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Law School Lectures, Addresses, Conferences, and Workshops

Law School lectures, addresses, conferences and workshops include those of various student organizations and events (e.g., the Black Law Student Association, the Penn Latinx American Law Students Association, and the Edwin R. Keedy Cup Competition), the School’s institutes and centers (e.g., the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, the Penn Program on Regulation, the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition, and the Toll Public Interest Center), as well as distinguished lectures (e.g., The Leon C. & June W. Holt Lecture in International Law and the Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Lecture in Law, Government, and Public Policy).

The collection also includes bibliographies, prepared by Biddle Law Library staff, for further reading on the subject matter of some of the events.

Submissions from 2019 2019

Selected Bibliography for Black Law Student Association Sadie Alexander Conference: "Exploitation of the Black Body: How Healthcare Laws Impact the Black Community" (2/9/19)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Conference: "Reporting on National Security: What is the Media’s Role?" (2/7/19)

Selected Bibliography for Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Conference: "Reporting on National Security: What is the Media’s Role?" (2/7/19)

Announcement of Legal History/Constitutional Law/Wharton Legal Studies Workshop: Jed Shugerman, Ethan Leib and Andrew Kent: "Faithful Execution and Article II" (2/6/19)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: Paul Larkin and David Rudovsky: "The Future of Medical Marijuana" (2/6/19)

Announcement of Penn Intellectual Property Group Lecture: Tim Irving: "You Would Not Look Good In An Orange Jumpsuit: Avoiding Unclean Hands and Inequitable Conduct" (2/5/19)

Announcement of Randy Barnett: "The Myth of Substantive Due Process" (1/31/19)

Announcement of Law and Economics Seminar: Sarath Sanga: "Network Effects in Corporate Governance" (1/29/19)

Announcement of the 2019 Edwin R. Keedy Cup (1/24/19)

Announcement of Josh Blackman: "Texas v. United States: The Constitutionality of Obamacare" (1/23/19)

Announcement of Latinx Law Students Association Conference and "La Gran Fiesta" (1/18/19)

Selected Bibliography for Latinx Law Students Association Conference and "La Gran Fiesta" (1/18/19)

Submissions from 2018 2018

Announcement of Institute for Law and Philosophy Workshop: Nico Cornell: "Competition Wrongs" (12/10/18)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "Hot Topics in Antitrust" (12/5/18)

Selected Bibliography for Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition Panel Discussion: "Hot Topics in Antitrust" (12/5/18)

Announcement of Fernando Chang-Muy and Stephanie Schwartz: "No Refuge - The Migrant Caravan and International Human Rights Law" (11/27/18)

Announcement of Innovation in Prosecution Summit (11/15-16/18)

Announcement of James Li: "China and the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in International Law" (11/15/18)

Announcement of Legal History Consortium Workshop: Anna Lvovsky (11/15/18)

Selected Bibliography for Innovation in Prosecution Summit (11/15-16/18)

Announcement of Richard Abel: "Terrorism Prosecutions and Guantanamo Bay: What is the Rule of Law in a Post-9/11 America?" (11/14/18)

Announcement of Law & Etrepreneurship Lecture: Osagie Imasogie: "Intellectual Property – The New Global Currency” (11/13/18)

Selected Bibliography for Law & Etrepreneurship Lecture: Osagie Imasogie: "Intellectual Property – The New Global Currency” (11/13/18)

Announcement of Leadership Institute for Diplomacy and the Law (11/9/18)

Announcement of Public Keynote: "Addressing Challenges in the 21st Century Through Diplomacy" (11/9/18)

Announcement of Journal of Law and Social Change Author Spotlight: Yvette Pappoe: "The Shortcomings of Title VII for the Black Female Plaintiff” (11/8/18)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "Opportunity Zones and Inclusive Community Development, Hosted by John Legend" (11/8/18)

Announcement of Carrie Severino and Mitchell Berman: "The Legacy of Justice Clarence Thomas" (11/7/18)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition Panel Discussion: "Assessing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Twenty Years Later" (11/7/18)

Announcement of Panel Discussion: "An End to Gerrymandering: A Methodology for Neutral Redistricting" (11/7/18)

Announcement of the Hon. Leon A. Higginbotham Lecture: Maya Wiley: "Race and Sex in the Time of Trump" (11/7/18)

Announcement of Hidetaka Hirota: "The Genealogy of Alien Contract Labor Law" (11/5/18)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Keynote Panel: "Foreign Intereference in the Democratic Process: Countdown to the Midterms" (11/2/18)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Public Keynote: "Foreign Interference in the Democratic Process: Countdown to the Midterms" (11/2/18)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Conference: "Democracy in the Crosshairs: Cyber Interference, Dark Money and Foreign Influence" (11/1-3/18)

Announcement of Center for Neuroscience & Society Panel Discussion: "All About Vaping: Science, Policy, and Society" (11/1/18)

Announcement of Michael Buchwald: "Election Interference and the Impact of a Polarized Electorate" (11/1/18)

Announcement of the Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Lecture in Law. Government, and Public Policy: H. R. McMaster: "Russian New Generation Warfare and the Threat to the Free World" (11/1/18)

Selected Bibliography for Center for Neuroscience & Society Panel Discussion: "All About Vaping: Science, Policy, and Society" (11/1/18)

Selected Bibliography for the Paul G. Haaga, Jr. Lecture in Law. Government, and Public Policy: H. R. McMaster: "Russian New Generation Warfare and the Threat to the Free World" (11/1/18)

Announcement of Neomi Rao: "A Progress Report on Regulatory Reform" (10/30/18)

Announcement of Valerie J. Karplus: "Did scrubbing the government clean up the air? Polluter responses to China’s anticorruption campaign" (10/30/2018)

Announcement of Stephen Sachs and Tobias Barrington Wolff: "Was Pennoyer Correct? The Future of Personal Jurisdiction in the Wake of Bristol-Myers (10/25/18)

Announcement of Alan Gura and WilliamTaylor: "Dead or Alive? The Second Amendment in Today’s Federal Courts" (10/24/18)

Announcement of Brande Stellings: "Leadership In a Time of Disruption: Women Leading Corporate Boards" (10/24/18)

Announcementof Center for Tax Law & Policy Seminar: Ari Glogower: "A Constitutional Wealth Tax" (10/24/18)

Announcement of Tax Law & Policy Seminar: William G. Gale: "Fiscal Therapy: Curing America’s Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future" (10/17/18)

Announcement of Distinguished Jurist Lecture: Thomas Ambro: “How Some Appellate Judges Think” (10/16/18)

Announcement of Screening and Discussion of the Film “Camp 72” (10/15/18)

Selected Bibliography for Screening and Discussion of the Film “Camp 72” (10/15/18)

Announcement of Anita Hill and Kimberlé Crenshaw: "Sexual Harassment from Congressional Testimony to the #MeToo Movement" (10/10/18)

ANnouncement of Center for Tax Law & Policy Seminar: Joseph Rosenberg: "Investment Responses to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" (10/10/18)

Announcement of Richard Sander and Jonah Gelbach: "Is Affirmative Action Failing Minority Students?" (10/10/18)

Announcement of Penn Institute for Restructuring Conference: "Lehman & WaMu — Ten Years Later: Lessons Learned and Planning Ahead" (10/9/18)

Announcement of Institute For Law and Philosophy Workshop: Amanda Greene: “Democratic Legitimacy for Skeptics” (10/8/18)

Announcement of Yuval Feldman: "The Law of Good People: Challenging States’ Ability to Regulate Human Behavior" (10/8/18)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Book Talk: Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro: "The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World" (10/4/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Leo E. Strine, Jr. and Jay Clayton: "Orienting Corporate Governance to Generate Sustainable Growth: A Cooperative Discussion on Common Ground and Forging a Path Forward" (10/4/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Panel Discussion: "Voting Rights and the Midterm Elections" (10/4/18)

Announcement of International Programs Speaker Series: Meena Harris with Ally Coll Steele: "Women’s Leadership and Innovation in an Age of Global Change" (10/3/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Allison Zieve: "Litigating to Preserve Public Protections in Deregulatory Times" (10/3/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Panel DIscussion: "But How Could this Happen? Unpacking the Legal Framework that Enables Family Separation" (10/3/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Panel Discussion: "Key Environmental Challenges Facing Pennsylvania in 2018 and Beyond" (10/3/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Panel Discussion: "How We Misunderstand Mass Incarceration: Exposing the False Nonviolent/Violent Divide" (10/2/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Panel Discussion: "The Fight for Just Cause Eviction Legislation in Philadelphia" (10/2/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Provost’s Lecture on Diversity: Catharine MacKinnon: "Butterfly Politics" (10/2/18)

Announcement of Institute For Law and Philosophy Workshop: Leo Katz: "Deontology Justified" (10/1/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Panel Discussion: "A Life Unraveled: How Criminal Records Destabilize the Lives of Low-Income Individuals" (10/1/18)

Announcement of Public Interest Week: Panel Discussion: "Is the First Amendment Good for Social Justice?" (10/1/18)

Announcement of Global Leadership and Public Policy Speaker Series: Alain Berset: "Democracy and Distrust: Threats to Democracy in the 21st Century" (9/27/18)

Announcement of Center for Tax Law & Policy Seminar: Dr Richard Prisinzano: "The Penn Wharton Budget Model: Informing the Tax Policy Debate" (9/26/18)

Announcement of Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Cynthia Dahl, R. Polk Wagner, and Christopher Yoo: "Preview of IP and Antitrust Cases before the Supreme Court - October 2018 Term" (9/26/18)

Selected Bibliography for "Preview of IP and Antitrust Cases before the Supreme Court - October 2018 Term" (9/26/18)

Announcement of Marci Hamilton: “Is the Establishment Clause Dead or Alive?” (9/25/18)

Announcement of Risk Regulation Seminar: Hiroaki Matsuura: "Economic and Demographic Effects of Emergency Risk Communication: Evidence from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster" (9/25/18)

Announcement of Kathryn H. Ruemmler: "Law, Politics, and the Presidency: Perspectives from President Obama’s White House Counsel" (9/21/18)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Conference: Interrogation and Torture: "Integrating Efficacy with Law and Morality" (9/20-21/18)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Keynote Address: Juan E. Méndez: "A Universal Protocol for Investigative Interviewing: An End to Interrogation and Torture" (9/20/18)

Announcement of Global Leadership and Public Policy Lecture: Hon. Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.: "Serving the Public in Challenging Times" (9/19/18)

Announcement of Jeffrey Sutton: "51 Imperfect Solutions: The Role of States in Creating Constitutional Law" (9/19/18)

Announcement of Critical Global Conversations: Michael Lobban and Andrea Tosato: "Brexit as a Symptom of a Shift in Culture" (9/18/18)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Book Event: Michael V. Hayden: : "The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies" (9/13/18)

Announcement of Legal History Consortium Workshop: Michael Lobban: "Martial Law, the Privy Council and The Zulu Rebellion of 1906" (9/13/18)

Announcement of Law and Religion Roundtable (6/21-22/18)

Announcement of Reunion CLE Discussions (5/11-12/18)

Selected Bibliography for Reunion CLE Disucssions (5/11-12/18)

Announcement of 6th Annual Roundtable on Computer Science & Law (5/9-10/18)

Announcement of Law and Economics Seminar: Eric Talley: "Informed Trading and Cybersecurity Breaches" (4/19/18)

Announcement of "Police Violence and Mass Incarceration at the Intersections of Identity: A Conversation with Andrea Ritchie" (4/19/18)

Announcement of Sabeel Rahman: "How Public Goods Provision Can Help Reshape Economic Inequality" (4/12/18)

Announcement of Town Hall on Immigration: "The Role of the University in Responding to and Shaping Immigration Law and Policy" (4/12/18)

Announcement of Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition 10th Anniversary (4/11/18)

Announcement of Legal History Consortium Workshop: Dylan Penningroth (4/11/18)

Announcement of Michael Paulsen: "The Constitutional Power of Impeachment: Congress’s Ultimate ‘Trump’" (4/11/18)

Selected Bibliography for Center for Technology, Innovation, and Competition 10th Anniversary (4/11/18)

Announcement of Faculty Book Symposium: Judge Stephanos Bibas: "Rebooting Justice: More Technology, Fewer Lawyers, and the Future of Law " (4/10/18)

Announcement of "Law as Performance and Play: A Dialogue" (4/8/18)(

Announcement of Penn Law International Arbitration Association Conference: "International Arbitration in Jeopardy?" (4/6/18)

Announcement of Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law Conference: "The Weaponization of Outer Space: Ethical and Legal Boundaries" (4/5-7/18)

Announcement of "Energy and Geopolitics in Today’s Political Climate" (4/5/18)