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Winter 2022 Faculty Activities

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Winter 2022 Faculty Activities

Anne L. Alstott

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Child Care Reform After the Pandemic: Towards a Public Option,” Pugh Lecture in Taxation, University of San Diego School of Law, Apr. 2021

Publications

  • Politics, Policy, and Public Options (edited with Ganesh Sitaraman), Oxford University Press, 2021
  • Challenges in Designing Equitable Public Options (with Ganesh Sitaraman), in Politics, Policy, and Public Options (Sitaraman & Alstott eds., 2021)

Ian Ayres

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Power of Resisted Temptation,” Yale College Reunion, June 5, 2021
  • “The Right to Bear Arms,” Yale Federalist Society, Sept. 15, 2021
  • “401(k) Guardrails,” Bocconi-Oxford Workshop, Sept. 23, 2021

Publications

  • Guns and Property Preference: Testing the Impact of Gilles and Cynicism Conjectures Using Survey Data (with Pranjal Drall, Spurthi Jonnalagadda & Frederick Vars), 39 Quinnipiac Law Review (2021)
  • The Impact of Law Student Assistance on the Granting and Service of Temporary Restraining Orders (with Brendan Costello & Elizabeth Villarreal), 53 Connecticut Law Review (2021)
  • The Walmart Effect: Testing Private Interventions to Reduce Gun Suicide (with Zachary Shelley and Fredrick E. Vars), Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, (Jan. 2021) 
  • Your Liberty or Your Gun? A Survey of Psychiatrist Understanding of Mental Health Prohibitors (with Cara Newlon and Brian Barnett), Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, (Jan. 2021) 
  • Guests with Guns: Public Support for “No Carry” Defaults on Private Land (with Spurthi Jonnalagadda), Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, (Jan. 2021) 
  • Consumer Expropriation of Aesthetically Functional Trade Dress: Results from a Randomized Experiment (with Xiyin Tang), Southern California Law Review, (Feb. 2021)
  • Until I’m told otherwise, I prefer to call you ‘they,’ Wash. Post, Sept. 15, 2021

Selected Media Appearances

  • Digging a Hole Podcast, “Episode 20: Ian Ayres and Frederick E. Vars,” Apr. 20, 2021

Other Professional Highlights

  • Testimony to California Legislative Committee on the “Pink Tax” law

Jack M. Balkin

Lectures and Addresses

  • "Framework Originalism," Boot Camp on Constitutional Interpretation, Georgetown University Law Center, May 25, 2021
  • Governing Podcast, "America's New Gilded Age: The Cycles of Constitutional Time" with Clay S. Jenkinson, June 12, 2021
  • "Is the U.S. Constitution Up to the Task of Preserving American Democracy?"  Fair Elections and Free Speech Center, University of California-Irvine, Sept. 9, 2021
  • Yale Talk: Conversations with President Peter Salovey Podcast, “The First Amendment in the Information Age” (with Robert Post), Oct. 4, 2021 
  • The Facebook Files: What Next? Answers from Activism and Academia, Yale Information Society Project, Oct. 7, 2021

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

  • Member, Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States

Femi Cadmus

Lectures and Addresses

  • Speaker, AALL Executive Leadership Institute (Virtual Meeting), July 2021

Publications

  • Technology, Legal Information, and Access to Justice in Africa, in The Routledge Handbook of African Law: A Historical, Political, Social, and Economic Context of Law in Africa (Muna Ndulo & Cosmas Emeziem eds., 2021, Routledge)

Guido Calabresi

Lectures and Addresses

  • Attended and spoke at the conference: The Life & Work of Robert M. Cover at the Touro Law Center, Oct. 4–5, 2021
  • Spoke at a book launch (via Zoom) for the presentation of the Portuguese translation of The Future of Law and Economics in San Paolo, Brazil, Aug. 24, 2021

Selected Media Appearances

  • Interview for the online journal Giustizia Insieme, Rome, Italy, July 16, 2021
  • Interview for the online journal Giustizia Insieme, Rome, Italy, Sept. 13, 2021

Justin Driver

Lectures and Addresses

  • U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., “Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration,” May 17, 2021 (via Zoom)
  • Columbia University, Eric H. Holder Initiative for Civil and Political Rights, New York, NY, “The Future of the Supreme Court,” Panelist, May 19, 2021 (via Zoom)
  • University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Law, Letters & Society Concentration, Convocation Address, June 11, 2021 (via Zoom)
  • Classroom Law Project, Portland, OR, Freedom of Speech within the Schoolhouse Gate, June 28–29, 2021 (via Zoom)

 
Publications

  • The Supreme Court as Bad Teacher, 169 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1365 (2021)
  • The Supreme Court Review, 2020 (with David A. Strauss & Geoffrey R. Stone), University of Chicago Press (2021)
  • Two Cheers for a Free Speech Ruling, N.Y. Times, June 25, 2021
  • Why We Should All Want the Suspended Cheerleader to Win Her Supreme Court Case, Wash. Post, Apr. 30, 2021

 
Other Professional Highlights

  • Commissioner, Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Selection Committee, American Bar Association Silver Gavel Awards

Robert C. Ellickson

Lectures and Addresses

  • “The Role of Empirical Research in Defining the Scope of Constitutionally Protected Property Rights: A Tribute to Vicki Been,” Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Conference 2021, Williamsburg, VA, Oct. 1, 2021
  • American Law Institute, virtual Meeting of the Restatement of the Law (Fourth): Property, Oct. 7, 2021

 
Publications

  • The Zoning Straitjacket: The Freezing of American Neighborhoods of Single-Family Houses, 96 Ind. L.J. 395 (2021)
  • Zoning and the Cost of Housing: Evidence from Silicon Valley, Greater New Haven, and Greater Austin, 42 Cardozo L. Rev. 1611 (2021)

Daniel C. Esty

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Achieving Social Impact Goals and Transformation Powered by People,” BNY Mellon's Future First Forum, New York, NY (via Zoom), Apr. 16, 2021
  • Climate Change, Intelligence, and Global Security Conference: Keynote Address, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (via Zoom), Apr. 23, 2021
  • “Sustainable Investing and ESG Reporting.” IMD Stakeholder Management Board. Lausanne, Switzerland (via Zoom), Apr. 26, 2021
  • "What’s Innovative about International Environmental Governance?" UMASS-Boston Conference on UNEP at 50 (via Zoom), Apr. 27, 2021
  • “EU Border Carbon Adjustment Policies,” Webinar, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C. (via Zoom), Apr. 27, 2021
  • “Sustainability and the Energy Transition: A New Global Agenda,” Centro Argentino de Ingenieros & Yale Club Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina (via Zoom), May 4, 2021
  • “Using Innovation to Transition Towards a Low-Carbon Circular Economy,” United States-Sweden Climate Action Symposium, House of Sweden, Washington, D.C., May 6, 2021
  • “America’s Zero Carbon Action Plan,” Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, May 7, 2021
  • “Climate Policy Lab Roundtable: Green Banks,” Center for International Environment & Resource Policy, Tufts University, Medford, MA (via Zoom), May 10, 2021
  • “People-Centered Clean Energy Transition,” Workshop with Danish Ministry of Energy, Climate, and Utilities, Copenhagen, Denmark (via Zoom), May 25, 2021
  • “The Global Economy, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Law,” Leverhulme Experts Dialogue, Cambridge University (via Zoom), June 16, 2021
  • “Trade and Climate Change,” World Economic Forum, Cologny, Switzerland (via Zoom), June 22, 2021
  • “Pathways to Net Zero Emissions in the United States and China,” Global Alliance of Universities on Climate, Tsinghua University, Beijing (via Zoom), June 29, 2021
  • “Our Future in the Balance: The Role of Courts and Tribunals in Meeting the Climate Crisis,” British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, England (via Zoom), July 7, 2021
  • “Role of Universities in Solving Our Climate Crisis,” Global Alliance of Universities on Climate, New York, NY (via Zoom), Sept. 21, 2021
  • "Four Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future," Yale Campaign Launch Panel Discussion, Yale University, New Haven, CT (via Zoom), Oct. 2, 2021
  • “Public Investment for Decarbonization: Principles for Good Policy,” Yale School of the Environment Conference, New Haven, CT (via Zoom), Oct. 8, 2021
  • “Global Governance: Change and Improvement,” Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, Paris, France (via Zoom), Oct. 14, 2021
  • “Toward a Sustainable Future: Role of ESG Reporting,” University of Albany School of Business, Future of ESG Conference, Albany, NY, Keynote Speaker, Oct. 15, 2021

Publications

  • The End Environmental Externalities Manifesto: A Rights-Based Foundation for Environmental Law (with E. Donald Elliott), NYU Env’t L.J. 505 (2021)
  • Advanced Introduction to U.S. Environmental Law (with E. Donald Elliott), London: Elgar Publishing (2021)
  • Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future, SDG Action (Oct. 2021), https://sdg-action.org/remaking-capitalism-for-a-sustainable-future/

Other Professional Highlights

  • Department of Energy briefing on “America’s Zero-Carbon Action Plan,” Washington, D.C. (via Zoom), Apr. 28, 2021

Heather Gerken

Lectures and Addresses

  • “The Myth of the Laboratories of Democracy,” Matthew O. Tobriner Memorial Lecture, UC Hastings Law (via Zoom), Oct. 19, 2021

Publications

Miriam Gohara

Publications

  • Incarcerated Parents and Termination of Parental Rights in Connecticut: Recommendations for Reform (with Allison Durkin, Destiny Lopez, Eleanor Roberts), Connecticut Voices for Children (Mar. 12, 2021)

Other Professional Highlights

  • Led a team of Yale Law School students from the Peter Gruber Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and secured the release of Clyde Meikle following the Harford Superior Court’s reduction of Mr. Meikle’s 50-year prison sentence to 28 years. 
  • Elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation

Oona A. Hathaway

Lectures and Addresses

  • ABA Litigation Section, The State of the Rule of Law in National Security Post-9/11, New York, NY, Oct. 1, 2021
  • Rise of the Modern Legal Order and the Role of the United Nations Charter, Jindal Global Law School, India (via Zoom), Aug. 11, 2021
  • United Nations International Justice Day, The Rome Statute at 23: The Role of the ICC in the Regulation of Cyberwarfare, July 19, 2021
  • AUMF Reform, Brookings Institution, Congressional Study Group on Foreign Relations and National Security, Washington, D.C. (via Zoom), May 21, 2021
  • CFR Congressional Staff Webinar, Council on Foreign Relations, Apr. 2021

Publications

  • National Security Lawyering, 68 UCLA Law Review 2 (2021)
  • An Opportunity for Congress to Require Transparency of the Executive’s International Agreements (with Curtis Bradley & Jack Goldsmith), Just Security (Apr. 21, 2021)

 Other Professional Highlights

  • Reappointed Counselor to the Dean, Yale Law School

Christine Jolls

Lectures and Addresses

  • "The National Bureau of Economics (NBER) Law and Economics Program," Address to the Board of Directors of the NBER, Apr. 16, 2021

Publications

  • Employment Effects of Mandated Medical Leave: Some Evidence from State-Law Variation, in Paid Leave for Illness, Medical Needs, and Disabilities, AEI-Brookings Institution, pp. 60–82 (Nov. 2020)

Other Professional Highlights

  • Organized and chaired the annual NBER Summer Institute Law and Economics Workshop, July 28, 2021
  • Served on the 2020 American Law and Economics Association Program Committee

Harold Hongju Koh

Lectures and Addresses

  • “The Refugee Convention at 70: Achievements and Challenges,” Keynote Address, Refugees International Conference, Washington, D.C. (virtual), July 27, 2021
  • “How Should I Live My Life as a Lawyer,” Yale Law School, Office of Student Affairs, Orientation 2.0, Aug. 31, 2021
  • “Remarks at Launch of the Fourth Report on the EU Guidelines on Promoting Compliance with International Humanitarian Law” (IHL), Llubljana, Slovenia (virtual), Sept. 8, 2021 
  • “The United States and CEDAW,” Columbia Law School, Keynote remarks delivered at the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law Roundtable, Sept. 10, 2021
  • “Inside the Biden Administration,” National Security Group, Yale Law School, Sept. 20, 2021
  • “The Biden Administration and International Law and Justice,” JUSTICE Annual Human Rights Conference 2021 Keynote Address, London, Oct. 11, 2021

Publications

  • Remembering Ralph (with E. Scott Gilbert & Larry Tu), 62 BC L. Rev. 2684 (2021)
  • The “Gants Principles” for Online Dispute Resolution: Realizing the Chief Justice’s Vision for Courts in the Cloud, 62 BC L. Rev. 2768 (2021)
  • Duality of Responsibility in International Law, Foreword to Thomas Weatherall, Cambridge University Press (2021)

Other Professional Highlights

  • George Eastman Visiting Professor and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University (2021-22)
  • Senior Advisor, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State (Jan. 20, 2021–Oct. 1, 2022)

Jonathan R. Macey

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Ethical Investing, Why Here? “Why Now?,” George Mason University Conference on Woke Investing, June 22, 2021
  • Address to Acton University Panel on Public Policy’s Effect on Markets, June 23, 2021
  • “ESG Investing, Why Here? Why Now?,” Penn/Wharton Seminar on Corporate Governance, Sept. 30, 2021

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

  • Chair, Yale University Committee on Fossil Fuel Investment Principles
  • Member Economic Advisory Board, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
  • Chair, Yale University Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR)

Tracey L. Meares

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Policing, and the Derek Chauvin Trial,” Panelist, YLS Teach-In Series, Apr. 2021
  • “Equality Under the Law and the Rule of Law,” Panelist, Rule of Law Symposium, Federal Bar Council, May 2021
  • “IBM Research,” Racial and Social Justice Seminar Series, May 2021
  • “My City at Peace,” Panelist, Season of Peace Conference, June 2021
  • “Policing as a Public Good,” Yale Alumni Club of St. Louis, Oct. 2021

Publications

  • The Wolf We Feed: Democracy, Caste, and Legitimacy (with B. Justice), Michigan Law Review Online, Vol. 119:95, May 2021
  • Does the Law Recognize Legal Socialization (with B. Justice), Journal of Social Issues, Vol 77: no. 2, June 2021 

Selected Media Appearances

  • Sudhir Breaks the Internet with Sudhir Venkatesh, “Designed to Tear Us Apart,” Freakonomics Podcast, Apr. 2021
  • Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Public Health on Call Podcast, May 2021
  • “What Chauvin’s 22.5-year sentence could mean for changing police behavior,” PBS News Hour, June 2021
  • “Yale’s Tracey Meares Deconstructs Our Relationship with the Police,” Key Conversations with Phi Beta Kappa, Podcast, Sept. 2021

Other Professional Highlights

  • Advisory Board Member for U.S. Centre, London School of Economics

Samuel Moyn

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Human Rights between Solution and Problem,” University College-Dublin, When Human Rights Become Part of the Problem Conference keynote, May 7, 2021
  • “Are Human Rights Jewish?” Bible and Human Rights Conference, Hebrew University-Jerusalem, June 8, 2021
  • Testimony, Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, June 30, 2021
  • “Humane and Endless War,” Harvard Law School Global Justice Workshop, Sept. 14, 2021

 
Publications

  • Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (coeditor, with Robert S. Schine), (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2021)
  • Hermann Cohen: Writings on Neo-Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy, Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought, Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry, (Brandeis: Brandeis University Press, 2021)
  • The Myth of Eternal Return and the Politics of Judicial Review, Missouri Law Review 86, 2 (2021)
  • Basic Needs and the Discovery of Global Poverty, in Peter Sloman, Daniel Zamora Vargas, and Pedro Ramos Pinto, eds., Universal Basic Income in Historical Perspective (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
  • On the Domestication of Critical Legal History (with Justin Desautels-Stein), History & Theory 60, 2 (June 2021)
  • Historiography, Ideology, and Law: An Introduction (with Justin Desautels-Stein), History & Theory 60, 2 (June 2021)
  • Shutting Down the Circus, The New Statesman, Sept. 29, 2021
  • Activism and Consequences, Just Security, Sept. 18, 2021
  • The Long and the Short of the History of the Laws of War, Lawfare, Sept. 14, 2021
  • Thoughts for the Times on War without Death, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sept. 11, 2021
  • I Would Not Take Prisoners: Tolstoy’s Case against Making War Humane, Lit Hub, Sept. 10, 2021
  • The Terrors of War, The Nation, Sept. 20, 2021
  • America Is Giving the World a Disturbing New Form of War, N.Y. Times, Sept. 3, 2021, Sunday Review, Sept. 5, 2021
  • Michael Ratner’s Tragedy, and Ours, New York Review of Books, Sept. 1, 2021 (with response to Kenneth Roth’s criticism, “Litigating the War on Terror: An Exchange,” Sept. 8, 2021)
  • How the U.S. Created a World of Endless War, The Guardian, August 31, 2021
  • Biden Pulled Troops Out of Afghanistan, He Didn’t End the ‘Forever War,’ Wash. Post, August 17, 2021
  • We the People Have a Few Ideas about the Constitution, N.Y. Times, August 4, 2021
  • The Ethics of Coalition-Building, Dissent, Summer 2021
  • Human Rights Have Lost Their Monopoly as a Framework for Reform, Open Global Rights, May 19, 2021
  • Just How Transformational Is the Biden Presidency?, N.Y. Times, May 2, 2021
  • Why Joe Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Doesn’t Mark the End of America’s Forever War, New Statesman, Apr. 19, 2021

Douglas NeJaime

Lectures and Addresses

  • Joel Silidker Memorial Lecture, Yale School of Medicine, Parenthood in the Age of LGBT Equality and Assisted Reproduction (May 2021)
  • Presenter, “The ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Addressing Inequality Through Functional Regulation,” Nonmarriage Roundtable, Washington University School of Law (Oct. 2021)
  • Presenter, “The ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Addressing Inequality Through Functional Regulation,” Faculty Workshop, Boston University School of Law (Sept. 2021)
  • Presenter, “The Connecticut Parentage Act,” Annual Conference of Connecticut Family Court Judges (Sept. 2021)
  • Presenter, “Answering the Lochner Objection: Substantive Due Process and the Role of Courts in a Democracy,” Faculty Colloquium, University of Denver Sturm College of Law (Sept. 2021)
  • Presenter, “The Connecticut Parentage Act,” Connecticut Probate Assembly (Sept. 2021)
  • Presenter, “Answering the Lochner Objection: Substantive Due Process and the Role of Courts in a Democracy,” Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School (Sept. 2021)
  • Speaker, After Fulton, Lavender Law (July 2021)
  • Presenter, “Biology, Illegitimacy, and Parentage,” International Research Seminar, Bekker Programme, Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (May 2021)

Publications

  • Biology and Illegitimacy, 74 SMU Law Review 259 (2021)
  • Who Is a Parent?, ABA Family Advocate (Spring 2021)

Nicholas R. Parrillo

Lectures and Addresses

  • Invited Panelist, “Non-Delegation? Or No Divesting? Art. I, Sec. 1 at the Founding and Today,” Federalist Society Executive Branch Review Week, May 17, 2021 (virtual) 
  • Conference Organizer, Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable, Yale Law School, Sept. 17, 2021 (converted from live conference to series of virtual mini-roundtables)
  • Invited Commentator, Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium on the 75th Anniversary of the Administrative Procedure Act, Oct. 1, 2021 (virtual) 

 
Publications

  • A Critical Assessment of the Originalist Case Against Administrative Regulatory Power: New Evidence from the Federal Tax on Private Real Estate in the 1790s, Yale Law Journal 130 (2021)
  • Towards an Administrative Law of Central Banking, Oxford Business Law Blog, May 17, 2021 (with Peter Conti-Brown and Yair Listokin)
  • Review of Gregory Ablavksy’s Federal Ground, American Journal of Legal History (2021)

Robert C. Post

Lectures and Addresses

  • Debated with Alan Dershowitz at the Steamboat Institute in Colorado on “Making Space for Diversity of Ideas: A Debate on Whether Universities Should Limit Political Expression or Academic Research and Writing of Faculty,” Mar. 31, 2021
  • “Making Regulation Work,” Vanderbilt Law School, Apr. 6, 2021
  • “Regulating Speech in an Internet Age,” Century Club, New York City, Apr. 8, 2021
  • “The Supreme Court and the National Debate,” New York Historical Society, Apr. 11, 2021
  • Addressed the CEU Democracy Institute, Underground Slam Academy, Budapest, Hungary, Apr. 22, 2021
  • “Contemporary Controversies Over Freedom of Speech and Antitrust Law,” Hillspire, Silicon Valley, May 11, 2021
  • “Is There Academic Freedom in an Online World?,” a webinar sponsored by the Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, June 22, 2021
  • “Is There Such a Thing as Free Speech?,” Cambridge University, England, July 2, 2021
  • Spoke at the Annual meeting of the International Society of Public Law on the Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech, July 6, 2021
  • “Trump, Facebook and the Oversight Board: What Future for Platform Adjudication?,” European University Institute, July 9, 2021
  • “Saving the News (9) Facebook,” First Amendment Salon July 13, 2021
  • “What Does Free Speech Mean on Campus?,” Abrams Institute Conversations, Aug. 4, 2021
  • Spoke on the state of the news media at a conference at Alabama School of Law, Sept. 17, 2021
  • Spoke on academic freedom and parochial schools to the legal theory workshop of St. John’s University School of Law, Sept. 24, 2021
  • “Misinformation and Algorithms and the Regulation of the Internet,” Fundamental Rights Forum at the Vienna Rathaus, Oct. 11, 2021
  • “Labor and the Taft Court,” legal history colloquium at NYU Law School, Oct. 12, 2021

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

  • Joined the Board of Advisors, Global Observatory on Academic Freedom

George L. Priest

Lectures and Addresses

  • Participated in a discussion of The Rise of Law and Economics: An Intellectual History at a Conference for Federal and State Judges at the George Mason University Law and Economics Center’s Judicial Education Program, Beaver Creek, CO
  • Discussed The Rise of Law and Economics: An Intellectual History at the International Center for Law & Economics Scholars Meeting on “The Legacy of and Future of Law and Economics,” Portland, OR
  • Presented a paper, “The Government versus the Market in Protecting against Economic Misfortune” at the Research Roundtable on Capitalism and the Rule of Law, Bachelor Gulch, CO

Publications

W. Michael Reisman

Lectures and Addresses

  • Foreign Policy Association Board Meeting (virtual), May 12, 2021
  • Institut de Droit International (IDI) 80th Session (virtual), Aug. 23–Sept. 3, 2021

Judith Resnik

Lectures and Addresses

  • Panelist: Yale Law Women Achievement Award Ceremony for Anita Hill, Apr. 22, 2021
  • Moderator: “Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Policing, and the Derek Chauvin Trial,” part of the Yale Law School Teach-In Series, Yale Law School, Apr. 23, 2021
  • Co-convener: “Case Studies of Successful Advocacy Efforts,” part of the Fines, Fees, and the Funding of Government Services, virtual workshop series from the Liman Center at Yale Law School, the Fines & Fees Justice Center, and Berkeley Law’s Policy Advocacy Clinic, Apr. 30, 2021
  • Presenter: “Puzzling about Trans-procedural Substantive Norms across Time and Domains,” for the 4th Comparative Procedural Law and Justice webinar, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law, May 7, 2021
  • Commentator: Judges in Lawyerless Courts for the AALS Virtual Poverty Law Section Workshop, May 25, 2021
  • Co -convener: “Spending on Police and Punishment, Public Budgets, and Calls to Defund,” part of the Fines, Fees, and the Funding of Government Services, virtual workshop series from the Liman Center at Yale Law School, the Fines & Fees Justice Center, and Berkeley Law’s Policy Advocacy Clinic, June 18, 2021
  • Co-convener: “The Impact of Social Movements,” part of the Fines, Fees, and the Funding of Government Services, virtual workshop series from the Liman Center at Yale Law School, the Fines & Fees Justice Center, and Berkeley Law’s Policy Advocacy Clinic, July 16, 2021
  • Moderator: 2020–2021 Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship Lecture, “The Authority of the Courts and the Peril of Politics” with United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Canada Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, Sept. 8, 2021
  • Chair: Urgency and Legitimacy, Yale Global Constitutionalism Seminar, A Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, Sept. 9–11, 2021
  • Presenter and moderator: Then and Now: Fifty Years After Attica, Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Sept. 14, 2021
  • Speaker: Graduating, Separating, and Working Together — Zooming Across Borders, for the graduation ceremony, UCL Faculty of Laws, Sept. 23, 2021
  • Presenter: Living and Creating New Legal Commitments, for the conference, The Life and Work of Robert M. Cover, Touro Law Center via Zoom, Oct. 4, 2021
  • Keynote Lecture: The Impermissible in Punishment: “. . . if whipping were to be authorized . . .,” for the conference Torture, Death Penalty, Detention: Beccaria and His Legacies, Columbia University via Zoom, Oct. 15, 2021

Publications

  • Urgency and Legitimacy (Yale Global Constitutionalism Seminar, A Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, 2021)
  • “Constituting a Civil Legal System Called “Just”: Law, Money, Power, and Publicity,” in New Pathways to Civil Justice in Europe (eds. Xandra Kramer, Alexandre Biard, Jos Hoevenaars, and Erlis Themeli, Springer, 2021)
  • “Iconic, Complex and Contested Institutions,” foreword in Court Architecture, Design and Social Justice (eds. Emma Henderson and Kirsty Duncanson, Routledge, 2021)
  •  “Representing What? Gender, Race, Class, and the Struggle for the Identity and the Legitimacy of Courts,” 15 Law and Ethics of Human Rights 1 (2021)
  • “Mature Aggregation and Angst: Reframing Complex Litigation by Echoing Frances McGovern’s Early Insights into Remedial Innovation,” 84 Law and Contemporary Problems 231 (2021)

Selected Media Appearances

  • “Ending profound prison isolation protects us all” (with Anna VanCleave), Hearst Connecticut Media Group, May 28, 2021

Other Professional Highlights

  • Statement, Changes in the Federal Courts and Changes Needed on the U.S. Supreme Court, submitted and presented to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, June 30, 2021
  • Above the Fray, Report of the Task Force on Federal Judicial Selection of the Project on Government Oversight of The Constitution Project, 2019-2021, submitted for the Record to the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Statement, Legislative Regulation of Isolation in Prison, re: An Act Amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for solitary confinement (with Jenny Carroll, Skylar Albertson, Sarita Benesch, and Wynne Muscatine Graham), submitted and presented to the Senate’s Democratic Policy Committee of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Aug. 10, 2021

Carol M. Rose

Lectures and Addresses

  • Conference, Lingering Racial Covenants in Land Records: Modern Approaches to Reform, American Land Title Association, Washington, D.C., Apr. 20, 2021 (remote)
  • “Property, Legal Institutions and Economic History,” Symposium on Claire Priest’s Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America, New Haven, CT, Sept. 17, 2021
  • “What Do Empirics Have to Do With It? Vicki Been’s Contribution to Environmental Justice Studies,” Brigham Kanner Property Rights Conference and Prize Presentation, William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA, Oct. 1, 2021

Other Professional Highlights

  • Attended Advisers and Members Consultative Group, Restatement Fourth of Property, American Law Institute, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 7, 2021 (remote)

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Lectures and Addresses

  • Speaker, “LATAM Focus: Operation Car Wash and Its Political Implications in Brazil,” Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, May 18, 2021
  • Speaker, Anti-Corruption Podcast with Moldovan anti-corruption academics and activists, organized by Museum of Political Corruption, Albany NY with U.S. State Department support, July 23, 2021
  • Keynote speaker a Zoom conference the control of corruption, organized by the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. 5, 2021
  • Participant in a discussion of Democracy and Executive Power organized by Neysun Mahboubi on the Clubhouse Law and Governance Channel, Oct. 20, 2021

Publications

  • Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and France (Yale University Press)
  • “Covid and Corruption” Eunomía: Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad, No. 20 (Apr. 2021–Sept. 2021), pp. 16-36 (English), pp. 37-60 (Spanish) 
  • “Time and the Virus,” Débat: La decision publique, l’expertise et le droit: Qu’avons-nous appris de la crise COVID?, Chemins Publics, June 2021
  • Interview with Ricardo Balthazar, “Redução do número de partidos ajudaria a deter corrupçãno brasil, diz especialista americana,” Folha de São Paulo, June 4, 2021

David N. Schleicher

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Exclusionary Zoning’s Confused Defenders,” Public Law in the States, University of Wisconsin, June 23, 2021
  • Panelist, Electoral Reform in New York City, Manhattan Institute, July 7, 202
  • Panelist, University of North Carolina Law School Conference on Home Rule, Oct. 8, 2021
  • “How Zoning Screws Everything Up,” Guest, Model Citizen Podcast with Will Wilkinson, Apr. 16, 2021

Publications

  • Constitutional Law for NIMBYs: A Review of 'Principles of Home Rule for the 21st Century' by the National League of Cities, 81 Ohio State Law Journal 883 (2021)
  • The Machine Man, Slow Boring, June 22, 2021
  • We, The People Have a Few Ideas, N.Y. Times, Aug. 4, 2021

Selected Media Appearances

  • Quoted in Matt Yglesias, Who is the racial justice case for zoning reform for?, Slow Boring, Apr. 22, 2021
  • Quoted in Paul Williams, Civil Liberties Group Backs Ohio's Bid to Ax Tax Cut Limit Law, Law360, May 27, 2021
  • Quoted in Meagan Flynn and Michael Brice-Saddler, D.C. statehood could cost more than $1 billion. City officials aren’t fazed, Wash. Post, June 4, 2021
  • Quoted in David Freedlander, The Company Eric Adams Keeps, NY Magazine, June 17, 2021
  • Quoted in Daniel Marans, Eric Adams Leads New York City Mayoral Race, Huffington Post, June 22, 2021
  • Quoted in Zak Cheney-Rice, What Eric Adams’s Success Reveals About ‘Defund the Police,' New York Magazine, June 25, 2021
  • Quoted in Benjamin Wallace-Wells, Eric Adams’s Victory and the Uncertainty of the Biden-Era Democratic Party, The New Yorker, July 8, 2021
  • Quoted in Emily Badger, Covid Didn’t Kill Cities. Why Was That Prophecy So Alluring?, N.Y. Times, July 12, 2021
  • Quoted in Daniel Marans, Ohio Democrat Bets Biden's Agenda Will Help, Not Hurt, With Swing Voters, Huffington Post, Aug. 28, 2021
  • Quoted in Timothy B. Lee, How California plans to turn the screws on NIMBY cities, Full Stack Economics, Sept. 24, 2021

Other Professional Highlights

  • Co-Founder, State and Local Government Law Blog (SLoG blog), sloglawblog.org
  • Season Three, Co-host, Digging a Hole Podcast

Vicki Schultz

Lectures and Addresses

  • Critical Perspectives Talk, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Apr. 22, 2021
  • Foundations Lecture Series, Lecture on Feminist Theory, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Apr. 14, 2021
  • Admitted Students Program: Gender Justice and LGBTQI+ Rights @YLS: A Faculty and Student Perspective, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Apr. 12, 2021

Publications

  • How Andrew Cuomo Exploits Public Confusion over the Definition of Sexual Harassment (with Brian Soucek), NBC News / Think, Apr. 30, 2021.

Selected Media Appearances

  • Quoted in Alan Greenblatt, The Damning Details of Andrew Cuomo’s Behavior, Governing: The Future of States and Localities, Aug. 4, 2021 
  • Interviewed for the Eddie Mair program, LBC Studio, London, England, Aug. 4, 2021
  • Quoted in Leah Fester, Workplace Harassment in the Age of Remote Work, N.Y. Times, June 8, 2021
  • Interviewed by Thomas W. Rowe on Reuters Video: Amid Cuomo Allegations, A Surge in State Laws to Fight Harassment, Mar. 12, 2021

Reva Siegel

Lectures and Addresses 

  • Presented the first draft of “Answering the Lochner Objection: Substantive Due Process and the Role of Courts in a Constitutional Democracy” with Douglas NeJaime, The Unraveling New Deal Settlement, Cornell Law School, June 12, 2020
  • Discussed women’s movements for voting rights with high school educators; helped moderate a session with state lawmakers discussing their experiences coordinating family and work roles, Montpellier, VA, July 24, 2020
  • “The Nineteenth Amendment at 100,” moderated conversation, American Constitution Society, Washington, D.C., Aug. 26, 2020
  • Discussed the manuscript of “When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere: A New Account of Public Safety Regulation Under Heller” (with Joseph Blocher), American Constitution Society Progressive Scholarship Workshop, Yale Law School, Sept. 21, 2020
  • Keynote: “A Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg—An Unconventional Reading of United States v. Virginia,” Women in the Law, New York City Bar, Sept. 25, 2020
  • “A New History for the ERA in a New Century,” Two Centuries of the Equal Rights Amendment, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Sept. 25, 2020
  • “Women’s Voices, Women’s Votes in the 1920s,” On Account of Sex, The Long Nineteenth Amendment: Women, Voting, and the Future of American Democracy, Harvard University, Oct. 1, 2020
  • Frank Irvine Lecture: “Public Memory, the Nineteenth Amendment, and the Democratization of the Family,” Cornell Law School, Oct. 2, 2020
  • “When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere: A New Account of Public Safety Regulation Under Heller” on panel “The Power to Regulate,” Northwestern University Law Review Symposium on "The Second Amendment's Next Chapter," Oct. 9, 2020
  • Discussed manuscript of “When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere: A New Account of Public Safety Regulation Under Heller” (with Joseph Blocher) at Faculty Workshop, Yale Law School, Nov. 2, 2020
  • Discussed manuscript of “Why Restrict Abortion? Expanding the Frame on June Medical,” University of Chicago Constitutional Law Workshop, University of Chicago Law School, Jan. 11, 2021
  • Discussed the manuscript of “Conscience Wars: Complicity-Based Conscience Claims in Religion and Politics,” 124 Yale L.J. 2516 (2015) (with Doug NeJaime), Free Exercise Clinic Speaker Series, Yale Law School, Feb. 12, 2021
  • “The Past and Future of Reproductive Choice,” moderated conversation with Linda Greenhouse, Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 24, 2021
  • “Guns and Democracy” (with Joseph Blocher), Brennan Century Symposium on the Second Amendment, Feb. 26, 2021
  • Moderated conversation with Cecille Richards, who gave the Gruber Global Justice and Women’s Rights Lecture, Yale Law School, Mar. 9, 2021
  • Discussed manuscript of “The Nineteenth Amendment and the Politics of Constitutional Memory,” Seventh Annual Salmon P. Chase Distinguished Faculty Colloquium, Georgetown Center for the Constitution, Apr. 23, 2021
  • “Contesting the Meaning of Infrastructure: Towards a New Agenda for Law and Political Economy,” Law and Political Economy: Democracy After Neoliberalism, Yale Law School, Apr. 25, 2021 
  • Virtual Roundtable: Reproductive Justice in the United States and Argentina, Discussed developments in reproductive justice in the Americas with Paola Bergallo and Caroline Bettinger-Lopez for the Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable Series and Women and Foreign Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations, May 25, 2021
  • “Why Restrict Abortion? What We Learn by Expanding the Frame on the Abortion Debate” Plenary Panel, Annual Health Law Professors Conference, Northeastern Law School, June 11, 2021
  • “Guns and Democracy” (with Joseph Blocher), Gun Violence and Human Rights, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, June 29, 2021
  • Co-moderated (with Ruth Rubio Marin) Forum on Gender as an Axis of Constitutional Contestation, The Future of Public Law, Annual Conference, International Society for Constitutional Law (ICON-S), July 6, 2021
  • “Law, Politics, and Religion,” (with Robert Post), Global Constitutionalism Seminar, Yale Law School, Sept. 9, 2021
  • Presented the manuscript of “Answering the Lochner Objection: Substantive Due Process and the Role of Courts in a Constitutional Democracy” with Douglas NeJaime, University of Denver Faculty Colloquium, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Sept. 23, 2021
  • Discussed the manuscript of “Answering the Lochner Objection: Substantive Due Process and the Role of Courts in a Constitutional Democracy” with Douglas NeJaime, American Constitution Society Progressive Scholarship Workshop, Yale Law School, Oct. 12, 2021

Publications

  • What Obergefell v. Hodges Should Have Said, Concurring Opinion (with Douglas NeJaime), in What Obergefell Should Have Said (Jack Balkin ed. 2020) 
  • Conscience Wars in the Americas (with Douglas NeJaime), 5 Latin Am. L. Rev. (2020) 
  • Guerras de conciencia en las Américas (Conscience Wars in the Americas) (with Doug NeJaime), 5 Latin Am. L. Rev. (2020) 
  • Why Regulate Guns? (with Joseph Blocher), 48(4) J. L. Med. & Ethics (2020)
  • When Guns Threaten the Public Sphere: A New Account of Public Safety Regulation Under Heller (with Joseph Blocher), 115 Nw L. REV. 139 (2021) 
  • Guns are a Threat to the Body Politic (with Joseph Blocher), The Atlantic, Mar. 8, 2021 
  • Guns and Democracy (with Joseph Blocher), in Protests, Insurrection, and the Second Amendment, Brennan Center for Justice (Eric Ruben ed. 2021)

Other Professional Highlights

  • Brief of Amici Curiae Constitutional Law Professors Erwin Chemerinsky, Noah Feldman, Reva Siegel, and Julie C. Suk, in Support of Neither Party, Virginia v. Ferriero, No. 1:20-cv-00242 (D.D.C. June 29, 2020)
  • Brief of Equal Protection Constitutional Law Scholars Serena Mayeri, Melissa Murray, and Reva Siegel as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents,  Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., No. 19-1392, 2021 WL 4340072 (2021)

Tom R. Tyler

Lectures and addresses

  • “Procedural Justice in Prosecution,” Annual training day, prosecutors of Philadelphia, Nov. 6, 2020
  • “Public Opinion About Judges,” Dark Money, American Association of Law Schools, webinar, Jan. 15, 2021
  • “Policing and Racism,” American Psychological Society, webinar, May 21, 2021
  • “Policing Style and Public Trust in the Police,” Keynote address, Australia-New Zealand Society of Evidence Based Policing, Zoom, Aug. 16, 2021
  • “The Popular Legitimacy of Courts,” Keynote address, Crystal Scales of Justice Prize, European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice, Council of Europe, Zoom, Oct. 1, 2021

Publications

  • Reconciling police and communities with apologies, acknowledgements, or both. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 687, 202-215. Meares, T., O’Brien, T. & Tyler, T.R. (2020).
  • Authorities and communities: Can authorities shape cooperation with communities on a group level. Psychology, Public Policy and Law, 26,69-87. O’Brien, T. & Tyler, T.R. (2020).
  • Procedural justice training reduces police use of force and complaints against officers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1920671117. Wood, G., Tyler, T.R. & Papachristos, A. (2020).
  • Beyond the law. Boston University Law Review, 100, 1017-1046. Quattlebaum, M. & Tyler, T.R. (2020).
  • Procedurally just organizational climates may improve relations between corrections officers and incarcerated individuals. Psychology, Crime and Law, 27, 456-475. Peterman, D.E., Rubin-Thomas, E., O’Brien, T., Richeson, J., Casey, B.J., Meares, T., Tyler, T.R. & Baskin-Sommers, A. (2021).
  • Reimagining American Policing. University of California Irvine Law Review, 11(5), 1387-1414. Tyler, T.R. (2021).
  • Community vitality as a theory of governance for online interaction. Yale Journal of Law and Technology, 23 (Special issue 1). Online publication. Badiei, F., Meares, T., & Tyler, T.R. (Fall, 2021).
  • Psychology and legal realism. Mertz, B. & Klug, H. (Eds). Handbook of Modern Legal Realism. Edward Elgar. Tyler, T.R. (2021).

James Q. Whitman

Lectures and Addresses

  • "From Masters of Slaves to Lords of Lands,” Max Planck/Tel Aviv Law School Legal History Workshop

Other Professional Highlights

  • Elected Honorary Fellow, American Society for Legal History

Michael J. Wishnie

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Prison Gerrymandering,” NAACP Annual Convention (remote), July 2021
  • “Case Theory in Veterans Litigation,” National Law School Veterans Clinic Consortium (remote), Sept. 2021
  • “Military Liability in Civilian Courts: The Future of the Feres Doctrine and ‘Bad Paper’ Discharges,” 2021 Alabama Military Law Symposium, Birmingham, AL, Aug. 2021

Other Professional Highlights

  • Kennedy v. Whitley, --- F.Supp.3d ---- 2021 WL 4533198 (D.Conn. Apr. 26, 2021) (granting final approval to settlement in nation-wide class action on behalf of post-9/11 U.S. Army veterans with a less-than-fully-honorable discharge and PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or an experience of military sexual trauma)
  • Manker v. Del Toro, No. 3:18-cv-00372-CSH (D.Conn. Oct. 12, 2021) (order granting preliminary approval to settlement in nation-wide class action on behalf of post-9/11 Navy and Marine Corps veterans with a less-than-fully-honorable discharge and a diagnosis or symptoms of PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or other related mental health conditions)
  • Johnson v. Kendall, No. 3:21-cv-01214-CSH (D.Conn.) (filed Sept. 13, 2021) (proposed nation-wide class action suit on behalf of post-9/11 U.S. Air Force veterans with a less-than-fully-honorable discharge and mental health conditions such as PTSD, traumatic brain injury, or experiences of military sexual trauma or intimate partner violence, resulting in impairment that substantially limits major life activity)
  • Savino v. Souza, No. 1:20-cv-10617-WGY (D.Mass. May 13, 2021) (granting final approval to settlement in facility-wide habeas class action on behalf of immigration detainees at risk of COVID infection, after population reduced from 148 to 7 persons)
  • De La Cruz Hernandez v. Moniz, 2021 WL 3174915 (D.Mass. May 24, 2021) (granting writ of habeas corpus and ordering bond hearing for long-term ICE detainee)
  • Perea v. Industrial Pallet, LLC, No. 3:21-cv-00533-MPS (D.Conn. Aug. 5, 2021) (denying motion to dismiss 42 U.S.C. § 1981 hostile work environment claims on behalf of 24 employees)
  • Doe v. United States, 141 S.Ct. 1498 (2021) (Thomas, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (in case involving tort claims by woman raped while cadet at West Point, contending Supreme Court should grant certiorari and Feres doctrine that bars service-members from suing military under Federal Tort Claims Act)

John Fabian Witt

Lectures and Addresses

  • “American Contagions: Unexpected Pasts, Unwieldy Presents, and Contested Futures,” Preparing for the Next Pandemic: Learning from the Past and the Present, University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN, Apr. 22, 2021
  • “Epidemics & the Constitution: A Contested History,” Yale College Reunions Lecture, New Haven, CT, May 21, 2021
  • “Tort Law’s New Quarantinism” (with Sierra Stubbs), DePaul University Clifford Symposium, Chicago, IL, June 4, 2021 (with Sierra Stubbs)
  • “The Laws of Armed Conflict: A Historical View,” U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, PA, June 17, 2021
  • Guest Host, Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1, Sept. 7, 2021
  • Annual Nolan Fowler Constitution Day Lecture, Tennessee Tech, Cookeville, TN, Sept. 13, 2021
  • Sir Robert Lowe Memorial Luncheon, Yale College Independent Party, Oct. 1, 2021

Publications

  • America’s Forgotten Civil Rights Movement (reviewing Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction (Norton, 2021)), Wash. Post, Apr. 23, 2021 
  • Oh, the Humanity, Just Security, Sept. 8, 2021
  • Fishing, Not Catching, in the History of the Law, Balkinization, Sept. 20, 2021

Other Professional Highlights

  • Immigrant History Initiative, a Davenport College Tea, with Kathy Lu & Julia Wang, Oct. 6, 2021