judith Resnik,, Yale Law School
"Bring Back Bentham: Open Courts, Terror Trials, and Public Sphere(s)"
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Thursday
11/11/10 |
Alon Harel, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem - Law
"The Case for Discriminatory Sentencing: Why Equal Crimes Deserve Different Sanctions"
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Thursday
11/18/10 |
Chris Brummer, Georgetown Law
"International Organizations as Sources of International Financial Law"
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Thursday
11/25/10 |
Thanksgiving
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DECEMBER
Thursday
12/2/10 |
Avishalom Tor, Univ. of Haifa – Law/Notre Dame
"Behavioral Antitrust: A New Approach To The Rule of Reason After Leegin"
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Thursday
12/9/10 |
Jamal Greene, Columbia Law School
"The Anticanon"
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JANUARY
Thursday
1/21/10 |
Fionnuala Ni Aolain, University of Minnesota
"Gender and Post-Conflict Societies" |
Thursday
1/28/10 |
Allan Erbsen, University of Minnesota
"Impersonal Jurisdiction" |
FEBRUARY
Thursday
2/4/10 |
Erika Lee, University of Minnesota (History)
"Guarding the Gate: The Life and Business of the Angel Island Immigration Station, 1910-1940" |
Thursday
2/11/10 |
Claire Hill and Richard Painter
"Berle's Vision Beyond Shareholder Interests: Why Investment Bankers Should Have (Some) Personal Liability"
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Thursday
2/18/10 |
Greg Shaffer, University of Minnesota
"Transnational Legal Process Revisited" |
Thursday
2/25/10 |
Cheryl Boudreau, UC Davis (Political Science)
"Making Talk Cheap (and Problems Easy): How Legal and Political Institutions Can Facilitate Consensus."
[co-authored with Matthew McCubbins, Daniel Rodriguez, and Nicholas Weller] |
MARCH
Thursday
3/4/10 |
Janice Nadler, Northwestern
"Perceptions of Fairness" |
Thursday
3/11/10 |
Hari Osofsky, Washington and Lee
"Title TBA" |
Thursday
3/25/10 |
Dan Gifford, University of Minnesota
"Antitrust Aspects of Loyalty and Bundled Rebates in Europe and the United States" |
APRIL
Thursday
4/1/10 |
Jessica Silbey, Suffolk
"Rules for Innovation: Intellectual Property Law, Norms, and Culture" |
Thursday
4/8/10 |
Annual luncheon
for adjunct faculty
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Thursday
4/15/10 |
John Mikhail, Georgetown
"Unreasonable Risk: A Formal Analysis of Common Law Negligence" |
Thursday
4/22/10 |
Anupam Chander, UC Davis (visiting U. Chicago)
"The Electronic Silk Road" |
SEPTEMBER
Thursday
9/24/09 |
Michael Paulsen, University of St. Thomas School of Law
"The Power to Declare Peace"
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OCTOBER
Thursday
10/15/09 |
William W. Fisher III, Harvard University
"A Prize System as a Partial Solution to the Health Crisis in the Developing World"
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Thursday
10/22/09 |
Clive Walker, University of Leeds
"The Fate of Control Orders"
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Thursday
10/29/09 |
Eric Johnson, College of Law – University of Illinois
"Probability and Perspective in Criminal Law and Procedure"
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NOVEMBER
Thursday
11/5/09 |
Rebecca McLennan, University of California – Berkeley
"The Convict’s Two Lives"
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Thursday
11/12/09 |
Brad Karkkainen, University of Minnesota
"Law, Norms, and Governance of Transboundary Water Resources: Developments in Europe and North America"
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JANUARY
Thursday
1/22/09 |
Catherine Sharkey, New York University
"Agency Accountability: Federal Preemption's Future" |
Thursday
1/29/09 |
Leo Katz, University of Pennsylvania
"Why the Law Is So Perverse" |
FEBRUARY
Thursday
2/5/09 |
Katherine Sikkink, University of Minnesota (Political Science)
"Do Human Rights Trials Make a Difference?" |
Thursday
2/12/09 |
William McGeveran, University of Minnesota
"A Free Speech Amendment for the Lanham Act" |
Thursday
2/19/09 |
Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell University
"The Social Obligation Norm in American Property Law" |
Thursday
2/26/09 |
Susanna L. Blumenthal, University of Minnesota
"The Apprehension of Fraud in Nineteenth-Century American Law" |
MARCH
Thursday
3/5/09 |
Anne Coughlin, University of Virginia
"Interrogation Stories"
3:35 - 5:30 p.m., Room 471 |
Thursday
3/5/09 |
Patrick Keenan, University of Illinois
"Conflict Commerce" |
Thursday
3/12/09 |
Brian T. Fitzpatrick, Vanderbilt University
"Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards" |
Thursday
3/26/09 |
Richard Brooks, Yale Law School
"Groups and Individuals" |
APRIL
Thursday
4/2/09 |
David L. Faigman, University of California, Hastings
"Frames of Reference: Can Constitutionality Really Be Measured One Case at a Time?" |
Friday
4/10/09 |
Kim Forde-Mazrui, University of Virginia
"Tradition as a Suspect Justification: The Case of Different-Sex Marriage" |
Thursday
4/16/09 |
Susan Haack, University of Miami
"Proving Causation: The Holism of Warrant and the Atomism of Daubert" |
SEPTEMBER
Thursday
9/4/08 |
Meghan Ryan, University of Minnesota
"Does the Eighth Amendment Punishments Clause Prohibit Only Punishments That are Both Cruel and Unusual?" |
Thursday
9/11/08 |
Elizabeth Boyle and Minzee Kim, University of Minnesota (Sociology)
"International Law, State Action, and Outcomes for Individuals: The Case of Child Rights" |
Thursday
9/18/08 |
Christopher Sprigman, University of Virginia
"The Emergence of IP Norms in Stand-Up Comedy" |
Thursday
9/25/08 |
Daniel Schwarcz, University of Minnesota
"The British Approach to Consumer Financial Disputes: A Model for Reform in Insurance Law and Beyond" |
OCTOBER
Thursday
10/2/08 |
Thomas Merrill, Yale University
"The Origins of the Appellate Review Model in Administrative Law" |
Friday
10/10/08 |
Sean Coyle, University College, London
"Some Thoughts on Fuller's Jurisprudence" |
Thursday
10/16/08 |
Jeffrey Kahn, Southern Methodist University
"International Travel, National Security, and the Constitution in War and Peace" |
Thursday
10/30/08 |
Charles Silver, University of Texas
"Managing Lead Attorneys' Compensation in Multi-District Litigation" |
NOVEMBER
Thursday
11/6/08 |
Barry Feld and Shelley Schaefer (Sociology), University of Minnesota
"The Right to Counsel in Juvenile Court: Law
Reform, Judicious Non-Intervention, and Unintended Consequences" |
Thursday
11/13/08 |
Clarisa Long, Columbia University
"Interest Groups and Institutions in Patent and Copyright" |
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