Faculty Workshops

As the USF School of Law marks 100 years of legal education, distinguished scholars from across the nation and USF’s own faculty will present research throughout the 2012–2013 academic year. From critical race theory to digital contracts to jurisprudence, USF faculty workshops explore today’s most pressing legal questions.

Centennial Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Workshop Schedule 2012–2013

Date	Workshop	Faculty Member(s)
September 10	Payback: A Structural Analysis of the Credit Card Problem	Andrea Freeman, Visiting Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law
September 24	Promoting Accuracy in the Use of Confession Evidence: An Argument for Pre-Trial Reliability Hearings to Prevent Wrongful Convictions	Richard Leo, Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law
October 1	Contemplating Race and Law	Rhonda Magee, Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law
October 10	Alone in a Sea of Voices: Isolation in Guantanamo and Other Detention Centers Through Language Barriers	Peter Jan Honigsberg, Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law
October 17	The Devil Deep Down in the Hole—Why Law Fails in ‘The Wire’	John Denvir, Research Professor of Law and the Humanities, University of San Francisco School of Law
October 24	Boilerplate: The Fine Print, Vanishing Rights, and the Rule of Law	Margaret Jane Radin, Henry King Ransom Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
November 2	Will Marriage Make Gay and Lesbian Couples Less Egalitarian? A Cautionary Tale	Vicki Schultz, Ford Foundation Professor of Law and Social Sciences, Yale Law School
November 7	Citizenship and Human Rights	Gerald Torres, Bryant Smith Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
November 19	The Law of the World	Scott Shapiro, Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Yale Law School
November 28	The Personhood Movement and ‘Roe v. Wade’ at 40	Maya Manian, Professor, University of San Francisco School of Law
January 13	TBD	Dean Spade, Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
March 20	TBD	Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
TBD	TBD	Deborah Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

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
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
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