Law School Events

Christine Marion Korsgaard is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Harvard University. Her main scholarly interests are in moral philosophy and its history; the relation of issues in moral philosophy to issues in metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, and the theory of personal identity; the theory of personal relationships; and in normativity in general.

Cathy Hwang is a Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, becoming the first Asian woman to hold a tenured position at UVA. Her research and teaching focus on business law, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate contracts and corporate governance. During the 2022-23 school year, she was the director of the John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program.

In today’s highly polarized climate, universities have become central to the debate on free speech. This event will examine the challenges and opportunities of balancing free expression, including the right to protest, with the need to maintain a respectful and inclusive environment. This event will be seated on a first-come basis and your Law School MCard will be required for entry.

Scott Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School. His areas of interest include the philosophy of law, international law, criminal law, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. He is the founding director of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab, and he has been appointed as Special Government Expert to the Office of the Technical Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, working on AI security.

Jack Goldsmith is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a co-founder of Lawfare. He teaches and writes about presidential power, national security law, federal courts, conflict of laws, international law, and internet law. 

Jennifer Nou is Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Her main research interests are in administrative law, executive branch dynamics, regulatory policy, and constitutional separation-of-powers. She is a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States and a former senior advisor at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

The Our Clean Energy Future conference will convene students, professors, lawyers, government representatives, and industry leaders to reflect on developments and innovations in clean energy. The conference will focus on decarbonization across industries and fields. The Our Clean Energy Future conference is free and open to the public. Advance registration is not required.

Michael Guttentag is a professor of law at Loyola Marymount University. His scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and markets, and specifically on how law can be used as a tool to share resources fairly and efficiently. Much of his research considers how securities markets should be regulated and why insider trading should be prohibited.

The Our Clean Energy Future conference will convene students, professors, lawyers, government representatives, and industry leaders to reflect on developments and innovations in clean energy. The conference will focus on decarbonization across industries and fields. The Our Clean Energy Future conference is free and open to the public. Advance registration is not required.

Nicholas R. Bednar specializes in administrative law, executive-branch politics, immigration, and quantitative methods. His research has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the Cardozo Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, and Political Science Research and Methods, among others. He teaches torts and legislation and regulation.

Monique Wonderly is Associate Professor of Philosophy at UC San Diego. She specializes in theoretical and applied ethics, moral psychology, and the philosophy of emotion. Before her current appointment, she held a three-year position as the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics at the Princeton University Center for Human Values.

Tejas N. Narechania is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. His scholarly focus is on the institutions of technology law and policy (including, for example, telecommunications regulation, platform governance, and intellectual property). He is a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

Richard Squire holds the Alin J. Cameron Chair in Law at Fordham Law School and is the faculty director of the Fordham Corporate Law Center. He publishes on the subjects of corporate bankruptcy, financial crises, and corporate law; he has also written articles on antitrust and securities regulation.

Eloise Pasachoff focuses her teaching and writing on administrative law, public administration, and budget and appropriations law. Her scholarship has won national awards, including from the American Constitution Society, the American Bar Association, and the Education Law Association. Her scholarship has been cited by the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit, and others.

Seana Valentine Shiffrin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice at UCLA. She is the co-founder and co-director of the UCLA Law and Philosophy Program. Her research has addressed doctrinal and theoretical issues about freedom of speech, sincerity and truthfulness, contracts, torts, feminism, intellectual property, anti-discrimination, economic equality, reproductive rights and family law, with a thematic focus on the social conditions for the joint realization of equality and autonomy.

Elizabeth Pollman is professor of law and co-director of the Institute for Law & Economics at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is an expert in business law who teaches and writes in the areas of corporate law and governance, as well as on startups, venture capital, and entrepreneurship.

Colleen Honigsberg is Associate Dean of Curriculum and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where her research is focused on the empirical study of corporate and securities law. She serves as an Associate Editor for Management Science, and her recent papers have examined gaps in the regulatory environment for financial advisors, carbon accounting, human capital accounting, and the incentive structure for auditors.

Andrew Kent teaches and writes about constitutional law, federal courts and procedure, national security and foreign relations law, and legal ethics. His work covers topics such as presidential power, US colonial governance, the extraterritoriality of the US Constitution, the legal history of the Civil War, and remedies for constitutional torts.

Sheila Foster is a tenured professor of climate at  Columbia Climate School. Professor Foster is a leading scholar of environmental and climate justice. Her research spans a broad range of topics, including innovative resource governance regimes, land use policy, and the role of subnational governments and local leaders in addressing cross-border challenges such as climate change.

Kimberly Kessler Ferzan is th eEarle Hepburn Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and the Co-Director of the Institute of Law & Philosophy at Penn Carey Law. She teaches criminal law, evidence, advanced criminal law, and advanced law and philosophy seminars. 

Peter Molk is a professor of law at University of Florida Levin College of Law. His research focuses on issues of organizational choice and design, law and finance, and insurance law. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review, Illinois Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Washington University Law Review, and Yale Journal on Regulation, among others

Joshua Macey is an Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Macey teaches and writes about bankruptcy, environmental law, energy law, and the regulation of financial institutions. Macey’s latest work focuses on the fragility of the nation’s electric grid and offers strategies to improve grid reliability and accelerate the transition to new sources of energy.

Jamie Grischkan is an associate professor of law at Arizona State University College of Law, focusing on American legal history, financial regulation, and antimonopoly law and policy. Her work explores the rise and regulation of bank holding companies in the twentieth century, the relationship between antitrust law and financial regulation, and the historical development of the American antimonopoly tradition.

Peter Railton is the Gregory S. Kavka Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. His main research has been in ethics and the philosophy of science, focusing especially on questions about the nature of objectivity, value, norms, and explanation.

Ann M. Lipton is Tulane University Law School’s associate dean for faculty research. An experienced securities and corporate litigator who has handled class actions involving some of the world’s largest companies, she joined the Tulane Law faculty in 2015 after two years as a visiting assistant professor at Duke University School of Law.

Anita Krishnakumar is the Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Legislation at Georgetown Law. Her scholarship focuses on statutory interpretation and the legislative process, including the congressional budget process, lobbying regulations, and interpretive trends in the Supreme Court’s statutory jurisprudence.

Karen Woody is a professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on securities law, financial regulation, and white collar crime. Her work on conflict minerals is widely cited, and she recently testified for the US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee regarding federal conflict minerals regulation.

Jeff Pojanowski is the Biolchini Family Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School. He teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, jurisprudence, legal interpretation, and torts. His current research focus is on natural law and interpretive theory.

Michael practices in the areas of environmental law and general litigation, with a focus on environmental and administrative litigation.

Benjamin Eidelson is a professor of law at Harvard Law School. He writes and teaches primarily in the areas of constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, statutory interpretation, administrative law, and legal theory. In 2019, he developed and advanced a legal theory that was adopted by the US Supreme Court in its decision invalidating the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy.

Jessica Erickson is the Nancy Litchfield Hicks Professor of Law and director of the Richmond Law & Business Forum. She teaches and writes in the areas of corporate and securities litigation. Prior to joining the Richmond Law faculty, Professor Erickson practiced corporate and securities law at Hunton & Williams LLP.

Nicholas R. Parrillo is Townsend Professor of Law at Yale, with a secondary appointment as Professor of History. His research and teaching focus on administrative law and government bureaucracy and extend to legal history, remedies, and legislation.