Junior Faculty Forum | Harvard Law School | June 13 and 14, 2018
Wednesday, June 13
Hauser Hall, Room 101
8:00 – 8:45 a.m. Breakfast
8:45 – 9:00 a.m. Opening Statements
9:00 – 9:40 a.m. Law and Humanities
- Kish Parella, Washington and Lee University: “Public Relations Litigation”
Commentator: Jessica Silbey, Northeastern University School of Law
9:45 – 10:25 a.m. Constitutional Law, Historical Foundations
- Jud Campbell, University of Richmond: “The Invention of First Amendment Federalism”
Commentator: Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School
10:30 – 11:10 a.m. Constitutional Law, Historical Foundations
- Justin Collings, Brigham Young University Law School: “The Supreme Court and the Memory of Evil”
Commentator: Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School
11:15 – 11:55 a.m. Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
- Kiel Brennan-Marquez, Georgetown Law School: “Very Broad Laws”
Commentator: David Super, Georgetown Law School
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 – 1:40 p.m. Constitutional Law, Theoretical Foundations
- Aaron Tang, UC Davis School of Law: “Rethinking Political Power in Judicial Review”
Commentator: Kent Greenfield, Boston College Law School
1:45 – 2:25 p.m. Legislation and Statutory Interpretation
- Kirsten Carlson, Wayne State University Law School: “Lobbying Against the Odds”
Commentator: Bethany Berger, University of Connecticut Law School
2:30 – 3:10 p.m. Public International Law
- Andrew Woods, University of Kentucky College of Law: “Litigating Data Sovereignty”
Commentator: Graeme Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
3:15 – 3:55 p.m. Public International Law
- Tendayi Achiume, UCLA School of Law: “Migration as Decolonization”
Commentator: Gaby Blum, Harvard Law School
4:00 – 4:40 p.m. Jurisprudence/Philosophy (Evidence)
- Sean Sullivan, University of Iowa: “A Likelihood Story: The Theory of Legal Fact-Finding”
Commentator: Jeremy Sheff, St. John’s University
7:00 p.m. Dinner
- Harvard Faculty Club, Room 212, 20 Quincy St., Cambridge
Thursday, June 14
Hauser Hall, Room 101
8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 – 9:40 a.m. Environmental Law
- Sarah Light, University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School: “The Law of the Corporation as Environmental Law”
Commentator: Richard Lazarus, Harvard Law School
9:45 – 10:25 a.m. Race/Gender/Antidiscrimination
- Jessica Clarke, Vanderbilt Law School: “Explicit Bias”
Commentator: Margo Schlanger, University of Michigan Law School
10:30 – 11:10 a.m. Administrative Law
- Emily Bremer, University of Wyoming: “The Exceptionalism Norm in Administrative Adjudication”
Commentator: Adrian Vermeule, Harvard Law School
11:15 – 11:55 a.m. Administrative Law
- Rory Van Loo, Boston University School of Law: “Regulatory Surveillance”
Commentator: Yair Listokin, Yale Law School
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 – 1:40 p.m. Criminal Law
- Thea Johnson, University of Maine Law School: “Fictional Pleas”
Commentator: Frank Cooper, Suffolk University Law School
1:45 – 2:25 p.m. Criminal Law
- Jordan Blair Woods, University of Arkansas: “Policing, Danger Narratives, and Routine Traffic Stops”
Commentator: Robert Bloom, Boston College
2:30 – 3:10 p.m. Criminal Law
- Avlana Eisenberg, FSU College of Law: “The Prison-Educational Complex”
Commentator: Sharon Dolovich, UCLA School of Law
3:15 – 3:55 p.m. Workplace Law and Social Welfare Policy
- Andrew Verstein, Wake Forest School of Law: “The Failure of Mixed Motives Jurisprudence”
Commentator: Matt Stephenson, Harvard Law School
4:00 p.m. Closing Statements and Wrap-up
5:30 p.m. Dinner
- Nubar, Sheraton Commander Hotel, 16 Garden St., Cambridge