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Winter 2024 Faculty Activities

Bruce Ackerman

Lectures and Addresses

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

Anne Alstott

Publications

  • Combating Scientific Disinformation on Gender-Affirming Care (with Meredithe McNamara, Hussein Abdul-Latif, Susan D. Boulware, Rebecca Kamody, Laura E. Kuper, Christy L. Olezeski, and Nathalie Szilagyi), Pediatrics, Sept. 2023; 152 (3): e2022060943. 10.1542/peds.2022-060943

Other Professional Highlights

  • Brief of Amici Curiae, Dekker v. Weida, co-authors include Dr. Hussein Abdul-Latif, Dr. Susan Boulware, Dr. Rebecca Kamody, Dr. Laura Kuper, Dr. Meredithe McNamara, Dr. Christy Olezeski, and Dr. Nathalie Szilagyi, Apr. 24, 2023

Jack Balkin

Lectures and Addresses

  • "The Role of Constitutional Memory in Constitutional Interpretation," American Society for Legal History, Chicago, Nov. 11, 2022 (with Reva Siegel)
  • Panel discussion, "The Supreme Court's Social Media Cases," Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, Feb. 17, 2023
  • Nimmer Lecture, "Free Speech versus the First Amendment," UCLA Law School, Los Angeles, Feb. 21, 2023
  • "Constitutional Memory and Constitutional History," Conference on Text and History, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, May 20, 2023
  • Panel discussion, "The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation," Society for the History of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, July 15, 2023
  • "Artificial Intelligence and the First Amendment," International Conference on Machine Learning, Honolulu, HI, July 29, 2023
  • Panel discussion on the NetChoice cases, Access and Accountability Conference, Yale Law School, New Haven, Oct. 13, 2023

Publications

  • What Roe v. Wade Should Have Said: The Nation's Top Legal Experts Rewrite America's Most Controversial Decision, Revised Edition (NYU Press 2023)
  • Constitutional Memories, 31 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 307 (2022)

Guido Calabresi

Lectures and Addresses

  • Concluding speaker, Yale Law School Commencement, May 22, 2023
  • Spoke to Reunion Classes on Holocaust Tales, May 27, 2023
  • Took part in my Yale 1953/70th Reunion and spoke to the class on "The Biggest Problem in Constitutional Law Today and What to Do About It," May 27, 2023
  • Delivered the Ryan Lecture at Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Apr. 12, 2023
  • A Fireside Chat with Judge Guido Calabresi and Norm Silber, A Discussion of Outside In, The Oral History of Guido Calabresi, Columbus Citizens Foundation, New York, Apr. 19, 2023
  • Gave remarks at the Portrait Unveiling of the Late Honorable George Bundy Smith and Honorable Inez Smith Reid, Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, Apr. 16, 2023
  • Outside In book talk with Norm Silber, New York State Bar Association, Oct. 10, 2023
  • Spoke at Fondazion Cesifin, Storie di una vita: Accademico, Giudice e Italo-Americano, Firenze, Italy, Nov. 3, 2023
  • Outside In book talk with Norm Silber, European Law Institute and Innsbruck Law School: Law through an Economic Lens, Innsbruck, Austria, Nov. 8, 2023
  • Outside In book talk with Norm Silber, U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society annual event celebrating Constitution Day, Sept. 14, 2023
  • Outside In book talk with Norm Silber, Casa Italiana, NYU, New York, Sept. 20, 2023
  • Spoke at the Rhodes Scholar Oral History reception, Zinc, New Haven, Sept. 27, 2023

Awards

  • Awarded Honorary Doctor of Law Degree by Yale University, May 22, 2023
  • Received Honorary Degree of Doctor of Economics from the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, Oct. 25, 2023; Opened the academic year at the University and spoke on Law and Economics: Legge ed economia: la risposta del diritto
  • Awarded the Inaugural Saint Thomas More Medal, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Yale Catholic Chaplin, Yale Club of New York City, Sept. 28, 2023

Amy Chua

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Political Tribalism,” Yale Club of Dallas, Apr. 16, 2023
  • “Personal Reflections in Honor of AAPI Month,” Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, May 4, 2023
  • “Political Tribalism in America: Why We Hate Each Other — and What We Can Do about It,” Yale College Reunions, New Haven, May 26 & June 3, 2023
  • “Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance — And Why They Fall,” Fudan EMBA Leadership Program, Yale School of Management, Aug. 31, 2023
  • “The Golden Gate,” Powell’s Bookstore, Portland, Sept. 21, 2023
  • “The Golden Gate,” Elliot Bay Bookstore, Seattle, Sept. 22, 2023
  • “The Golden Gate,” Village Books, Bellingham, WA, Sept. 24, 2023
  • “Political Tribalism in America: Why We Hate Each Other — and What We Can Do about It,” New England Asset Management Annual Conference, Sept. 27, 2023
  • “The Golden Gate,” Orinda Books, Orinda, CA, Sept. 28, 2023
  • “The Golden Gate,” Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA, Sept. 29, 2023
  • “The Golden Gate,” The 'Quin House, Boston, Oct. 2, 2023
  • “The Golden Gate,” Politics & Prose, Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2023
  • “Personal Reflections,” Workshop for Article III Judges of the Eleventh Circuit, Oct. 13, 2023

Justin Driver

Lectures and Addresses

  • Participant, Walter Dellinger and the Path of Constitutional Law, University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, NC, Oct. 6, 2023
  • Lecture, The Affirmative Action Wars, 19th Annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme Court of the United States, Chautauqua, NY, July 31, 2023
  • Panelist, Supreme Court Review, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, Greensboro, NC, July 1, 2023
  • Participant, Symposium on Prof. Randall Kennedy’s manuscript regarding the Civil Rights Movement, Georgia State College of Law, Atlanta, GA, May 9, 2023

Publications

  • The Supreme Court Review, 2022 (University of Chicago Press, 2023) (edited with David A. Strauss, Geoffrey R. Stone, and William Baude)

Other Professional Highlights

  • Inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA, Sept. 30, 2023

William Eskridge

Lectures and Addresses

  • “The Family Costs of Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination,” Tolerance Dialogue, Utah State Capital, Salt Lake City, Oct. 30, 2023
  • “Artificial Intelligence, the Profession, Ethics, and Legal Education,” YLS Alumni Weekend, New Haven, Oct. 20, 2023
  • “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Legal Profession,” Opening Address, CT Bar Association Kravitz Symposium, Oct. 13, 2023
  • “Artificial Intelligence, the Practice of Law, Legal Ethics, and Legal Education,” Keynote Address, D.C. Bar Association Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Sept. 18, 2023

Publications

  • Textualism’s Defining Moment, 123 Columbia L. Rev. 1 (2023) (with Brian Slocum and Kevin Tobia)
  • The APA as a Super-Statute: Deep Compromise and Judicial Review of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking, 98 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1893 (2023) (with John Ferejohn)
  • Reliance Interests in Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation, 76 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 681 (2023)  

Daniel C. Esty 

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Remaking the Global Trading System for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems,” Tufts European Center, Talloires, France, May 10, 2023
  • “Trade System Reforms to Support Net-Zero Emissions Transport by 2050,” University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 16, 2023
  • "From Exception to Promotion: Rethinking the Relationship between International Trade and Environmental Law," World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, May 23, 2023
  • “Leveraging the Trading System for Sustainable Oceans and the Emerging Blue Economy,” Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, June 16, 2023
  • “Climate-Trade Nexus: Balancing Sustainability, the Economy, and Open Trade,” World Trade Organization Chairs Annual Conference, Geneva, Switzerland, June 21, 2023
  • “Trade as a Critical Lever for Climate Change Action,” Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship, Paris, France, June 27, 2023
  • “Trade and Climate Change for Steel Sector Decarbonization,” Indian Institute of Management Technology Conference on “Steel Sector Decarbonization,” New Delhi, India, July 26, 2023 (via Zoom)
  • “Trade Transformed: Risks and Opportunities in Deglobalization and Multilateral Cooperation,” Aspen Institute Energy Week, Aspen, CO, Aug. 9, 2023 (via Zoom)
  • “Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future,” Villars Institute, Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, Sept. 17, 2023
  • “Subsidy Reform for a Sustainable Future,” Global Futures 2023 Catalyzing Change Conference, New York, NY, Sept. 20, 2023
  • “Villars Framework for a Sustainable Trade System,” Yale School of the Environment, 2023 Climate Week NYC Conference, New York, NY, Sept. 21, 2023
  • “Leveraging Trade and Finance for Sustainability,” 2023 Building Bridges Summit, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 2, 2023
  • “Remaking Trade for a Sustainable Future,” International Union for Conservation of Nature, Global Leaders Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, Oct. 11, 2023

Publications

  • America’s climate change policy: Federalism in action, French Yearbook of Public Law (Issue 1, 2023)
  • Environmental Law for the 21st Century (with E. Donald Elliott), 40 Pace Environmental L. Rev. 454 (2023) 

Other Professional Highlights

  • Winner of “best paper” award at the 2023 International Conference on Sustainable Development for "From Pledge to Practice: Delivering Corporate Net-Zero Emissions Commitments" (with Alyssa Menz)

Owen M. Fiss

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

  • Keynote, Yale Law School Admitted Students Weekend 2023 
  • Keynote Address, “Against Bankruptcy?”, Touro Law/Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Conference on The Past, Present and Future of the Opioid Litigation, Oct. 2023

Publications

Miriam Gohara

Lectures and Addresses 

  • Presented “The Myth of the Ideal Victim and Black Survivors’ Visions for Justice” at Law and Society Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2023, and at CrimFest conference at Brooklyn Law School, July 2023
  • Taught and supervised Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and Criminal Justice Advocacy Clinic students who led organizing for passage of PA 23-169 which requires parole-eligibility for people who committed their crimes when they were younger than 21 years old, expanding on Connecticut’s second-look legislation, which had previously mandated parole-eligibility for people who committed crimes when they were younger than 18 years old
  • Taught and supervised Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic students who advocated with the Board of Pardons and Paroles to resume commutations after a cessation which had shut down the procedure completely in the state for several months. Discussed the politics of the commutation shut-down on WNPR’s The Wheelhouse, Apr. 26, 2023

Oona Hathaway

Lectures and Addresses 

Publications 

Other Professional Highlights 

  • Reporter, Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (appointed 2023)
  • Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor, 2023
  • Non-Resident Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 2023–present
  • Co-organizer, “The UN Security Council and the Rule of Law” Panel Series 2023–26, with the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations in New York

Paul Kahn 

Lectures and Addresses

  • Delivered the Chaire Michel Villey-Paris Jurisprudence Lectures at the University Paris-Panthéon-Assas the week of June 5: “Legality, Legitimacy and the End of the Political”; “Legal Rights and Sovereign Rights”; “The Political Theology of Clint Eastwood”

Publications

  • A Scholarship of Engagement, German L.J., Volume 24 – Special Issue 4: Law and Political Imagination: The Perspective of Paul Kahn (May 2023)

Doug Kysar

Lectures and Addresses

  • Keynote Presenter (Law), NOMOS: The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, Princeton University Center for Human Values, Princeton, NJ, Sept. 22, 2023
  • “Unimaginable: Hope and Duty in the Anthropocene,” Conference on Climate Justice: Climate Change and the Legal Tradition, Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France, Sept. 29–30
  • “Tort as Regulation,” Climate Change Law and Policy Works-in-Progress Symposium, Boulder, CO, Aug. 10–11, 2023
  • “The Duty of Climate Care,” 29th Annual Clifford Symposium on Torts, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, June 8–9, 2023
  • “Climate Change: Why the Kids are Angry,” Schell Center for Human Rights Workshop, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Apr. 6, 2023

Publications 

Other Professional Highlights

John Langbein

Publications

  • The Turn to Confession Bargaining in German Criminal Procedure: Causes and Comparisons with American Plea Bargaining, 70 American J. Comparative L. 139 (2022)
  • Because Property Became Contract: Understanding the American Nonprobate Revolution, in The Changing Role of Property Law: Rights, Values and Concepts, Nordveit, Ernst, ed. (Northampton, UK, Edward Elgar, 2023), at pp. 115-29
  • ERISA’s Role in the Demise of Defined Benefit Pension Plans in the United States, 31 Elder L. J. 1 (2023)

Other Professional Highlights

Zachary Liscow

Lectures and Addresses 

  • National Bureau of Economic Research Tax Policy and Economy Conference (Keynote), "Benefit-Cost Analysis & Equity," Washington, D.C.

Publications

Other Professional Highlights

  • Chief Economist at the Office of Management and Budget in 2022–2023

Jonathan Macey

Lectures and Addresses 

  • Finance without Government: Financial Regulation in an Age of Political Unrest, Presentation at Symposium on the Future of Financial Regulation, Journal of Law Economics & Policy C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State, George Mason University, Oct. 6, 2023
  • Expert Witness Trial Testimony, Delhi, India, Central Bureau of Investigation v. Various Parties, Rouse Avenue District Court, Court of Shri Arun Bhardwaj, New Delhi, India, Oct. 10–11, 2023

Publications

  • Fraud in a Land of Plenty, 118 Northwestern L. Rev. 227 (2023)
  • ESG Investing: Why Here? Why Now?, 19 Berkeley Business L. J. 256 (2022)
  • Toward a “Tender Offer” Market for Labor Representation, 63 Boston College L. Rev. 2111 (2022) (with Aneil Kovvali)
  • Insider Trading: Easterbrook and Fischel and Easterbrook vs. Fischel, 1 The University of Chicago Business L. Rev. (2022)
  • Fair Credit Markets: Using Household Balance Sheets to Promote Consumer Welfare, 100 Texas L. Rev. 683 (2022) 

Other Professional Highlights

  • Federalist Society Financial Services and E-Commerce Executive Committee
  • Member Economic Advisory Board, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
  • Member, Provost’s Standing Advisory and Appointments Committee for the Yale School of Management        

Tracey L. Meares

Lectures and Addresses 

  • “Criminal Justice and Racial Profiling,” The Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Aug. 2023
  • Salzburg Global American Studies Program, “Beyond the Nation-State? Borders, Boundaries, and the Future of Democratic Pluralism,” Salzburg, Austria, Ron Clifton Lecture in American Studies, Sept. 2023
  • Columbia Justice Lab Speaker Series, New York, NY, “Uncovering Police,” Oct. 2023
  • Law and Society Conference, San Juan, PR, “Uncovering Police,” June 2023
  • CULP Colloquium, Duke Law School, May 2023
  • Notre Dame Criminal Law Conference, Pollacappul, Ireland, May 2023

Publications

  • “Procedural justice can address generative AI’s trust/legitimacy problem,” with Sudhir Venkatesh, Matt Katsaros, TechCrunch, May 2023
  • “Study: First words from police affect traffic stop outcome,” PBS NewsHour, June 2023
  • “Sound of the Police,” Stanley Nelson Firelight Films, advisor and participant in a documentary on the history of policing and Black Americans, and how that history connects to today, Aug. 2023

John Morley

Lectures and Addresses 

  • SPACs as Investment Funds, American Law and Economics Association Conference
  • A Survey of Preferences for Estate Distribution at Death, Nonmarriage Roundtable

Publications  

Other Professional Highlights 

  • Principal drafter of the trust agreement for the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust

Samuel Moyn

Lectures and Addresses 

  • “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War,” Air Force Academy, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotà, Colombia; U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
  • “Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Liberalism and the Making of Our Times,” Free University-Berlin, New York Public Library
  • “To Save Democracy from Juristocracy: J.B. Thayer and Congressional Power after the Civil War,” Notre Dame University Political Theory Series, Tel Aviv University Law School Legal History Series; University of Haifa Law School
  • “Inventing the Enlightenment in the 1950s,” University of Chicago

Publications 

  • Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023)
  • “Foreword,” in Max Likin, Human Rights Struggles in Twentieth-Century France: The League of the Rights of Man and Causes Célèbres (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
  • “Coda,” in Jeremy Adelman and Gyan Prakash, eds., Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 261-66
  • “I diritti umani in un mondo diseguale,” trans. Matthew Coleman, Il Bolletino di Clio, n.s., 19 (June 2023): 26-34
  • “Hannah Arendt among the Cold War Liberals,” Journal of the History of Ideas 84, 3 (July 2023): 533-58

Nicholas Parrillo

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Nondelegation, Original Meaning, and Foreign Affairs,” University of Pennsylvania Law Review Symposium on the Statutory Foreign Affairs Presidency, Oct. 13, 2023
  • Invited Commenter on Judge Neomi Rao, “Pluralism, the Constitution, and the Administrative State,” Yale Law School Federalist Society, Oct. 11, 2023
  • Invited Commenter, Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable, University of Texas at Austin, May 16, 2023
  • Invited Commenter, Culp Colloquium, Duke Law School, May 15, 2023
  • “Who Sues Their Regulator? A Preliminary Report,” University of Chicago Public Law Workshop, May 9, 2023; UC-Berkeley Public Law Workshop, Apr. 24, 2023; Georgetown Public Law Workshop, Apr. 18, 2023; George Washington University Law School Colloquium, Apr. 17, 2023

Other Professional Highlights

  • Quoted by the U.S. Supreme Court in Sackett v. EPA, 598 U.S. 651, 668 (2023) 

Robert Post

Lectures and Addresses

  • Spoke at the legal history colloquium at NYU Law School on Race and the Taft Court, Oct. 26, 2021
  • Lies and the Press, The Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University, Nov. 18, 2021
  • “Democracy and Economic Equality,” AALS Annual Convention, Jan. 6, 2022
  • “Is a Global Framework on Academic Freedom Possible?”, Global Observatory on Academic Freedom Annual Conference, Vienna, Jan. 21, 2022
  • Philosophical and Legal perspectives on NY Times v. Sullivan, University of California, Irvine, March 4, 2022
  • Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Apr. 26, 2022
  • “The Politicalization of the Internet,” Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin, Germany, June 2, 2022
  • Technology, Data and the Future of Democracy, Columbia Law School, Nov. 11, 2022
  • Justice Stephen Breyer and the First Amendment, North Carolina Law School, Nov. 18, 2022
  • Free Speech in the University, Galileo Society at Columbia University, Jan. 26, 2023
  • Freedom of Expression at American Law Schools, Hofstra Law School, Feb. 9, 2023
  • Spoke on the misguided free speech principle, Arizona State University, Feb. 16, 2023
  • “Beyond the Four Privacy Torts” and the Denver University School of Law, Apr. 1, 2023
  • “Is there a Free Speech Principles,” Cornell University free speech seminar, Apr. 18, 2023
  • Democracy and the Internet, Shamgar Center for Digital Law and Innovation, Tel Aviv Law School, Israel, May 8, 2023
  • Nature of the Free Speech Principle, Tel Aviv Law School, Israel, May 9, 2023
  • “Is an International Reference on Academic Freedom Possible?”, King’s College London, May 25, 2023
  • Democracy and the Internet, International Conference on the “Society of Internet Platforms,” Budapest, Hungary, June 19, 2023
  • “Misinformation, Democracy, and the Internet,” NYU Global Institute for Advanced Study, Sept. 8, 2023
  • The Misguided Free Speech Principle, Legal Theory workshop of Michigan State Law School, Sept. 27, 2023

Publications

George Priest

Lectures and Addresses

  • Participated in panel discussions at the conference, “The Vicissitudes of State Power,” Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, Barcelona, Spain
  • Participated in panel discussions at the Seminar in Latin America on Constitutional and Political Theory (SELA), Bogotá, Colombia
  • Attended the 2023 Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, “Liberalism and the Global Economy,” Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Publications

  • The Government versus the Market in Protecting against Economic Misfortune (forthcoming)
  • Innovation and U.S. Antitrust Law, Competition Policy International’s Antitrust Chronicle, Sept. 2023 

Judith Resnik

Lectures and Addresses

  • Co-convener: 26th Annual Liman Colloquium – Budgeting for Justice: Fiscal Policy & Monetary Sanctions, co-sponsored by Fines and Fees Justice Center, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law, and Policy Advocacy Clinic at Berkeley Law, Yale Law School, Apr. 20–22, 2023
  • Presenter: “Impermissible Punishments: The Problem Punishment Poses for Democracies,” a Faculty Workshop, Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, MO, Apr. 26, 2023
  • Panelist: “Sizing (Up and Down) the Federal Courts: Metrics and Meaning” for the Civil Procedure Workshop, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL, May 19, 2023
  • Panelist: “Judicial Review,” for the conference on The Battle Over the Israeli Judiciary, co-organized by the Academic Exchange and the Columbia Law School Center for Israeli Legal Studies, Columbia Law School, May 4, 2023
  • Co-convener: “Prison Conditions and The Eighth Amendment Circa 2023,” hosted by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Liman Center for Public Interest Law, American Civil Liberties Union National Prison Project, Washington, D.C., June 23, 2023
  • Moderator: “Seeing and Stopping Solitary,” for the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law, Law and Racial Justice, and Schell Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School, Sept. 13, 2023
  • Panelist: “Bookfest – Bob Bone” responding to Justifying Litigation Reform, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX, Oct. 13, 2023
  • Commentator: “The Shadow Docket with Steve Vladeck, Samuel Moyn, and Judith Resnik,” sponsored by the Law and Political Economy Project, Yale Law School, Oct. 24, 2023

Publications

  • Tolerating Harms of Detention: With and Without COVID-19 (with Jaimie Meyer and Marisol Orihuela), in COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact, and Legacy (I. Glenn Cohen, Abbe R. Gluck, Katherine L. Kraschel, and Carmel Shachar, eds., Cambridge University Press (2023))

Other Professional Highlights

  • American Philosophical Society, Class 3 Committee on Membership, 2023–2026  

Cristina M. Rodríguez

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Presidential Authority to Decline to Follow Supreme Court Opinions,” Symposium in Honor of Walter Dellinger, University of North Carolina Law School, Oct. 2023
  • “SCOTUS Flashpoint,” Common Ground with Jane Whitney, Aug. 2023
  • Public Law Institute, Supreme Court Year in Review, Aug. 2023
  • “How the Supreme Court is Dividing America,” 92Y, New York, June 2023
  • “Partisan Polarization, the Supreme Court, and Prospects for Reform,” Simms Memorial Lecture, University of New Mexico School of Law, Feb. 2023

Publications

  • The Accountable Bureaucrat, 132 Yale L.J. 1600 (2023) (with Anya Bernstein)
  • The Diffuse Executive, 92 Fordham L. Rev. 363 (2023) (with Anya Bernstein for symposium on the Unitary Executive)
  • The End of Asylum?, Just Security, May 12, 2023 (with Adam Cox)
  • The Constitution is in Trouble, Balkinization, Jan. 18, 2023 (20th anniversary symposium)

Other Professional Highlights

  • Appointed to Council of the American Law Institute
  • Appointed to Advisory Board of We the Action

Carol Rose

Lectures and Addresses

  • Presented (via Zoom): The Case of Racial Covenants, Seminar on Property and Race, University of Wisconsin Law School, Apr. 16, 2023
  • Presented: Property Law and Property Norms — A Skeletal Overview, Private Law Workshop, Harvard Law School, Sept. 13, 2023

Other Professional Highlights

  • Attended: Liberty Fund Conference on Property, Justice and Exchange in John Locke, San Antonio, TX, May 11–14, 2023
  • Attended: Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoria Constitucional y Politica (SELA), Bogota, Colombia, June 8–11, 2023
  • Attended (via Zoom): Advisers and Members Consultative Group, Restatement Fourth of Property, hosted by American Law Institute, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 6, 2023

David Schleicher

Lectures and Addresses

  • Clauses and Controversies Podcast, Apr. 24, 2023 
  • The Volcker Alliance and Penn Institute for Urban Research, Special Briefing, May 18, 2023 
  • Keynote speaker, Expert Roundtable: Responding to State and Local Budget Crises, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research, May 24, 2023 
  • America Trends, podcast interview, May 24, 2023
  • Risk Talking, Manhattan Institute Podcast, June 2, 2023 
  • Henry Grabar, What Happens When Cities Run Out of Money, Slate, June 5, 2023 (interview) 
  • Forward Podcast with Andrew Yang, interview, June 19, 2023
  • The Overhead Wire, podcast interview, June 29, 2023 
  • Very Serious with Josh Barro, podcast interview, July 7, 2023
  • The Campbell Conversations, radio interview, July 8, 2023 
  • Public Money Pod interview, July 31, 2023
  • In a Bad State, lecture, Brookings Institution/Municipal Finance Conference, July 18, 2023
  • In a Bad State book talk, University of Wisconsin, Center on State Democracy, Sept. 9, 2023

Publications

  • In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Fiscal Crisis (Oxford University Press, May 2023) 
  • The Era of Flush State Budgets Is Over, The Atlantic, June 4, 2023 
  • Leaving Us in a Good State, Balkinization, June 9, 2023, as part of a symposium about David Schleicher, In a Bad State: Responding to State and Local Fiscal Crisis 
  • The Basketball Court (with David Fontana), Slow Boring, July 11, 2023

Reva Siegel

Lectures and Addresses

  • Guest on Supreme Myths Podcast, discussed “Dobbs, originalism, reproductive rights, and more” with host Prof. Eric Segall, Episode 92, May 10, 2023
  • “Government’s Authority to Protect Public Safety Under Bruen’s History and Tradition Test,” Lessons from History on Domestic Violence, Firearms, and the Law, Wesleyan University, May 5
  • “Dobbs and the Roots of Originalism,” Panel on Text, History and the Fourteenth Amendment, Text and (What Kind of) History?, Stanford Law School, May 19
  • “A Year Since Dobbs: A Conversation with Emily Bazelon,” Association of Yale Alumni, Yale University, May 27 and June 2
  • The Future of Reproductive Justice Scholarship — Roundtable on Constitutional Law, Wake Forest Law School, June 23
  • “Why Was Geduldig Wrong? The Stakes in Choosing Between the Classification and Stereotyping Accounts,” State Litigation Table, Aug. 2
  • Discussed the manuscript of “The History of History and Tradition: The Roots of Dobbs’s Method (and Originalism) in the Defense of Segregation,” New York University Law School Legal History Workshop, Sept. 13
  • A Year Since Dobbs, A Conversation with — Solomon Center, Yale Law School, Sept. 20
  • Led Session on Equality and Rights, Global Constitutionalism Seminar 2023, Yale Law School, Sept. 22
  • Discussed the manuscript of “The History of History and Tradition: The Roots of Dobbs’s Method (and Originalism) in the Defense of Segregation,” Yale Law School Faculty Workshop, Oct. 2

Publications

James Whitman

Publications

  • “The Significance of Beaver Testicles in the Law of Bankruptcy,” in Verbindungslinien im Recht. Festschrift for Christoph G. Paulus (Munich: Beck. 2022), 769–775

Other Professional Highlights

  • Visiting Professor, Collège de France

Michael J. Wishnie

Lectures and Addresses

  • “Federal, State, and Local Responses to New Migrant Populations,” Migration Policy Institute, 20th Annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., Sept. 18, 2023

Other Professional Highlights

  • LaBonte v. United States, 2023 WL 3197825 (Fed. Cl. May 2, 2023) (granting summary judgment in part to Army veteran and remanding to determine entitlement to medical retirement)
  • Stevenson v. Wormuth, 2023 WL 3791721 (D.Conn. June 1, 2023) (denying in part Army motion for summary judgment, where veteran with other-than-honorable discharge sought upgrade based on substance use disorder, racial discrimination, and other grounds) 
  • NOW-NYC v. U.S. Dept. of Defense et al., No. 1:23-cv-06750-VEC (S.D.N.Y. filed Aug. 2, 2023) (challenging discriminatory exclusion of service members and veterans from in vitro fertilization coverage to same-sex and unmarried couples, single veterans and service members, and those without certain disabilities)
  • Flores Benitez v. Miller, --- F.Supp.3d ---, 2023 WL 5290855 (D.Conn. Aug. 17, 2023) (granting in part and denying in part motion to dismiss tort claims by children and parents forcibly separated at border in 2018 and reunited in Connecticut)
  • Johnson v. Kendall, 2023 WL 6227678 (D.Conn. Sept. 26, 2023) (certifying nation-wide class of Air Force and Space Force veterans with less than fully honorable discharges, granting preliminary approval to settlement, and approving plan for class notice)
  • In re O- (NDRB May 31, 2023) (changing narrative reason for separation and separation code from derogatory to neutral terms)
  • In re LaBonte (ABCMR Sept. 7, 2023) (granting disability retirement and maximum statutory disability rating)
  • In re Stevenson (ABCMR Sept. 26, 2023) (granting upgrade)
  • Petition for Rulemaking to Promulgate Regulations Governing Discrimination Under Section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (submitted to U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs on behalf of Minority Veterans of America, et al., July 20, 2023)

John Fabian Witt

Lectures and Addresses 

  • “Turmoil at the Supreme Court: The Uncertain Future of the Nine,” St. Thomas More Lecture, Yale College Conservative Party, New Haven, CT, Apr. 28, 2023
  • “The Broken Constitution,” New York City Bar Association, New York, NY, May 17, 2023
  • “Felix Frankfurter as Go-Between,” Touro Law Center Conference on the Life, Work, and Legacy of Felix Frankfurter, Long Island, NY, Apr. 19, 2023
  • “See the Millennium: The Social Democratic Roots of Brown,” Yale Law School Legal History Forum, New Haven, CT, Sept. 26, 2023

Publications 

  • Foreseeability Conventions, 44 Cardozo L. Rev. 1075 (2023) (with Morgan Savige) 
  • The Showdown: FDR vs. the Supreme Court, The Nation, June 27, 2023
  • Lieber at Sand Creek: A Critical Reinterpretation of the Laws of War, Just Security, Spring 2023

Other Professional Highlights

  • Brief of Legal Scholars in National Shooting Sports Foundation v. Lopez, D. Hawaii, Sept. 29, 2023
  • Brief of Legal Scholars in National Shooting Sports Foundation v. Bonta, S.D. Cal., July 28, 2023
  • Brief of Legal Scholars in National Shooting Sports Foundation v. Ferguson, E.D. Wash., June 7, 2023
  • Commentor, “Becoming Equal: American Law and the Rise of the Queer Family,” Manuscript Workshop, Wake Forest School of Law, Winston-Salem, NC, May 9, 2023
  • Commentor, U.S. Legal History Roundtable, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, May 5, 2023