Faculty Workshops

BU Law Faculty Workshops are generally held on a weekly basis during the academic year (Fall through Spring semesters). The workshop program includes three parts:

1) Faculty presentations: faculty members are invited to present scholarly work-in-progress (usually accompanied by a pre-distributed draft of a paper) in a colloquial setting. These workshops, typically very well-attended, start with a light lunch and proceed to a full hour of presentation and discussion of the specific paper. The tradition at these workshops allocates twenty minutes to the presenter and forty minutes to questions, comments and suggestions by various faculty members.

2) Outside speakers: scholars from other universities are invited to share their work-in-progress with BU Law faculty. The traditional format is observed.

3) Distinguished speaker: once a year, an outstanding scholar of national reputation is invited to give a public lecture at BU Law. The lecture is open to faculty, students and the university community. The lecture presented by the distinguished speaker is thereafter published in the Boston University Law Review.

BU LAW FACULTY WORKSHOPS 2007-2008

(as of October 10, 2007)

FALL, 2007

DATE NAME (institution) TITLE
09-06-07 David Seipp "Formalism and Realism in Fifteenth-Century English Law: Bodies Corporate and Natural"
09-13-07 Bob Bone “‘To Encourage Settlement’: Rule 68, Offers of Judgment, and the History of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure”
09-20-07 Keith Hylton “An Economic Theory of Due Process and Implications for Punitive Damages”
09-27-07 Sadiq Reza
(Visiting Faculty)		 “Islam's Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in Islamic Legal Doctrine and Practice”
10-04-07 Leora Bilsky
(Tel Aviv)		 “‘Speaking Through The Mask’: Israeli Arabs and the Changing Faces of Israeli Citizenship”
10-11-07 Mike Meurer “Pirates or Victims: Who Gets Sued for Patent Infringement?” (Smith Lecture)
10-18-07 Kris Collins “‘Let the Government become their Guardians’: Welfare Policy,
Administrative Law, and the Legal Construction of the Family in the Early Nineteenth Century”
10-25-07 Bob and Ann Seidman “Between Policy and Implementation: ‘Law and Development’ Reconsidered”
11-01-07Amanda Frost
(American)		“(Over)Valuing Uniformity”
11-08-07 Greg Keating
(USC)		 “In Defense of De Minimis”
11-15-07 David Walker “Book/Tax Conformity and Equity Compensation”
11-29-07 Laura Beny TBA
12-06-07 Ken Simons TBA
12-13-07Charles Silver
(Texas)		TBA

 

SPRING, 2008

DATE NAME (institution) TITLE
01-17-08 Kevin Outterson “Prescription Drug Labels for Limited English Proficiency Populations”
01-24-08 Gary Lawson “A Truism with Attitude: The Tenth Amendment in Constitutional Context””
01-31-08 Mike Guttentag “The Law Instinct”
02-07-08 Stacey Dogan (Visiting Faculty) “Functionality Reconsidered”
02-14-08 Shari Diamond
(Northwestern)		 TBA
02-21-08 Chuck Whitehead “The Evolution of Debt: Agency Costs, Financial Innovation, and Corporate Governance”
02-28-08 Jay Michaelson
(Visiting Faculty)		 “God, Law, and Homosexuality: Why Arguments About Gay Rights Are Really About Order, Chaos, and the Nature of Religion”
03-06-08 David Lyons “Race and the Rule of Law”
03-20-08 Jack Beermann Common Law and Statute Law in U.S. Federal Administrative Law
03-27-08 Kim Ferzan
(Rutgers-Camden)		 “Beyond the Special Part”
04-03-08 Harold Koh (Yale)
(Distinguished Lecture) 		“On Looking Over A Crowd, And Picking Out Your Friends”
04-10-08 Robert Hillman
(Cornell)		 TBA
04-17-08 Scott Moss
(Colorado)		 “O Brave New World That Has Such Creatures Evidence: An Economic Analysis Of Courts’ Misguided Rules On Discovery Of Digital Evidence”
04-24-08 Jim Fleming “Traditionalism and Backlash in Constitutional Argument”
05-01-08Linda McClain “Why is Equality So Hard?: Men, Women, and Social Cooperation”