Past Activites & Engagements.
Leavey Professor Michael Santoro Launches New Speaker Series on AI and Human Rights
As artificial intelligence integrates more deeply into daily life, its impact on human rights has drawn increasing scrutiny. While AI offers tremendous potential for innovation and economic growth, it also poses risks to privacy, equality, and personal freedoms. AI systems used in areas like law enforcement, hiring, and healthcare can produce biased or discriminatory outcomes […]
Thirty-Fifth Economics Institute for Law Professors
The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, invites applications for the Thirty-Fifth Economics Institute for Law Professors to be held at the Grand Summit Hotel in Park City, Utah. The program will run from Sunday, June 1 to Friday, June 13, 2025. The goal of the Economics Institute for […]
Book Symposium: Aziz Rana’s “The Constitutional Bind”
Robert L. Tsai and Zohra Ahmed will speak at The Program on Law and Political Economy at Harvard Law School’s Book Symposium: Aziz Rana’s “The Constitutional Bind” on Friday, October 25. As the United States approaches a pivotal presidential election, the symposium aims to spark meaningful dialogue about US constitutionalism, its contradictions, and alternative constitutional […]
Property Works in Progress
“Property Works in Progress” brings together leading property scholars who are invited to present and discuss to discuss papers on a variety of topics, including property theory, land use, takings, the history of property law and intellectual property. It features seven panels devoted to the discussion of advanced “works in progress” and two roundtables on “early-stage” […]
New England Clinical Conference: Teaching and Practicing Resilience in an Age of Hyperawareness
Brian Wilson will present at UCONN Law School’s New England Clinical Conference: Teaching and Practicing Resilience in an Age of Hyperawareness. The conference will be held from November 7 to 8, in Hartford, Connecticut. In today’s legal landscape, marked by rapid changes and voluminous information about problems we can do little to change, both law […]
Seminar on the Law & Political Economy Project
Frederick Tung will attend the Antonin Scalia Law School’s Law & Economics Center Seminar on the Law & Political Economy Project from October 20-23 in San Diego, CA. The Law & Economics Center has launched a series of programs to examine what has been named the “Law & Political Economy Project” (LPE) by its founders at Yale Law School. […]
Re-shifting Foundations of Brown: Diversity in Education
Jonathan Feingold will be a Symposium Panelist on “Re-shifting Foundations of Brown: Diversity in Education” hosted by Washburn University School of Law on November 7.
Law and Expertise 2024 Boston University Law Review Symposium
From the use of algorithms in criminal law to critiques of the administrative state, the relationship between law and expertise sits at the heart of debates about democracy and governance. At this symposium we hope to explore a shared set of questions about the interactions between law and expertise: How does the law shape the […]
From CRT to DEI: Tracing the Assault on Multiracial Democracy
Since the summer of 2020, rightwing officials and organizations have orchestrated a coordinated campaign to redefine antiracism as the new racism. Early iterations of this campaign presented a caricature of Critical Race Theory to discredit modest antiracist reforms and to limit classroom conversations about racism, bias, and American history writ large. More recently, against the […]
Is there an ethical obligation to improve the law?
Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Barristers Hall Boston, MA 02215 Lunch will be available starting at 12pm. The Panel discussion will begin at 12:30pm. Please note at this time while registration for person attendance is full, we do encourage you to watch the zoom here. Join BU Law for the annual Shapiro […]