Luncheon Roundtable on Third Party Litigation Financing & Litigation Transparency
Join the Law & Economics Center (LEC) for lunch on Wednesday, March 26, from 11:30 am – 1:30 pm in downtown DC for an academic roundtable on Third Party Litigation Financing & Litigation Transparency, discussing transparency in our civil justice system, especially when it comes to third party litigation financing (TPLF)—a increasingly used and similarly […]
On the Unitary Executive: Professor Jed Shugerman
Join ACS for a conversation with Jed Shugerman, Professor of Law at Boston University, on the Unitary Executive theory. Professor Shugerman, an expert on executive power, has critically examined the historical foundations of this theory.
Regulation and Markets Multidisciplinary Workshop
The Regulation and Markets multidisciplinary workshop focuses on the study of regulatory approaches to markets and business. It investigates how such economic regulation should be designed in order to balance the interests of various constituencies. It also explores how traditional approaches to regulation compare, contrast, and intersect with emerging methodologies. The workshop series features presentations by […]
The Battle for Our Attention: Empirical, Philosophical and Legal Questions
Join Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity for a timely conversation at the intersection of law, technology and human cognition. The Battle for Our Attention: Empirical, Philosophical and Legal Questions brings together leading scholars and experts to tackle the growing crisis of technologically-mediated attention disorders. Across panels on the political economy of attention, the challenges […]
Congressional Briefing on CMS Reimbursement Discrimination and How It Impacts Women’s Health
Speakers Congresswoman Lori Trahan, Energy and Commerce Committee member Trisha Black, Patient Advocate and Senior Analyst Relations Manager for Contentful Jocelyn Fitzgerald, MD URPS FACS (Pittsburgh) – Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery at Magee-Women’s Hospital of University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Louise Parker King, MD, JD (Kennebunkport) – Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and […]
“Racism Denial and the Movement Toward a New Resegregation” and Other Thoughts on CRT
Join Boston University Law School Dean and Critical Race Theorist Angela Onwuachi-Willig to discuss a new idea related to racism denial under the current Trump Administration! The law has and is being used as a policing function to exact punishment on white people who choose to associate with people of color through DEI programs or […]
Fall 2025 Law Review Symposium | The University and Democracy
Co-Sponsored by Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education, AAUP’s Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, and Critical Legal Collective. Universities are meant to be guardians of democracy and bulwarks against authoritarianism. Yet many of our most powerful universities have enabled the Trump administration’s open effort to exert “existential terror” on our […]
Poetry Reading with Sandra Yannone and Anne Tweedy
Join us for a poetry reading during National Poetry Month with award-winning poets Sandra Yannone, author of The Glass Studio, and Ann Tweedy, author of The Body’s Alphabet. Sandra and Ann will read from their books, discuss why poetry matters in LGBTQ+ and other communities in 2025, and entertain audience questions. Book signing to follow.
Book Talk: Health Law as Private Law
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway, published by Cambridge University Press. Might private law be as powerful a tool as government regulation in solving problems in health care and public health? This new edited volume, which grew from a 2023 conference at the Petrie-Flom Center for […]
Just Taxation Workshop 2025
Boston University School of Law, Redstone Room 10th Floor April 15th, 2025 12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch 1:30 -2:30pm Presentation Please join us on April 15th for a presentation from Dr. Lyla Latif from the University of Nairobi, who will be presenting “A Critical Discussion on Technology, AI, and Digitalisation in Reconstructing Fiscal Institutions Beyond Colonial […]