Scholarly Workshop Series
Pepperdine Caruso Law hosts scholarly workshops throughout the academic year to highlight and discuss the work of a variety of visiting and Pepperdine faculty.
September 9
Dan Sokol (USC)
Antitrust Platform Regulation and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China
October 1
Jennifer Koh (Pepperdine Caruso)
Christian Lawyers in the Public Interest and Outside the Political Right
October 7
Laura Appleman (Willamette University)
The Secret History of the Carceral State
October 14
Joel Johnson (Pepperdine Caruso)
Ad Hoc Constructions of Penal Statutes
October 28
Roger Alford (University of Notre Dame)
The Competitive Landscape of Generative Artificial Intelligence
November 11
Naomi Goodno (Pepperdine Caruso)
Deepfakes: A Guide to Seemingly Lawless Wild West
September 11
Jason Jarvis (Pepperdine Caruso)
Conspiracy Jurisdiction
September 19
Colleen Graffy (Pepperdine Caruso)
First Twelve in the Box: Pushing Peremptory Challenges to the Point of Extinction
October 2
Ari Waldman (University of California, Irvine)
Law, Civil Society, and Comprehensive Privacy Legislation
October 17
Ahmed Taha (Pepperdine Caruso)
Private v. Public Litigation in the Laws of Baseball
October 30
Aya Gruber (USC)
Sex Exceptionalism in Criminal Law
November 7
Benjamin Alarie (University of Toronto)
The Impact of AI on Legal Education and Law Practice
November 14
Deanna Newton (Pepperdine Caruso)
Closing the Opportunity Gap
November 20
Robert Tsai (Boston University)
After McCleskey
August 29
David Flatto (Hebrew University, Brenden Mann Scholar in Residence)
Confessions, Pleading the Fifth, and Plea Bargaining: A Jewish Law Perspective
September 26
Ahmed Taha (Pepperdine Caruso)
Baseball Rules v. Standards
October 3
Joel Johnson (Pepperdine Caruso)
Vagueness and Federal-State Relations
October 24
Alan Nissel (Pepperdine Caruso)
Welcome to the Apartment Hotel California
October 31
Linda Silberman (New York University)
Enforcement of Arbitral Awards Set Aside or Annulled at the Seat of Arbitration
November 7
Caleb Griffin (University of Arkansas)
The Market for Investment
January 30
Rob Anderson (Pepperdine Caruso)
The Sea Corporation
February 6
Rachel Lopez (Drexel University)
Participatory Law Scholarship
February 13
Mila Sohoni (Universit of San Diego)
The Puzzle of Procedural Originalism
March 13
Osagie Obasogie (University of California, Berkeley)
Can Originalism Save Bioethics?
April 3
Mary Hoopes (Pepperdine Caruso)
Law Clerk Selection and Diversity: Insights From Fifty Sitting Judges of the Federal Courts of Appeal
April 10
Anna Spain Bradley (UCLA)
Human Choice in International Law
September 13
Babette Boliek (Pepperdine Caruso)
Upgrading Unconscionability: A Common Law Ally for a Digital World
September 27
Shelley Saxer (Pepperdine Caruso)
Public Nuisance and State Action
October 4
Jamelia Morgan (University of California, Irvine)
Disability’s Fourth Amendment
October 11
Julia Simon Kerr (University of Connecticut)
Credibility in an Age of Algorithms
November 1
Andrew Selbst (UCLA)
An Institutional View of Algorithimic Impact Assessments
February 7
Ed Larson (Pepperdine Caruso)
American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
February 14
Jodi Balsam (Brooklyn Law School)
A Comparative Look at Trademark Merchandising Rights in Sports
March 14
Jack Coe (Pepperdine Caruso)
Three Questions
March 28
Marc Roark (Southern University)
Squatting and the State
April 4
Jennifer Koh (Pepperdine Caruso)
Immigration Law, and Christianity: Reflections and Tensions Raised by United States v. Wong Kim Ark
April 11
Paul Butler (Georgetown)
Black Masculinity and the Government
September 4
Ahmed Taha (Pepperdine)
Regulating Celebrity Advertisements
September 4
Ahmed Taha (Pepperdine)
Regulating Celebrity Advertisements
October 23
Franita Tolson (USC)
In Congress We Trust?: Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era
November 6
Kevin R. Douglas (Michigan State)
Insider Trading: The Conceptual Roots of the Doctrinal Mess
November 20
Mitu Gulati (Duke & UVA)
Legal Air Cover
March 5
Yonathan Arbel (Alabama) & Samuel Becher (Victoria University of Wellington)
Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers
March 12
Tanya Cooper (Pepperdine)
Assessing the Efficacy of Intimate Partner Violence Trainings in Christian Communities
March 26
Albert Yoon (University of Toronto)
Revealed Preferences in Law School Rankings
April 23
Asifa Quraishi-Landes (Wisconsin)
Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible.
September 9
Jennifer Rothman (Loyola-LA)
The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World
October 7
Anne Bloom (UC Berkeley)
October 14
Tim Waters (Indiana-Maurer)
October 28
Shelley Saxer (Pepperdine)
November 4
Ross Korobkin (UCLA)
Behavioral Ethics, Deception and Legal Negotiation
January 27
Rob Anderson (Pepperdine)
An Evolutionary Perspective on Contracting: Evidence from Poison Pills
February 17
Victoria Sahani (ASU)
Governing Third-Party Funders
March 2
Alan Nissel (Pepperdine)
Selling the Legitimacy of Nations: The History of State Responsibility for Violating International Law 1870-1960
September 17
Beth Colgan (UCLA)
Wealth-Based Penal Disenfranchisement
October 1
Mark Scarberry (Pepperdine)
Reconsidering Dewsnup: Nonrecourse Mortgages and Supreme Court Modes of Statutory Interpretation
October 29
Orin Kerr (USC)
The Digital Fourth Amendment (under contract with Oxford University Press, publication expected 2019).
November 12
Tanya Cooper (Pepperdine)
#SororityToo: Breaking the Code of Silence about Relationship Violence in Collegiate Greek Life
January 28
Zach Price (Hastings)
Symmetric Constitutionalism: An Essay on Masterpiece Cakeshop and the Post-Kennedy Supreme Court
February 25
Dorothy Lund (USC)
Non-voting Shares and Efficient Corporate Governance
March 18
Helen Norton (Colorado)
The Government's Lies and the Constitution
March 25
Barry McDonald (Pepperdine)
Eviscerating a Healthy Church-State Separation
April 15
Chris Goodman (Pepperdine)
AI/Esq.: Impacts of Artificial Intelligence in Lawyer-Client Relationships
April 22
Stephen Lee (UC Irvine)
Family Separation as Slow Death
February 19
Yehonatan Givati
Preferences for Criminal Justice Error Types: Theory and Evidence
March 6
Alex Tsesis (Loyola Chicago)
Contextual Free Speech
April 27
Michael Helfand (Pepperdine)
The Future of Religious Arbitration in the United States: Looking Through a Pluralist Lens
Tax Policy Workshop Series
January 23
Ariel Jurow Kleiman (San Diego), Tax Limits and the Future of Local Democracy, 133 Harv. L. Rev. (2019)
February 4
Jason Oh (UCLA), The Effects of Capital Gains Rate Uncertainty on Realization (with David Kamin - NYU)
February 18
Goldburn Maynard (Louisville), Legislating Tax Cuts With Tall Tales
March 4
Gladriel Shobe (BYU), Economic Segregation, Tax Reform, and the Local Tax Deduction
March 25
Joshua Blank (UC-Irvine), Simplexity and Legal Calculators (with Leigh Osofsky - North Carolina)
April 8
Rebecca Kysar (Fordham), Unravelling The Tax Treaty
April 22
Susan Morse (Texas), GILTI: The Cooperative Potential of a Unilateral Minimum Tax
Jan. 25
Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), The Parsonage Exemption, 51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. (2017)
Feb. 6
Katherine Pratt (Loyola-L.A.), The Tax Definition of "Medical Care:" A Critique of the Startling IRS Arguments in O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner, 23 Mich. J. Gender & L. 313 (2016)
Feb. 20
Joshua Blank (NYU), The Timing of Tax Transparency, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. 449 (2017)
Mar. 6
Erin Scharf (Arizona State), Hyper Preemption
Mar. 27
Manoj Viswanathan (UC-Hastings), Tax Compliance in a Decentralizing Economy
Apr. 10
Edward Kleinbard (USC), Capital Taxation In An Age Of Inequality, 90 S. Cal. L. Rev. 593 (2017)
Apr. 24
Daniel Hemel (Chicago), Federalism as a Safeguard of Progressive Taxation, 93 N.Y.U. L. Rev. ___ (2017)
Jan. 25
Omri Marian (UC-Irvine), The State Administration of International Tax Avoidance
Feb. 8
Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), Bitcoin, Foreign Currency, and the Case for Basis Pooling
Feb. 22
John Brooks (Georgetown), Quasi-Public Spending
Mar. 7
Ellen Aprill (Loyola-L.A.), The Section 527 Obstacle to Meaningful Section 501(c)(4) Regulation
Mar. 28
Shuyi Oei (Tulane), The Tax Lives of Uber Drivers: Evidence from Internet Discussion Forums
Apr. 11
Jason Oh (UCLA), How the Rich Drive Progressive Marginal Tax Rates
Apr. 25
Lily Kahng (Seattle), Who Owns Human Capital?
Jan. 14
Adam Chodorow (Arizona State), Pope Francis, the Bible, and Tax Policy
Feb. 2
Michael Graetz (Columbia), The Tax Reform Road Not Taken -- Yet
Feb. 18
Ed Kleinbard (USC), We Are Better Than This: How Government Should Spend Our Money
Mar. 2
Shu-Yi Oei (Tulane), Human Equity? Regulating the New Income Share Agreements
Mar. 23
Gregg Polsky (North Carolina), Private Equity Tax Games
Apr. 6
Miranda Fleischer (San Diego), Libertarianism and the Charitable Tax Subsidies
Apr. 20
Heather Field (UC-Hastings), Aggressive Tax Planning and the Ethical Tax Lawyer
Adam Chodorow (Arizona State)
Feb. 3
Richard Winchester (Thomas Jefferson)
Feb. 12
Leigh Osofsky (Miami)
Mar. 3
Brian Galle (Boston College)
Mar. 24
Sarah Lawsky (UC-Irvine)
Apr. 7
Vic Fleischer (San Diego)
Apr. 21
Jordan Barry (San Diego)