Winter 2023 Faculty Activities

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Winter 2023 Faculty Activities

Anne Alstott

Lectures and Addresses

WPATH Panel, “When Science Is Misused in Law: How to Address the Biased Science that Underlies Legal Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Youth,” Sept. 18, 2022
Solomon Center Panel, “Legal and Policy Challenges Around Access to Gender-Affirming Care,” Oct. 17, 2022
Yale Law Women Panel, “Rights and Wrong: Gender and the Evolving Court,” Oct. 21, 2022

Publications

Scientific Misinformation Is Criminalizing the Standard of Care for Transgender Youth (with C. Lepore and M. McNamara), JAMA Pediatr. 2022; 176 (10): 965–966, doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.2959
Scientific Misinformation and Gender Affirming Care: Tools for Providers on the Front Lines (with M. McNamara, C. Lepore, R. Kamody, L. Kuper, N. Szilagyi, S. Boulware, and C. Olezeski), J. Adolesc. Health, 2022 Sept., 71(3): 251-253, doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.06.008

Other Professional Highlights

Brief of Amici Curiae Hussein Abdul-Latif, Susan D. Boulware, Rebecca Kamody, Laura Kuper, Meredithe McNamara, Christy Olezeski, Nathalie Szilagyi, and Anne Alstott in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees, Eknes-Tucker v. Governor, State of Alabama, On Appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama No. 2:22-cv-00184-LCB
“A Critical Review of the June 2022 Florida Medicaid Report on the Medical Treatment of Gender Dysphoria” (with Meredithe McNamara et al.), July 8, 2022
“Biased Science: the Texas and Alabama Measures Criminalizing Medical Treatment for Transgender Children and Adolescents Rely on Inaccurate and Misleading Scientific Claims” (with Susan Boulware et al.), Apr. 28, 2022

Jack M. Balkin

Lectures and Addresses

Lecture, “Framework Originalism,” Boot Camp on Constitutional Interpretation, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., May 24, 2022
Interview and Discussion, “Social Media and the First Amendment,” Lotus Club, New York City, June 16, 2022

Publications

To Reform Social Media, Reform Informational Capitalism, in Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds., Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Guido Calabresi

Lectures and Addresses

Attended and participated in the seminar, Intelligenza artificiale e responsabilità civile: il problema delle auto a guida autonoma (via Zoom) at the Università degli studi di Roma, Apr. 12, 2022
Spoke at the Unveiling and Presentation of the Portrait of Richard Ravitch to Yale Law School, Sept. 11, 2022
Yale Law School Alumni Weekend, Oct. 21, 2022: Dedication remarks at the Carol & Gene Ludwig Hall; guest speaker at the dinner for the YLS alumni Classes of ’70, ’71, and ’72
Yale Law School Alumni Weekend, Oct. 22, 2022: Opening remarks at the Award of Merit and State of the School address by Dean Heather Gerken; guest speaker at reception for YLS alumni Classes of ’60, ’61, and ’62; and guest speaker at the cocktail reception for YLS alumni Class of ’67
Lectio Magistralis on Il Principio di Uguaglianza di Fronte All’Emergenza (The Principle of Equality in the Face of an Emergency) at the Università Mercatorum, Rome, Italy, sponsored by the Foundation Vittorio Occorsio, Nov. 3, 2022
Speaker at the John G. Simon ’53 Memorial Celebration at Yale Law School, Nov. 14, 2022

Publications

La Tecnologia Ci Aiuterà, Quattroruote, Apr. 2022

Other Professional Highlights

Interview by Max Raxin, Apr. 15, 2022

Amy Chua

Lectures and Addresses

“Political Tribes: Root Causes and the Way Forward,” Gen Re Leadership Summit, The Boulders, Arizona, May 2, 2022
“The Perfect Storm: Women, Leadership, and U.S.-China Relations,” Fireside Chat with Mattie Bekink, Amy Chua, and Catherine Pan, Sup China, May 19, 2022
“Political Tribalism in U.S. Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics,” Yale Club of Pittsburgh, June 16, 2022
“In Conversation with Amy Chua,” Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Dialogue Series Sponsored by U.S. State Department, Aug. 25, 2022
“Political Tribes,” Elm City Club, New Haven, Oct. 5, 2022

Justin Driver

Lectures and Addresses

Guest Lecture, “The Schoolhouse Gate,” Northeastern University, Boston, MA, Apr. 20, 2022
Keynote Address, Gonzaga College High School Father-Son Communion Breakfast, Washington, D.C., Apr. 24, 2022
Panelist, Tribute to Justice Stephen Breyer, Quadrennial Judicial Conference, Washington, D.C., May 3, 2022
Frank J. Battisti Memorial Lecture, “Are Public Schools Becoming Constitution-Free Zones?,” Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, OH, Sept. 1, 2022
Keynote Address, The City Club of Cleveland, OH, Sept. 2, 2022
Panelist, “Preparing Young Americans for Citizenship,” Clinton Presidential Library, Little Rock, AR, Oct. 11, 2022 (via Zoom)

Publications

Brown and Red: Defending Jim Crow in Cold War America, 74 Stanford Law Review 447 (2022) (with Gregory Briker)
The Supreme Court Review, 2021 (University of Chicago Press, 2022) (edited with David A. Strauss, Geoffrey R. Stone, and William Baude)
“The Greatest Talker of His Time”: Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint. Is it time for a reappraisal?, The Atlantic, Sept. 2022

Other Professional Highlights

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected in 2022
Featured in documentary titled “First Amendment: Student Freedom of Speech” produced by Annenberg Public Policy Center
Selection Committee Member, American Bar Association, Silver Gavel Awards
Interviewed for documentary exploring affirmative action

Robert C. Ellickson

Publications

America’s Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning (Yale University Press, 2022)
Empirical Research in Property: Vicki Been as Role Model, 11 Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Journal 33-41 (2022)

Daniel C. Esty

Lectures and Addresses

“How Can Global Action on Climate Change be Accelerated? Reflections from an American and European Perspective,” University of Copenhagen Sustainability Science Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Apr. 26, 2022
“Border-Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms,” University of Copenhagen Department of Political Science, Copenhagen, Denmark, Apr. 27, 2022
“Climate Change after COP26 in Glasgow,” University of Copenhagen, Sustainability and Society Seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark, Apr. 28, 2022
“Corporate Sustainability Leadership Post-COP26,” AmCham Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2, 2022
“Lessons for Offshore Wind Development: Best Practices from Denmark and Beyond,” University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 3, 2022
“Designing Effective Border-Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms: Aligning the Global Trade and Climate Change Regimes,” University of Copenhagen Department of Economics Faculty Seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 4, 2022
“The End Environmental Externalities Manifesto: A Rights-Based Foundation for Environmental Law,” Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, (via Zoom), May 13, 2022
“Pathways to Deep Decarbonization – Addressing the Hard-to-Decarbonize Sectors,” House of Green, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 31, 2022
“Shifting Paradigms in Climate Change: Action Beyond the State,” Keynote address, Transatlantic Maritime Emissions Research Network, University of Copenhagen Law School, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1, 2022
“Realigning the WTO to Support Global Climate Change Action,” University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, July 4, 2022
“Policy Considerations, Outlook and Implications for U.S. Businesses: Deep Dive into Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms” Business Roundtable (via Zoom), July 28, 2022
“End Environmental Externalities,” An Environmental Law for the 21st Century Symposium, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (via Zoom), July 28, 2022
“Toward a Sustainable Trading System,” Forum on Trade and Environment and the SDGs,” Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland, Sept. 12, 2022
“Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future Project,” Trade and Climate Workshop, Talloires, France, Sept. 20-23, 2022
“Decarbonization Standards and International Trade: How can the WTO Support Greater Coherence,” World Trade Organization Roundtable Discussion, Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 26, 2022
“Insights: ESG impact through Law & Finance,” King’s College London's Environmental Law and Regulation Society, London, United Kingdom, Oct. 12, 2022
“Political Risk: How Should Investors Respond to the Global Clash of Values,” Responsible Investment Forum, Rothschild Foundation, Aylesbury, United Kingdom, Oct. 13, 2022

Publications

2022 Environmental Performance Index (with Martin Wolf, John Emerson, Alex de Sherbinin, Zach Wendling et al.) (2022), New Haven, CT, Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
Mastering the Labyrinth of Sustainability: Toward a New Foundation for the Market Economy, Revue Europeenne du Droit (Summer 2022)
Debunking the Myths that Discourage Public Funding of Clean Energy (with Matthew J. Kotchen, et al.), Yale School of the Environment (July 15, 2022)
Derrière les procès climatiques français et américains: des systèmes politique, juridique et judiciaire en opposition (with Mathilde Hautereau-Boutonnet), Recueil Dalloz, n° 32, Sept. 22, 2022
Should Humanity Have Standing? — Securing Environmental Rights in the United States, Southern California Law Review (Fall 2022)
Explaining Environmental Performance: Insights for Progress on Sustainability (with Zach Wendling, et al.), Environmental Development, vol. 44 (Dec. 2022)

Other Professional Activities

On public service leave working at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland
Appointed as Expert for the Global Commission on the Economics of Water

Owen M. Fiss

Lectures and Addresses

“Why We Vote,” Hofstra Law School Faculty Workshop, Apr. 20, 2022

Publications

A Philosopher Who Also Happens to Be a Lawyer, Palabras preliminares (Foreword), in Tomando las consecuencias en serio: ensayos en homenaje a Martín Diego Farrell (Taking the Consequences Seriously: Essays in homage to Martín Diego Farrell) (Buenos Aires: Palermo University Press, 2022) (in Spanish)

Other Professional Highlights

Co-director, Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School
Co-director, Yale Law School Middle East Legal Studies Seminar
Co-director, Latin American Legal Studies Program (LALS) of Yale Law School
Board of Directors, Libraries Without Borders

Abbe Gluck

Lectures and Addresses

Symposium on Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, George Washington Law School, Spring 2021
“The Congressional Bureaucracy,” Law & Governance Podcast, Fall 2021
“A New Deal for Cancer,” various book talks, Fall 2021

Publications

Law and Gun Violence: An Interdisciplinary Examination, J.L. Med. & Ethics (special issue, guest editor) (with Ian Ayres & Tracey Meares) (Fall 2020)
Gun Violence in Court, J. L. Med. & Ethics (Fall 2020)
The Congressional Bureaucracy, 168 U. Pa. L. Rev. 154 (2020) (with Jesse Cross)
A New Deal for Cancer: Lessons from a 50-Year War (ed., with Charles Fuchs) (Nov. 2021)
MDL Revolution, 96 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1 (2021) (with Elizabeth Burch)
MDL Nationalism, Federalism, and the Opioid Epidemic, 70 DePaul L. Rev. 321 (2021)
Is Unpublished Unequal? An Empirical Examination of the 87% Nonpublication Rate in Federal Appeals, 107 Cornell L. Rev. 1 (2022) (with Jade Ford, et al.)

Other Professional Highlights

Nominated to the Administrative Conference of the United States as a Public Member, 2022
Appointed to Advisory Board, Contemporary Issues in Complex Litigation Center, Northwestern University Law School

Oona Hathaway

Lectures and Addresses

U.S. Department of State, Area Studies EUR Seminar Series: “Ukraine Analysis: War Crimes, Cyber Operations, and Insights from Russia” (Apr. 21, 2022)
“Nonbinding International Agreements,” Faculty Colloquium at USD School of Law (Apr. 22, 2022)
“Will Russian War Criminals Face Justice?” The Economist Asks (Apr. 29, 2022)
“International Law Goes to War in Ukraine,” Russia Aggression and the War in Ukraine, Cornell International Law Journal Symposium, Ithaca, NY (Apr. 29, 2022)
“How the Erosion of U.S. War Powers Constraints Has Eroded International Law Constraints on the Use of Force,” Chicago-Virginia Foreign Relations Law Roundtable, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (May 2, 2022)
“The Past, Present, and Future of the International Legal Order,” Dietrich Schindler Lecture in International Law, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (May 4, 2022)
“International Law and the War in Ukraine,” University of Chicago (May 13, 2022)
“International Norms Under Pressure,” CSIS (May 20, 2022)
“Checking Kleptocracy: Creating a New Instrument of World Order,” American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA (May 21, 2022)
“In Defense of a Democracy: Prosecuting Russian Aggression Against Ukraine,” Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY (May 25, 2022)
“The Role of International Sanctions in the International Legal Order,” Symposium on International Sanctions, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (June 2, 2022)
“The Rise of Private Data,” Sciences Po (MaxPo), Paris, France (Sept. 21, 2022)
“What meaningful action could the United Nations take to help Ukraine?,” NPR’s Morning Edition (Sept. 26, 2022)
“Accountability for Internationally Wrongful Cyber Operations, The Oxford Process on International Law: Protections in Cyberspace: How International Law Applies in Cyberspace,” Oxford, England (Oct. 12-13, 2022)

Publications

Has the Alien Tort Statute Made a Difference?: A Historical, Empirical, and Normative Assessment, 107 Cornell L. Rev. 1205 (2022) (with Ellen Nohle & Chris Ewell)
Myths and Realities of Global Governance, 45 Harv. J. Public Policy 31 (2022)
The United States Finally Sees the Point of the International Criminal Court, The Washington Post (Apr. 17, 2022)
A Crime in Search of a Court: How to Hold Russia Accountable, Foreign Affairs (May 19, 2022)
Has the Alien Tort Statute Made a Difference? Transnational Litigation Blog (Aug. 1, 2022) (with Chris Ewell and Ellen Nohle)
International Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine: An agreement between the United Nations and Ukraine can pave the way, Just Security (Sept. 20, 2022)
Biden’s New Counterterrorism Policy Guidance Further Entrenches the Forever War, Just Security (Oct. 11, 2022)

Other Professional Highlights

Fall 2022 Visiting Fellow at Sciences Po’s MaxPo Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies, Paris, France

Christine Jolls

Lectures and Addresses

“The Administrative Procedure Act and the Supreme Court,” presented at the 2022 American Law and Economics Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY

Paul Kahn

Lectures and Addresses

Three Lectures, Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2, Michel Villey Institute, Week of Apr. 18, 2022: “Trinitarianism in the American Constitutional Imagination”; “America’s New Civil War”; “Democracy in our America”
“How Do Legal Humanities Help us to Understand and Respond to the Current Political Crisis?,” Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, June 15, 2022 (via Zoom)
“Governing with Heat: Lessons from COVID,” Law and Society Association, Lisbon, July 15, 2022
“Democracy in Our America,” University of Lisbon, Law School, July 15, 2022
“To Be Governed by a Text,” University of Buffalo, Baldy Center, Oct. 7, 2022

Publications

To overrule a precedent, The Hill, May 6, 2022

Amy Kapczynski

Lectures and Addresses

Participant, exploring and interrogating values economists should consider if we are to move toward a political economic framework that is more fair, equitable, and sustainable, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Social Science for a World in Crisis, “Creating a New Political Economy Framework: Where Do We Go from Here?” (remote, Aug. 23, 2022)
Presentation on Law and Political Economy, Howard Law School, Legal Academy, Law and Political Economy Approaches at Summer Academy (Washington, D.C., June 6, 2022)
Participant in panel about free speech and disinformation, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, “Lies and Counterspeech” (remote, Feb. 16, 2022)

Publications

The Public’s Secrets: The Law and Political Economy of Trade Secrets, U.C. Davis L. Rev., Vol. 55, pp. 1367-1443, Feb. 2022
Freedom from the Marketplace of Speech: Four ways to render speech less susceptible to private coercion, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Feb. 14, 2022
The Great Disconnect: Why are Americans so unhappy about the economy?, The American Prospect, Mar. 22, 2022 (with Jacob S. Hacker)
A Conversation between Wendy Brown and Amy Kapczynski, The South Atlantic Quarterly 121:2, Duke University Press, Apr. 1, 2022 (with Wendy Brown)

Other Professional Highlights

Associate Editor, Boston Review
Testified before the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth at its hearing on The Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Future of Medicare Financing on Feb. 2, 2022
Featured in the New York Times Sway podcast discussing the leaked Supreme Court Dobbs v. Jackson opinion and what it means for the future of the Court on May 6, 2022
Featured on the podcast Pivot to discuss the fallout of the Dobbs decision on June 28, 2022
Convened Law and Organizing Summer Academy with ActionLab and the Law and Political Economy Project, Ossining, NY, Aug. 16-18, 2022
Convened workshop on race, care, and political economy at Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Sept. 23-24, 2022
Appeared on the How to Save a Country podcast to discuss the Supreme Court’s recent jurisprudence and the need for court reform on Oct. 13, 2022

Harold Honju Koh

Lectures and Addresses

“Saving a Dissident with Law and Diplomacy: How Can a Government Lawyer Extract a Chinese Human Rights Activist from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing without Blowing up relations with China?” Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, Oxford UK, Apr. 26, 2022
“Justice Abella’s Global Impact,” at Conference on “Justice Rosalie Abella: A Life of Firsts,” Ottawa, Canada, May 12, 2022
Oxford Process Conference on Countermeasures in Cyberspace, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford, May 23, 2022
“Restoring the Liberal International Order: Inside Biden’s First Year,” Centre for International Intervention, University of Surrey, Surrey, United Kingdom, May 3, 2022
“Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: Implications for International Law,” International Law Students Association, May 5, 2022
“The Law of Cyber-Conflict,” Blavatnik School of Government, May 23, 2022
“Inside the Biden Administration’s Effort to Restore International Law and Institutions,” Edinburgh, Centre for International and Global Law, Edinburgh Law School, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 19, 2022
2022 London Marshall Forum, Lancaster House, London, UK, June 1, 2022
“Inside the Biden Administration’s Approach to International Law and Institutions,” 2022 Thomas Franck Lecture Humboldt University & Freie University Berlin, Germany, June 2, 2022
“Inside Biden’s Efforts to Restore the Liberal International Legal Order,” University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law, ICourts & Center for Military Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 13, 2022
“Get Back? Inside the Biden Administration’s Efforts to Restore International Law,” International Law & Human Rights Unit, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, June 9, 2022
“What Good is the United Nations?,” Aspen Ideas Forum, Aspen Colorado, July 1, 2022
Graduate Orientation Welcome Talk, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Aug. 15, 2022
“Litigating Human Rights in the Russia-Ukraine Crisis,” Yale Law School Schell Center Human Rights Workshop, New Haven, CT, Sept. 8, 2022
“Litigation for Ukraine in International Courts,” The Benchers, New Haven, CT, Sept. 22, 2022
“Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants,” Special Sitting of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for Chief Justice Ralph Gants, Boston, MA, Sept. 29, 2022
“The 21st Century National Security Constitution,” Keynote Lecture, George Washington Law Review Symposium on The Law of U.S. Foreign Relations, Oct. 7, 2022
Oxford Process on International Law Protections in Cyberspace, Conference Speaker, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford, UK, Oct. 12-13, 2022

Publications

Justice Abella’s Global Influence, in Vanessa McDonald et al. eds, “Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, A Life of Firsts”
Letter from Oxford, American Oxonian (Winter 2023)

Other Professional Highlights

2022 Louis B. Sohn Human Rights Award, United Nations Association, National Capital Area
“Lex Ferenda: Conversations About Law and War,” Podcast with Kevin Jon Heller, June 13, 2022
“In Conversation,” Podcast with Nehal Bhuta, Edinburgh Law School: Professor Harold Hongju Koh on Ukraine v. Russian Federation, Oct. 7, 2022

Doug Kysar

Lectures and Addresses

“Climate Change and Animal Productions,” Global Animal Law Workshop, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Apr. 3-4, 2022
“Climate Change, Attribution Science, and Judging Responsibility,” Conference on Complexity and the Public Role of Civil Courts in Health and Environmental Matters, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, Apr. 22, 2022
Commentator, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves Book Conference, New York University, New York, New York, Apr. 25, 2022
“Dormant Confusion,” Brooks Animal Workshop for Scholars, Colorado Springs, CO, July 11, 2022
“Being Careless in a Reckless World,” Climate Change Law & Policy Workshop, UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, Aug. 11, 2022
“Torts and Climate Attribution,” Judicial Leaders in Climate Science Program, Woods Hole Oceanography Institute, Sept. 13, 2022

Publications

The Torts Process (10th ed., Aspen Publishers, 2022) (with James A. Henderson Jr.)
Climate Change and Animal Productions, in Oxford Handbook of Global Animal Law (Anne Peters, Kristen Stilt, and Saskia Stucki, eds., Oxford University Press, 2022) (with Jonathan Lovvorn)
“True” Imprisonment, in Carceral Logics: Human Incarceration and Animal Captivity (Lori Gruen and Justin Marceau, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2022)

Other Professional Highlights

Yale School of Management, Executive MBA Program, Sustainability Cohort 2022 Teaching Award
Named Among Top Ten “Most Cited Younger Legal Scholars,” Fred R. Shapiro, The Most Cited Legal Scholars Revisited, 88 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1595 (2021)

Tracey Meares

Lectures and Addresses

Federalist Society National Convention, Criminal Law, Panelist, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2021
American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Speaker, Presidential Panel: “New Perspectives on the Risk Assessment Paradigm,” Policy Panel: “Reimagining Justice in Research Methodologies: Square One Roundtable on the Role of Values in Research and Policy Change,” Chicago, Nov. 2021
American Bar Foundation, Lecture: “Achieving Criminal Justice: A Civic Education Approach,” Nov. 2021
MLK Convocation, Dana Hall, Wellesley, MA, Jan. 2022
Discord, Monthly Academic Talk Series, “Value of Procedural Fairness,” Feb. 2022
LEAP, Guest of Honor, “Duty to Protect,” Woodbridge, CT, Feb. 2022
Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute Black History Month Keynote, “Re-examining the State’s Police Power, Safety Deprivation and the Meaning of Citizenship for Black Americans,” Feb. 2022
Centre for Criminological Research, University of Alberta, Keynote Lecture, “Reexamining the state’s police power, safety deprivation and the meaning of citizenship for Black Americans,” Mar. 2022
Speaker, Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls, June 2022
Law and Society Association, Panelist, “Policing Organizations and their Community Impact,” Lisbon, July 2022
NOMOS, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy on Policing, “Uncovering Police” Sept. 2022
“Policing as a Public Good,” Howard University, Lecture Series Phi Beta Kappa, Sept. 2022
Trust Con, Panelist on Procedural Justice, in Theory and Practice, Sept. 2022
New Directions in Law and Society, Plenary Panel, “Law in the Post-Liberal Era,” UMASS Amherst, Oct. 2022
Incarceration and Imagination Conference – “The Image of Prison in the Public Mind,” Respondent, Whitney Humanities, Oct. 2022

Publications

Revisiting Broken Windows: The Role of the Community and the Police in Promoting Community Engagement? with Tyler, T., 76 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 637 (2021)
Procedural Justice and Self Governance on Twitter: Unpacking the Experience of Rule Breaking on Twitter, with Katsaros, M.; Tyler, T.; Kim, J.; Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 1(3). (2022)
The Strange History and Impact of Broken Windows, Vital City (Issue 2) (2022)

Other Professional Highlights

Reducing Racial Inequalities in Criminal Justice: Data, Courts, and Systems of Supervision, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, The National Academies Press, July 2021
America’s Gun Violence Epidemic: A Conversation with Sen. Chris Murphy with The Solomon Center, The Justice Collaboratory, and The Yale Health Law and Policy Society (YHeLPS), Nov. 2021
WNYC Radio, The Takeaway with Melissa Harris-Perry (& Nia Evans) re: “policing in the U.S. and what has (or hasn’t) changed since the murder of George Floyd,” Feb. 2022
Conversations with Chanda Baker Smith, Minneapolis Foundation, “The Push for Better Policing,” Feb. 2022
NewsChannel 20 Marketplace, Lifestyle Show, “No Title for Tracey,” Apr. 2022
National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement (NACOLE) Webinar with J. Camacho re: local/state authority model legislation, Aug. 2022
Vital City, Board of Advisors, Columbia Law School 2022
Street Outreach Analytics Response (SOAR), Advisory Board Member
Project Unloaded Steering Committee
Responding to Crises on College Campuses, Aspen Institute Citizenship and American Identity Program and the Constructive Dialogue Institute, Advisor
Freedom Reads, Board Chair

Samuel Moyn

Lectures and Addresses

“Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War,” given at Brandeis University, Cosmopolitan Club (New York), Institute of International and European Affairs (Dublin), Stanford University, University of Helsinki, University of TIllburg
“From the War on Terror to the War for Ukraine,” Royal Society of Edinburgh Annual Neil MacCormick Lecture

Publications

How to Stop a New Cold War, Prospect, Apr. 2022 (cover)
The Ghost of John Hart Ely, in Vanderbilt Law Review 75, 3 (Apr. 2022): 769-821 (with Ryan D. Doerfler)
Counting on the Supreme Court to Uphold Key Rights Was Always a Mistake, The Washington Post (Outlook cover), June 17, 2022
Der Illusion vom humanen Krieg, Der Pragmaticus, Aug. 7, 2022
The Ethical and Political Stakes of Humanizing War, Dawn (Democracy for the Arab World Now), Aug. 8, 2022
The Constitution Is Broken and Should Not Be Reclaimed, The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2022 (Aug. 21 print), and Letters: Is the Constitution Obstructing Democracy?, Aug. 30 (with Ryan D. Doerfler)
‘Sweeping’ Department of Defense Plan to Mitigate Civilian Harm Merely Humanizes Endless War, Responsible Statecraft, Aug. 31, 2022

Doug NeJaime

Lectures and Addresses

“True Parenthood,” Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law Lecture, University of Cincinnati College of Law (Apr. 2022)
Presenter, “How Parenthood Functions,” Workshop on Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender, University of Chicago Law School (Apr. 2022)
Presenter, “Respecting All Connecticut Families: The Legal Parent-Child Relationship for Unmarried, Same-Sex, and Nonbiological Parents,” Belonging at Yale, Yale University (Apr. 2022)
Presenter, “How Parenthood Functions,” Faculty Workshop, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (Apr. 2022)
Presenter, “How Parenthood Functions,” LGBTQ Rights Roundtable, Vanderbilt University Law School (Apr. 2022)
Presenter, “How Parenthood Functions,” Children’s Rights Workshop, University of Connecticut School of Law (Apr. 2022)
Presenter, “Enforcing Parentage Across State Lines,” Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, Annual Conference (May 2022)
Presenter, “The Connecticut Parentage Act,” Queer Families: Past, Present, and Promise, Connecticut Bar Foundation (June 2022)
Presenter, “How Parenthood Functions,” Family Law Scholars and Teachers Conference, Temple Law School (June 2022)
Presenter, “The ALI Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution: Addressing Family Inequality Through Functional Regulation,” ALI at 100 Workshop, University of Pennsylvania (June 2022)
Panelist, Reproductive Rights and LGBTQ Rights at the Supreme Court, Yale College Reunions (June 2022)

Publications

Multi-Parent Families, Real and Imagined, 90 Fordham Law Review 2561 (2022) (with Courtney Joslin)
Psychological Parenthood, 106 Minnesota Law Review 2363 (2022) (with Anne Alstott & Anne Dailey)
The Connecticut Parentage Act: Protecting Parents and Children, Forum (Conn. Trial Lawyers Assoc.) (Spring 2022)

Other Professional Highlights

Elected to American Law Institute

Nicholas Parrillo

Lectures and Addresses

Invited Commenter on Nondelegation, Stanford Constitutional Law Center, May 21, 2022
“Do Statutory Qualifications for Officers Violate Original Meaning?,” Stanford Constitutional Law Center, May 21, 2022
Invited Commenter, Conference on “Networks, Platforms, and Utilities: Law and Policy,” Vanderbilt Law School, Apr. 22, 2022

Other Professional Highlights

Appointed Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States
Organizer, online symposium on William Novak’s New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State, Yale Journal on Regulation: Notice & Comment, July 2022

W. Michael Reisman

Publications

Foreword, second volume of International Investment Law Series (a three-volume set) with the title of Standards of Treatment in International Investment Law by Nartnirun Junngam, Thammasat University Press (2021)
Foreword, Dr. Ying Zhu’s Too Much of Two Good Things: Investment Protection and Environmental Protection in International Law, William S. Hein & Co., Inc. & Wells Information Services Inc. (USA) (2021), at page vii
The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the 21st Century: Constitutive Process and Individual Commitment: General Course on Public International Law (Second Edition) (The Hague Academy of International Law) (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) (2022)
International Law’s Failures to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons in Reflections on International Arbitration: Essays in Honour of Professor George Bermann (Julie Bédard and Patrick W. Pearsall, eds.), Juris Publishing (JurisNet), pg. 941 (2022)

Judith Resnik

Lectures and Addresses

Presenter: Collective Preclusion and Inaccessible Arbitration: Data, Non-Disclosure, Repeat Players, and Public Knowledge, Journal of Operations Management Mini-conference — Series of Virtual Sessions, Dispute Resolution in the Matchmaking Economy: Breaking the Cone of Silence, Apr. 20, 2022 (via Zoom)
Presenter: Iconographies of Punishment in Polities Democratic and Not, for the conference, What, if anything, is the Iconography of Democracy? University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Apr. 22–23, 2022
Guest lecturer: Reinventing Courts as Democratic Institutions, The Brazilian National Judicial School for Formation and Development, Apr. 27, 2022 (via Zoom)
Commentator: Manuscript workshop on Privatizing Justice: Arbitration and Litigation Reform in the U.S., Georgia State University College of Law, May 17, 2022 (via Zoom)
Commentator: on the panel Dead-End Judging at the Civil Procedure Workshop VII, at Cardozo Law School, May 20, 2022
Speaker: Reflections on United States Supreme Court and System of Which it is a Part In the Wake of the Dobbs Leak, Carnegie Corporation of New York, May 25, 2022 (via Zoom)
Presenter: Mature Aggregation and Angst: Reframing Complex Litigation by Echoing Francis McGovern’s Early Insights into Remedial Innovation, for the McGovern Symposium on Civil Litigation in conjunction with the Advanced Tort MDL symposium at Bolch Judicial Institute, Duke University School of Law, May 27, 2022 (via Zoom)
Moderator/Commentator: Previewing the Findings of Time-in-Cell 2021: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Survey of Prison Systems in the United States, presented at a meeting of the Correctional Leaders Association, July 25, 2022 (via Zoom)
Chair: Weighing Judicial Authority, Yale Global Constitutionalism Seminar, A Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, Yale Law School, Sept. 14–17, 2022
Presenter: The Political Economy of Reform: Empirical Research on Solitary Confinement and Changing Metrics of A “Good” Prison System for Graduate Seminar, Yale Law School, Sept. 28, 2022
Keynote: Punishment in Prison: The Law and the Practices of Solitary Confinement, for the webinar Solitary Confinement: Unfinished Business Covering New Developments in Solitary Confinement Practices, Policies, and Human Impacts, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Center on Media, Crime and Justice, Sept. 29, 2022 (via Zoom)
Presenter: Punishment in Prison, for the ACS Faculty Workshop on Progressive Scholarship, Yale Law School, Oct. 12, 2022
Moderator and Commentator: The Image of Prison, for the symposium Incarceration and Imagination, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, Oct. 14, 2022
Panelist: Preserving Public Justice, for the conference Access & Accountability 2022, The Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic & the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, Oct. 14, 2022

Publications

Time-in-Cell: A 2021 Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems, Correctional Leaders Association, Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School, 2022,
Weighing Judicial Authority, Yale Global Constitutionalism Seminar, A Part of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, 2022 (ed., forthcoming as an ebook)
“On Personhood for Everyone”: Brenda Hale’s Jurisprudence and Her Institutions- Building, in Justice for Everyone: The Jurisprudence and Legal Lives of Brenda Hale (Rosemary Hunter and Erika Rackley, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2022)
“Why Procedure is Critical, Constitutive, and Vulnerable, A Reconstructive Foreword” in A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro, and Elizabeth Porter, eds., 2022)
Class in Courts: Incomplete Equality’s Challenges for the Legitimacy of Procedural Systems, in A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro, and Elizabeth Porter, eds., 2022)
Procedure, Contract, Public Authority, Autonomy, Aggregate Litigation, and Power: A View from the United States, Paper presented to IACL General Congress for its workshop on Contractualisation Procedure, (co-author Helen Hershkoff, 2022)

Other Professional Highlights

Brief of Amici Constitutional Law Scholars, submitted on the issue of judicial authority under the All Writs Act, in Shoop v. Twyford, 142 S. Ct. 2037 (2022)
Appointment as Advisory Committee member, European Law Institute, Third Party Funding of Litigation Project 2022–2024, July 2022
Reappointed to the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct for Yale University, 2022-2023

Carol Rose

Lectures and Addresses

“The Property Clauses in Context,” Canadian Council for the Americas in collaboration with the Universidad de Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile: Chile’s Draft Constitution, panel on Economic Rights in Context, June 2, 2022 (remote)

Publications

Property Law and Inequality: Lessons from Racially Restrictive Covenants, 117 Northwestern University Law Review 225 (2022)
A Glimpse of Early Modern Governance in Claire Priest’s Credit Nation, 33 Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 288 (2022)

Other Professional Highlights

Advisers and Members Consultative Group, Restatement Fourth of Property, hosted by American Law Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sept. 22, 2022

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Lectures and Addresses

“Fuzzy Sets and Vague Language: Margit Cohn’s A Theory of the Executive Branch,” presented at Zoom workshop organized by the Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies on Margit Cohn, A Theory of the Executive Branch, remarks to be published in that journal, June 8, 2022
“Policymaking Accountability in the U.S., the U.K., Germany ,and France,” presented at Administrative Procedure Reform in Europe and United States, Penn Program on Regulation, University of Pennsylvania Law School, published in the Regulatory Review, June 10, 2022
“Democracy and Executive Power: Policymaking Accountability in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and France,” talk to Yale alumni in Chicago based on my recent book with that title, June 24, 2022
Tax Administration Service (SAT) of Mexico, presentation on “Transparency and Anti-Corruption”, SAT 30th Anniversary Seminar (via Zoom), July 5, 2022
Sciences Po, Paris, presentation at roundtable on my book: “Democracy and Executive Power,” Sept. 15, 2022

Publications

Executive Policymaking and Public Accountability in the U.S., the U.K., and France, Vincent Boyer and Raphael Reneau, Pour un droit gouvernmental? IFJD, France, 2022, pp. 49–70
Democracy and Executive Power: Administrative Policymaking in Comparative Perspective, “Revista de Derecho Público: Teoría y Método,” 6: 93-120 (2022).
Opinion: Policymaking Accountability in Nation States and International Bodies, The Regulatory Review

Other Professional Highlights

Conference at Yale Law School: Public Law, Political Economy, Corruption, and Development: Susan Rose-Ackerman’s Scholarly Legacy, Aug. 26–27, 2022

Vicki Schultz

Lectures and Addresses

Speaker, Sexual Harassment Informational Event for Law Students (with Professor Abbe Gluck and Attorney Kalpana Kotagal), Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Mar. 3, 2022
“The Persistence of Bias in the Legal Profession,” presented at panel on Manifestations of Gender Inequity, Equity Summit, sponsored by the Austin, TX, Bar Association, June 10, 2022
“The Legacy of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Employment Section,” presented at panel on Frontiers of Civil Rights Law, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, July 16, 2022

Other Professional Highlights

Co-sponsor and moderator (with Doug NeJaime), Gruber Lecture by EEOC Commissioner Jocelyn Samuels, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, Mar. 7, 2022
Quoted in Grace Kay and Aine Cain, On the Tesla Production Line, Business Insider, Mar. 23, 2022
Director, Yale Law School Living Civil Rights Law Project, since 2021

Reva Siegel

Lectures and Addresses

“The Constitutionalization of Abortion in Comparative Perspective,” in graduate course on “How to Think About Abortion” with Profs. Frances Kissling and Gustavo Ortiz Millan, The Institute of Philosophical Research, UNAM, Mexico. Apr. 27, 2022
“Before and After Roe v. Wade — A Conversation with Reva Siegel and Linda Greenhouse Moderated by Kim Lane Scheppele,” Law @ Princeton Seminar, Princeton University, May 4, 2022
“Reproductive Rights and LGBTQ Rights at the Supreme Court” discussing the leaked draft of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization with Professor Douglas NeJaime, Association of Yale Alumni, Yale Law School, June 11, 2022
“Understanding Dobbs: The Post-Roe Landscape.” Moderated conversation with Linda Greenhouse for Yale community in wake of the Dobbs hand-down. Solomon Center, Yale Law School. June 27.
“The National and Transnational Stakes of the USSC Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization,” on a panel with Paola Bergallo, Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, Anna Sledzinska, and Ruth Rubio Marin discussing developments in Argentina, Colombia, Poland, Spain, and the United States; New Frontiers of Abortion Constitutionalism, 2022 ICON-S Annual Conference, University of Wrocław, Poland, July 6, 2022
“Living Originalism in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization”: Robert H. Jackson Lecture, Chautauqua Institute, July 11, 2022; recapped at Angie Gou, Cherry-picked history: Reva Siegel on “living originalism,” SCOTUSblog, Aug. 11, 2022 and available at YouTube, Reva Siegel: Robert H. Jackson Lecture, Chautauqua Institute
Prepared readings and led discussion session on “Abortion: Rights in Motion” with Linda Greenhouse and Justice Daniela Salazar Marin for justices in Global Constitutionalism 2022, Yale Law School, Sept. 16, 2022
“In a post Roe v. Wade world — Will constitutions still be about reproductive rights?,” participated in a conversation moderated by Professor Benedita Queiroz, with Professors Ruth Rubio Marin, Julieta LeMaitre, and Lorenzi Violini from Spain, Colombia, and Portugal, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Sept. 28, 2022
Discussed manuscript of “Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance,” Legal History Workshop, Harvard Law School, Oct. 3, 2022
Discussed manuscript of “Memory Games: Dobbs’s Originalism as Anti-Democratic Living Constitutionalism — and Some Pathways for Resistance” with faculty advisors for law school chapters of the American Constitution Society. October 12.

Publications

Race and Guns, Courts and Democracy, 135 Harv. L. Rev. F. 449 (2022) (with Joseph Blocher)
The Remaking of the Second Amendment, N.Y. Review of Books, June 10, 2022 (with Duncan Hosie)
The Trump Court Limited Women’s Rights Using 19th-Century Standards, Wash. Post. June 25, 2022
Abortion: Rights in Motion — Global Constitutionalism 2022, Yale Law School Public Law Research Paper (with Linda Greenhouse & Judge Daniela Salazar Marín), Nov. 23, 2022

Michael Wishnie

Lectures and Addresses

“Legal Strategies for Reparations,” Black Veterans Empowerment Council, First National Convening, Washington, DC, June 2022
“Race and Sex Discrimination in the VA Benefits System” and “Discharge Upgrades in an Era of Liberal Consideration,” 2022 Veterans Legal Asssistance Conference & Training, University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, MD, June 2022

Other Professional Highlights

New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc., Equal Access to Justice Award, June 2022
LaBonte v. United States, 43 F.4th 1357 (Fed. Cir. 2022) (reversing Court of Federal Claims and holding that U.S. Army has authority to grant disability retirement to clinic client)
Perea v. Industrial Pallet LLC, No. 3:21-cv-553-MPS (D.Conn. Apr. 26, 2022) (order approving settlement of wage-and-hour claims by 25 workers against local manufacturer)
AFSCME Council 4 v. Garland, No. 3:21-cv-1524-SRU (D.Conn. May 17, 2022) (settlement confirming federal statute criminalizing military unions does not apply to union organizing by National Guard members on state orders)
In re: Ocon, U.S. CIS (July 6, 2022) (granting humanitarian parole and approving naturalization of previously deported U.S. Army veteran); Ocon v. United States, 2022 WL 980642 (W.D.Tex. Mar. 31, 2022) (granting writ of coram nobis and vacating firearms conviction), appeal dismissed (5th Cir. June 6, 2022)
Palomares Veterans Act of 2022, enacted as § 402 of Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022, Pub. L. No. 117-168 (Aug. 10, 2022) (provision recognizing radiation exposure of veterans who participated in 1966 Palomares nuclear clean-up, drafted and lobbied by clinic students)
In re: Feeley, Board of Veterans Appeals (Sept. 21, 2022) (granting disability compensation to U.S. Air Force veteran exposed to radiation during 1966 Palomares nuclear clean-up)
Olson v. Mayorkas, No. 3:21-cv-1631-VLB (D.Conn. Oct. 5, 2022) (settlement granting bachelor’s degree to former U.S. Coast Guard Academy cadet expelled for becoming a parent)

John Witt

Lectures and Addresses

“Democracy’s Futures: The Pandemic and Its Consequences,” with Danielle Allen, Ashraf Ahmed, and Seyla Benhabib, Columbia University, Sept. 15, 2022
Keynote address, “Legal Histories of Disease,” Center for Law & History, Stanford Law School, Apr. 29, 2022

Publications

The Justice Who Wanted the Supreme Court to Get Out of the Way, The New Republic, Aug. 26, 2022
American Contagions: Unexpected Pasts, Unwieldy Presents, and Contested Futures, 18 U. St. Thomas L.J. 510 (2022)
Tort Law’s New Quarantinism: Race and Coercion in the Age of a Novel Coronavirus, 71 DePaul L. Rev. 613 (2022) (with Sierra Stubbs)

Other professional highlights

Stepped down as Head of Davenport College, returning to Yale Law School full-time