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 2009

Spring, 2009

DATE NAME (institution)
1/15/09 Ben Zipursky, (Fordham Law School, visiting at Harvard)
1/22/09 Rusty Park
1/29/09 David Lyons
2/5/09 Katharine Young (visiting assistant professor)
2/12/09 Reva Siegel –Distinguished Speaker (Yale Law School)
2/19/09 Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, visiting at USC law school)
2/26/09 Pierre Verdier (visiting assistant professor)
3/5/09 Jay Wexler
3/19/09 Kris Collins
3/26/09 Linda McClain
4/2/09 Alan Feld
4/9/09 Ben Depoorter (visiting professor from Miami University School of Law)
4/16/09 Jim Fleming
4/30/09 Lori Damrosch (Columbia University, visiting Harvard Law School)