Law School Events

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 and 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.

Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf has served on the International Court of Justice since 2009. He served as the court’s president from 2018 to 2021. Judge Yusuf is a former chief legal counsel to various intergovernmental organizations, including UNESCO and UNIDO, and the founder of the African Institute of International Law (AIIL), Arusha, Tanzania, and of the African Yearbook of International Law. 

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 Drysdale is a partner at Dorsey & Whitney LLP. He practices in the areas of environmental law and general litigation, with a focus on environmental and administrative litigation. He earned his JD at the University of Virginia and his MPP at the University of Michigan.

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.

Mila Sohoni, Professor of Law and the John A. Wilson Distinguished Faculty Scholar, focuses her scholarship on civil procedure, administrative law, federal courts, and legislation.