2021-2022 Faculty Programs & Workshops
The programs will all take place at 12:15 to 1:15 in the Castle Board Room and on Zoom, unless otherwise noted.
The Dean’s Speakers and Hot Topics Series will be open to the entire Law College community. The Faculty Workshop Series is primarily for MSU faculty, although you are welcome to invite guests who may be interested in a particular workshop.
Tuesday, September 14 • Castle Board Room
MSLR Symposium: Akhil Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University, The Words that Made Us: How Americans in the late 1700s Became Americans and Launched the Constitution
Wednesday, September 22 • Room 472 (note room)
Hot Topics Series: Review of Supreme Court October 2020 Term, MSU COL Faculty
Wednesday, September 29 • Castle Board Room
Dean’s Speakers Series: “Race and Technology: For Better or Worse?”, Patricia Williams, University Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Northeastern University
Monday, October 4 • Castle Board Room
Hot Topics Series: Preview of Supreme Court October 2021 Term, MSU COL Faculty
Wednesday, October 6 • Castle Board Room
Faculty Workshop: Emily Prifogle, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Law & History Department, “Remaking Rural Education” inThe Heartland’s Legal Landscapes and the Remaking of Modern Rural America, 1920-2020
Monday, October 18 • Castle Board Room
Dean’s Speakers Series: “Race, Property, and Justice”, Thomas Mitchell, Professor & Co-Director of Program in Real Estate, Housing and Community Development, Texas A&M University
Wednesday, October 27 • Castle Board Room
Faculty Workshop: Jake Bronsther, Assistant Professor, MSU COL, Optional Legislation
Thursday, October 28
Defending the Indian Child Welfare Act with Professor Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Clinic Director Kathryn E. Fort, and Professor Wenona T. Singel
Friday, October 29 • Castle Board Room
"Litigating Immigration Cases Against the Trump and Biden Administrations," Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project
Wednesday, November 10 • Castle Board Room
Faculty Workshop: Sean Pager & Michael Sant’Ambrogio, Professors of Law, MSU COL, Adjudication and Extraterritoriality
Spring 2022
Wednesday, January 26 • Castle Board Room
Faculty Workshop: Glen Staszewski, Professor of Law, MSU COL, & Anya Bernstein, Professor of Law, University of Buffalo Law School, Judicial Populism and the Regulatory State
Wednesday, February 2 • Castle Board Room
Faculty Workshop: Elizabeth Pollman, Professor of Law & Co-Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Monday, February 14 • Castle Board Room
Dean’s Speakers Series: Devon Carbado, The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA Law School
Wednesday, February 23 • Castle Board Room
Faculty Workshop: Amy Adler, Emily Kempin Professor of Law, NYU School of Law
Monday, February 28 • Castle Board Room
Faculty Workshop: Lateef Mtima, Professor of Law, Howard University
Wednesday, March 23 • Castle Board Room
Faculty Workshop: Zalman Rothschild, Fellow, Stanford Law School Constitutional Law Center & Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law
Wednesday, March 30 • Castle Board Room
Faculty Workshop: Kevin Douglas, Assistant Professor of Law, MSU COL
Wednesday, April 6 • Castle Board Room
Dean’s Speakers Series: “Policing Bodies”, I. India Thusi, Professor of Law & Senior Scientist, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Maurer School of Law