Loyola Law School Faculty Workshop Spring 2021 Schedule
LMU Loyola Law School's Faculty Workshop Series gathers leading legal scholars from across the country to present original scholarship in a colloquium setting. Law professors from across the country are invited to join in the dialogue.
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THursday, February 18, 2021, 11:45 Am - 1 pmMDL Revolution
Speaker: Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, Fuller E. Callaway Chair of Law, School of Law, University of Georgia
Professor Elizabeth Chamblee Burch is an award-winning scholar whose groundbreaking work on multidistrict litigation and class actions won the American Law Institute’s Early Career Scholars Medal in 2015, the Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Professional Responsibility Scholarship in 2016, and the Mangano Dispute Resolution Advancement Award in 2019. RSVP>>
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THursday, February 25, 2021, 11:45 Am - 1 pmThe Federal Case for Judicial Review
Speaker: Erin F. Delaney, Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Professor Erin Delaney's scholarship explores constitutional design in comparative perspective, focusing on judicial review, judicial design, and federalism. In 2014, she held the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in the Theory and Practice of Constitutionalism and Federalism at McGill University. She has been honored with a number of teaching awards, including the 2015 Childres Award for outstanding teaching. RVSP>>
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THursday, March 11, 2021, 11:45 Am - 1 pmLegal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of Adversarialism
Speakers: David Freeman Engstrom, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, Jonah B. Gelbach, Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Professor David Freeman Engstrom is a far-ranging scholar of public law and the design and implementation of litigation and regulatory regimes whose expertise runs to civil procedure, administrative law, constitutional law, federal courts, legal history, and empirical legal studies.
Professor Jonah B. Gelbach is currently a Director of the American Law and Economics Association and a co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization. He serves as an informal pro bono consultant for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, related to the design of the District’s juror selection system. RSVP>>
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THursday, march 18, 2021, 11:45 Am - 1 pmIs It Sensible to Talk About the Common Good?
Speaker: Gerald Torres, Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of Environment, and Professor of Law, Yale Law School
A pioneer in the field of environmental law, Professor Gerald Torres has spent his career examining the intrinsic connections between the environment, agricultural and food systems, and social justice. His research into how race and ethnicity impact environmental policy has been influential in the emergence and evolution of the field of environmental justice. His work also includes the study of conflicts over resource management between Native American tribes, states, and the federal government. RSVP>>
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THursday, march 25, 2021, 11:45 Am - 1 pmRegulatory Diffusion
Speaker: Jennifer Nou, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Professor Jennifer Nou’s main research interests are in administrative law, executive branch dynamics, regulatory policy, and constitutional separation-of-powers. She was a law clerk to Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and then to Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court. She is currently a public member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. RSVP>>
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THursday, april 8, 2021, 11:45 Am - 1 pmThe Dry Powder Problem
Speaker: Elisabeth de Fontenay, Professor of Law, Duke Law
Professor Elisabeth de Fontenay’s primary research interests are in the fields of corporate law and corporate finance. She joined the Duke Law faculty in 2013 after serving as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. At Duke Law, she teaches Business Associations, Corporate Finance, and Private Equity & Hedge Funds, and received the law school’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014. RSVP>>
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