Speakers & Colloquia

Thursday, Jan. 18
Faculty Workshop
Orly Lobel
University of San Diego
Professor of Law
“You Don't Own Me”
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:30pm.

Wednesday, Feb. 7
Internal Faculty Workshop
Dwight Golann
SULS Professor of Law
“Grieving Over Settlement: The Role of Loss in Legal Negotiations”
Faculty Meeting Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:30pm.

Thursday, Feb. 15
Faculty Workshop
Steve Clowney
University of Arkansas School of Law
Professor of Law
“Does Commodification Corrupt? Lessons from Paintings, Prostitutes and Popes”
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:30pm.

Thursday, Mar. 22
Faculty Exchange Workshop
Michael Murray
University of Massachusetts School of Law
Full Time Lecturer
"Mise en Scène of Visual Legal Rhetoric"
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:30pm.

Thursday, Mar. 29
Faculty Exchange Workshop
Alexandra Roberts
University of New Hampshire School of Law
Associate Professor
“Trademark Failure to Function”
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:30pm.

Monday, Apr. 2
Faculty Workshop
Kimberly Krawiec
Duke University School of Law
Professor of Law
"If We Allow Football Players and Boxers to Be Paid for Entertaining the Public, Why Don’t We Allow Kidney Donors to Be Paid for Saving Lives?"
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:30pm.

Thursday, Apr. 12
Faculty Workshop
Daphna Renan
Harvard Law School
Assistant Professor
"Presidential Norms and Article II."
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:30pm.

Thursday, Apr. 26
Faculty Workshop
Tamara Lawson
St. Thomas University School of Law
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor
"Taking a Knee"
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:30pm.

Thursday, Feb. 16
Faculty Workshop
Justin Steil
Assistant Professor of Law & Urban Planning
MIT
“Local Governments and Immigration Regulation: ‘Not Our First Rodeo’”
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00pm-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Mar. 2
Faculty Exchange Workshop
Darren Rosenblum
Professor of Law
Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law
"When Does Board Diversity Benefit Firms?"
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Mar. 30
Internal Faculty Workshop
William Berman
SULS Clinical Professor of Law
Jamie Langowski
SULS Clinical Fellow
"Gender Identity and Expression-Based Discrimination in the Metro Boston Rental Housing Market"
Faculty Meeting Room, 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Lunch served at 11:45pm.

Thursday, Apr. 6
Faculty Workshop
Barry Schwartz
Dorwin P. Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action
Emeritus Psychology
Swarthmore College
His books include The Paradox of Choice, and Why We Work.
Faculty Meeting Room, 12:00pm to 1:00pm. Lunch served at 11:45am.

Thursday, Apr. 20
Faculty Workshop
Virág Blazsek
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Legal Studies
Central European University
"Comparative analysis of the regulatory framework of bank bailouts in the United States and in the European Union"
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Sept. 22
Faculty Workshop
Steve Gottlieb
Professor of Law
Albany Law School
“Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics”
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Oct. 20
Faculty Workshop
Areto Imoukhuede
Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University
"Lochnerism and the Second Amendment"
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Nov. 10
Faculty Workshop
Jordan Furlong
Prominent Canadian Legal Technologist
Principal, Law21
“Legal Tech and Legal Education”
Faculty Meeting Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Nov. 17
Faculty Workshop
Ashira Ostrow
Professor of Law
Hofstra Law
“Beyond One Person, One Vote: Designing Hybrid Weighted Voting Systems”
Faculty Meeting Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Jan. 21
Faculty Roundtable: Scholarship and Publication Ideas
Faculty Meeting Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Jan. 28
Faculty Exchange Workshop
René Reich-Graefe
Professor of Law
Western New England University School of Law
"Dependent on The Kindness of Strangers: Corporate Boards and Calculative Trust"
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Feb. 11
Internal Faculty Workshop
John Infranca
Assistant Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
"The Sharing Economy as an Urban Phenomenon"
Faculty Meeting Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Monday, Feb. 22
Faculty Exchange Workshop
Stephen Clark
Professor of Law
Albany Law School
"Families across Borders: Loss of Consortium in the Conflict of Laws"
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Monday, Feb. 29
Faculty Workshop
Betsy Rosenblatt
Associate Professor of Law
Director, Center for Intellectual Property Law
Whittier Law School
"Belonging as Intellectual Creation"
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Monday, Mar. 7
Faculty Workshop
David Dana
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
Northwestern University School of Law
"A Law of Property Rights in Land and Water for a Warming World"
Faculty Dining Room 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Monday, Mar. 21
Internal Faculty Workshop
Michael Rustad
Thomas F. Lambert Jr. Professor of Law and Co-Director Intellectual Property Law Concentration
Suffolk University Law School
Sanna Kulevska
Legal Department of Google's European Headquarters in Dublin
"The Right to Be Forgotten"
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Mar. 24
Faculty Workshop
Miguel Schor
Professor of Law
Drake University Law School
Topic: TBA
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Mar. 31
Faculty Exchange Workshop
Richard Storrow
Professor of Law
City University of New York School of Law
“Donor Dads”
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Apr. 21
Sarah Schindler
Associate Professor
University of Maine School of Law
“The 'Publicization' of Private Space"
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Sept. 24
Internal Faculty Workshop
Hilary J. Allen
Associate Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
"$=€=Bitcoin?"
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Monday, Oct. 5
Faculty Workshop
Rebecca Tushnet
Professor of Law
Georgetown Law
Visiting Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
"Registering Discontent: Registration in Modern American Trademark Law"
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Oct. 22
Internal Faculty Workshop
Jeff Pokorak
Vice Provost and Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
"Montgomery v. Louisiana and The Supreme Court’s Continuing Struggle with Constitutional Claim Retroactivity."
(Jeff is on the team representing Mr. Montgomery in this case which will be argued very early in this SCOTUS term.)
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Oct. 29
Faculty Workshop
Michael Cahill
Vice Dean and Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
"The Meaning(s) of Punishment"
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Nov. 12
Faculty Workshop
Khiara Bridges
Professor of Law and Professor of Anthropology
Boston University School of Law
"The Poverty of Privacy Rights: The Revealing, Yet Misleading, Nature of the Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine"
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Nov. 19
Faculty Workshop
Leo Beletsky
Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences
Northeastern University School of Law
"Transplanting Health Care Ethics: The Evolution of Patient Confidentiality in Six Countries of the Former Soviet Union"
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Dec. 3
Faculty Exchange Workshop
Tracy Norton
Associate Professor of Legal Process
Touro Law Center
"Disaster Narratives"
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00pm to 2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Jan. 29
Book Discussion
Jessica Silbey
Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
"The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property"
4:30-6:00pm. Moakley Law Library, 6th floor, just inside the main law library doors.

Thursday, Feb. 5
Faculty Workshop
John Inazu
Associate Professor of Law and Political Science
Washington University School of Law
“Confident Pluralism”
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Feb. 12
Faculty Workshop
Jennifer Chacón
Professor of Law
University of California, Irvine School of Law
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, Feb. 19
Faculty Workshop
Chantal Thomas
Professor of Law
Cornell University School of Law
"Immigration Controls and Modern-Day Slavery"
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Friday, Feb. 20
Donahue Lecture
Hon. Diane Wood
Chief Judge, US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit
"The Allocation of Jurisdiction Between Federal and State Courts from 50,000 Feet Up"
Large Moot Court Room 425, 4:00pm. Reception to follow in the Faculty Dining Room.
Open to the Law School Community.

Friday, Feb. 27
Faculty Exchange
Raymond Brescia
Associate Professor of Law
Director, Government Law Center
Albany Law School
“Embracing Disruption: How Technological Change in the Delivery of Legal Services can Improve Access to Justice"
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00-2:00pm; Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, March 5
Faculty Workshop
Jonathan Glater
Assistant Professor of Law
University of California, Irvine School of Law
"Student Debt and the Siren Song of Systemic Risk"
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, March 19
Faculty Exchange Speaker
Dan Subotnik
Professor of Law
Touro Law Center
"Tyranny of the (Anti-)Meritocracy? A Meditation on Testing, Social Progress and Lani Guinier."
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, March 26
Faculty Workshop
Ummni Khan
Associate Professor
Carleton University, Department of Law & Legal Studies &
Fellow, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School
"The Inter-Cousin Marriage Taboo and its relation to Racism and Compulsory Able-bodiedness”
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, April 2
New England IP Colloquium
Sarah Burstein
Associate Professor of Law
University of Oklahoma College of Law
"The High Cost of Cheap Design Rights"
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:30pm.
Open to Faculty and Students.

Thursday, April 2
Donahue Lecture
Stephen I. Vladeck
Professor of Law
American University Washington College of Law
"Courts at War: Reassessing the Role of the Judiciary in National Security Litigation"
Large Moot Court Room 425, 4:00pm. Reception to follow in the Faculty Dining Room.
Open to the Law School Community.

Thursday, April 9
Faculty Workshop
Kathleen C. Engel
Research Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
Topic TBA
Faculty Meeting Room, 1:00-2:00pm. Lunch served at 12:45pm.

Thursday, April 16
Faculty Workshop
Marc A. Rodwin
Professor of Law
Suffolk University Law School
“Institutional Corruption & Pharmaceutical Policy: Why Most Legal Regulation of
Off-Label Prescribing Fails”
Faculty Dining Room, 12:30pm-1:30pm. Lunch served at 12:15pm.
Please note time change.

Thursday, April 23
Faculty Exchange Speaker
Matthew Charity
Professor of Law
Western New England University School of Law
"International Law and Atrocity Crime Franchises”
Faculty Dining Room, 1:00-2:00 pm. Lunch served at 12:45 pm.

Wednesday, Sept. 17
Faculty Workshop 
Joseph Singer 
Professor of Law Harvard Law School
“Justifying Regulatory Takings” 
Faculty Dining Room, 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch served at 12:45 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 25 RESCHEDULED for OCT. 30 in observance of the religious holiday
Faculty Workshop 
Eric Kramer Adjunct
Professor of Law Suffolk University Law School
“Behavioral Economics and the Role of Government”
Faculty Dining Room, 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch served at 12:45 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 2
Faculty Workshop 
Patricia McCoy 
Professor of Law 
Boston College Law School 
Faculty Dining Room, 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch served at 12:45 p.m.

Friday, October 3  
Leonardo Bernardino Pérez Gallardo  
Professor of Law  
Department of Civil and Family Law  
University of Havana School of Law, Cuba 
"The Codification of Cuba's Civil Law Code: Historic and Comparative Sources and Its Relationship to Economic Changes.”
Faculty Dining Room, 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch served at 12:45 p.m.

Wednesday, Oct. 8-CANCELLED
Masterman Institute 
Mary-Rose Papandrea 
Professor Boston College Law School
“Traitors, Spies, and Whistleblowers: National Security Leaks and the First Amendment”
Function Room, 4 - 5:30 p.m. Reception to follow.

Monday, Oct. 20
Faculty Exchange Speaker 
Lisa R. Avalos Assistant
Professor of Law University of Arkansas School of Law
“Perverting the Course of Justice: When Police Charge Rape Complainants with False Reporting.”
Faculty Dining Room, 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch served at 12:45 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 30
Faculty Workshop 
Eric Kramer  
Adjunct Professor of Law  
Suffolk University Law School
“Behavioral Economics and the Role of Government”
Faculty Dining Room, 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch served at 12:45 p.m.

Friday, Oct. 31
New England IP Colloquium Nicholson Price 
Sargent Hall Room 325, 10:30 a.m - 12 p.m. 
Open to Faculty and Students.

Wednesday, Nov. 5
Donahue Lecture 
Paulette Brown 
Partner and Chief Diversity Officer  
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP 
"Balancing Governmental Interests and Private Rights 50 Years Post Miranda" 
Large Moot Court Room 425, 4 p.m. Reception to follow in the Faculty Dining Room. 
Open to the Law School Community.

Thursday, Nov. 6
Faculty Workshop 
Fiona Smith 
Professor of International Economic Law University of Warwick 
Topic TBA 
Faculty Dining Room, 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch served at 12:45 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 13
Faculty Workshop 
Charles P. Kindregan 
Professor of Law Suffolk University Law School 
"Dead Soldiers and their Posthumously Conceived Children"  
Faculty Meeting Room, 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.  Lunch served at 12:15 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 17
Faculty Exchange 
Thomas McDonnell 
Professor of Law Pace Law School 
"The Egyptian Coup, the United States, and the Genesis of Islamic Terrorism" 
Faculty Dining Room, 1 - 2 p.m. Lunch served at 12:45 p.m. 

Thursday, Jan. 23
Faculty Brown Bag Event: Google Glass
Prof. Andrew Perlman
Faculty Dining Room, noon-1:30 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 23
Faculty Colloquium
Prof. Patrick Shin
Faculty Meeting Room, 2-3 p.m.

Tuesday, Jan. 28
Faculty Exchange Speaker
Prof. Samuel J. Levine (Touro Law Center)
Faculty Meeting Room, 12:30-2 p.m.

Thursday, Jan. 30
Faculty Colloquium
Prof. Stephanie Hartung
Faculty Meeting Room, 2-3 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 4
Health Law & Policy Forum
Prof. Elliott S. Fisher, M.D., M.P.H.
Function Room, 1st Floor, 4 p.m.
Reception to follow at 5 p.m.
Open to the law school community.

Wednesday, Feb. 5
Pre-Tenure Faculty Workshop
Corcoran Room, noon-2 p.m. (pre-tenure faculty only)

Thursday, Feb. 6
Teaching Committee Workshop/Presentation
Prof. Sophie Sparrow
Faculty Meeting Room, noon-2 p.m. (Lunch at Noon; speaker 12:30-2 p.m.)

Wednesday, Feb. 12
Pre-Tenure Faculty Workshop
Corcoran Room, noon-2 p.m. (Pre-Tenure faculty only)

Thursday, Feb. 13
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER UNTIL MARCH 6
Faculty Exchange Speaker
Prof. Deborah Kearns (Albany)
Faculty Meeting Room, 12:30-2 p.m.

Thursday, Feb. 13
Donahue Lecture Series
Carmen M. Ortiz, U.S. Attorney, D. Mass.
"Protecting the People: A Federal Law Enforcement Perspective"
Moot Courtroom, 4-5 p.m.
Open to the law school community.

Thursday, March 6
NEW DATE Faculty Exchange Speaker
Prof. Deborah Kearns (Albany)
Faculty Meeting Room, Lunch served at 12;15 p.m. Talk begins at 12:30.

Friday, March 21
New England IP Colloquium
Prof. Deborah Gerhart (UNC Law)
10:30 a.m.-Noon, Classroom 205

Thursday, March 27
Law & Society Speaker
Dean Kevin Johnson (U. California-Davis)
Faculty Meeting Room, 12:30-2 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1
Health Law & Policy Forum
Prof. Jennifer Prah Ruger
Talk at 4 p.m. Reception to follow at 5 p.m.
Open to the law school community.

Thursday, April 3
Faculty Exchange Speaker
Prof. Sudha Setty (Western New England Law)
Faculty Dining Room, 12:30-2 p.m.

Thursday, April 3
Donahue Lecture Series
Prof. Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School)
"Against Qadi Justice"
Moot Courtroom, 4-5 p.m.
Open to the law school community.

Thursday, April 10
RESCHEDULED to April 24
Faculty Exchange Speaker
Prof. Rachel Rosenbloom (Northeastern Law)
Faculty Meeting Room, 12:30-2 p.m.

Thursday, April 17
Faculty Exchange Speaker
Prof. Alex Matamoros (CUNY)
Faculty Meeting Room, 12:30-2 p.m.

Tuesday, April 22
Law & Society Speaker
Prof. Lawrence Donnelly (NUI Galway)
Topic: Clinical Legal Education in Ireland
Faculty Dining Room, Lunch at 12:30 p.m., Talk 1-2 p.m.

Thursday, April 24
NEW DATE
Faculty Exchange Speaker
Prof. Rachel Rosenbloom (Northeastern Law)
Faculty Meeting Room, 12:30-2 p.m.

Thursday, May 1
Law & Society Speaker
Prof. David Orentlicher (Indiana - McKinney School of Law)
Topic: The Case for a Bipartisan Executive Branch
Lunch at 12:30 p.m., Talk at 1 p.m.