Faculty Workshops & Visiting Scholars

Syracuse Law presents Faculty Workshops each year to convene leading scholars both internally and from other institutions. Addressing subjects from executive orders and government agencies to humanitarian law and medical patents, these workshops aim to broaden the horizons of legal scholarship, facilitate the sharing of ideas, and challenge how we think about the law and legal practice.

2026-2027 Visiting Faculty Seminars

Date	Presenter
September 11, 2026	Annual Lightning Round and Celebration of Scholarship
October 1, 2026	David John Giammatteo Associate Professor of Law University at Buffalo School of Law Bureaucratic Control in the Adjudicative State
October 29, 2026	Robin Paul Malloy Professor of Law Syracuse University College of Law Property and Justice in Adam Smith’s Market Jurisprudence
November 4, 2026	Bjarne Tellman Author and CEO of FjordStream Advisors Discussing his book "Law in the Era of AI: Clients, Firms, and the Future of the Legal Industry" (Wiley, 2026)
November 12, 2026	Jennifer Brinkman Assistant Professor of Law Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law The Frozen Circuit Split: Juvenile Adjudications and the Apprendi Prior-Conviction Exception
December 3, 2026	Ted De Barbieri Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life & Professor of Law Albany Law School Community Equity Property
December 10, 2026	Faculty Research Draft Swap

Past Events

2025-2026 Visiting Faculty Seminars

Date	Presenter
September 11, 2025	David Orentlicher Professor of Law UNLV – William S. Boyd School of Law Majority and Minority: How To Address Political Extremism with Constitutional Reform
September 25, 2025	William Wiecek Professor Emeritus Syracuse University College of Law The Dark Past: The US Supreme Court and African Americans, 1800-2015
October 13, 2025	Doron Dorfman Professor of Law Seton Hall University School of Law Exploring the Duty to Accommodate in Law & Society
November 5, 2025	Jessica Eaglin Professor of Law Cornell University School of Law Networked Information Technology in Criminal Law
November 10, 2025	Anna Roberts Professor of Law Brooklyn Law School Prior Conviction Impeachment: What is it, Why is it Harmful, and Might it be Abolished?
January 21, 2026	Christopher Havasy Associate Professor of Law George Washington University Law School Social Justice Conflicts in Public Law
January 29, 2026	Jennifer M. Chacón Professor of Law Stanford Law School The Law of the Immigration Raid
February 5, 2026	Carliss Chatman Professor of Law SMU Dedman School of Law Caremark After Federalism: Rebuilding Oversight Without Agencies
February 12, 2026	Reva Siegel Professor of Law Yale Law School Title TBD
February 24, 2026	Alexis Shore Ingber Assistant Professor Syracuse University Newhouse School of Public Communications Title TBD
February 26, 2026	Camilla Hrdy Associate Professor of Law Rutgers Law School Testing the Gernsback Hypothesis: Science Fiction’s Influence on Patents and Innovation
March 19, 2026	Thomas Wilson Williams Associate Professor of Law American University Washington College of Law Owning Health Equity
April 16, 2026	Anil Kalhan Professor of Law Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Title TBD

2024-2025

Date	Presentation
April 24, 2025	Faculty Colloquium: Professor Kathleen Morris, UC Berkeley School of Law, Democracy’s Double Agents
April 3, 2025	Faculty Colloquium: Professor Ji Seon Song, University of California, Irvine School of Law, Crisis Policing
March 27, 2025	Inaugural Hon. Rosemary S. Pooler Memorial Lecture: Professor Miriam Seifter, University of Wisconsin Law School, Law for All: The Legacy of Judge Rosemary Pooler
March 19, 2025	Discussion: Public Defenders and Criminal Justice Reform: Evolving Challenges, New Standards: Erik Teifke, Monroe County Public Defender, and Patrica Warth, New York State Office of Indigent Legal Services
March 6, 2025	Discussion: A Conversation on Academic Abelism with Professor Jay Dolmage, University of Waterloo, Hosted by the Disability Law & Policy Program
March 4, 2025	Faculty Colloquium: Professor Conor Clarke, Washington University School of Law
February 26, 2025	Discussion: Dr. Pavlo Pushkar, Head of Division at the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, Human Rights During War
February 20, 2025	Faculty Colloquium: Professor Sam Bagenstos, University of Michigan Law School, Science and Politics in Public Health Regulation

2023 - 2024

Date	Presentation
	Professor Dan Traficonte, People Having Ordinary Skills, Syracuse University College of Law
January 16, 2024	Professor Robin Malloy, A Network Capabilities Approach to Land Use and Disability Law, Syracuse University College of Law
	Professor Mark Graber, University of Maryland School of Law
February 22, 2024	Professor Sarah Lorr, Brooklyn Law School
March 7, 2024	Professor Kimberly West-Faulcon, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
April 4, 2024	Professor Arlene Kanter, Syracuse University College of Law
April 18, 2024	Professor Jamelia Morgan, Northwestern University

2022 - 2023

Date	Presentation
January 19, 2023	Professor Jennifer Breen, "Democratic Erosion and the United States Supreme Court", Syracuse University College of Law
January 26, 2023	Professor Amna Akbar, "Reform and Struggles Over Life, Death, and Democracy", Ohio State University – Moritz College of Law (zoom)
February 15, 2023	Professor Chapin Cimino, Drexel University School of Law
March 9, 2023	Professor Kristin Henning with Professor Paula Johnson, "The Rage of Innocence", Georgetown and Syracuse University College of Law
March 22, 2023	"Merrill v. Milligan Symposium" Evan Milligan (Lead plaintiff, Executive Director of Alabama Forward) Brittany Carter, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Member of the Merrill v. Milligan Litigation Team Tish Gotell Faulks, Legal Director ACLU Alabama, Member of the Merrill v. Milligan Litigation Team Thomas Keck, Professor of Political Science, SU Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Kristen Barnes and Paula Johnson co-moderated the panel and Suzette Melendez gave closing remarks
April 5, 2023	Professor Dov Fox, "Medical Disobedience", University of San Diego (zoom)
April 27, 2023	Professor Nina Mendelson with Professor David Driesen, University of Michigan and Discussion of David’s paper: "Does the Separation of Powers Justify the Major Questions Doctrine?"

2020 - 2021

Date	Presentation
September 9, 2020	Lightning Round & Celebration of Scholarship
September 17, 2020	Professor Jake Elberg, Seton Hall Law: "Health Care Fraud Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry"
October 14, 2020	Professor Kathryn Sikkink, Harvard Kennedy School: "Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century," co-hosted by Professor Arlene Kanter’s CUSE Grant Project on Effectiveness of Human Rights Treaties
October 26, 2020	Professor Mark Nevitt, Syracuse Law: "Is Climate Change a National Emergency?" and Professor Cora True-Frost on "Harmony and Dissonance at the Intersections of International Human Rights Law"
November 12, 2020	Professor Carol Brown, Richmond School of Law: "Extraordinary," co-sponsored by the Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism
November 18, 2020	The Hon. James E. Baker, Syracuse Law, discusses his new book The Centaur’s Dilemma: National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution
December 4, 2020	“Half-Baked” Mini Workshops with Syracuse Law's Professor Cora True-Frost ("Harmony and Dissonance at the Intersections of International Human Rights Law") and Professor Jenny Breen ("The Capital 'in His Person': Human Capital Theory and the Mid-Twentieth-Century Redefinition of the 'Labor Question'")
December 9, 2020	Professor Danielle Stokes, Syracuse Law: "Zoning for Climate Change"
February 4, 2021	Professor David Driesen, Syracuse Law: "How Giving the President Unfettered Removal Authority Can Undermine the Senate’s Role in Appointments."
February 11, 2021	Professor Stacey Tovino, Oklahoma Law: "Not So Private." Discussants: Professor Nina Kohn and Professor Doron Dorfman, Syracuse Law.
February 18, 2021	Professor Osagie Obasogie, Berkeley Law: "Excited Delirium and Police Use of Force.”
March 11, 2021	Professor Eric Talley, Columbia Law, on "Price Gouging in a Pandemic."
March 17, 2021	Professor Arlene Kanter, Syracuse Law: “The Future is Here: The Right to Remote Work under the Americans with Disabilities Act.”
April 1, 2021	Professor John Lovett, Loyola Law School: "Easements and Change: The Case for the Uniform Easement Relocation Act." Discussant: Professor Robin Malloy, Syracuse Law. Co-sponsored by the Center on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism.
April 8, 2021	Professor Paula Johnson and Aili Obandja, Syracuse Law: "Justice for the Souls of Black People: The Case for Reparations in Namibia and the United States"
April 22, 2021	Professor Nina Kohn, Syracuse Law: “Legislating Supported Decision-Making”

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