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Oral Presentations

Over the last thirty-five years, I have presented papers at over two hundred conferences, workshops, etc., including Law Faculty Workshops at NYU Law School, Harvard Law School (several times), Stanford Law School (several times), Michigan Law School, Virginia Law School, Georgetown Law Center (many times), Chicago Law School (several), Columbia Law School, (several) Yale Law School (several); University of California Berkeley; Cornell Law School, Northwestern Law School; DePaul Law School;  Chicago Kent Law School; Maryland Law School (several times), George Washington Law School, Miami Law School, Tulane Law School, Case Western Law School, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Berkeley, Marquette Law School, Tel Aviv Law School, Melbourne University Law School, William and Mary Law School, Washington and Lee Law School, Florida State Law School,  and numerous others.  

 

I have also contributed primary papers or comments at interdisciplinary workshops, panels and conferences, etc., at scores of universities, colleges and law schools over the last thirty five years, including Pennsylvania Law School; the University of Maryland College Park; Georgetown University; Cardozo Law School, Indiana-Bloomington School of Law; Washington and Lee School of Law; University of Baltimore Law School; Vanderbilt Law School; Villanova Law School; Virginia Law School; Princeton University;  Michigan Law School, University of Wisconsin Law School and many others.

 

 

 I have participated as a panelist or commentator at many AALS meetings, Law, Culture and Humanities meetings, a few Law and Society Meetings in the 1980s; an American Political Science Association Meeting in the 2000-teens, and several American Philosophy Association Meetings.

 

I have given endowed lectures at Minnesota Law School (Re-Thinking Legalism), Tennessee Law School (Reconstructing Liberty), McGeorge School of Law (The Literary Lawyer), Florida State Law School (Integrity and the Gay Marriage Debate), St. Thomas Law School (Human Authority and Human Flourishing) West Virginia Law School (Abolitionist Interpretation of the Equal Protection Clause) Kenyon College (Social Welfare Rights), the University of Maryland Baltimore County (Ennobling Politics) Georgia Law School and Dartmouth College (Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Acts) Denver Law School and DePaul Law School (Law and Emotions), University of Southern California Law School (Law’s Sentiments), Melbourne Law School (civil rights chapter) Bond Law School, (Harms of Consensual Sex), and the London School of Economics (Consent, Legitimation and Law).

 

Recent presentations, 2012-22

 

1.  Costs and Benefits of Wellbeing and Fair Distribution, Jurisprudence section, AALS 2013.

 

2.  Commentator for a Panel at Law Culture and Humanities, on my article Deconstitutionalizing Abortion Rights, 2012.

 

4.  Tort and Gatsby, at the Law and Literature Conference, Chicago Law School, Winter, 2012.

 

5.  Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Act, Michigan Law School, October, 2013.

 

6.  Religious Institutionalism and Civil Rights, DePaul University, September, 2013.

 

7.  Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Act, Endowed Lecture, Georgia Law School, (October 2013).

 

8.  Toward a Jurisprudence of the Civil Rights Act, Endowed Lecture, Dartmouth Univeristy (March, 2014).

 

9.  Contract as a Civil Right, Keynote Lecture, International Contract Law Conference, St. Thomas Law School (March 2014).

 

10.  Panel Presentation, A Tale of Two Rights, Boston University Law School (January 2014).

 

11.  AALS 2015: The Role Morality of the Legal Scholar (January 2015)

 

12.  AALS 2015: Feminism and Inequality (January 2015)

 

13.  Panel on Human Dignity, Georgetown University, 2014

 

14.  GULC Faculty Workshop, The Rhetoric of Birth Control (January 2015).

 

15.  ASLCH 2015: Rhetoric of Sex and Pregnancy (March 2015)

 

16.  Cultural Feminism and Law, at Conference on Feminism and Law in the United States and China, Shanghai University, sponsored by Cornell University.  (May, 2015)

 

17.  Rhetoric of Birth Control, for a Conference at Case Western University on the Rhetoric of Reproduction, June, 2015.

 

18.  Lawful Emotions, Keynote, for Conference on Law, Reason and Emotion, yearly association of International Legal Theory, at Georgetown University, July, 2015.

 

19.  Columbia Law School Legal Theory Workshop, Law and Religion (Moderated and convened by Katherine Franke) (October 2015)

 

20.  American Academy of Arts and Sciences Panel, on the Law School Crisis, Georgetown University Law Center, panelist, (December, 2015)

 

21.  Conference on Inequality, Georgetown University Law Center (Organizer and Panel Commentator) (December, 2015).

 

22.  Organizer, Moderator, and introducer, Conference on Legal Scholarship, co-sponsored by Northeastern Law School and the Journal of Legal Education. (April 2016)

 

23.  Conference Presentation, Bartleby’s Dystopia, U of Chi Law School (February 2016)

 

24. Endowed Lecture, Denver Law School, Law’s Emotions (April 2016)

 

25.  Endowed Lecture, DePaul Law School, Law’s Emotions (April 2016)

 

26.  Keynote Speaker, University of Virginia Law School, Consent, Sex and Rape on College Campus (April 2016)

 

27.  Panel Presentation, Conference on Legal Scholarship, University of Baltimore Law School (March 2015).

 

28.  Plenary Address, Australian Association for Law and Philosophy Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, Legal Emotions (2016)

 

29.  Inaugural Address, Melbourne University School of Law, 2016 Semester, Injurious Consensual Sex (2016)

 

30.  Injurious Consensual Sex, Public Lecture, Bond Law School, Australia (August, 2016)

 

31.  Short course (one week) on Law and Literature, University of Hawaii Law School, (January 2017)

 

32.  Law, History and Culture Endowed Lecture, Legal Sentiments, University of Southern California Law School (February 2017)

 

33. Comment on Paul Gowder’s book on the Rule of Law, Political Science    Association, Kansas (February 2017).

 

34.   Private Law Workshop Guest, The Antidiscrimination Principle and Its Discontents, Tel Aviv University School of Law (May 2017)

 

35.   Public Lecture, Women’s Legal Society, Tel Aviv University School of Law, Harms of Consensual Sex (May 2017)

 

36.  Panelist on the Future of Legal Education (Marquette University, Wisconsin, Fall 2017)

 

37.  Panelist on Legal Scholarship (AALS, Junior Law Professors Meeting, June, 2017)

 

38.  Commentator, Constitutional Law Scholarly Convention, Phoenix, AZ, (October, 2017)

 

39.  Panelist, Conference on the Work of Father Orsey, Georgetown Law Center (Winter, 2018).

 

40.  Panelist, Conference on The Future of Legal Education, Florence, Italy, (Summer, 2018).

 

41.  Workshop, U of C Irvine, Consent, Legitimation and Dysphoria (spring 2019)

 

42.  Panel, The Constitution and Good Governance (Harvard, March 2019)

 

43.  Panel, The Limits of Sexual Harassment Law, International Mental Health and Law Conference, Rome, Italy (July 2019)

 

44.  Lecture, Consent, Legitmation, and Dysphoria,  London School of Economics (June, 2019)

 

45.  AALS, panelist, Junior Scholars Workshop, ACS.  Comment on two papers by Junior Scholars.  January 2020.

 

46.  Commentator, day long program on Dov Fox, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, San Diego Law School, March 2021 (by zoom).

 

47.  Panel Presentation at Pro-Life, Pro-Choice Conference at Columbia Law School. (Spring, 2021) (by zoom).

 

48.  Panel Presentation, at Post-Dobbs Reproductive Rights Conference, at Georgetown Law Center, (Fall, 2022).

 

49.  Panel Presentation, at Constitutionalism and Progressivism, sponsored by ACS, at Georgetown Law Center, (Spring, 2022).

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