Law School Events

Logan Lee is an assistant professor at Grinnell College. He teaches courses in behavioral and experiment economics, the economics of crime, and econometrics. Much of his research focuses on prisoners’ responses to policy changes designed to improve prisoner behavior and reduce recidivism rates.

Rebecca Ingber is a professor of law and an expert in international law, national security, foreign relations law, and the constitutional separation of powers. She is also a co-director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy and a senior fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. From 2021 to 2023, Ingber served as counselor on international law in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the US Department of State.

Gideon Rosen is the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His areas of research include metaphysics, epistemology and moral philosophy. He is the author (with John Burgess) of A Subject With No Object(Oxford, 1997) and co-editor of The Norton Introduction to Philosophy (Norton 2015). 

Scholars on constitutional interpretation and federal Indian law will assess the recent call made by Justices Gorsuch and Thomas to reconsider foundational precedents in federal Indian law. The call centers around the seeming incongruence between broad scope of congressional powers in Indian affairs and the relative dearth of constitutional text to back it up.

Scholars on constitutional interpretation and federal Indian law will assess the recent call made by Justices Gorsuch and Thomas to reconsider foundational precedents in federal Indian law. The call centers around the seeming incongruence between broad scope of congressional powers in Indian affairs and the relative dearth of constitutional text to back it up.

Amanda Hollis-Brusky is professor of politics at Pomona College, where she teaches courses on American politics, constitutional law, and legal institutions. Her research examines the dynamics of constitutional change and the role “support structures” play in that process – i.e., networks of lawyers and academics, non-governmental institutions, and ideas. 

Maria Maciá is an associate professor of law at the University of Notre Dame. She is an economist whose research considers the regulation of corporations and valuation issues through an empirical approach. She considers the effects of regulations that encourage corporate social responsibility and risk management, and she has a particular interest in disclosure requirements and the regulation of banks. 

Daryl Levinson is the David Boies Professor of Law at NYU. His primary field of teaching and research is constitutional law, but Levinson’s scholarship has ranged more broadly, addressing topics such as group punishment and empire-building government. Levinson has received the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award at Harvard and the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award at NYU School of Law. 

Sharmila Murthy joined Northeastern University in 2023 as professor of law and public policy within the School of Law and the College of Social Sciences. Her scholarship focuses on examining legal barriers to achieving environmental justice, improving access to water and addressing climate change. Between 2021 and 2024, she served at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, first as senior counsel and then as director for environmental justice.

Miranda Fricker is professor of philosophy, and co-director of the New York Institute for Philosophy. Previously she was distinguished professor at The Graduate Center CUNY, and prior to that a professor at the University of Sheffield in the UK, where she continues to hold an honorary professorship. Her work is mainly in moral philosophy and social epistemology, with a special interest in virtue and feminist perspectives. 

Thomas J. Miles is the Richard A. Posner Distinguished Service Professor of Law in the Wallman Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. He served as dean of the Law School from October 2015 through June 2025. As a scholar, Miles makes creative use of the methods of law and economics to investigate legal questions not conventionally thought to fall within that field. For example, he has written on judicial behavior and immigration enforcement.

Vanderbilt Associate Professor of History Nicole Hemmer is a political historian specializing in media, conservatism, and the presidency. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the interplay of social movements, electoral politics, and political culture in order to probe the complexities of political identity and practice in the 20th century United States.

Benedict Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He has served as Director of the Institute for International Law and Justice since its founding in 2002. His current work focuses on physical, digital, and informational infrastructure (Infrareg); global data/tech law (including digital sequence data, earth systems data issues, and generative AI); and a new project on planetary and space governance issues and rethinking approaches to law and law-making. 

The Valiant is Michigan Law’s annual public interest storytelling event based on The Moth. Come celebrate Michigan’s public interest community, mingle with public interest faculty, and hear a group of brave 3Ls tell stories related to our theme for the evening. Refreshments served at 6:00 pm; storytelling performances begin at 6:45 pm.