Colloquium on Courts and the Legal Process
This workshop series brings together judges, scholars, and students to discuss current research on courts and judging. For more information, please contact Professor Bert I. Huang.
2019
May 1
J.J. Prescott (Michigan), Judicial Bias
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson (D.D.C.)
April 10
Anna Lvovsky (Harvard), Vice Enforcement
Judge Paul Oetken (SDNY)
April 1
Jamal Greene (Columbia) & Yvonne Tew (Georgetown), Comparative Constitutional History
Benjamin Liebman (Columbia) & Christina Ponsa-Kraus (Columbia)
2018
April 12
Randy Kozel (Notre Dame) (joint with faculty workshop), Statutory Interpretation
March 28
Marin Levy (Duke), Visiting Judges
Judge Gary Feinerman (N.D.Ill.)
2017
February 27
William Hubbard (Chicago), Supreme Court of India
Madhav Khosla (Columbia)
2015-2016
April 19
Amanda Tyler (Berkeley), Habeas During Wartime
Judge Denny Chin (Second Circuit)
April 7
Jamal Greene (Columbia) (joint with faculty workshop), Rule Originalism
March 22
Nora Freeman Engstrom (Stanford), Retaliatory RICO
Judge Richard Sullivan (SDNY)
2014–2015
April 28
Judge Nancy Gertner (Harvard), Judging in the 21st Century
April 16
Rachel Barkow (NYU), Executive Clemency
Judge Paul Watford (Ninth Circuit)
March 25
Maria Glover (Georgetown), Disappearing Claims
Justice Goodwin Liu (Supreme Court of California)
2012–2013
October 17
Judge Richard Posner (Seventh Circuit), Complexity
Erin Murphy (NYU)
Judge Jed Rakoff (SDNY)
2011–2012
April 23
Judge Diane Wood (Seventh Circuit), Decisionmaking on a Multi-member Court
Linda Greenhouse (Yale)
April 12
Jeremy Waldron (NYU), Stare Decisis and the Rule of Law
Judge Pierre Leval (Second Circuit)
March 19
Thomas Lee (Fordham) (joint with Legal Theory), The Civil Law Tradition
Judge David Hamilton (Seventh Circuit)
March 1
Mathilde Cohen (Columbia), Comparing Reason-Giving
Lord Lawrence Collins (Supreme Court of the U.K.)
Justice Kate O’Regan (Constitutional Court of South Africa)
February 16
Judith Resnik (Yale) (presented by NALSA), Federal Indian Law and the Canon
Trevor Morrison (Columbia)
Justice Barbara Smith (Chickasaw Nation)
Judge Michael Smith (Sac and Fox Nation)
January 30
Richard Epstein (NYU) (joint with Legal Theory), Natural Law and Judicial Duty
Judge Diane Sykes (Seventh Circuit)
December 1
Suzanna Sherry (Vanderbilt), Erie
Judge Jeffrey Sutton (Sixth Circuit)
2010–2011
April 14
On Judicial Recusal
Lord Lawrence Collins (Supreme Court of the UK)
Amanda Frost (American)
Pam Karlan (Stanford)
March 24
Nancy King (Vanderbilt), Habeas for the Twenty-First Century
Judge Reena Raggi (Second Circuit)
March 23
Judge Richard Posner (Seventh Circuit) (joint with L&E), A Realistic Theory of Judicial Behavior
March 3
Lisa Bressman (Vanderbilt) (joint with Legislation)
February 25
Judge Douglas Ginsburg (D.C. Circuit) (joint with L&E), Behavioral Law and Economics
December 9
Jed Shugerman (Harvard), Judicial Elections
Judge José A. Cabranes (Second Circuit)
November 15
Nancy Staudt (Northwestern) (joint with L&E), Judicial Power of the Purse
November 12
Chief Justice Cezar Peluso of Brazil (presented by the Center for Brazilian Studies & CLABLA)
2009–2010
April 14
Heather Gerken (Yale), Federalism All the Way Down
Judge Brett Kavanaugh (D.C. Circuit)
April 8
On Libel Tourism
Lord Lawrence Collins (Supreme Court of the U.K.)
Judge Robert Sack (Second Circuit)
Kurt Wimmer (Covington)
March 22
Erin Delaney (Columbia) & Barry Friedman (NYU), Becoming Supreme
Judge Robert Katzmann (Second Circuit)
February 25
Stephen Choi (NYU) & Mitu Gulati (Duke), What Do District Judges Want?
Judge Denise Cote (SDNY)
February 11
Fred Schauer (U. Virginia), The Trouble with Cases
Judge Pierre Leval (Second Circuit)