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2006-2007 Faculty Colloquia Series

Saikrishna B. Prakash, Herzog Research Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law:
"Declaring War," August 1, 2006

Lesley K. McAllister, Assistant Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law;
Michael D. Ramsey, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law; and
David McGowan, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law:
Offer their take on the Supreme Court's 2006 decisions and forecast what the Court is likely to do next. McAllister addresses the Court's environmental cases, Ramsey talks about Hamdan and the current controversy over wiretapping, and McGowan discusses the Court's IP decisions (and failures to decide.) August 25, 2006

David McGowan, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law:
"Politics, Office Politics, and Legal Ethics: A Case Study in the Strategy of Judgment," September 1, 2006

Paul Finkelman, President William McKinley Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center, Albany Law School:
"Foreign Law and American Constitutional Interpretation: A Long and Venerable Tradition ? Or Why Justice Scalia Needs a CLE in Legal History," September 8, 2006

William Eskridge Jr., John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School:
"Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse?" September 15, 2006

William A. Edmundson, Professor of Law and of Philosophy, University of Georgia School of Law:
"The Virtue of Law-Abidance," September 22, 2006

On Amir, assistant professor of marketing, UCSD Rady School of Business:
"In Search of Homo Economicus: Preference Consistency, Emotions, and Cognition," October 3, 2006

Mathew D. McCubbins, Visiting Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, and Professor of Political Science and Chancellor's Associates Endowed Chair, University of California, San Diego; and
Cheryl Boudreau, University of California, San Diego:
"The Battle for Truth: Theory and Experiments Regarding Competition and the Adversarial System," October 6, 2006

David Stephen Law, Assistant Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law:
"Globalization and the Future of Constitutional Law," October 13, 2006

Darren Schreiber, Assistant Professor UCSD Political Science:
"This Is Your Brain on Race," October 19, 2006

Laurence P. Claus, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law:
"The One Court That Congress Cannot Take Away: Singularity, Supremacy And Article III," October 27, 2006

Steven Hartwell, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law: 
"Humor, Anger, Rules & Rituals," November 3, 2006

Peter Blanck, University Professor, Syracuse University College of Law:
"Benefit of the Doubt?: African-American Veterans and Civil War Pensions," December 1, 2006

Michael B. Rappaport, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law:
"Reforming Article V: The Problems Created by the National Convention Amendment Method and How to Fix Them," December 8, 2006

Saikrishna B. Prakash, Herzog Research Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law:
"The Executive’s Duty to Disregard, " January 26, 2007

Barry Cushman, Percy Brown, Jr. Professor of Law and History and F.D.G. Ribble Research Professor, University of Virginia School of Law:
"Painful Duties," February 2, 2007

Mitchell N. Berman, Bernard J. Ward Centennial Professor, The University of Texas School of Law:
"Originalism is Bunk," February 9, 2007

Steven D. Smith, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law:
"Our Agnostic Constitution," February 16, 2007

Donald A. Dripps, Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law:
"Sixth-Amendment Originalism's Collision Course With the Right to Counsel: What's Titanic, What's Iceberg?" March 2, 2007

Vicki Schultz, Ford Foundation Professor of Law, Yale Law School:
"Will Marriage Make Gay and Lesbian Couples Less Egalitarian? A Cautionary Tale," March 5, 2007

Vern R. Walker, Professor of Law, Hofstra University School of Law:
"Visualizing Legal Reasoning: Pedagogical Implications," March 9, 2007

Brett McDonnell, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School:
"Sticky Defaults and Altering Rules in Corporate Law," March 16, 2007

Richard Speidel, Professor of Law, University of San Diego
School of Law:
"Contract Excuse Doctrine and Retrospective Government Acts," March 23, 2007

Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Interim Co-Dean, Russell M. and Elizabeth M. Bennett Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Law & Politics; University of Minnesota Law School:
"Democracy and Distortion," March 29, 2007

Adam J. Kolber, Associate Professor of Law, University of San Diego
School of Law:
"Placebo Deception: When a Spoonful of Sugar is the Medicine," April 13, 2007

Kimberly Yuracko, Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law:
"Illiberal Education: Constitutional Constraints on Homeschooling," April 30, 2007

Stanley Fish, Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law:
"How Hobbes Works," May 4, 2007





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