2021 Academic Workshops Archive
Thursday, January 14
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Ariel Katz, Associate Professor, University of Toronto Faculty of Law; and Eden Sarid, Lecturer, University of Essex School of Law; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, January 14
University of Florida Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop: Business – Economics – Law
Emre Demirezen, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, presents.
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, January 20
Virtual Law and Economics Workshop
Cherie Metcalf, Associate Professor, Queen’s University Faculty of Law; and Scott Baker, Vice Dean for Research and Faculty Development and William F. & Jessica L. Kirsch Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, January 28
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Jorge Contreras, Professor of Law, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, January 29
Internal Faculty Workshop Series
Monday, February 1
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Monica C. Bell, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, February 3
Virtual Law and Economics Workshop
Jennifer Bennett Shinall, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School; and Sonja Starr, Julius Kreeger Professor of Law and Criminology, University of Chicago Law School; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, February 5
11th Annual Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture
The Ellen Bellet Gelberg Tax Policy Lecture Series is an endowed lecture series that examines tax policy and how its implementation affects the economy and people’s lives. This year’s panel addresses, “Is Universal Basic Income a Good Idea?” Panelists include William G. Gale, Ph.D., The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy, The Brookings Institution; Daniel Hemel, Professor of Law and Ronald H. Coase Research Scholar, University of Chicago Law School; Melissa Kearney, Ph.D., Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland Department of Economics; and Ioana E. Marinescu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice.
You may watch the recording of the Tax Policy Lecture here. Please choose “Audio Transcript” if you would like to see text along the bottom of the screen, as the Audio Transcript has been corrected. Click “CC” in the bottom right of the video and choose “Audio Transcript.”
Time: 10:00 am to 1:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Tuesday, February 9
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, February 11
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Erika Douglas, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, February 11
University of Florida Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop: Business-Economics-Law
Aaron Hill, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, presents.
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, February 12
Tax Colloquium
Jonathan H. Choi, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, presents.
Time: 11:20 am ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, February 12 and Saturday, February 13
27th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference
Equitable Transitions: Visions for a Sustainable and Just Future. This year’s conference is free of charge, but you must register here.
Time: February 12, 12:00 pm – 6:15 pm ET
Time: February 13, 9:00 am – 2:30 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, February 15
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop Series
Shirin Sinnar, Professor of Law and John A. Wilson Faculty Scholar, Stanford Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, February 17
Virtual Law and Economics Workshop
Natasha Sarin, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; and Carlos Avenancio-Leon, Assistant Professor of Finance, Indiana University Bloomington; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, February 19
Tax Colloquium
Dr. Johanna Stark, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, presents.
Time: 11:20 am ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, February 22
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Myriam Gilles, Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law and Professor of Law, Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, February 25
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Erika Douglas, Assistant Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Hiba Hafiz, Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law School; Menesh Patel, Acting Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law; and Sean Sullivan, Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law; will lead a roundtable discussion of teaching methods.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, March 1
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
James Pfander, Owen L. Coon Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Tuesday, March 2
Overton Lecture Series in Florida Constitutional Law
Justice Barbara Pariente, Florida Supreme Court, presents.
Time: 1:45 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, March 3
Virtual Law and Economics Workshop
Tarek Hassan, Associate Professor, Boston University Department of Economics; and Stephan Hollander, Full Professor, Tilburg University School of Economics and Management; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, March 3
UF Innocence Talks
Jeffrey Deskovic of The Deskovic Foundation presents Wrongful Conviction: It Could Happen to You.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, March 5
Tax Colloquium
Phyllis C. Taite, Professor of Law, Florida A&M University College of Law, presents.
Time: 11:20 am ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, March 8
UF Law Internal Faculty Workshop
Mark Fenster, Stephen C. O’Connell Chair and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, March 10
Walter Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, L. Q. C. Lamar Professor of Law, Emory Law School, presents The Ecology of Childhood in the Age of Covid. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, March 11
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Menesh Patel, Acting Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, March 11
AI Roundtable – Chief Economists’ Reflections on Digital Transformation
Carolyn Evans, Chief Economist – Intel; John List, Chief Economist – Lyft and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Hal Varian, Chief Economist Google and Dean Emeritus, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley; present. D. Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law will moderate. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, March 12
2021 Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Series on U.S. Antitrust Policy
Karim R. Lakhani, Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Dorothy & Michael Hintze Fellow, Harvard Business School and| Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard; and Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, Codirector, Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard, Codirector, Digital Initiative Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School; will discuss their new book Competing in the Age of AI.
Time: 1:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, March 15
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Maggie Blackhawk, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, March 17
Virtual Law and Economics Workshop
Jonah B. Gelbach, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law; and Vikramaditya S. Khanna, William W. Cook Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, March 18
8th Annual E-Discovery Conference
Please join the University of Florida Levin College of Law for the 8th Annual E-Discovery Conference. Please visit the conference website for more information and to register. This year’s conference is free. The Florida Bar has approved the UF Law E-Discovery Conference for 9.5 General, 9.5 Technology, and 1 Ethics Credits.
Time: 8:30 am – 6:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, March 18
University of Florida Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop: Business – Economics – Law
Tianxin Zou, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, presents.
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, March 19
2021 Technology, Media, and Privacy Law Conference
Please join experts from the around the world for the 2021 Technology, Media, and Privacy Law Conference: Implications for Public Health and Safety.
Monday, March 22
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Kimberly J. Robinson, Elizabeth D. and Richard A. Merrill Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, March 22
Overton Lecture Series in Florida Constitutional Law
Justice Jorge Labarga, Florida Supreme Court, presents.
Time: 1:45 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, March 25
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Viktoria H.S.E. Robertson, Professor and Head of the Competition Law and Digitalization Group
Vienna University of Economics and Business, and Professor of International Antitrust Law,University of Graz; presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, March 29
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Robert P. Bartlett, III, I. Michael Heyman Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, March 29
Tax Colloquium
Heather Field, Eucalyptus Foundation Chair, Professor of Law and Co-Director of Center on Tax Law, UC Hastings School of Law, presents.
Time: 3:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, April 5
UF Law Internal Faculty Workshop
Andrew Hammond, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, April 7
Dean’s Distinguished Lecture: Leading Through Crisis
Francis Suarez (JD 04), Mayor of Miami, and Kapil Longani (JD 02), Chief Legal Counsel to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, join Dean Laura Rosenbury for a moderated discussion. Sponsored by the Jeffrey Bartel Leadership & Integrity Program.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, April 7
Virtual Law and Economics Workshop
Brian Galle, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; and Menesh Patel, Acting Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law; present.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, April 8
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Thomas B. Nachbar, Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, April 8
University of Florida Distinguished Professorship Lecture
Please join Nancy E. Dowd, David H. Levin Chair in Family Law, University of Florida Distinguished Professor, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law; as she delivers Radical Brown: The Mandate for Comprehensive Educational Equality in honor of her new recognition as University of Florida Distinguished Professor. This event is open to the public. Please contact comstock@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 3:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, April 9
Criminal Justice Reform Lecture
Shon Hopwood, Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, presents. Please contact comstock@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 10:00 am ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, April 12
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop Series
H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr., John Hope Franklin Research Scholar and Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law; presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, April 12
Overton Lecture Series in Florida Constitutional Law
Justice John D. Couriel, Florida Supreme Court, presents.
Time: 1:45 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, April 19 – Thursday, April 22
Internal Faculty Workshop Series
University of Florida Levin College of Law faculty members present early stage works over four days of workshops. For more information, please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, April 21
Virtual Law and Economics Workshop
Kathryn Zeiler, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law; and Jason Chin, Lecturer, The University of Sydney Law School; presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, April 22
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Andrew Chin, Paul B. Eaton Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, April 23
The Derek Chauvin Trial and Verdict
Please join the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations and UF Levin College of Law professors to discuss the recent verdict in the Derek Chauvin case. Speakers include Michelle S. Jacobs, Professor of Law and Racial Justice Term Professor; Kenneth Nunn, Professor of Law and University Term Professor; Katheryn Russell-Brown, Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations and Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law; Sarah Wolking, Legal Skills Professor; and Jennifer Zedalis, Senior Legal Skills Professor. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information. View the recording.
Time: 11:30 am ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, May 13
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Okeoghene Odudu, Fellow of Emmanuel College and Deputy Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, May 13
University of Florida Interdisciplinary Faculty Workshop: Business-Economics-Law
Philip Wang, Prida Term Assistant Professor, University of Florida Warrington College of Business, presents.
Time: 2:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, May 20
Understanding and Addressing Implicit Bias
Please join
Monday, May 24
Internal Faculty Workshop
Karen Burke, Richard B. Stephens Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation and Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Thursday, May 27
Cambridge – UF Law Antitrust Virtual Series
Pinar Akman, Professor of Law, University of Leeds School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, June 7
Internal Faculty Workshop
Christine A. Klein, Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Hazouri & Roth Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, June 14
Internal Faculty Workshop
Mindy Herzfeld, Professor of Practice, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, June 21
Internal Faculty Workshop
David Hasen, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, June 28
Internal Faculty Workshop
Mary Jane Angelo, Samuel T. Dell Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, July 12
Internal Faculty Workshop
Stephanie Bornstein, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, July 19
Internal Faculty Workshop
Steven J. Willis, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, September 17
Tax Policy Colloquium
Ruth Mason, Edwin S. Cohen Distinguished Professor of Law and Taxation, University of Virginia School of Law; and Michael Knoll, Theodore K. Warner Professor of Law & Professor of Real Estate; Co-Director, Center for Tax Law and Policy, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; present, with comments from Brian Galle, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:20 am – 12:50 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, September 17
Constitution Day 2021
Clay Calvert, Professor of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida Levin College of Law and University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications; Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol, Stephen C. O’Connell Chair, University of Florida Levin College of Law; Merritt McAlister, Associate Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law; and John F. Stinneford, Edward Rood Eminent Scholar Chair, University of Florida Levin College of Law; present. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, October 1
Tax Policy Colloquium
Eleanor Wilking, Assistant Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, presents, with comments from David Weisbach, Walter J. Blum Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School.
Time: 11:20 am – 12:50 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Tuesday, October 5
A Tribute to Justice: Remembering Judge Hatchett
The Nelson Initiative on Ethics and Leadership is hosting a tribute to the late Judge Joseph Woodrow Hatchett, the first Black Justice on the Florida Supreme Court, the first Black man to win a state-wide election in Florida, and the first Black man appointed to a federal appeals court in the Deep South, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Former Senator Bill Nelson, now Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will introduce Judge Rosemary Barkett of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, Professor Kenneth Nunn, Dr. Patricia Hilliard-Nunn Memorial Racial Justice Term Professor and Professor of Law, and Professor Danaya Wright, T. Terrell Sessums and Gerald Sohn Professor in Constitutional Law and Professor of Law who will discuss Judge Hatchett’s many accomplishments. Excerpts from a 2017 presentation by Judges Hatchett and Barkett will be presented by Dr. James Cusick, Curator of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History. The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Governmental Responsibility at the Levin College of Law, the George A. Smathers Libraries, and the African American Studies Program of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida.
Seating is limited. Please RSVP in-person attendance by October 4, 2021 to ruthm@law.ufl.edu.
COVID Precautions: To ensure the safety of in-person event attendees, face coverings are expected, even if you’re fully vaccinated
Time: 4:00 pm ET
Location: Holland Hall 180 and Virtual via Zoom
Wednesday, October 13
The 2021 Allen L. Poucher Lecture
The Florida Law Review presents The Final Frontier: Exploring the Legal Implications of Commercializing Space. Panelists include Matthew Schaefer, Veronica A. Haggart and Charles R. Work Professor of International Trade Law, University of Nebraska College of Law; Alex Vinson, Assistant Chief Counsel, NASA; and Daniel Sennott, Partner, Holland & Knight. Trevor Tezel (JD 19), Assistant Chief Counsel, NASA, moderates. For more information, please visit floridalawreview.com.
Time: 4:00 pm ET
Location: Chesterfield A. Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180
Thursday, October 14
Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere Speaker Series
Michele Brachter Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, presents Policing the Womb: Invisible Women & the Criminalization of Motherhood, co-sponsored by the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
Time: 4:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, October 25
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, October 29
International Tax Symposium
The University of Florida Levin College of Law and the Graduate Tax Program presents the 17th Annual International Tax Symposium. Please join presenters Joachim Englisch, Professor of Law, University of Muenster Institute of Tax Law; Carlo Garbarino, Associate Professor, University of Bocconi, Department of Law; and Yvette Lind, Assistant Professor of Law, Copenhagen Business School; Yariv Brauner, Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law, moderates. Please email ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 8:30 am ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, November 8
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Aziz F. Rana, Richard and Lois Cole Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, November 10
2021-2022 Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Series on U.S. Antitrust Policy
Christopher Leslie, Chancellor’s Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Friday, November 12
Tax Policy Colloquium
Daniel N. Shaviro, Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation, New York University School of Law, presents, with comments from Sarah Lawsky, Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor of Law, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Time: 11:20 am – 12:50 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, November 15
Walter O. Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law
Jane M. Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Wednesday, November 17
Artificial Intelligence as Evidence
Maura Grossman, Research Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo; and Hon. Paul Grimm, District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Maryland; will present their paper, Artificial Intelligence as Evidence. Seth Katsuya Endo, Assistant Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law; and Rebecca Wexler, Assistant Professor and Faculty Co-Director Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at UC Berkeley School of Law will provide commentary. William F. Hamilton, Senior Legal Skills Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law, will moderate.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
Monday, November 22
Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop
Jamelia Morgan, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law, presents.
Time: 12:00 pm ET
Location: Virtual
