Past Scholars

Zephyr Teachout, Professor of Law, Fordham University

2019

Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump
Shoba Sivaprasad, Samuel Weiss Faculty Scholar; Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic; and Instructor of Education, Penn State Law

2018

Pregnancy, Poverty, & The State
Michele Goodwin, Chancellor Professor of Law and Director, Center of Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine

2017

Expulsion, Statehood, and the Future of Puerto Rico
Mitu Gulati, Professor of Law, Duke University

2015

Ferguson 2.0: Violence Race and Law
Paul Bulter, Professor of Law, Georgetown University

2013

The Democratic Paradox: Legal Education and Civic Illiteracy
Victoria F. Nourse, Professor of Law, Georgetown University

2010

Methodology of Originalism

Hon. Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court

2009

Unbundling Constitutionality

Richard Primus, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

2008

The Boy Scouts, Gay Rights and Freedom of Association

Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

2007

Law and the Positive Emotions:  Some Reflections on Hope 

Kathryn Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley

2006

Political Science, Judicial Politics and the Rule of Law

Howard Gillman, Professor of Political Science, History &d Law, University of Southern California

2005

A Tale of Two Cities:  The Supreme Court and Political Gerrymandering

Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford University

2004

Punishment: Death, Imprisonment, Fines and Punitive Damages

Erwin Chermerinsky, Sydney M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics & Political Science, University of Southern California

2003

Brown V. Board of Education:  Law or Politics?

Mike Klarman, James Monroe Professor of Law and Professor of History, University of Virginia

2002

Compelling Narrative:  Teenage Abortion Hearings and the Misuse of Law

Carol Sanger, Professor of Law, Columbia University

2001

Equality Practice:  Vermont's Civil Union Law and Liberalism

William N. Eskridge Jr., John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale University

2000

Free Speech, Privacy and the Internet

Kathleen M. Sullivan, Dean and Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford University

1999

The Los Angeles Garment Workers at the Turn of the Century

Gerald P. Lopez, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

1998

An Academic Looks at the United States Court of Appeals:  Are They Fish or Foul?

Hon. Guido Calabresi, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit

1997

Congressional Power to Enforce the 14th Amendment: The Constitutionality of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Douglas Laycock, Professor of Law, University of Texas