March 31 - April 1, 2017
120 Hutchins Hall and 1225 South Hall
Conference Program (PDF)
Friday, March 31, 2017 (120 Hutchins Hall)
7:45 - 8:30 A.M.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 A.M.
Greetings: Professor Daniel Halberstam, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research; Eric Stein Collegiate Professor of Law (U-M Law School)
8:40 - 9:00 A.M.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Mathias Reimann, Hessel E. Yntema Professor of Law (U-M Law School)
9:00 - 10:30 A.M.
Panel I - Between the Public and Private
Faculty Discussant: Professor Daniel Crane, Frederick Paul Furth Sr. Professor of Law (U-M Law School)
Moderator: Nir Fishbien (SJD Candidate, U-M Law School)
- William J. Moon (New York University): "Private Ordering of Public Law"
- Deepa Das Acevedo (The University of Pennsylvania Law School): "We the Working People"
10:30 - 10:40 A.M.
Coffee Break
10:40 A.M. - 12:10 P.M.
Panel II - Public Law
Faculty Discussant: Professor Julian Davis Mortenson, Professor of Law (U-M Law School)
Moderator: Aviram Shahal (SJD Candidate, U-M Law School)
- Noah Rosenblum (Columbia University): "Making Presidential Democracy: Revisiting the Executive Reorganization Act of 1937"
- Sarah Light (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania): "Advisory Preemption"
- Andrew Keane Woods (University of Kentucky, Visiting Professor - University of Texas): "The Transparency Tax"
12:10 - 1:30 P.M.
Lunch (Lawyers Club)
1:30 - 1:45 P.M.
Short Tour (leaves from Lawyers Club)
1:45 - 3:15 P.M.
Panel III - International and European Law
Faculty Discussant: Professor Donald Regan, William W. Bishop Jr. Collegiate Professor of Law (U-M Law School)
Moderator: Jing Geng (Grotius Research Scholar, U-M Law School)
- Thomas Verellen (University of Leuven, Michigan Law School): "Federalism and Foreign Relations in the United States and the European Union: Hierarchy versus Pluralism"
- Giacomo Tagiuri (Bocconi University, NYU): "The Cultural Implications of Market Regulation: Does the EU Destroy the Texture of National Life?"
- Vera Shikhelman (New York University): "Access to Justice in the United Nations Human Rights Committee"
3:15 - 3:30 P.M.
Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:00 P.M.
Panel IV - Law and Society
Faculty Discussant: Professor Sherman Clark, Kirland & Ellis Professor of Law (U-M Law School)
Moderator: Tami Groswald Ozery (SJD Candidate, U-M Law School)
7:30 P.M.
Dinner (Melange Bistro - 312 South Main Street)
SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 2017 (1225 SOUTH HALL)
8:30 - 9:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Panel V - Empirical Legal Research
Faculty Discussant: Professor J.J. Prescott, Professor of Law; Codirector, Empirical Legal Studies Center; Codirector, Program in Law and Economics (U-M Law School)
Moderator: Orli Oren-Kolbinger (Grotius Research Scholar, U-M Law School)
10:30 - 10:45 AM
Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 PM
Panel VI - Law and Technology
Faculty Discussant: Professor Margo Schlanger, Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law (U-M Law School)
Moderator: Stavros Makris (Grotius Research Scholar, U-M Law School)
- Emily Berman (University of Houston): "When Database Queries are Fourth Amendment Searches"
- Asaf Lubin (Yale Law School): "'We Only Spy on Foreigners': The Myth of a Universal Right to Privacy and the Practice of Mass Extraterritorial Surveillance"
- Yoni Har Carmel and Tammy Harel Ben Shahar (Haifa University): "Reshaping Ability Grouping Through Big Data"
12:15 - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 PM
Panel VII - International Law
Faculty Discussant: Professor Steven Ratner, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law (U-M Law School)
Moderator: Yahli Shereshevsky (Grotius Research Scholar, U-M Law School)
2:30 - 3:00 PM
Closing Remarks