Faculty Workshops
At the USF School of Law’s ongoing Faculty Scholarship Workshop Series, distinguished scholars from across the country and world present current research.The weekly workshops also feature scholarly presentation by USF’s own faculty.
Speakers have included Columbia Law School Professor William Simon on minimalism and experimentalism in the administrative state, UC Los Angeles School of Law Professors Russell Robinson and Devon Carbado on gay rights, USF School of Law Professor Reza Dibadj on corporations and constitutional rights, and East China University of Political Science and Law Professor Ma He on China's relationship to the International Criminal Court.
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule Spring 2012
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| January 19 |
Nothing Fancy: A Few Simple Truths About Truth in the Law |
Susan Haack, University of Miami School of Law
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| January 31 |
Promoting Our Scholarship |
Josh Davis |
| February 8 |
Comparative Law in China |
Lihong Zhang, East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, China |
| February 16 |
Transcending the Tacit Dimension: Patents, Relationships, and the Industrial Organization of Technology Transfer |
Peter Lee, UC Davis School of Law |
| February 29 |
Equality and Speech: The Gay Liberationist Perspective |
Shannon Gilreath, Wake Forest University School of Law |
| March 21 |
Caremark and the Failures of Antitrust Compliance |
Jesse Markham |
| March 28 |
Defying Conventional Wisdom: The Case for Private Antitrust Enforcement |
Josh Davis |
| April 4 |
What is a Lawyer? A Reconstruction of the Lawyer as An Officer of the Court |
Deborah Hussey Freeland |
| April 12 |
Balancing Deference: Appellate Review of Factual Adjudication by Administrative Agencies |
Michael Kagan, UNLV School of Law |
| April 18 |
Parents, Minors, and Minor Parents |
Maya Manian |
| April 25 |
Disclosure as Delaware's New Frontier? |
Reza Dibadj
|
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule Fall 2011
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| September 7 |
Prosecution Complex: America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent |
Daniel Medwed, University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law
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| September 14 |
The Alliance Between Payday Lenders and Tribes: Are Both Tribal Sovereignty and Consumer Protection at Risk? |
Nathalie Martin, University of New Mexico School of Law |
| September 28 |
European Constitutionalism and Integration Revisited |
Jiri Priban, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, Wales |
| October 5 |
Minimalism and Experimentalism in the Administrative State |
William Simon, Columbia Law School and Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School |
| October 12 |
A Modest Proposal: The Aged of Death Row Should Be Deemed Too Old to Execute |
Elizabeth Rapaport, University of New Mexico and Visiting Professor, USF School of Law |
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule Summer 2011
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| June 22 |
Jurisprudential Jujutsu and Positivism versus Purposivism: Argument and Empire
|
Josh Davis |
| June 29 |
Sex-Based Discrimination & Low Wage Workers |
Tristin Green |
| July 13 |
Paved with Good Intentions: the Fate of Strict Liability Under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act |
Kalyani Robbins, University of Akron |
| July 20 |
In Praise of Guile: The Lawyer as Trickster |
John Denvir |
| July 27 |
Sorting, Sifting, Weighing, Shifting: Analyzing the Functions of Same-Sex Marriage Litigation |
Julie Nice |
| August 3 |
Family Law, Functional Parenting and Teenage Pregnancy: Reforming Parental Involvement Legislation |
Maya Manian |
| August 17 |
Should You Dance with the One That Brought You: An Empirical Analysis
of the Effects of Law Students Transferring to Higher Ranked Schools |
Bruce Price |
| August 24 |
Towards an Evidence-Based Discussion of the Full Benefits of Mindfulness for Lawyers |
Rhonda Magee |
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule Spring 2011
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| January 19 |
100 Years a Vagrant: Persisting Uncertainties under the Antitrust Rule of Reason |
Jesse Markham |
| February 2 |
Teaching Property as Law: A Heuristic Approach to Reunifying Property |
Tim Iglesias |
| February 9 |
Championing the "Defenseless" and "Oppressed," Protecting "Widows and Children" |
Richard Abel, UCLA Law School |
| February 16 |
The Relationship of China to the International Criminal Court |
Ma He, East China University of Political Science and Law |
| March 2 |
Meet the USF Grant Team |
Renee Haddad and Laurie Treleven |
| March 16 |
The New-New Old-Old Thing:Using Antitrust to Limit Political Economies of Scale |
Zephyr Teachout, Fordham University School of Law |
| March 30 |
What’s Wrong with Gay Rights? |
Russell Robinson and Devon Carbado, UCLA School of Law |
| April 6 |
A New Grand Bargain for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weaponss |
Jack Garvey |
| April 13 |
Corporations, Constitutional Rights, and Penumbras |
Reza Dibadj |
| April 27 |
"No Look" Attorneys’ Fees and the Attorneys Who Are Looking: An Empirical Analysis of Presumptively Approved Attorneys’ Fees in Ch. 13 Bankruptcies and a Modest Proposal For Reform. |
Bruce Price |
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule Fall 2010
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| September 16 |
iPad and Other Technology in the Classroom |
Henry Brown |
| September 23 |
The Future of Systemic Disparate Treatment Law |
Tristin Green |
| September 30 |
Sustainable Development and the Ownership and Regulation of Groundwater Resources |
Yvonne Scannell |
| October 5 |
Carnegie Task Force |
Faculty Colloquium |
| October 14 |
Pity the Poor Lawyer: Michael Clayton on Professional Identity |
John Denvir |
| October 21 |
A Critique of Recent Philosophical Writings on Legal Ethics from the Perspective of Agency Law |
Charles Silver |
| October 28 |
What's Next with WestlawNext |
Ron Wheeler |
| November 4 |
Of Securities and Schemes |
Reza Dibadj |
| November 11 |
The Litigation State: Public Regulation and Private Lawsuits in the
United States |
Sean Farhang (Assistant Professor, GSSP, UC Berkeley) |
| November 18 |
How do the Elderly Fare in Medical Malpractice Litigation, Before and After Tort Reform? Evidence from Texas, 1988-2007 |
David Hyman (Professor, University of Illinois College of Law) |
| December 12 |
The Political Turn in Administrative Law: Power, Rationality and Reason |
Jodi Short, Georgetown Law Center |
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule Summer 2010
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| June 10 |
In Support of Aggregate Recoveries |
Josh Davis |
| June 17 |
Educating Lawyers to Meditate |
Rhonda Magee |
| June 24 |
Systemic Failure: Mental Illness, Detention, and Deportation |
Bill Hing |
| July 1 |
Halting, Altering and Agreeing: The Bankruptcy Chapter 11 Process as a Form of ADR |
Bruce Price |
| July 8 |
The Gatehouses and the Mansions: 50 Years Later |
Richard Leo |
| July 15 |
An Empirical Study of Trademarks as Keywords: Diversion, Confusion and Dilution |
David Franklyn |
| July 22 |
Human Rights Dictionary |
Connie de la Vega |
| July 29 |
Clarifying the Application of the federal Fair Housing Act to Private Residential Occupancy Standards |
Tim Iglesias |
| August 5 |
TBA
|
Susan Freiwald
|
| August 12 |
Facial Challenges and the Face of Abortion |
Maya Manian
|
| August 19 |
The Death Penalty in One California County: the Significance of Location |
Steve Shatz
|
| August 26 |
Rising Oceans: The Human Dimension |
Alice Kaswan
|
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule Spring 2010
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| Feb. 9 |
China and the WTO: A Legal Perspective |
Xu Peng (International Visiting Professor) |
| March 16 |
An Uneasy Case for White Collar "Martyrs" |
Reza Dibadj |
| March 30 |
Video Clips from the Witness to Guantanamo Project, filmed in 6 countries |
Peter Honigsberg |
| April 6 |
Word Commons |
Thomas Main (Professor, McGeorge School of Law) |
| April 13 |
Does the Mortgage Crisis Create an Opening for Shared-Equity Homeownership to Scale Up? |
Tim Iglesias |
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule – Fall 2009
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| Oct. 1 |
Collapse and Freedom |
Guest speaker: Gowri Ramachadran |
| Oct. 14 |
The War on Welfare and the State of Abandonment: Exploring Giorgi Agamben |
Connie de la Vega |
| Oct. 21 |
The Status of Corporate Accountability at the UN |
Joshua Davis |
| Oct. 28 |
A New Vessel for Containment of the Nuclear Genie; A Mandatory International Nuclear Forensics Data Bank |
Jack Garvey |
| Nov. 2 |
The Age of Chivalry is not Past: Prejudice and Paternalism in the California Death Penalty |
Steve Shatz and daughter, Naomi Shatz |
| Nov. 11 |
Criminal, Crime, or Mary Jane: Stigma, legislative lables and the Civil Case at the Heart of Civil Procedure |
Guest speaker: David Ball from Santa Clara |
| Nov. 18 |
Assessment |
Rhonda Magee |
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule – Spring 2009
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| Feb. 10 |
To Fix the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime; Avoid the Folly of State Classification |
Jack Garvey |
| Feb. 17 |
Chinese Economic Reform and the Development of the Financial Law |
Xiling Jia |
| Feb. 24 |
Free Speech in Three Easy Steps: What's the Next Step? |
Joshua Davis |
| March 3 |
The Tension of Those Who Want An Independent, NGO-Sponsored Guantanamo Truth Commission (TC) and Those Who Want a Government-Sponsored TC |
Peter Honigsberg |
| March 17 |
"Is Too Big to Fall Just Plain Too Big? The Case For More Vigorous Antitrust Enforcement to Avert Catastrophic Failures" |
Jesse Markham |
| March 31 |
Tacit Cartels, Oligopolies, and the Problem of Conscious Parallelism |
Reza Dibadj |
| April 7 |
Labor Coalition Challenges to Governmental Action: Defending the Civil Rights of Low Wage Workers |
Maria Ontiveros |
| April 14 |
The Shifting Face of Facial Challenges |
Maya Manian |
Brownbag Lunch Workshop Schedule – Fall 2008
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| Sept. 15 |
Creating an American Truth Commission for Guantanamo |
Peter Honigsberg |
| Sept. 22 |
A Cooperative Federalism Proposal for Climate Change Legislation: The Value of State Autonomy in a Federal System |
Alice Kaswan |
| Sept. 29 |
A Human Rights Paradigm for Employment Discrimination |
Maria Ontiveros |
| Oct. 13 |
The Ballooning Conception of "Plain Repugnancy" Under the Implied Repeal Doctrine, and the Balance Between Regulation and Antitrust |
Jesse Markham |
| Oct. 27 |
Not Hiding Behind Rodrigo: Toward An Integral Critical Response to Professor Subotnik |
Rhonda Magee |
| Nov. 3 |
Tacit Cartels, Oligopolies, and the Problem of Conscious Parallelism |
Reza Dibadj |
Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule – Fall 2008
| Date |
Workshop |
Faculty Member(s) |
| Sept. 11 |
Laptops in the Classroom |
Various |
| Sept. 18 |
Fragmentation of International Law |
Marcel Szabó (Pázmány University) |
| Sept. 25 |
Dirty Harry on Due Process |
John Denvir |
| Oct. 2 |
TThe Intersection between Tort Law and Human Rights |
Desmond Ryan (Trinity College) |
| Oct. 9 |
Informed Consent and Abortion Decision-Making after Gonzales v. Carhart |
Maya Manian |
| Nov. 16 |
Networks of Heightened Scrutiny in Corporate Law |
Reza Dibadj |