Faculty Colloquia

Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Rohan Grey
Assistant Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law
Spending Money: The Constitutional Treasury, Monetary Delegation, and the Fiscal Franchise

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
T. Anansi Wilson
Director, Center for the Study of Black Life and the Law; Associate Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Madison Condon
Associate Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 | 240 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Hema Sarang-Sieminski ’05
Deputy Director, Jane Doe Inc; Fall 2023 Daynard Fellow, Northeastern University School of Law
Moving the Mainstream Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Movements Towards Healing, Accountability and Abolition

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Michael Sinha
Assistant Professor, St. Louis University School of Law

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Quisquella Addison
Assistant Teaching Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
Communal Role Modeling for Communal Change: A Talk on Voice, Vulnerability and Storytelling

Wednesday, October 25, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Luke Herrine
Assistant Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law
Consumer Protection After Consumer Sovereignty

Wednesday, November 1, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Alex Roberts
Professor of Law and Media, Northeastern University School of Law

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
To be announced. 

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Lily Song 
Assistant Professor of Race, Social Justice, and the Built Environment, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University

Wednesday, November 29, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Lateef Mtima
Professor of Law, Howard University School of Law

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Native Space
Sarah Kanouse
Associate Professor of Media Arts, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University
@KanouseSarah

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Uncreative Designs
Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law, Suffolk Law; Academic Co-Director, Suffolk Law IP Center
@design_law

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Race and Racism in Medicine: Fact and Fiction
Michael Meltsner
George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and author of Mosaic, a story of civil rights era health care
Leila Morsy
Senior Lecturer, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
Co-sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Public Duties for the New City
Sarah Swan
Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School

Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Pseudo-Professional Advice
Claudia Haupt
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, Northeastern University School of Law

Wednesday, November 2, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Oceanic Impunity
Stephen Cody
Associate Professor of Law, Suffolk Law
@stephenscody

Wednesday, November 9, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
The Indecisions of 1789: Inconstant Originalism
Jed Shugerman
Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
@jedshug

Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
IDEA Lab

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM
Robotic Interpretation
Kiel Brennan-Marquez
Professor of Law, William T. Golden Scholar and Faculty Director of the Center on Community Safety, Policing and Inequality, UConn School of Law

Wednesday, December 7, 2022 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance
Karen Levy
Associate Member of the Law Faculty, Cornell Law School

Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Inclusive Pedagogy
Kiana Pierre-Louis
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Northeastern University School of Law

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Employer-Sponsored Reproduction
Elizabeth McCuskey
Professor, Boston University School of Public Health, Department of Health Law, Policy & Management
Co-sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law

Wednesday, January 25, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
On the Why of Same Sex Marriage In Cuba
Libby Adler
Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Speaking Back to Sexual-Privacy Invasions
Brenda Dvoskin
SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Tethered Punishment
Eisha Jain
Associate Professor and Henry P. Brandis Distinguished Scholar, UNC School of Law; Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School

Wednesday, February 22, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Legal Ambiguities: What can Psycholinguistics Tell Us?
Janet Randall
Professor of English and Linguistics; Director, LingLaw Lab;  NU College of Social Sciences and Humanities and College of Science
Larry Solan
Don Forchelli Professor of Law; Director of the Center for the Study of Law, Brooklyn Law School

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Ethical Forum Shopping
Kathleen Claussen
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Place-Based Capital Raising
Edward De Barbieri
Associate Professor of Law; Director, Community Economic Development Clinic, Albany Law School

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Race and the Denial of Justice in International Investment Law
Felipe Ford Cole
Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Reimagining Property, Land & Home in Colonized Wabanaki Territory
Ethan Miller
Land in Common & Community Economies Institute

Wednesday, April 5, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Debt’s Grip: Risk and Consumer Bankruptcy
Pamela Foohey
Professor of Law, Cardozo Law

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Idea Lab

Summer Colloquium Series Schedule

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
The Meanings of “Life” in Treaties and Statutes
Martha Davis

Wednesday, June 14, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Discordant Discipline: Challenges of Interstate Health Care in an Era of Legislated Medicine
Kristin Madison

Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Property as Resilience
Lua Kamál Yuille

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
From Deference to Indifference: Judicial Review of Public Health Authority Since the COVID-19 Pandemic
Wendy Parmet

Wednesday, July 12, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Legislative update on assisted reproductive technology and fertility access
Katie Kraschel

Wednesday, July 19, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Aliza Hochman Bloom

Wednesday, July 26, 2023 | 42 Dockser | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Xander Meise

Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Martha Albertson Fineman
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory School of Law
Universality, Vulnerability and Collective Responsibility

Wednesday, October 6, 2021 |12:45 – 2:10 PM | 240 Dockser 
Linda Rivas
Executive Director and Managing Attorney, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center
Daynard Distinguished Visiting Fellow Roundtable
“I Would Still Have Come:” A Conversation with Experts and Directly Impacted Migrant Women About the Impact of Border Policies on Their Lives
Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration. 

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM | 42 Dockser
Sarah Seo
Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Between Treason and Pardons: Conspiracy Laws in the United States
Co-sponsored by the Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC)

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM | 42 Dockser   
Blaine Saito
Assistant Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
The Levels of Tax Coordination

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM | 42 Dockser          
David Simon
Research Fellow, Petrie Flom Center, Harvard; Adjunct Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Evidence-Based Regulation of Off-Label Information

Wednesday, November 3, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM | 42 Dockser          
Rachel Sachs
Treiman Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
The Accidental Innovation Policymakers
Co-sponsored by the Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC)     

Wednesday, November 10, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM | 42 Dockser   
Jonathan Greenacre
Assistant Professor of International Relations, Boston University Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies,
Bridge Institutions in Africa

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM | 42 Dockser         
Sari Altschuler
Associate Professor of English, Northeastern University College of Social Science and Humanities
Disability and Citizenship in the Early United States
Co-sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM | 250 Dockser               
Moritz Baumgartel
Assistant Professor of Law, Utrecht University; Fulbright Scholar, UCLA
Local legal mobilizations for the protection of migrant rights: a comparison of US sanctuary cities and cities of refuge in Europe
Co-sponsored by the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE)

Wednesday, December 8, 2021  | 12:45 – 2:00 PM | 42 Dockser  
David Jones
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine, Harvard University, Department of the History of Science
Should Medicine Continue to Treat People Differently Based on their Race and Ethnicity?
Co-sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law

Wednesday, January 12, 2022  | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Steven Koh
Assistant Professor, Boston College School of Law
Physical De-Escalation Training

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Thomas Haley
Research Assistant Professor, University of Virginia School of Law
Privacy after Contract
Co-sponsored by the Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC)

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 |12:45 – 2:10 PM | 240 Dockser 
Keesha Gaskins-Nathan ’99
Program Director, Democratic Practice–United States Program, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Daynard Distinguished Visiting Fellow Roundtable
Democracy and Civil Rights: Defensive Struggles and Expansive Visions from the Local to the National
Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration. 

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Lisa Washington
Hastie Fellow, University of Wisconsin School of Law
Survived and Coerced: Epistemic Injustice in the Family Regulation System

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Hayes R. Holderness
Associate Professor, University of Richmond School of Law
Taxing Remote Income under a Forgiving Constitution

Wednesday, February 25, 2022 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Jonathan Kahn
Professor of Law and Biology, Northeastern University
Diversity’s Pandemic Distractions
Co-sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Adnan A. Zulfiqar
Associate Professor, Rutgers Law School
Human Rights Norms from Below   

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Brenda Cossman
Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
The New Sex Wars:  Sexual Harm in the #MeToo Era

Wednesday, March 30, 2022 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Olatunde C. Johnson
Jerome B. Sherman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Rights Lawyering in an Age of Abolition

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | 12:45 – 2:00 PM
Audrey MacFarlane
Dean Julius Isaacson Professor of Law, University of Baltimore
Owning While Black: “Managing” the Racial Component of Property Values

Summer Colloquium Series Schedule

Wednesday, June 1, 2022 
Professor Rasmhi Dyal-Chand
Past Due

Wednesday, June 8, 2022 
Professor Ari Waldman
The Gender Box

Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Professor Blaine Saito
Boechler v. Commissioner of IRS (SCT 2022)

Wednesday, June 29, 2022
Professor Daniel Medwed
Barred

Wednesday, July 6, 2022 
Professor Martha Davis
Dobbs v. Jackson Health (SCT 2022)
and
Professor  Lee Breckenridge
West Virginia v. EPA (SCT 2022)

Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Professor Hilary Robinson
Work-in-progress

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Dan Jackson
Work-in-progress

Wednesday, July 27, 2022
Professor Kristin Madison
Work-in-progress

September 30, 2020
Health Law Roundtable: Dr. Michael Sinha, Visiting Scholar, Northeastern University School of Law; Regulatory Science Fellow, Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science, Harvard Program in Therapeutic Science (HiTS), Harvard Medical School

October 7, 2020 | 12:10 – 1:40 PM
The Role of Lawyers in Addressing Structural Injustice in the Criminal Punishment System
What role do lawyers play in perpetuating structural racism and injustice within America’s system of mass incarceration? What role can lawyers play in transforming the criminal punishment system? Alec Karakatsanis, founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps, will speak about his book, Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System, with commentary by Professor Michael Meltsner.

October 14, 2020
Blaine Saito, Assistant Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Tax Coordination

October 26, 2020
Mary Anne Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Who Conquers With This Sign? The Significance of the Secularization of the Bladensburg Cross

October 28, 2020
Health Law Roundtable: Kimani Paul-Emile, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law; Associate Director and Head of Domestic Programs and Initiatives, Center on Race, Law & Justice; Faculty Co-Director, Stein Center for Law & Ethics

November 18, 2020
Health Law Roundtable
Dr. Mason Marks
Assistant Professor of Law, Gonzaga University School of Law; Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School; Fellow-in-Residence, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School

November 30, 2020
Andrew Koppelman
John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
The Corruption of Libertarianism:  How a Philosophy of Freedom was Betrayed by Delusion and Greed

December 10, 2020
Jennifer Taub
Professor of Law, Western New England University School of Law
Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime 

December 18, 2020
Steven L. Winter
Walter S. Gibbs Distinguished  Professor of Constitutional Law, Wayne State University Law School

January 27, 2021
Health Law Roundtable
Dorit Reiss
Professor of Law and the James Edgar Hervey ’50 Chair of Litigation, UC Hastings Law

February 9, 2021
Health Law Roundtable
Doron Dorfman
Associate Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law

February 10, 2021
Libby Adler
Professor of Law and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

March 10, 2021
Allison Tait
Professor of Law, Allison Tait, University of Richmond School of Law
Inheriting Privilege

March 24, 2021
Sonia Rolland
Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Emerging Powers in International Economic Law – Cooperation, Competition and Transformation 

March 31, 2021
Claudia Haupt
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, Northeastern University School of Law
Regulating Speech Online: Free Speech Values in Constitutional Frames

April 9, 2021
Health Law Roundtable
World Health Day: Celebrating the Work of Mariah McGill ’09

Esther Kamau
PhD candidate, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, UMass Boston
Fellow, Center for Peace, Democracy and Development, UMass Boston

Gillian MacNaughton
Associate Professor of Human Rights, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, UMass Boston

Anja Rudiger
Senior Advisor, Partners for Dignity & Rights

April 28, 2021
Sadiq Reza
Visiting Professor, Northeastern University School of Law; Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law School’s Criminal Justice Institute

May 5, 2021
Atinuke Adediran
David and Pamela Donohue Assistant Professor

Monday, June 7, 2021| 12:45 – 2:10 PM
Claudia Haupt, Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, Northeastern University School of Law
Assuming Access to Professional Advice

Monday, June 14, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:10 PM
Blaine Saito, Assistant Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
CIC Services v. Internal Revenue Service (SCT 2021)

Monday, June 28, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:10 PM
Ari Waldman, Professor of Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University School of Law
Disorderly Content

Monday, July 12, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:10 PM
Wendy Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
The Supreme Court’s COVID Free Exercise Decisions

Monday, July 19, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:10 PM
Jeremy Paul, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Cedar Point Nursery

Monday, July 26, 2021 | 12:45 – 2:10 PM
Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law and Computer Science, Northeastern University School of Law
Work-in-progress

September 16, 2019
Rory Van Loo, Associate Professor of Law, Boston University
Comments: Professor Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern University School of Law

October 2, 2019
Adam Hosein, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities
Comment: Professor

Libby Adler

October 16, 2019 | 5:30 PM
Book forum: Katherine Franke ’86, Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Columbia University, will speak about her new book, Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2019).
Comments: Professor Margaret Burnham

October 21, 2019
Health Law Roundtable: Liz Chiarello, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Saint Louis University
Comments: Professor Leo Beletsky

October 3, 2018
Professor Kara Swanson, Northeastern University School of Law

October 12, 2018
Danielle Citron, Morton & Sophia Macht Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC)

October 10, 2018
Professor Libby Adler, Northeastern University School of Law

November 7, 2018
Faculty Colloquium

November 28, 2018
Faculty Colloquium

December 5, 2018
Professor David Rochefort, College of Social Science and Humanities, Northeastern University

January 23, 2019
Professor Margaret Burnham, Northeastern University School of Law

February 13, 2019
Professor Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern University School of Law

February 20, 2019
Faculty Colloquium

March 6, 2019 
Professor Kristin Madison, Northeastern University School of Law

April 3, 2019
Faculty Colloquium

April 10, 2019
Professor Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Northeastern University School of Law (Book Forum Series)

September 13, 2017
Navigating the New Coeus Program for Grant Submissions
Karen Drew, Director of Research Development and Strategic Projects, Northeastern University School of Law

October 20, 2017
Diversity Hiring and Working With University Administration
Adrienne Davis, Vice-Provost, Washington University in St. Louis

January 17, 2018
Author event:“You Don’t Own Me: How Mattel v. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie’s Dark Side”
Orly Lobel, Don Weckstein Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Univeristy Of San Diego School of Law

February 14, 2018
Tally Amir, Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School; Senior Lecturer of immigration and international law at the College of Law and Business, Israel

February 28, 2018
Julian Fray, Assistant Teaching Professor, Northeastern University School of Law

April 26, 2018
Professor Pat Chew, University of Pittsburgh Law School

May 3, 2017
Narrating the Peace Process: Lessons from a Transition
Helena Alviar, Profesora Titular and Dean, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. 

Wednesday, April 26, 2017
‘Taxis vs Uber’: Planning vs. Markets, or Markets as Planning?
Jason Jackson, Future Faculty Fellow of Political Science, Northeastern University

April 12, 2017
Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality
Meryl Alper, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northeastern University

March 28, 2017
Thomas Mitchell, Professor, Texas A&M University School of Law and Department of Agricultural Economics

March 27, 2017
Bringing Home the Right to Housing
Lisa Alexander, Professor, Texas A&M University School of Law and Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Health Policy and Law Roundtable

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Louis Kaplow, Finn M. W. Caspersen and Household International Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
This lunchtime event is cosponsored with the Northeastern Economics Department and will take place in their building.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Health Policy and Law Roundtable: Turning Patients into Consumers: A View from the Trenches of Patient Care

Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Wayne Logan, Gary & Salllyn Pajcic Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law
Commentator: Professor Daniel Medwed

Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Health Policy and Law Roundtable: Managing Off Label Drug Use by Changing Incentives 

Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Health Law Roundtable: A Trojan Horse?  How an Expanding First Amendment Threatens the Entire FDA and Much of the Modern Regulatory State
Christopher Robertson, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation, James E Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 
Professor Julian Fray, Northeastern University School of Law

Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Bijal Shah, Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering, New York University School of Law

Monday, April 25, 2016
Health Law Roundtable: Paying for Population Health: Possibilities and Perils in Healthcare Industry Investments
Jean McGuire, Professor of Practice, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 
Grand Finality: Post-conviction Prosecutors and the Defense of Death
Professor Daniel Medwed, Northeastern University School of Law

Monday, April 11, 2016
Boston Intellectual Property Colloquium: Ancient, Traditional, and Modern Information Privacy Harms
Paul Ohm, Georgetown Law Center

Thursday, April 7, 2016 
Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy Faculty Colloquium
Refugee Crisis in Europe: Human Rights and the Negative Externalities of Bad Policies
Nikos Passas, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University and Nicolas Giannakopoulos, President of the Organized Crime Observatory at the University of Geneva (Switzerland)

Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Health Law Roundtable: “Paying for Population Health: Whose Job?” Or “The Dilemma of Doing More with Less: Capitating Care for Vulnerable Populations”
Jean McGuire Professor of Practice, Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Health Law Roundtable: Utilizing an Urban Health Framework to Guide Policy Development
Shan Mohammed, Associate Clinical Professor, Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Thursday, March 17, 2016
The Class Action as Trust 
Sergio Campos, Associate Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law

Monday, February 29, 2016
Human Rights in International Law? The Forgotten Origins of the 1948 American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man
Arnulf Becker, Research Fellow, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki and Visiting Faculty, International Relations Program, Brown University

Wednesday, February 18, 2016
Gay Priori
Professor Libby Adler, Northeastern University School of Law

Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Amy Kapczynski, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale Law School

Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Jennifer Chacon, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Suzanna Walters, Professor of Sociology and Director of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University.

Monday, March 23, 2015
Sarah Jackson, Assistant Professor, College of Arts, Media and Design, Northeastern University

Monday, February 23, 2015
Jonathan Glater, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Thursday, January 15, 2015
Dan Burk, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Monday, December 15, 2014

Elizabeth F. Emens, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
Title: Relational Admin

Monday, November 17, 2014
Steven L. Winter, Walter S. Gibbs Professor of Constitutional Law, Wayne State University Law School
Title: Consumerism and Democracy

Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Aya Gruber, Professor of Law at University of Colorado Law School
Title: A Provocative Defense

Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Ezra Rosser, Professor of Law at American University, Washington College of Law
Title: Destabilizing Property

Monday, June 16, 2014
Maritza Karmely, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Suffolk Law

Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Nina Kohn, Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law

Wednesday, April 30, 2014
David Orentlicher, Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

Monday, April 14, 2014
Mark Wu, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Monday, March 10, 2014
Scott Cummings, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

Monday, February 10, 2014
Lauren Willis, Professor of Law, Loyola, Los Angeles

November 20, 2013
Justin Driver, Professor of Law at University of Texas Law School

October 23, 2013
Steven Wilf, Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce at University of Connecticut Law School

October 9, 2013
Anna Gelpern, Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School

September 18, 2013
William W. Burke-White, Deputy Dean and Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School

September 18, 2012
Harmonizing Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development
Rashmi Dyal-Chand and James Rowan, Northeastern University School of Law
Comment:  Kevin Murphy

October 22, 2012
Building a Better Laboratory: The Federal Role in Health System Experimentation
Kristin Madison, Northeastern University School of Law
Comment:  Wendy Parmet and Renee Landers, Professor of Law, Suffolk University Law School

November 14, 2012           
National Security Interest Convergence
Suddha Setty, Western New England
Comment: Aziza Ahmed

December 12, 2012
Rationing Criminal Legal Services: Lessons from Bioethics
Glenn Cohen, Harvard
Comment:   Kristin Madison

January 16, 2013
Hackers and Humanists: What the Origins of Open Source Software Licenses and Author’s Copyright Have in Common
Rebecca Curtin, Suffolk
Comment:  Kara Swanson

February 20, 2013
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
Kenneth Mack, Harvard
Comment:  Margaret Burnham

March 13, 2013
Gender and the Law of Occupation
Fionnuala  Ní Aoláin, University of Minnesota
Comment:   Libby Adler

April 17, 2013
Religious Liberty and the Financial War on Terror
Malick Ghachem, University of Maine
Comment:   Michael Meltsner

May 8, 2013
Public/Private Partnerships in Trade and Environment
Elizabeth Trujillo, Suffolk
Comment:  Brook Baker

June 12, 2013
Quotas: From Discrimination to Democracy
Julie Suk, Cardozo
Comment:  Martha Davis

September 27, 2011
Can You Believe It’s Kosher: Trust, Reputation and Non-Governmental Regulation in the
Age of Industrial Food
Timothy Lytton
Albany Law School
Comment: Richard Daynard

October 11, 2011
The Properties of Instability: Markets, Predation, Racialized Geography and Property
Law
Audrey McFarlane
University of Baltimore School of Law
Comment: Aziza Ahmad

November 30, 2011
The Killing Court: Death and the Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
Evan Mandery
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Comment: Michael Meltzner

December 19, 2011
Birth/Rights: Race and the Evidentiary Burdens of Birthright Citizenship
Rachel Rosenbloom
Northeastern University School of Law
Comment: Martha Davis

January 25, 2012
When Pregnancy is an Injury: Metaphor, Law and Culture
Khiara Bridges
Boston University School of Law
Comment: Kara Swanson

February 27, 2012
America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder After the
Panic of 1837
Alasdair Roberts
Suffolk University Law School
Comment: James Hackney

March 19, 2012
Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law and the Civil Rights Revolution
Serena Mayeri
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Comment: Margaret Burnham

April 9, 2012
The Legal History of Felon Prisoner Voting: A View from the Northeastern Corner
Malick Ghachem
University of Maine School of Law
Comment: Daniel Givelber

May 7, 2012
The Urbanization of Property
Nestor Davidson
Fordham University School of Law
Comment: Rashmi Dyal-Chand

June 27, 2012
Enhancing Environmental Decision-making
Elizabeth Burleson
Pace Law School
Comment: Lee Breckenridge

September 20, 2010 
The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender and Tort Law
Jennifer Wriggins, University of Maine
Comment: James Hackney

November 1, 2010
The Virtues of Common Ownership
Anna di Robilant, Boston University
Comment: Rashmi Dyal-Chand

December 13, 2010
Listening to Defending Our Lives: Identification and Advocacy in Intimate Partner Abuse
Elizabeth Britt, Northeastern University, English
Comment: Lois Kanter

January 31, 2011 
The Perils of Expert Testimony and Findings of Fact in Gay Rights Litigation
Libby Adler, Northeastern
Comment: Margaret Burnham

February 23, 2011
“To Endure for Ages to Come”: The U.S. Constitution in a Transnational Era
Vicki C. Jackson, Georgetown

March 9, 2011
International Law in a Time of Change

Anthony Anghie, University of Utah
Comment: Hope Lewis

March 21, 2011
Appeal to a Higher Tribunal
Alexandra Lahav, University of Connecticut
Comment: Stephen Subrin

April 27, 2011
Abigail English, Radcliffe Institute
Comment: Amy Farrell, Northeastern University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice

May 11, 2011   
Terrorism and the Ethics of War
Stephen Nathanson, Northeastern University, Philosophy
Comment: Daniel Squires, Matrix Law, U.K.

June 13, 2011 
Rigorous Analysis for Class Certification
Andrew Lemon, Northeastern University, Economics
Comment: James Hackney

September 22, 2009
The Criminalization of Poverty
Kaaryn Gustafson, University of Connecticut School of Law
Comment: Lucy Williams

October 22, 2009
The Trajectory of Trauma: Bodies and Minds of Abortion Discourse
Jeannie Suk, Harvard Law School
Comment: Martha Davis

November 10, 2009
Market Conditions and the Non-price Terms in Contracts
Albert Choi, University of Virginia School of Law
Comment:  Dan Austin

February 16, 2010
Regulating the New Property
Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Northeastern University School of Law
Comment: Peter Enrich

March 9, 2010
Coming to Terms with a Global Economy Governed by Local Rules:
How a Global Economic Policy Perspective Can Help
Dan Danielsen, Northeastern University School of Law
Comment: James Hackney

April 8, 2010
The Financial Crisis of 2008: An Intellectual History
James Hackney, Northeastern University School of Law
Comment: David Phillips

May 11, 2010
Topic TBA
Patricia Williams, Columbia Law School

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Do You Swear to Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth Against Your Child?
Hillary B. Farber, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University College of Criminal Justice, Visiting Assistant Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
Commentator:  Mary O’Connell

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Analytical Jurisprudence and the Concept of Commercial Law
John Linarelli, Professor of Law, University of La Verne College of Law
Visiting Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Commentator:  James Hackney

Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Averting a Legitimation Crisis and the Paradox of the War on Terror
Daniel R. Williams, Associate Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Commentator:  Deborah A. Ramirez

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Property in Crisis
Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Commentator:  TBA

Thursday, April 2, 2009
Anti-Civil Rights Violence: The Case of Southwest Mississippi
Margaret Burnham, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Commentator:  Michael Meltsner

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Contemporary Development of Housing Rights in Europe in the Context of Public International Law
Dr. Padraic Kenna, Faculty of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway
Commentator:  Hope Lewis

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Beth Thornburg, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
Continuity and Change at the Boundaries of Law and Culture: Lessons from the Lawtalk Project
Comment: Stephen Subrin

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Keith Fisher, Northeastern University School of Law
Reclaiming the Tenth Amendment for Consumer Protection
Comment: Peter Enrich

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Elizabeth Wilson, Attorney, Washington, DC
Is Torture All in a Day’s Work? Scope of Employment, the Absolute Immunity Doctrine and Civil Torture Litigation Against US Federal Officials
Comment: Daniel Givelber

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Katerina Linos, Harvard University Society of Fellows
International Law and Social Policy Reform
Comment: Martha Davis

Thursday, March 13, 2008
Katherine Franke, Columbia Law School
Longing for Loving
Comment: Janet Halley

Thursday, April 3, 2008
Sharon Dolovich, Harvard Law School
Culpability, Prison Conditions and the Eighth Amendment
Comment: Michael Meltsner

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School
Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
Comment: Hope Lewis

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Libby Adler, Northeastern University School of Law
The Gay Agenda
Comment: Taylor Flynn

September 26, 2006
Sanford V. Levinson, University of Texas
Where the Constitution Goes Wrong
Comment: Peter Enrich

October 31, 2006
Eric Blumenson, Suffolk University
Killing in Good Conscience
Comment: Daniel Givelber

November 14, 2006
Paul Butler, George Washington University
The Future of Justice
Comment: James Hackney

December 12, 2006
Jennifer Levi, Western New England
Sex Discriminatory Dress Codes
Comment: Libby Adler

January 19, 2007
Ruth Gordon, Villanova University
The Poorest Nations in the International System: Subsisting on the Periphery
Comment: Karl Klare

January 30, 2007
Daniel Williams, Northeastern University
After the Gold Rush Part I: Hamdi, 9/11 and the Dark Side of Enlightenment

February 20, 2007
Tseming Yang, Vermont Law School
China’s Environmental Regulatory System and the Songhua River Spill
Comment: Lee Breckenridge

March 8, 2007
Deidre Smith, University of Maine
Expert Medical Testimony in ADA Cases
Comment: Wendy Parmet

March 27, 2007
David Phillips, Northeastern University
A Micro History: The Multiple Identities of Georg Cohn and the Multiple Meanings of Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention
Comment: James Rowan

April 17, 2007
C. Edwin Baker, University of Pennsylvania
Media Concentration: Why Ownership Matters
Comment: Michael Meltsner

May 15, 2007
Dan Danielsen, Northeastern University
Transnational Regulation of Foreign Investment and the Legal Reconstruction of the Development State
Comment: Rashmi Dyal-Chand

September 22, 2005
Jennifer Wriggins
University of Maine
Race and Torts
Response – James Hackney

October 27, 2005
Mary Dudziak
Making Law/Making War in a World on Fire
University of Southern California
Response – Michael Meltsner

November 17, 2005
Susan Silbey
MIT, Dept of Anthropology
After Legal Consciousness: Popular Culture and the Hegemonic Rule of Law
Response – Rashmi Dyal-Chand

December 15, 2005
Philip Bobbitt
University of Texas
January 19, 2006
TBA

February 16, 2006
Michael Klarman
University of Virginia
Brown and Lawrence (and Goodridge)
Response – Taylor Flynn

March 16, 2006
Kilaparti Ramarkrishna
Woods Hole Research Center
(Visiting at Fletcher School)
Sustainability and International Law – Problems and Prospects
Response – Lee Breckenridge

April 20, 2006
Sharon Dolovich
University of California, Los Angeles
The Scope of Eighth Amendment Protection for Prisoners
Response – Daniel Williams

May 18, 2006
Michael Stein
William & Mary
Disability and Development: A Case Study of the World Bank
Response – Hope Lewis