The Faculty Workshop at Berkeley Law is a weekly opportunity for our faculty to engage with scholars from diverse backgrounds and institutions. During the workshops, scholars present their recent research in a small, intimate, and interactive format. Presenters include prominent professors from other leading schools and Berkeley’s faculty members, both senior and junior.
Workshops will be held on Tuesdays in the Warren Room (295 Law Building) beginning September 10th, from 12:50 pm to 1:50 pm.
Beverages and lunch will be available at 12:30 pm on workshop days in the Warren Room.
Faculty Workshop Co-Chairs
2024-25
Coordinator
Vandana Gandhi (she/her)
Event Specialist
vgandhi@law.berkeley.edu
Tel: 510- 642 2253
238 Law Building
Schedule of Spring 2025 Faculty Workshops
| Date | Faculty Member |
|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2025 |
Sonia Katyal (with Angela Zhao) “Creativity Conformed: The Problem of NFTs and the Future of Digital Art” |
| Jan 21, 2025 |
Gulika Reddy (Stanford Law) “Hope as a Human Rights Practice: Cultivating and Sustaining Transformative Hope to Advance Social Change” |
| Jan 28, 2025 |
Erwin Chemerinsky “Chill” |
| Feb 4, 2025 |
Hanoch Dagan & Molly Van Houweling “Reconstructing Copyright Reversion: Releasing Authors from Their Own Dead Hands” |
| Feb 11, 2025 |
No workshop |
| Feb 18, 2025 |
Fanna Gamal (UCLA) “The Algorithmic Racial Proxy“ |
| Feb 25, 2025 |
Catherine Fisk “Democracy and a Nonpartisan Civil Service” |
| Mar 4, 2025 |
Dylan Penningroth Chapters 12 and 13 from his book, “Before the Movement” |
| March 11, 2025 |
Seth Davis “Can the Roberts Court find Federal Indian Law?” |
| March 18, 2025 |
Andrea Roth & Sean Farhang “Congress and Criminalization” |
| April 1, 2025 |
Claudia Polsky “When Are People Too Polluted?” |
| April 8, 2025 |
Elena Chachko “Executive Law in the Administrative State” |
| April 15, 2025 |
Ofer Eldar “The Anatomy of Nonprofit Control of Business Enterprise” |
| April 22, 2025 |
Monica Bell (Yale Law) “Codes on Our Souls: Empirical Poems on Survival and Hope in the Face of State Power” |
| April 29, 2025 |
David Hausman “The Effect of Immigration Detention.” |
Schedule of Fall 2024 Faculty Workshops
| Date | Presenter & Paper Title |
|---|---|
| Sept. 10, 2024 |
Mark Gergen “Contract as an Object of People’s Will” |
| Sept 17, 2024 |
Khiara M. Bridges (Rescheduled to Oct. 8th session due to fire alarm disturbances in the Law Building) “Racism as a Ghost: A Book Proposal” |
| Sept. 24, 2024 |
Dan Farber “Toward a Future-Facing Climate Policy: Shifting the Focus from Emission Regulation to the Energy Transition” |
| Oct. 1, 2024 |
Mary Ziegler (UC Davis School of Law) “Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Reproductive Freedom and May Again Threaten It” |
| Oct. 8, 2024 |
Khiara M. Bridges “Racism as a Ghost: A Book Proposal” |
| Oct. 15, 2024 |
Orin Kerr “What is a “Search”? Squaring Katz and Jones” |
| Oct. 22, 2024 |
Talha Syed “Pharma’s Patent Paradox” |
| Oct. 29, 2024 |
Chesa Boudin “Defense Lawyers and the Separation of Powers” |
| Nov. 5, 2024 |
Jonathan Glater “The Student Debt Reset” |
| Nov. 12, 2024 |
Jose Argueta Funes “Stories, Meaning, and Value in Property Law” |
| Nov. 19, 2024 |
Dorothy Lund (Columbia Law School) “Purpose in Nonprofit Enterprise” |
| Dec. 3, 2024 |
WIP |
Schedule of Spring 2024 Faculty Workshops
| Date | Faculty Member |
|---|---|
| Jan 9, 2024 |
Jon Gould “Workarounds in American Public Law” |
| Jan 16, 2024 |
Russell Robinson “Antiwokeness and White Victimology” |
| Jan 23, 2024 |
Andrew Baker “Valuation Follies” |
| Jan 30, 2024 |
Dhammika Dharmapala “Racial Restrictions on Voting: Evidence from a New Global Dataset, 1775-2000” |
| Feb 6, 2024 |
Morgan Ricks, Vanderbilt “Rebuilding Banking Law” |
| Feb 13, 2024 |
Ji Seon Song, UCI “On Probation” |
| Feb 20, 2024 |
Katerina Linos “Forced Migration and Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Rohingya Refugees” |
| Feb 27, 2024 |
Seth Davis “The Bundle of Rights Conception of Sovereignty.” |
| March 5, 2024 |
Sharon Jacobs “Participatory Energy Administration” |
| March 12, 2024 |
Andrew Selbst, UCLA “Discrimination as Unfairness: Navigating Discrimination and AI at the FTC” |
| March 19, 2024 |
Tejas N. Narechania “The Death of the Public Internet” |
| April 2, 2024 |
Rachel Brewster, Duke “The Rise of Global FCPA Settlements” |
| April 9, 2024 |
Emily Zhang “Section 2 of the VRA and Native Representation in State Legislatures” |
| April 16, 2024 |
Abhay Aneja “Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms” |
Schedule of Fall 2023 Faculty Workshops
| Date | Faculty Member |
|---|---|
| Sept. 5, 2023 |
Rebecca Wexler “Police Secrecy: Law Enforcement Privilege and the Criminally Accused” |
| Sept 12, 2023 |
Jonah B. Gelbach “Beyond Transsubstantivity” |
| Sept 19, 2023 |
Molly van Houweling “The Freedom to Extract in Copyright Law” |
| Sept 26, 2023 |
Hanoch Dagan “Relational Justice: A Theory of Private Law” |
| Oct. 3, 2023 |
Elena Chachko “Emergency Powers for Good” (Co-authored with Katerina Linos) |
| Oct 10, 2023 |
Osagie Obasogie “Juris Doctors: How Law Obscures Medical Evidence in Police Use of Force Cases” |
| Oct 17, 2023 |
David Oppenheimer “A history of the idea of diversity.” |
| Oct 24, 2023 |
Sonia Katyal “A Trademark Theory of Rebranding” |
| Oct 31, 2023 |
Rebecca Goldstein “Backlash and Toplash Against Progressive Prosecutors.” |
| Nov 7, 2023 |
Evelyn Douek “The Meta Oversight Board and the Empty Promise of Legitimacy” |
| Nov 14, 2023 |
Manisha Padi “Inclusive Occupational Licensing” |
Schedule of Spring 23 Faculty Workshops
| Date | Faculty Member |
|---|---|
| Jan 10, 2023 |
Liz Reese, Stanford “Tribal Representation” |
| Jan 17, 2023 |
Guy Uriel Charles, Harvard “Divided by Race: Voting Rights and Political Power” |
| Jan 24, 2023 |
Adam Badawi “The Value of M&A Drafting” |
| Jan 31, 2023 |
Tracey Meares, Yale “Uncovering Police” |
| Feb 7, 2023 |
Prasad Krishnamurthy “Forgiving Student Loans: Progressivity, Inequality, and Welfare” |
| Feb 14, 2023 |
Abhay Aneja “Strengthening State Capacity: Public Service Delivery and Innovation in the Gilded Age” |
| Feb 21, 2023 |
Catherine Fisk “Lawyers for Labor: A History of Union Lawyers, 1930-1980” |
| Feb 28, 2023 |
Kevin Davis, NYU “The Significance of Foreign Law: A Jamaican Case Study” |
| March 7, 2023 |
Glenn Cohen, Harvard “Reproductive Technologies and Embryo Destruction After Dobbs” |
| March 14, 2023 |
Jonathan Gould “Cost-Benefit Analysis in Polarized Times” |
| March 21, 2023 |
Jessica Clarke, Vanderbilt “Sex Discrimination Formalism” |
| April 4, 2023 |
Anu Bradford, Columbia Adam Chilton, Univ of Chicago “The Limits of Competition Law” |
| April 11, 2023 |
Michelle Wilde Alexander A “non-traditional” workshop on her research agenda |
| April 18, 2023 |
David Hausman “How Police Respond to Increased Immigration Enforcement” |
Schedule of Fall 2022 Faculty Workshops
| Date | Faculty Member |
|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2022 |
Erwin Chemerinsky “Bad Bones: America’s Flawed Constitution and How to Fix it” |
| Sept 6, 2022 |
Aaron Edlin “Needed in Empirical Social Science: Numbers” |
| Sept 13, 2022 |
Ariela Gross, USC Gould School of Law “Erasing Slavery: How Stories of Slavery and Freedom Shape Battles Over the Constitution” |
| Sept 20, 2022 |
Xiyin Tan, UCLA School of Law “Privatizing Copyright” |
| Sept 27, 2022 |
Kal Raustiala, UCLA School of Law “The Absolutely Indispensable Man: Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire” |
| Oct 4, 2022 |
Khiara M. Bridges “Artificial Equality: Race, Prenatal Care, and AI” |
| Oct 11, 2022 |
Emily Strauss, Duke University School of Law “Climate Change and Shareholder Lawsuits” |
| Oct 18, 2022 |
Dana Lee, UCI Law “Necessity, Legal Reasoning, and Value in the Islamic Legal Tradition: The Case of the Starving Person.” |
| Oct 25, 2022 |
Amelia Miazad, UC Davis School of Law “D&O Insurers as ESG Monitors” |
| Nov 1, 2022 |
Kristina Daugirdas, University of Michigan Law School “Authoritarian International Organizations” |
| Nov 8, 2022 |
Seth Davis “The Supreme Court vs. Private Law” |
Schedule of Spring 2022 Faculty Workshops
| Date | Faculty Member |
|---|---|
| Jan 25, 2022 |
Julian Nyarko, Stanford Law School “Police Agencies on Facebook Overreport on Black Suspects” |
| Feb 1, 2022 |
Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute “Why AI is Harder Than We Think” |
| Feb 8, 2022 |
Jennifer Chacon “Legal Phantoms: the Haunting power of Failed Law Reform” |
| Feb 15, 2022 |
Frank Partnoy “Big Picture” Short Selling |
| Feb 22, 2022 |
Sunita Patel, UCLA School of Law “Embedded Healthcare Policing” |
| Mar 1, 2022 |
Claudia Polsky “Women and Children Last: Structural Bias in Environmental Health Standards” |
| Mar 8, 2022 |
Katerina Linos “Back to Basics: The Benefits of Paradigmatic International Organizations” |
| Mar 15, 2022 |
Jonathan Glater “Differences in Difference: Statutory Treatment of Race and Disability Status in Education” |
| Mar 29, 2022 |
Abhay Aneja & Prasad Krishnamurthy “Merger Deregulation, Wages, and Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry” |
| Apr 5, 2022 |
Orin Kerr “Computers and the Border Search Exception” |
| Apr 12, 2022 |
Bijal Shah, ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law “A Critical Case Against Administrative Functionalism” |
| Apr 19, 2022 |
Talha Syed “Pharmaceutical Innovation Policy: From Patents to Public Utility” |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Jon Gould |
Schedule of Fall 2021 Faculty Workshops
| Date | Faculty Member |
|---|---|
| Aug 31, 2021 |
Andrea Roth “The Curiously Unenforced Right To Counsel in ‘All Criminal Prosecutions’” |
| Sept 7, 2021 |
Laurel Fletcher “Decolonizing International Human Rights Practice: Solidarity for a Global Human Rights Movement” |
| Sept 14, 2021 |
Shirin Sinnar, Stanford Law School “Hate Crimes, Terrorism, and the Framing of White Supremacist Violence” |
| Sept 21, 2021 |
Abbie VanSickle, Staff Writer, The Marshall Project “When Police Violence is a Dog Bite” |
| Sept 28, 2021 |
Avani Mehta Sood “Reaching a Verdict: Empirical Tests of Conventional Wisdom on Verdict Format in Criminal Cases” |
| Oct 5, 2021 |
Mel Eisenberg “Legal Reasoning” |
| Oct 12, 2021 |
David Oppenheimer “The South African Sources of the Diversity Justification for U.S. Affirmative Action” |
| Oct 19, 2021 |
Khiara M. Bridges “The Big Picture: Reproductive Justice” |
| Oct 26, 2021 |
Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley Public Policy and Economics “School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement” & “Does Money Still Matter? Attainment and Earnings Effects of Post-1990 School Finance Reforms” |
| Nov 2, 2021 |
Abbye Atkinson “Commodifying Marginalization” |
| Nov 9, 2021 |
Russell Robinson “What Christianity Loses When Fundamentalist Christians Win at the Supreme Court” |
| Nov 16, 2021 |
Irene Joe, UC Davis School of Law “Learning From Mistakes” |