Syracuse University College of Law presents the Faculty Colloquia, convening leading scholars from the College and other institutions. Addressing subjects from executive orders and government agencies to humanitarian law and medical patents, these workshops aim to broaden the horizons of legal scholarship, facilitate the sharing of ideas, and challenge how we think about the law and legal practice.
2020-2021 Program
Date | Presentation |
|---|---|
| September 9, 5 p.m. | Lightning Round & Celebration of Scholarship |
| September 17 | Jake Elberg, Seton Hall Law: "Health Care Fraud Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry" |
| October 14 | Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard Kennedy School: "Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century," co-hosted by Professor Arlene Kanter’s CUSE Grant Project on Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties |
| October 26 | Professor Mark Nevitt on "Is Climate Change a National Emergency?" and Professor Cora True-Frost on "Harmony and Dissonance at the Intersections of International Human Rights Law" |
| November 12 | Carol Brown, Richmond School of Law: "Extraordinary," co-sponsored by the Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism |
| November 18 | The Hon. James E. Baker discusses his new book The Centaur’s Dilemma: National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution |
| December 4 | “Half-Baked” Mini Workshops with Professor Cora True-Frost ("Harmony and Dissonance at the Intersections of International Human Rights Law") and Professor Jenny Breen ("The Capital 'in His Person': Human Capital Theory and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Redefinition of the 'Labor Question'") |
| December 9 | Professor Danielle Stokes, "Zoning for Climate Change" |
| February 4 | Professor David Driesen: "How Giving the President Unfettered Removal Authority Can Undermine the Senate’s Role in Appointments." |
| February 11 | Stacey Tovino, Oklahoma Law: "Not So Private." Discussants: Professor Nina Kohn and Professor Doron Dorfman. |
| February 18 | Osagie Obasogie, Berkeley Law: "Excited Delirium and Police Use of Force.” |
| March 17 | Professor Arlene Kanter: “The Future is Here: The Right to Remote Work under the Americans with Disabilities Act.” |
2019-2020 Program
Date | Presentation |
|---|---|
| August 30 | Welcome & Lightning Round, with professors Robert Ashford, Jenny Breen, Keith Bybee, Chris Day, Doron Dorfman, David Driesen, Lauryn Gouldin, Deborah Kenn, Aliza Milner, and Mary Szto. |
| September 12 | University Professor David Driesen, College of Law |
| September 27 | “The Criminal is to Go Free: The Long Shadow of Eugenics Over American Criminal Justice" Jonathan Simon, Berkeley Law. |
| October 25 | "The Civil-Criminal Divide" with Jenny Roberts, American University Washington College of Law. |
| February 13 | "Who Counts? Building Inclusive Business and Human Rights Indicators to Promote the Rights of People with Disabilities" with Erika George, University of Utah. Co-sponsored by the DLPP CUSE Grant Project on the Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties. |
| February 27 | "Lawyering Fast, Lawyering Slow: Legal Tech, Risk Management, and Effective Lawyering" with Shubha Ghosh, Crandall Melvin Professor of Law, Director, Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute. |
| March 5 | "Darkside Discretion in Immigration Cases" with Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Penn State Law. |
| March 11 | Beth Simmons, Penn Law, on international human rights. Co-sponsored by the DLPP CUSE Grant Project on the Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties. |
| March 26 | "The Automated Administrative State" with Ryan Calo, University of Washington School of Law. Sponsored by the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute, Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute, and the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law. |
| April 9 | Professor Paula Johnson and Aili Obandja LL.M.’19 Righting Racial Wrongs: The Importance of Narrative in Recognizing and Redressing Racial Crimes: Examining Civil Rights Era Murders in the US and Genocide against the ovaHerero in Namibia. |
2018-2019 Program
Date | Presentation |
|---|---|
| August 30 | "HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship." Nadine Strossen, John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law School |
| September 20 | “Artificial Authors: A Case of Copyright in Computer-Generated Works” Nina Iacono Brown, Assistant Professor of Communications, Newhouse School. Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media |
| October 4 | "Do Words Matter? The Limited Relevance of Constitutional Text to Securing the Freedom of Speech?" Ron Krotoszynski, John S. Stone Chairholder of Law, University of Alabama School of Law |
| October 11 | College of Law Faculty Works-in-Progress Lightning Round |
| January 30 | "New Voices, New Rights, New York" Roy Gutterman, Director, Tully Center for Free Speech and Associate Professor of Magazine, Newspaper and Digital Journalism, Newhouse |
| February 12 | "Muslim Family Law in the Non-Muslim World: Judicial Activism and Reform" Yüksel Sezgin, Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program and Associate Professor of Political Science, The Maxwell School |
| March 28 | Nina Kohn, Associate Dean of Online Education and David M. Levy L'48 Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law |
| April 8 | Elizabeth Emens, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law, Columbia Law School |
| April 18 | "A Right to Human Decision?" Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law and Mark Claster Mamolen Teaching Scholar, University of Chicago Law School |
2017-2018 Program
Date | Presentation |
|---|---|
| August 24 | “Labor of Love: The Legal Treatment of Elder Care in Modern America” Nina Kohn, Syracuse University College of Law |
| September 7 | “Should Courts Require Agencies to Engage in Cost-Benefit Analysis? A Debate” Eric Posner, University of Chicago Law School and David Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law |
| September 14 | “Cancer's IP: Patents and Public-Private Partnerships for Scientific Research” Jacob S. Sherkow, New York Law School |
| October 5 | “Sharing: Crime Against Capitalism” Matthew David, Durham University |
| October 9 | “Feeding Children in the Era of Bordered Globalization” Daphna Hacker, Tel Aviv University |
| October 19 | Celebration of College of Law Scholarship |
| October 26 | “Reasonableness Review of Executive Orders” David Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law |
| November 16 | “Suing Your Employer in 1798: A Dispatch from the Legal History Trenches” Alexander Volokh, Emory Law, with Keith Bybee (Commentator), Syracuse University College of Law |
| December 7 | “Democratizing Law: Prospects, Programs, and the Innovation Premium in Modern Legal Education” Daniel Rodriguez, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law |
| February 9 | “'Deadbroke'” Fathers and Reproductive Justice" Solangel Maldonado, Seton Hall Law School (with Kevin Maillard, Syracuse University College of Law) |
| March 1 | "A Critique of the Supreme Court’s Approach to Equitable Remedies." James Pfander, Northwestern Pritzker University School of Law |
| April 5 | “Our Discrete and Insular Founders: American 'Degeneracy,' the American Revolution, and the New Republic.” Liam O’Melinn,Visiting Professor, Syracuse University College of Law |
2016-2017 Program
Date | Presentation |
|---|---|
| September 15 | “F@#K the Draft” Professor Shubha Ghosh, Syracuse University College of Law |
| October 13 | “Is Civility Dead?” roundtable discussion of College of Law Professor Keith Bybee’s book, How Civility Works. Participants include: Professor Charles Geyh, John F. Kimberling Professor of Law, Indiana University Mauer School of Law Associate Professor Lauryn Gouldin, Syracuse University College of Law Professor Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Syracuse University School of Information Studies < |
| October 19 | “Intellectual Property Law as a Tool for Social Justice and Empowerment” Professor Lateef Mtima Howard University School of Law |
| November 3 | “What is Flight Risk?” Associate Professor Lauryn Gouldin, Syracuse University College of Law |
| November 10 | “The Death of Treaty Supremacy: An Invisible Constitutional Change” Professor David Sloss, Santa Clara Law |
| December 1 | “The United States Supreme Court and Residential segregation” Professor Emeritus William Wiecek, Syracuse University College of Law Professor Janis McDonald, Syracuse University College of Law, Commentator |
| December 5 | “Privatizing Cybersecurity” Associate Professor of Law Nathan Sales, Syracuse University College of Law |
| January 26 | “Addressing the Conditions Conducive to Terrorism: The Role of Civil Society in International Security” Associate Professor of Law C. Cora True-Frost, Syracuse University College of Law |
| February 2 | “The Meaning of Money: Translating Injury into Dollars” Professor Valerie Hans, Cornell Law School |
| February 7 | “Solar Climate Engineering and Intellectual Property: Toward a Research Commons” Professor Joshua Sarnoff, DePaul University College of Law |
| February 16 | “The Role of Judges in Democracies” Professor Brian Leiter, University of Chicago Law School |
| February 23 | “Deregulation and Regulating Inactivity under the Commerce Clause: The Unsuspected Parallel” University Professor David Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law |
| March 23 | “The Disappearing First Amendment” Professor Ron Krotoszynski, University of Alabama School of Law |
| March 29 | "Fostering Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Shark Tank Shouldn’t Be the Model" Associate Professor of Law Brian Krumm, University of Tennessee College of Law |
| April 6 | “Rethinking Online Threats” Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Graduate and Non-J.D. Programs Lyrissa Lidsky, University of Florida Levin College of Law |