Colloquium on Courts and the Legal Process | Columbia Law School

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)