Private Law Workshop
The Private Law Workshop, hosted by Professor Sadie Blanchard, brings leading private law scholars from across the United States and around the world to discuss their latest scholarship with Notre Dame students and faculty. The workshop is the basis of a seminar course taught by Professor Blanchard, open to Notre Dame J.D. and graduate students.
Spring 2026 Workshop Schedule
| Date | Lecturer, Topic |
|---|---|
| January 23 | Samuel Estreicher (NYU) and Aneil Kovvali (Cardozo), "Union and Corporate Political Activism: The Problem of Dissent" |
| February 6 | Deborah Widiss (Maurer), "The Sexual Harassment Silo" |
| February 27 | Matthew Bodie (Minnesota), Paper TBA |
| March 20 | Rachel Arnow-Richman (Levin), Paper TBA |
| March 27 | Cynthia Estlund via Zoom (NYU), "Neo-Republican Theory and the Law of Work" |
| April 17 | Noah Zatz (UCLA), Retaliation Law as Disruption Rights" |
| April 24 | Stewart Schwab (Cornell) on Employment Law from a Law and Economics Perspective |
Past Workshop Schedules
Spring 2025 Workshop Schedule
| Date | Lecturer, Topic |
|---|---|
| February 7 | Roy Shapira (Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University), "Regulation by Rivals" |
| February 21 | Emily Kadens (Northwestern Pritzker School of Law), "Bezoar Stones Make Hard Law: Rethinking the History of Caveat Emptor in English Law" |
| March 7 | Maya Steinitz (Boston University School of Law), "Zombie Litigation" |
| March 28 | Gabriel Rauterberg (University of Michigan Law School), "Corporate Origins: The Medieval Corporation" |
| April 4 | Daniel Markovits (Yale Law School), "The Good Life After the Age of Growth" |
| April 11 | Kimberly Krawiec (University of Virginia), "WHO Says Countries Should Be Self-Sufficient In (Unremunerated) Organs And Blood" |
| April 17 | Dr. Debadatta Bose, The Robbins Postdoctoral Fellow (UC Berkeley Law), "Human Rights and Private Law" |
| April 25 | Kevin Davis (New York University School of Law), "Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South: Priority of Workers versus Secured Creditors in Insolvency" |
Fall 2022 Workshop Schedule
| Date | Lecturer, Topic |
|---|---|
| September 9 | Lauren Scholz (Florida State) |
| September 23 | Lee Fennel (University of Chicago) |
| October 7 | Rory Van Loo (Boston University) |
| October 28 | Omri Ben-Shahar (University of Chicago) |
| November 10 | Tom Baker (University of Pennsylvania) |
| December 2 | Amalia Kessler (Stanford) |
Spring 2022 Workshop Schedule
| Date | Lecturer, Topic |
|---|---|
| January 28 | Nicolas Cornell (University of Michigan), "The Normative Inertness of Wrongs" |
| February 11 | Ruth L. Okediji (Harvard), "What is Property For? A Biblical Critique of the Public Domain in IP" |
| February 25 | Richard R.W. Brooks (NYU) |
| March 18 | Sadie Blanchard (Notre Dame), "Nominal Damages and the Other Ends of Adjudication" |
| April 1 | David Hoffman (University of Pennsylvania), "Leases as Forms" |
| April 22 | Jean Thomas (Queen's University) |
Fall 2020 Workshop Schedule
| Date | Lecturer, Topic |
|---|---|
| August 28 | Henry Smith (Harvard), "Property as Complex System" |
| September 11 | Sadie Blanchard (Notre Dame), "Contracts Without Courts or Clans: The Case of Reinsurance" |
| September 25 | John Goldberg (Harvard), "Public Nuisance" |
| October 9 | James Penner (National University of Singapore), "Punishment and Penalties in Private Law" |
| October 23 | Shyamkrishna Balganesh (Penn), “Legal Internalism in Modern Histories of Copyright” |
| November 6 | Paul Miller (Notre Dame), “Juridical Justification of Private Rights” |