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Faculty Activities
Bruce Ackerman
publications
Bruce Ackerman
Ian Ayres
Jack M. Balkin
• The Secret Refund Booth, 73 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1107 (2006)
(with I. Ayres)
• War Powers Debate with John Yoo, L.A. Times, April
2-6, 2007: Congressional Leadership is Necessary and
Proper; Say No to King George; Some of Us Have Been
Consistent; We Don’t Want a Warrior King; Remember
Andrew Johnson
• Did Jefferson Abuse his Authority to Count Himself into
the Presidency?, Hist. News Network, March 19, 2007,
available at http://hnn.us/articles/36528.html
• Meritocracy v. Democracy, 29 London Review of
Books 9, March 8, 2007
• The Half-Trillion Dollar Solution, American Prospect
Online, February 27, 2007 (with D. Wu)
• Britain Needs a New Agency to Fight Corruption,
Fin. Times, February 2, 2007 (with S. Rose-Ackerman)
• Set a Spending Limit on Iraq, L.A. Times, January 10,
2007
• What if Terrorists Destroy Washington?, L.A. Times,
December 16, 2006
• A Liberal Manifesto for America, Open Democracy,
October 30, 2006, available at http://www.
opendemocracy.net/democracy-americanpower/
liberal_manifesto_4039.jsp
Ian Ayres
lectures and addresses
• AALS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., “From
Policies to Promises” and “Inside the Professor’s Studio
Presentation”
• NBER Winter L & E Meeting, Boston, “Comments on
Scotchmer”
• University of Illinois, “Market Power and Inequality”
• Yale Law School Alumni Association, Kansas City, “Law
Libraries and Hand Washing”
• Yale Law School Alumni Association, New Orleans,
“Law Libraries and Handwashing”
• The Orleans Club, New Orleans, “Can Creativity be
Taught? Why Not!”
publications
• Seeing Significance: Is the 95% Probability Range Easier
to Perceive?, 20 Chance 11 (Winter 2007) (with A. AyresBrown & H. Ayres-Brown)
• The Secret Refund Booth, 73 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1107 (2006)
(with B. Ackerman)
• Don’t Tell, Don’t Ask: Narrow Tailoring After Grutter
and Gratz, 85 Tex. L. Rev. 517 (2006) (with S. Foster)
• New Rules for Promissory Fraud, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 957
(2006) (with G. Klass)
• Written Statement, Disparity Studies as Evidence
of Discrimination in Federal Contracting, U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights (May 2006)
• The IRS Should Fill Out Your Tax Form, Marketplace
Radio Commentary, April 14, 2007
• For the Love of the Game, Forbes 54, March 12, 2007
(with B. Nalebuff)
• Environmental Atonement, Forbes 87, Dec. 25, 2006
(with B. Nalebuff)
• Skin in the Game, Forbes 156, Nov. 13, 2006 (with B.
Nalebuff)
• The Hollow Promise: Sexual Orientation
Nondiscrimination Policies, 24 Ass’n of Corporate
Couns. Docket 48 (2006) (with R. F. Ober, Jr.)
• Promises, not Policies, Yale Alumni Mag. 32 (Sept./Oct.
2006)
Jack M. Balkin
lectures and addresses
• American Enterprise Institute, Washington D.C.,
“Commentary: Federalism and Constitutional Design”
• New York Law School, Conference on Writing About
Law: From Bluebook to Blogging, “The Future of Legal
Writing in a Digital Age”
• American Constitution Society, New York University
Law School, Panel Discussion on “What Roe v. Wade
Should Have Said”
publications
• The Processes of Constitutional Change: From Partisan
Entrenchment to the National Surveillance State, 75
Fordham L. Rev. 489 (2006) (with S. Levinson)
• Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked
Environment (with J. Grimmelman et al eds., 2007)
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Robert A. Burt
lectures and addresses
• Institute for Learning in Retirement, New Haven, “The
Bush Presidency and the Constitution”
• Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, “Job, Jim and Me”
• Widener University Law School, Harrisburg, PA, “Dred
Scott: Wanted Dead or Alive?”
publications
• Law’s Effect on the Quality of End-of-Life Care: Lessons
from the Schiavo Case, 34 Critical Care Med. S348-54
(2006)
Guido Calabresi
lectures and addresses
• Conference of International Association of
Constitutional Law on Constitution and Culture,
University of Bologna, Italy (held in Ravenna, Italy),
“Melting Pot or Multi-Culturalism: Reactions to Two
Forms of Equality”
• International Workshop on Searching for New Models
in the Economic Analysis of Law, University of Messina,
Italy, gave introduction and presided at plenary session and Tort Law and Litigation Section
• United States Courthouse, Hartford, Presentation of
the Portrait of the Honorable Dominic J. Squatrito,
Senior United States District Judge
• New York American Inn of Court, 2007 Inaugural
Address, “What a Judge Does When the Law is Wrong”
• Opening Lecture of the 2007 CLEI Seminar Series,
Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy, “New Trends in Law
and Economics”
• Conference on Introducing Class Actions in Europe—
A Comparative Law and Economics Perspective,
Department of Public Policy and Public Choice,
Università del Piemonte Orientale, Alessandria,
Italy, “Class Actions in the U.S. Experience: The Legal
Perspective”
• Yale University World Fellows Reception, Italian
Embassy, Washington, D.C., remarks
• Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecture, Ohio State
University Moritz College of Law, “The Future of
Economic Analysis of Law”
• Conference on “Bodies,” Villa La Pietra, Florence, Italy,
“How and Why Body Parts Differ”
• First Annual Distinguished Lecture, The European
Institute, Florence, Italy, “Equality in the American
Constitution”
• Celebration of Second Edition (20th Anniversary of
publication of Tragic Choices (Giuristi Stranieri di
Oggi), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, with coauthor Philip Bobbitt
• Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel, Yale University,
“Life as a Scholar and a Believer”
• The Federalist Society, Yale Law School, “When are
Punitive Damages Excessive?” (debate with George
Priest)
Ylr
Summer 2007
Robert A. Burt
Mirjan R. Damas̆ka
awards and recognition
• Awarded the Medal of Honor by the President of the
Republic of Croatia
lectures and addresses
• International Conference on Global Trends in
Comparative Perspective, University of Zagreb Law
School, “On Living Between Two Legal Cultures”
• Roundtable Seminar on Globalization of the
Legal Process, Trinity College, Dublin, “Developing
International Criminal Law”
• International Conference “Toward Fair Trial in
International Criminal Procedure,” University of Graz,
Austria, keynote address
Guido Calabresi
Mirjan R. Damas̆ka
Drew S. Days, III
lectures and addresses
• New England Judges Conference, Hartford, “Review of
the 2005-2006 Supreme Court Term”
• Appellate Judges Education Institute, Dallas, “Review
of the 2005-2006 Supreme Court Term”
• Interamerican Press Association Hemispheric
Conference on Journalistic Values for 21st Century,
Costa Rica
• District of Columbia Superior Court Annual Winter
Judicial In-Service Training, Washington D.C., “Review
of the 2005-2006 Supreme Court Term”
• New England CEO Forum on the Supreme Court,
Boston, “The Roberts Court”
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Commemoration at Battell
Chapel, Yale University, “Taking a Risk for Humanity”
Drew S. Days, III
˘ Faculty Activities
Jan G. Deutsch
• Dedication of Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall, Florida
International University College of Law, Miami,
“International and Foreign Law North of the Border:
The Canadian Constitutional Experience”
• Yale Law School Panel on Thurgood Marshall, panelist
• LEAP Dinner, New Haven, “The Roberts Court”
• Thurgood Marshall Lecture Series, University of
Chicago Law School, “Thurgood Marshall, Solicitor
General”
Jan G. Deutsch
publications
• Power and Precedent: The Role of Law in the United
States (2007)
Francis X. Dineen
John J. Donohue III
Francis X. Dineen
clinic activities
• Landlord-Tenant Legal Services faculty and students
created a new “defense” for tenants fighting eviction
from federally subsidized housing by persuading the
New Haven Housing Court to apply the “plain meaning” rule of statutory construction to a convoluted
state statute governing summary process evictions in
the state. They are also exploring the boundaries of
nuisance law by representing several families facing
eviction due to alleged drug-related activity by their
non-resident relatives.
John J. Donohue III
lectures and addresses
Steven Duke
Robert C. Ellickson
William N. Eskridge, Jr.
• Third Annual Criminal Justice Roundtable Conference,
Comment on Bernard Harcourt, Yale Law School,
“Rethinking the Incarceration Revolution Part II: State
Level Analysis”
• Catholic University Law School, Milan, Italy, “Corporate
Governance in America: The Disney Case”
• Latin American Linkages Program, Yale Law School,
“The U.S. Tort System”
• International Center, Yale University, panelist on “Guns
and Violence in the U.S.”
• Punishment: The U.S. Record: A Social Research
Conference at the New School, New York City,
“Economic Models of Crime and Punishment”
• Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of
Texas Law School, Austin, Comment on Baldus et al,
“Equal Justice and the Death Penalty: The Experience
of the United States Armed Forces”
• Harvard Law School, “Empirical Evaluation of Law: The
Promise and the Peril”
• Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of
Texas Law School, “Estimating the Impact of the Death
Penalty on Murder”
• Joint Workshop, Maryland Population Research Center
and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland,
“Estimating the Impact of the Death Penalty on
Murder”
publications
• Studying Labor Market Institutions in the Lab:
Minimum Wages, Employment Protection, and
Workfare: Comment, 161 J. Theoretical & Institutional
Econ. 46 (March 2007)
• The Impact of Damage Caps on Malpractice Claims:
Randomization Inference with Difference-inDifferences, 4 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 69 (2007) (with
D. Ho)
Steven Duke
appointments
• Member, Connecticut Commission on MedicoLegal
Investigations
lectures and addresses
• International Conference on Abuse of Process,
Shanghai, “Controlling Abuse of Process in the United
States”
• Mohawk Valley School, Roll, AZ, “Notes on the History
of the School”
• Chapman University Law School, Orange, CA, “Does
Miranda Protect the Innocent or the Guilty?”
publications
• A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: Conversational
versus Eyewitness Testimony in Criminal Convictions, 44
Am. Crim. L. Rev. 1 (March 2007)
Robert C. Ellickson
lectures and addresses
• Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of
Texas Law School, “Unpacking the Household”
• Washington University Workshop on Work, Family, and
Public Policy, St. Louis, “Unpacking the Household”
• Benchers, New Haven, “From Roger Sherman to John
DeStefano: The Retreat of Elite Lawyers from City Hall”
publications
• Unpacking the Household: Informal Property Rights
Around the Hearth, 116 Yale L.J. 226 (2006)
• City, Heal Thyself (a comment on Nicole Stelle
Garnett’s Save the Cities, Stop the Suburbs), 116 Yale L.J.
Pocket Part 199 (2006), available at http://thepocketpart.org/2006/12/11/ellickson.html
William N. Eskridge, Jr.
lectures and addresses
• James Ryan Lecture, Georgetown University Law
Center, “Death, Deference, and Dynamism: An
Empirical Study of Supreme Court Cases Involving
Agency Interpretations, from Chevron to Hamdan”
• Dean Edward Barrett Lecture, University of California
at Davis School of Law, “America’s Statutory
Constitution”
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• Williams Institute Annual Program, “European Union:
What Can the U.S. Learn from Europe About Extending
Marriage to Lesbian and Gay Couples?,” featured
speaker
publications
• Chevron and Agency Norm-Entrepreneurship, 115 Yale
L.J. 2623 (2006) (with K. Schwartz)
Daniel C. Esty
lectures and addresses
• Campus Sustainability Conference, “Measuring
Sustainability: Lessons from the Environmental
Performance Index”
• Business for Social Responsibility Annual Conference,
New York, NY, “Green to Gold: How Smart Companies
Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value,
and Build Competitive Advantage”
• Said Business School, Oxford University, “Green to
Gold: Making Environment Part of Corporate Strategy”
• Fifth Annual Oregon Leadership Summit, Portland,
“Green to Gold: Sustainable Advantage and
Opportunities for Oregon”
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development, Paris, France, “Green to Gold: New
Strategies for Environmental Policy and Corporate
Sustainability”
• University of Zurich, “Globalizing Administrative Law”
• World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos,
Switzerland, “Making Green Pay”
• Resources for the Future, New York, NY, “Green to
Gold: Environmental Protection through Private Sector
Innovation”
• Environmental Entrepreneurs, New York, NY, “Green to
Gold: Private-Sector-Led Environmental Innovation”
• CLSA Annual Conference, Tokyo, Japan, “ Green to
Gold: The Changing Energy and Environmental
Marketplace”
• ABA Environment and Natural Resources Section
Annual Conference, Keystone, CO, “The Environmental
Protection Agency in 2020: Visions for the
Environmental Future”
publications
• Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use
Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value,
and Build Competitive Advantage (with A. S. Winston,
2006)
• When Being Green Puts You in the Black, Washington
Post, Mar. 4, 2007
• Green is Beautiful: Helping the Planet Doesn’t Have to
Hurt Your Bottom Line, Cio Magazine, Jan. 2, 2007
• Greener Pastures, Wall St. J., Dec. 29, 2006
• On My Mind: It’s Easy Being Green, Forbes, Oct. 2, 2006
Ylr
Summer 2007
Owen M. Fiss
lectures and addresses
• French-American Foundation, New York University,
“Two Principles” (L’Egalité dans l’accès à l’éducation et
à l’emploi: Perspectives françaises et américaines)
• Celebrating the Retirement of President Aharon Barak:
His Impact on the Law, Tel Aviv University, “Law is
Everywhere”
• Conference on Law, Islam, Politics and Social Change
in Africa, University of North Carolina, “Africa and
Human Rights”
• Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, Athens, Greece,
“Citizenship in the Middle East” (co-director)
Daniel C. Esty
publications
• The War Against Terrorism and the Rule of Law, in
Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law 1239
(S. Breitenmoser, B. Ehrenzeller, M. Sassòli, W. Stoffel, B.
W. Pfeifer eds., 2007)
• The Political Theory of Class Action, translated to
Portugese for A Constitucionaliçaõ do Direito (with
D. Sarmento ed., 2006)
• Between Exclusivity and Supremacy, 57 Syracuse L. Rev.
(reprinted and updated)
Heather Gerken
appointments
• Chair, Democratic Governance Working Group, The
Tobin Project
• Member, ABA Redistricting Task Force
lectures and addresses
• Symposium Honoring Laurence Tribe, University of
Tulsa Law School, “Larry and Lawrence”
• Symposium on “Our Undemocratic Constitution,”
Drake Law School, “The Hydraulics of Constitutional
Reform”
• Center on Race and the Law, University of Virginia Law
School, “Dissent, Diversity and Democracy”
• Faculty Workshop, University of Virginia Law School,
“Dissenting by Deciding”
• Legal Theory Workshop, Columbia University Law
School, “Dissenting by Deciding”
• Constitutional Law Conference, Harvard Law School
• Queens University, Canada, “Second-Order Diversity:
Toward a New Theory of Minority Empowerment”
• Law and Politics Workshop, University of Chicago,
“Dissenting by Deciding”
• AALS Annual Conference, Section on Legislation, “The
Democracy Index”
• Bridgewater State College, “Toward a New Strategy of
Minority Empowerment”
• Law and Politics Workshop Series, William and Mary
School of Law, “A Third Way for the Voting Rights Act
Owen M. Fiss
Heather Gerken
˘ Faculty Activities
publications
Robert W. Gordon
Michael J. Graetz
• A Third Way: Section 5 and the Opt-In Approach, in The
Future of the Voting Rights Act 277 (with Epstein et
al., 2006)
• The Double-Edged Sword of Independence: Inoculating
Electoral Reform Commissions Against Everyday Politics,
6 Elec. L.J. (April 2007)
• Dissent, Diversity, and the Global Polity, in The Least
Examined Branch: The Role of Legislatures in
Constitutional State 547 (Bauman & Khana eds.,
2006)
• New Style of Election Reform Begins to Emerge, Roll
Call, March 27, 2007
• How Does Your State Rank on the Democracy Index?,
Legal Times, January 1, 2007
• Six Ways to Reform Democracy, Seeds of Change Forum,
Boston Rev. (November/December 2006)
other professional activities
• Worked with offices of Senator Barack Obama and
Senator Hillary Clinton on two separate bills that
incorporated my proposal for creating a “Democracy
Index”
Robert W. Gordon
lectures and addresses
Henry Hansmann
• Safra Center on Ethics and the Professions, Harvard
University, “Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad:
Lessons from American Experience”
• Workshop in American Studies, Princeton University,
“The American Legal Profession in the 20th Century”
• Annual Meeting, Association of American Law Schools,
“Morton Horowitz on History in Constitutional
Argument”
• Conference on F.W. Maitland, Princeton University,
“Maitland and his Contemporaries on the Uses of
Legal History”
• American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting,
Baltimore, Plenary Lecture on “Pathways to Republican
Lawyering”
• Conference on History in Constitutional
Interpretation, Vanderbilt Law School, “Shedding the
Bad Past”
publications
• Britton v. Turner: A Signpost Along the Crooked Road to
‘Freedom’ in the Employment Contract, in Law Stories:
Contracts (D. Baird ed., 2006)
• The Law School, The Profession and ‘Humane
Professionalism’, 44 Osgoode Hall L.J. 157 (2006)
• Kenneth Lasson, Trembling in the Ivory Tower, 56 J.
Legal Educ. 149 (2006) (review essay)
Michael J. Graetz
lectures and addresses
• American Political Science Association, Philadelphia,
“Death by a Thousand Cuts”
• Rosa DeLauro (D. CT), Washington D.C., “The Policies of
Real Estate Tax Repeal”
• International Tax Policy Forum, Washington D.C.,
“Income Tax Decisions of the European Court of
Justice”
• PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Economics
Symposium, Washington D.C., “Trends in International
Income Taxation”
• American Council of Life Insurers, Boca Raton, “The
Role for Insurance in Providing Retirement Security”
• National Academy of Social Insurance, Washington
D.C., “Financing the Social Contract”
• International Fiscal Association, New York, NY,
“International Tax Policy and the Decisions of the
European Court of Justice.”
publications
• Death by a Thousand Cuts (with I. Shapiro) (paperback edition with a new epilogue, 2006)
• Tax Reform Unraveling, 21 J. of Econ. Perspectives 69
(2007)
• Income Tax Discrimination and the Political and
Economic Integration of Europe, in Comparative Fiscal
Federalism 263 (R.A. Yonah, J.R. Hines Jr. & M. Lang
eds., 2007) (with A. C. Warren)
• Tax Reform, LIX Bulletin of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences 17 (2006) (with J. Poterba)
• Public Opinion and the Push to Repeal the Estate Tax,
LIX National Tax Journal 439 (2006)
• Taxes that Work: A Simple American Plan, 59 Fla. L. Rev.
1043 (2006)
Henry Hansmann
appointments
• Board of Advisors, SSRN Abstracting Journal on White
Collar Crime
elections
• Elected to Board of Directors, International Society for
the New Institutional Economics
lectures and addresses
• Conference on Organizational Economics, Cambridge,
MA, “Ownership and Organizational Form”
• Panel on Economic Analysis of the Judiciary, American
Economic Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, “A
Global Market for Judicial Services”
publications
• How Close is the End of History?, 31 J. Corp. L. 745 (2006)
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Oona A. Hathaway
appointments
• Fellow, New America Foundation
• Distinguished Visitor, University of Toronto School of
Law
lectures and addresses
• International Law Colloquium, Georgetown University
School of Law, “International Delegation and Domestic
Sovereignty”
• International Relations Faculty Colloquium, Princeton
University, “International Delegation and Domestic
Sovereignty”
• ‘New’ New Haven School Conference, Yale Law School,
“Is there a ‘New’ New Haven School?”
• International Law Colloquium, Temple University
School of Law, “International Law and State
Sovereignty”
• Delegating Sovereignty Conference, Duke University,
“International Delegation and Domestic Sovereignty”
• Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, “International Law
and Domestic Sovereignty”
• “Justice in the Mirror” Conference, Yale University,
“Global Justice and Domestic Sovereignty”
• New America Foundation, “Strong States, Strong
World”
• Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, “Strong States,
Strong World”
publications
• Rationalism and Revisionism in International Law, 119
Harv. L. Rev. 1404 (2006) (with A. Lavinbuk)
Christine Jolls
lectures and addresses
• Law and the Political Economy Seminar, Harvard Law
School, “Equality’s Tools”
• Faculty Workshop, Washington College of Law,
American University, “Equality’s Tools”
• Program Meeting in Law and Economics, National
Bureau of Economic Research, “The New Market for
Federal Judicial Law Clerks”
• Economics Department, Yale University, “Mandated
Medical Leave in the Workplace”
• Law and Economics Seminar, Harvard Law School,
“Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace”
• Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University and
Economics Department, University of Pittsburgh,
“Mandated Medical Leave in the Workplace”
• Law and Economics Seminar, University of
Pennsylvania School of Law, “Mandated Medical Leave
in the Workplace”
Ylr
Summer 2007
publications
• Behavioral Law and Economics, in Behavioral
Economics and Its Applications (P. Diamond and H.
Vartiainen eds., 2007)
Paul W. Kahn
lectures and addresses
• University of Tubingen, Germany, “Christianity,
National Identity, and the Problematic Character of
Human Rights in the United States” and “The Cultural
Study of Law”
• University of Colorado School of Law, “Sacred Violence:
Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty”
Oona A. Hathaway
S. Blair Kauffman
appointments
• Fulbright Senior Specialist, Chinese University of Hong
Kong
• Board of Advisors, Journal of Electronic Resources in
Law Libraries
• Board of Advisors, AALS Committee on Research
• Nominations Committee, International Association of
Law Libraries
Christine Jolls
lectures and addresses
• Hong Kong Library Association, “Library 2.0: Future
Directions in Library Design, Services and Systems”
Paul W. Kahn
Harold Hongju Koh
appointments, elections, and awards
• Elected Fellow of the American Philosophical Society
(The Arts, Professions, Leaders in Public and Private
Affairs)
• Council of American Law Institute
• Board of Trustees, American Arbitration Association
• Can the President Be Torturer in Chief?, 81 Ind L.J. 1145
(2006), selected by the Green Bag Journal for its
2007 award for exemplary writing in a long article,
republished in Green Bag Almanac and Reader
(2007)
• Bobbleheaded, http://www.yaleacs.org/bobblehead.
html
S. Blair Kauffman
legal consultation or testimony
• Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs regarding “The 2006 Country Reports on
Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy”
• Testimony before Congressional Human Rights
Caucus, Task Force for International Religious Freedom,
Religious Freedom in Egypt: Recent Developments
• Amicus Brief of Law Professors Supporting Affirmance,
ACLU v. NSA (6th Cir. 2006)
• Co-counsel for Amici Professors of Constitutional Law
and Federal Jurisdiction, Al-Marri v. Wright (4th Cir.
2007)
Harold Hongju Koh
˘ Faculty Activities
• Amicus Brief of International Law Scholars, Kerrigan v.
Commissioner of Public Health, Connecticut Supreme
Court
• Co-author, Statement of more than 180 Law School
deans regarding Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense Charles Stimson’s Jan. 11, 2007 remarks
regarding pro bono attorneys who represent suspected terrorist detainees
lectures and addresses
• Moderator, “International Responses to Darfur,” Schell
Center for International Human Rights
• “Present at the Creation,” Remarks at Symposium in
Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Louis B. Sohn,
George Washington University Law School
• “Father Drinan’s Revolution,” Keynote Address at
Announcement of the Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Chair in
Human Rights at Georgetown University Law Center
• International Conference: Global Legal Trends in
Comparative Perspective, University of Zagreb, Faculty
of Law, “Mirjan Damaska’s Contribution to Legal
Thought” and “International Criminal Adjudication:
A View from the United States”
• Commentator on the Tanner Lectures, “Anticipatory
Self-Defense: The Law, Ethics and Politics of
Preemptive and Preventive War,” by Michael W. Doyle,
Princeton University
• “Can the United States Reclaim the Moral High
Ground?,” Citizens for Global Solutions Annual
Meeting 2006, Washington, D.C.
• “The State of Atlantic Relations,” The Association of
Marshall Scholars, New Haven
• “The Future Of Cuba: Crossroads or Continuity?,” Latin
American Series at Yale Law School
• Human Rights and Legal Education (Plenary Session);
The Bush Presidency and the Constitution (Section on
Constitutional Law); Human Rights in an Age of Terror
(Section on International Law); Thinking Globally:
Promoting Public Service and Pro Bono in International
Arenas (Section on Pro Bono and Public Service
Opportunities); at AALS Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C.
• “Father Drinan’s Revolution,” Eulogy at the Funeral of
Father Robert F. Drinan, S.J., Boston
• “Restoring Our Human Rights Reputation,”Symposium
on the Intersection of United States Law and
International and Foreign Law, Florida International
University Law School
• “The United States and Human Rights: Five Years
After,” Cornell Law School
• Presenter of “Justice in Action” Award to Nicholas deB.
Katzenbach, Asian American Legal Defense Fund Gala
Dinner
• Introduction of Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ,
in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Arthur
Liman program
• “Inside Castro’s Cuba” (with Mary-Christy Fisher), 2007
LEAP Year Event
• Debate with Professor Jack Goldsmith, Yale Federalist
Society
• “Globalization, and the Western Hemisphere,”
Facultad de Derecho de la UNM, Ciudad Universitaria,
Mexico City
• “The U. S. Human Rights Position in the Western
Hemisphere,” Mexican Foreign Affairs Council
• “Restoring Our Human Rights Reputation,” 14th
Annual Valerie Gordon Human Rights Lecture,
Northeastern University School of Law
• “Is there a ‘New’ New Haven School of International
Law?,” presented at the Yale Journal of International
Law Conference on the “New” New Haven School
• Welcome, Legally Female Conference, “What Does it
Mean to be Ms. JD?”
• YLS Law and Globalization Breakfast in NYC: “Should
Alleged Terrorist Detainees Have Access to U.S.
Courts?”
• “Law and Globalization” discussion to the Yale Alumni
Association of Greenwich, CT and the YLS Association
of Fairfield and Westchester Counties
• “The Death of the Private/Public Distinction in
International Law,” Manley O. Hudson Medal
Luncheon Honoring Andreas Lowenfeld, American
Society of International Law, Washington, D.C.
• Keynote Address, St. Thomas Day School 50th Jubilee
Celebration
publications
• Setting the World Right, 115 Yale L.J. 2350 (2006)
• Why Transnational Law Matters, 24 Penn State Int’l L.
Rev. 745 (2006)
• Unveiling Justice Blackmun, 72 brook l. rev. (2006)
• The Healing Wisdom of Jay Katz, 6 Yale J. Health Pol’y,
L. & Ethics 397 (2006)
• Harry Andrew Blackmun, entry in Yale Biographical
Dictionary of American Law (2007)
• Louis B. Sohn: Present At the Creation, 48 Harv. Int’l L.
J. 13 (2007)
• Conceptions of the Court (Interview with Maggie
Goodlander in Yale Politic (Spring 2007)
• The Activist: Robert S. Drinan, S.J., Boston College
Magazine 7 (Spring 2007)
• Is there a “New” New Haven School of International
Law?, 32 Yale J. Int’l L. 559 (2007)
• Filartiga’s Way, Foreword to William J. Aceves, ed., The
Anatomy of Torture: A Documentary History of
Filartiga v. Pena-Irala (2007)
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• Foreword to Eugene Fidell, et al., Military Justice
(2007)
• The Future of Lou Henkin’s Human Rights Movement,
Colum. H. Rts. L. Rev. (2007)
John H. Langbein
lectures and addresses
• Nottingham Lecture, International Trust and Tax
Planning Summit, Miami, “The Draft Uniform Act for
Business Trusts”
• American Society for Legal History, Baltimore, panel
chair on “Anglo-American Legal Education in the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
• Conference on Legal Cultures and the Atlantic Divide,
Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany
public service
• Commissioner, National Conference of Commissioners
of Uniform State Laws: Member, Drafting Committee
on the Uniform Statutory Business Trust Act, attended
drafting meeting; Member, Joint Editorial Board for
the Uniform Trust and Estate Acts, attended review
meeting
• American Law Institute: Associate Reporter,
Restatement of Property: Wills and Other Donative
Transfers
• Member, Scientific Advisory Board,
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, (Germany); attended
board meeting
publications
• Uniform Trust and Estate Statutes: 2007-2008
Edition (2007) (with L. Waggoner)
• La Ventaja Alemana en el Processo Civil, 6
Iberoamerican Procedural L.J. 96 (2006).
Yair Listokin
lectures and addresses
• Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, Austin, “Is
Secured Debt Used to Redistribute Value from Tort
Claimants in Bankruptcy? An Empirical Analysis”
• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, “Management
Always Wins the Close Ones”
• Florida State University Law School, Tallahassee,
“Management Always Wins the Close Ones”
• Vanderbilt University Law School, “Management
Always Wins the Close Ones”
• Scuola Superiore d’Sant Anna, Pisa, Italy, “The Law and
Economics of Remedies for Breach of Contract”
publications
• Crime and (with a lag) Punishment: Equitable
Sentencing and the Implications of Discounting, 44 am.
crim. l. rev. 115 (2007)
Ylr
Summer 2007
• Paying for Performance in Bankruptcy: Why CEO’s
Should be Compensated with Debt, 155 u. pa. l. rev. 777
(2007)
Jonathan R. Macey
elections
• National Adjudicatory Council, National Association of
Securities Dealers
• Board of Directors, Shred-It Connecticut
John H. Langbein
lectures and addresses
• Connecticut Hedge Fund Association, “The Future of
Hedge Fund Regulation in the U.S.”
• Liberty Fund Symposium, La Jolla, CA, “The Federalists
and the Anti-Federalists”
publications
• Regulation in Banking: A Mechanism for Forcing
Market Solutions, in Creating Competitive Markets:
The Politics of Regulatory Reform (M. Landy, M.
Levin & M. Shapiro eds., 2007)
• Executive Branch Usurpation of Power: Corporations
and Capital Markets, 115 Yale L.J. 2416 (2006)
• Regulatory McCarthyism, Wall St. J. October 24, 2006
Yair Listokin
Daniel Markovits
lectures and addresses
• Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Tel
Aviv Faculties of Law, Symposium on Luck in the Law,
“Luck, Egalitarianism and Political Solidarity”
• Faculty Workshop, University of Alabama School of
Law, “Law and Society”
• Department of Philosophy Speaker Series, University
of Alabama, “Promise, Contract and Community”
Jonathan R. Macey
publications
• Adversary Advocacy and the Authority of Ajudication,
75 Fordham L. Rev. 1367 (2006)
• Making and Keeping Contracts, 92 Va. L. Rev. 1325
(2006)
• Three Thoughts Concerning ‘Just Linkage,’ 39 Cornell
Int’l L.J. 655 (2006)
• In Praise of the Supporting Cast, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket
Part 272 (2007)
Robert C. Post
lectures and addresses
• David C. Baum Memorial Lecture, University of Illinois
College of Law, Champaign, “Informed Consent to
Abortion: A First Amendment Analysis of Compelled
Physician Speech”
• Legal Theory Workshop, University of Michigan Law
School, “The First Amendment and the Dissemination
of Medical Knowledge”
Daniel Markovits
Robert C. Post
˘ Faculty Activities
J.L. Pottenger, Jr.
George L. Priest
W. Michael Reisman
• Conference on Constitution Drafting in Post-Conflict
States, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, William & Mary
School of Law, Willamsburg, “Constitutionalism and
the Rule of Law”
• Conference on Commercial Speech, Loyola Law School,
“Compelled Commercial Speech: What’s for Lunch”
• Una Lecturer in the Humanities, Doreen B. Townsend
Center for the Humanities, University of California
Berkeley, “Portraits of Muhammad: Freedom of Speech
and Religion”
• Roundtable of the International Association of
Constitutional Law on Constitutional Culture(s),
Ravenna, Italy, paper presentation (with R. Siegel),
“Constitutional Patriotism and Constitutional Culture”
• McCorkle Lecture, University of Virginia School of Law,
“The Political Practice of Originalism”
publications
• Another Cosmopolitanism: Seyla Benhabib (ed.
2006)
• Religion and Freedom of Speech: Portraits of
Muhammad, 14 Constellations 72 (2007)
• Originalism as a Political Practice: The Right’s Living
Constitutionalism, 75 Fordham L. Rev. 545 (2006) (with
R. Siegel)
J.L. Pottenger, Jr.
clinic activities
• Legislative Advocacy Clinic: Faculty and students
assisted Connecticut Voices for Children, a statewide
research and advocacy group specializing in social
welfare and budget issues. Projects included: working
on proposals to enhance the state’s revenue outlook;
helping to reform the state’s juvenile justice and
child protection systems; analyzing proposals for an
increased state role in providing healthcare to all state
residents; and advocating on behalf of undocumented
students and children in state custody.
lectures and addresses
• Hunan University Law School, “Theories of Clinical
Legal Education” and “History of American Legal
Education”
other professional activities
• Hosted “study tour” for Dutch prosecutors
George L. Priest
lectures and addresses
• University of Puerto Rico School of Law, winter term
course on “Introduction to Law and Economics”
• Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, Athens, Greece,
“Citizenship, Membership and National Identity”
• Faculty Workshop, Northwestern Law School,
“Rethinking Antitrust Law in an Age of Network
Industries”
• Debate with the Honorable Guido Calabresi, The Yale
Law School Federalist Society, “When are Punitive
Damages Excessive?”
publications
• The Modern Transformation of Civil Law, 54 Buff. L. Rev.
947 (2006)
W. Michael Reisman
appointments
• Member, International Editorial Board, The Cambridge
Review of International Affairs
lectures and addresses
• International Law Weekend 2006: The Evolving World
of International Law, House of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York, panelist on “Is the Fair and
Equitable Treatment Standard Fair and Equitable?”
• FPA Board of Directors Meetings, New York
• AJIL Board of Editors Meetings, ASIL Executive
Committee Meetings, ASIL Second Century Dinner,
ASIL Business Meeting, and ASIL Annual Meetings,
Washington, D.C.
• Law and Globalization Breakfast Seminar, New
York, moderator on “The Changing Dynamics of
International Arbitration”
• Columbia Law School, “Foreign Investment, National
Sovereignty and Arbitration”
• The “New” New Haven School: International Law—
Past, Present & Future, Yale Journal of International
Law Fifth Annual Young Scholars Conference, Yale Law
School, moderator and paper presenter on “Historical
Perspectives on the New Haven School”
• World Bank Administrative Tribunal/American Society
of International Law Joint Colloquium on International
Administrative Tribunals and the Rule of Law,
Washington, D.C., panel chair on “Due Process in the
Context of Misconduct Investigations”
• The Future of Inter-State Arbitration, Institute
for Transnational Arbitrations’ Academic Council
and the American Society of International Law
Conference, Washington, D.C., presented paper on
“Compulsorization of Jurisidiction in International
Ajudication and Arbitration”
• Investment Law, Dispute Resolution, and the
Development Promise: Back to the Future, ASIL 101st
Annual Meeting Conference, Washington, D.C., presented paper on “The Evolving International Standard
and Sovereignty”
• Conference on Trade and Investment, “Foreign
Investment: New Horizons in Asia: Challenges and
Prospects in the Wake of the Korea-US FTA,” Seoul,
South Korea, keynote address on “Foreign Investment,
Economic Development and National Sovereignty”
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publications
• Holding the Center of the Law in Armed Conflict, 100:4
Am. J. Int’l L. 852 (2006)
• The Shadows Looming Over International Law, 6 Baltic
Y.B. of Int’l L. 7 (2006)
• No Exit? A Preliminary Examination of the Legal
Consequences of United States’ Notification of
Withdrawal from the Optional Protocol to the Vienna
Convention on Consular Relations, in Promoting
Justice, Human Rights and Conflict Resolution
Through International Law (M. G. Kohen ed., 2007)
(with M. H. Arsanjani)
Judith Resnik
appointments
• Co-chair, Women’s Faculty Forum, Yale University
• Advisory Board, Journal of Law and Ethics of Human
Rights, 2006
• Member, National Board of Academic Advisors for the
William H. Rehnquist Center on the Constitutional
Structures of Government, 2007-2009
lectures and addresses
• “Women and Gender: A Panel Discussion,” The World
Fellows and Women Faculty Forum, moderator and
commentator
• “The District in the Context of a Century of Change,”
in Symposium, The U.S. District Court for the Central
District of California, 1966-2006: Text and Context,
Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles
• Paper presenter, “Places of Power: From Renaissance
Town Halls to Guantánamo Bay,” USC Law School
Faculty Workshop, Los Angeles
• “Governing (and Representing) Women: Local,
National and Global Approaches,” The Australian
National University, via video conference
• “Mainstreaming, An Appraisal,” presented in Gender
as an Analytic Category, a Disciplinary Location, and a
Structuring Factor of Our Workplaces, Yale University,
Women Faculty Forum panel
• “The United States and ‘Foreign Law’: Refusing Global
Justice While Incorporating its Norms,” paper presented at the conference, Justice in the Mirror: Law,
Culture and the Making of History, Yale/MacMillan
Center
• “Justices and Judges’ Discretion, The Role of the
Judge in a Democracy,” Symposium in honor of
the Retirement of President Aharon Barak, Haifa
University Law School, Israel
• “Constraining Remedies by Limiting Adjudicatory
Opportunities,” Plenary speaker at the AALS Workshop
on Remedies: Justice and the Bottom Line in the
Session on Limitations of Federal Remedies by the
Supreme Court and Other Actors, Washington, D.C.,
• Harvard Law School, Constitutional Law Conference
• “Foreign as Domestic Affairs,” Paper presented in the
Symposium, The New Federalism: Plural Governance in
a Decentered World, Emory School of Law, Atlanta
• Liman at Ten Colloquium
• “Is Legal Academia a Gendered Environment?,” presenter at conference on Legally Female: What does It
Mean to be Ms. JD?, Yale Law School
• “Law as Affiliation,” paper presented at the New York
Society for Women in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate
Center
Ylr
Summer 2007
Judith Resnik
publications
• When the Justice Department Played Defense, Slate,
October 27, 2006
• Whither and Whether Adjudication? 86 B.U.L. Rev. 1101
(2006)
• Gendered Borders and United States’ Sovereignty, in
Women and Immigration Law: New Variations on
Classical Feminist Themes (S.K. Van Walsum & T.
Spijkerboer eds., 2007)
• Sisterhood, Slavery, and Sovereignty: Transnational
Antislavery Work and Women’s Rights Movements in
the United States During the Twentieth Century, in
Women’s Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in
the Era of Emancipation (K.K. Sklar & J.B. Stewart
eds., 2007)
• Democratic Responses to the Breadth of Power of the
Chief Justice, in Reforming the Supreme Court (R.C.
Cramton & P.D. Carrington eds., 2006)
Roberta Romano
appointments
• Member, Advisory Board, White Collar Crime
Abstracting Journal, Social Science Research Network
• Charter Member, Board of Directors, Society for
Empirical Legal Studies
lectures and addresses
• Conference on Empirical Studies, “Institutional
Investors and Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003
Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure Regulation” and
discussant of paper “Don’t Leave Home Without It:
Limited Liability and American Express”
• Law and Economics Workshop, University of Virginia
School of Law, “Institutional Investors and Proxy
Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting
Disclosure Regulation”
• Faculty Talk, University of British Colombia Faculty of
Law, “After the Revolution in Corporate Law” and Law
and Economics Seminar, “Institutional Investors and
Proxy Voting: The Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund
Voting Disclosure Regulation”
• Annual Meeting, American Economics Association,
panelist on “Penalties and Sanctions for Securities
Fraud”
Roberta Romano
˘ Faculty Activities
Carol M. Rose
• NYU/Penn Conference on Law and Finance,
“Institutional Investors and Proxy Voting: The
Impact of the 2003 Mutual Fund Voting Disclosure
Regulation”
• University of Connecticut School of Law Conference
on D&O Insurance Shareholders’ Friend or Foe?, “Does
Corporate Governance Matter to Securities Litigation
Risk?”
publications
• The States as a Laboratory: Legal Innovation and State
Competition for Corporate Charters, in Promoting the
General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government
Performance (A. Gerber & E. Patashnik eds., 2006)
Carol M. Rose
lectures and addresses
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Peter H. Schuck
• Graduate Workshop, Lewis & Clark Law School,
Portland, “The Role of Science in a New Generation of
Environmental Law”
• Faculty Workshop, Lewis & Clark Law School, “Race
and Residential Housing Before Covenants”
• Oregon Law Institute, Portland, “The Road to Shelley v.
Kraemer and Beyond”
• International Colloquium: Law and the EnvironmentReconsidering the Basics, CEGLA Center for
Interdisciplinary Research of the Law, Tel Aviv
University, “Environment and the Commons”
• Conference, Who Owns the Commons, Porter School
of Environmental Studies, Tel Aviv University, “Taming
the Commons: Concepts from the Past, Implications
for the Future”
• Liberal Reform in an Illiberal State, University of
Arizona Law College, “Response and Commentary on
Judge Stephen Williams’s Book”
• UCLA Law School Conference on Constitutional
Niches, “What Federalism tells Us About Takings
Jurisprudence”
• Faculty Workshop, Arizona State University, “Patterns
of Discrimination before Racially Restrictive
Covenants”
• Lecture Series on Brazilian Amazonia, Amherst
College, “Property and the Preservation of Nature”
• Board of Editors Meeting, Foundation Press
publications
• The Moral Subject of Property, in Symposium Issue on
Law and Morality, 48 Wm. & Mary L. Rev 1897 (2007)
Susan Rose-Ackerman
lectures and addresses
• 2006 Parliamentary Hearing at the United Nations
on Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building, New York,
remarks for panel on “Good Governance and the Fight
against Corruption”
• World Congress on Communication for Development,
organized by the World Bank and the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization, Rome, “Communication for
Good Governance, Participation and Transparency”
• In the Company of Scholars Lecture, Yale Graduate
School, “Corruption and Democratic Transitions”
• World Meeting of the Public Choice Society,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, keynote address on “Public
Choice, Public Policy, and Public Law”
• Workshop on Central-Local Relations, Yale China
Center and University of Peking, Beijing, “Does
Federalism Preserve Markets?”
publications
• International Handbook on the Economics of
Corruption (ed., 2006)
• From Elections to Democracy in Eastern Europe: Public
Participation and the Role of Civil Society, 21 East
European Politics and Society 31 (2007)
other professional activities
• U.S. Department of State webchat on corruption and
development
Peter H. Schuck
lectures and addresses
• University of Chicago, on immigration federalism
• Manhattan Institute, on targeting in social programs
• Conference in Tel Aviv, on diversity, demography, and
human rights
• Yale ISPS workshop, on demography and diversity
• Kennedy School, Weiner Center, on targeting in social
programs
• Fordham Law School, on immigration federalism
• NYU Law School, on targeting in social programs
• Brookings/AEI Joint Center, on targeting in social programs
• Joseph Cohen Lecture, University of Missouri at
Kansas City, on immigration federalism
• Stanford Law School, on targeting in social programs
• Boalt Law School, on targeting in social programs
• NYU Law School, on affirmative action
• Fordham Law School, on targeting in social programs
• Fordham Law School, on legal and scientific perspectives on catastrophe
• Middle East Legal Studies Seminar, Athens, Greece
• Kauffman Foundation/Common Good Conference on
the Effects of Law on Society, St. Michael’s, Maryland
publications
• The Meaning of Citizenship in Post-9/11 World, 75
Fordham L. Rev. 2531 (2007)
• Essay on Affirmative Action, Encyclopedia of Law and
Society: American and Global Perspectives (D. Clark
ed., 2007)
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• Concluding Thoughts: How the Whole is Greater than
the Sum of Its Parts, in Creating Competitive Markets:
The Politics of Regulatory Reform (M. Landy, M.
Levin, & M. Shapiro eds., 2007)
• The Disconnect Between Public Attitudes and
Policy Outcomes in Immigration, in The Politics of
Immigration Reform (C. Swain ed., 2007)
• Essay on Citizenship, in Encyclopedia of Legal
History: American and Global Perspectives (with S.
Katz ed., 2007)
• Citizenship and Nationality Policy, in The New
Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965 (with
M. Waters & R. Ueda eds., 2007)
• Toward a Better Future for the Democratic Party,
Opening Argument, available at http://www.
openingargument.com
• Good Programs vs. Bad Apples, Boston Globe, March
26, 2007 (with R. J. Zeckhauser)
Vicki Schultz
appointments
• Fellow, Center for the Advanced Study of the
Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto
Henry E. Smith
lectures and addresses
• Robert A. Levy Fellows Workshop in Law & Liberty,
George Mason University School of Law, “Intellectual
Property as Property: Delineating Entitlements in
Information”
• Faculty Workshop, Fordham University School of
Law, “Intellectual Property as Property: Delineating
Entitlements in Information”
James J. Silk
Robert A. Solomon
appointments
publications
• Lead counsel in Connecticut Coalition of Justice in
Education Funding v. Rell, challenging the state’s school
funding system on state constitutional grounds. The
plaintiffs are represented by the Education Adequacy
Project.
• Board member and Secretary of First City Fund
Corporation, a foundation establishing a Community
Development Bank. The foundation is represented by
the Community Development Financial Institutions
Clinic.
• Counsel for Saint Luke’s Development Corporation,
which is building elderly housing on a formerly
blighted site in New Haven. Saint Luke’s is represented
by the Community and Economic Development Clinic
• Expanded domestic violence services, through the
Community Lawyering Clinic
James J. Silk
lectures and addresses
• Connecticut Association of Housing and
Redevelopment Officials, Meriden, “The Unintended
(and Adverse) Effects of Requiring One-for-One
Replacement Housing”
• Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Yale Law School,
panelist on “Predatory Lending” and “Education”
• Harvard Human Rights Journal Conference, Harvard
Law School, panelist on “Transforming Students and
Scholarship—20 Years in Human Rights Education at
Law Schools”
Vicki Schultz
publications
• Property: Principles and Policies (with T. W. Merrill,
Foundation Press, 2007)
• The Morality of Property, 48 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1849
lectures and addresses
• The 2006 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lecture: Understanding
Sexual Harassment Law in Action—What Has Gone
Wrong and What We Can Do About It, 29 Jefferson L.
Rev. 1 (2006)
Summer 2007
• Association of American Law Schools Annual
Meeting, Washington, D.C., panelist on “Introducing
International Law: Treaty Law and Other International
Law Concepts in Domestic Cases”
• Chair, Housing Authority of the City of New Haven
(Chair, Planning & Development Committee)
• President, CT Association of Human Services
• Comparative Research Workshop, Yale University,
“Will Marriage Make Gay and Lesbian Couples Less
Egalitarian? A Cautionary Tale”
• “Legally Female: What Does it Mean to Be Ms. J.D.”
Conference, Yale Law School, panel on “Is Legal
Academia a Gendered Environment?,” “Notes from a
Post-Feminist World”
• Faculty Workshop, University of San Diego School of
Law, “Will Marriage Make Gay and Lesbian Couples
Less Egalitarian?”
• “Legally Female: What Does it Mean to Be Ms. JD?,”
lunch group moderator, “Women in Legal Academia,”
panel on Gender in the Law School Classroom, Yale
Law School, moderator and commentator
• American Constitution Society Reading Group, Yale
Law School, “Work and Citizenship”
Ylr
clinic activities
lectures and addresses
Henry E. Smith
Robert A. Solomon
˘ Faculty Activities
Kate Stith
elections
• Board of Directors, Women’s Campaign School at Yale
University
• Board of Directors, Connecticut Bar Foundation
lectures and addresses
Kate Stith
• Connecticut Bar Association, New Britain,
“Understanding the Mammoth Recent Changes to
the Rules of Professional Conduct”
• Moderator, “What International Law?” Yale Law
School
• Criminal Justice Roundtable, Yale Law School, moderator and participant
• Third Annual Criminal Justice Roundtable at Yale Law
School
legal consultation or testimony
Michael Wishnie
• Amicus Brief on Behalf of Law Professors and Former
United States Attorneys, United States v. Rita (U.S.
Supreme Court, No. 06-5754)
• Committee on Professional Responsibility (State of
Connecticut), presentation on counsel fees
Michael Wishnie
clinic activities
Stephen Wizner
• Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic: Aguilar
v. Imperial Nurseries (federal suit filed on behalf of
twelve Guatemalan men trafficked into Connecticut
and forced to labor in exploitative conditions in commercial nursery outside Hartford) (D.Conn.)
• DACORIM v. DHS (federal Freedom of Information Act
suit filed on behalf of community organizations seeking records of immigration enforcement practices in
Danbury) (D.Conn.)
• “Danbury 11” removal defense (representation in
removal proceedings of day-laborers arrested in
undercover “sting” operation) (Immigration Court,
Hartford)
• Hyppolite v. Chertoff (federal habeas petition on
behalf of Haitian legal permanent resident held for
fourteen months in mandatory no-bond detention
by immigration authorities pending his deportation
proceedings) (D.Conn.)
• 9-11 Clinic: Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft (federal damages action
by U.S. citizen wrongfully detained as material witness against various wardens and senior Justice
Department and FBI officials) (ACLU Immigrants’
Rights Project, lead counsel) (D.Idaho, W.D.Okla.,
E.D.Va., 9th Cir.)
• Lowenstein Human Rights Project v. DHS (federal
Freedom of Information Act suit seeking records
related to “Operation Front Line,” secretive immigration enforcement program) (D.Conn.)
• Badrawi v. DHS (federal Freedom of Information Act
suit on behalf of former UConn research associate
wrongfully arrested and deported) (D.Conn.)
• National Council of La Raza v. Gonzales (federal suit to
enjoin dissemination of civil immigration records via
FBI criminal database and resulting civil immigration
arrests made by local police) (2d Cir).
• Supervised YLS Human Trafficking Litigation Project,
a new student organization dedicated to developing
anti-trafficking litigation.
lectures and addresses
• Rebellious Lawyering Conference, Yale Law School,
“On the Fence: The Intersection of Labor Trafficking
and Immigration Control Policies in the United
States”
• American Constitution Society, Quinnipiac Law
School, “Terrorism and the U.S. Courts”
• Migration Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., “State
and Local Immigration Measures” and “Immigration
Access to Welfare Ten Years after the PRA”
• Human Rights Workshop, Yale Law School, “Employer
Sanctions: The Experiment Fails”
• Stiles Fellows Tea, Yale College, “The Immigration
Debate”
• Liman Colloquium, Yale Law School, panelist on “New
Public Interest Initiatives”
• Yale Law School Executive Committee, “Human
Rights and Immigration.”
Stephen Wizner
lectures and addresses
• Israel Clinicians Forum, Tel Aviv University, “New
Horizons in Clinical Legal Education”
• Georgia Law Review Symposium honoring Professor
Milner Ball on the Occasion of his Retirement,
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia,
“A Theology of Justice: Three Reflections on Milner
Ball’s Non-Religious Practice of Belief”
other professional activities
• Consulting with Israeli law school clinical programs
at University of Tel Aviv and Haifa University
• Consulting with law school clinical program at AlQuds University