FACULTY PERSPECTIVE
FALL 2017 FACULTY
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Faculty Works in Progress (FWIP) lectures are held in the Lindquist and Vennum Conference Room, Room 385 from 12:15-1:15 p.m. on each Thursday listed below. For more information, contact Christa Daszkiewicz at cdaszkie@umn.edu.
SEPTEMBER 7 William D. Henderson Indiana University Mauer School of Law How Innovation Diffuses in the Legal Industry 14 Jill Hasday Law School Intimate Lies and the Law 21 Sarah Seo University of Iowa College of Law The Problem of Traffic with LawAbiding Citizens 28 Richard Painter Law School The Emoluments Clause and President Trump
OCTOBER 5 Gregory Sisk University of St. Thomas School of Law Holding the Federal Government Accountable for Sexual Assault: Revising the Federal Torts Claim Act 12 Arthur B. Markman University of Texas at Austin The Psychology of Behavior Change and the Law: Six Ways to Help People Change Commentator: Alexander Rothman University of Minnesota, College of Liberal Arts 19 Jamal Greene Columbia Law School A Private Law Court in a Public Law System 26 Rachel Sachs Washington University Law The Uneasy Case for Patent Law
NOVEMBER 2 Douglass Cassel University of Notre Dame Law School Outlining the Case for Common Law Duty of Care of Business to Exercise Human Rights Due Diligence
9 Bert Kritzer Law School Political Struggles Over How States Select and Retain Judges: When and Why Does Change Happen? 16 Ruti G. Teitel New York Law School Righting our Global Wrongs: Presidential Visions of Historical Justice 30 Karen Ho University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts From Shareholder Value to Private Equity: Finance, Culture, and a New Age of Inequality
DECEMBER 7 William P. Jones University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Why Do Public Employees Have, and Why Are They Losing, Collective Bargaining Rights? 14 Myron Orfield Law School The Rise and Fall of Racial Integration in the Citadel of Civil Rights
KRITZER AND SHEN RELEASE MAJOR STUDIES PROFESSOR BERT KRITZER
PROFESSOR FRANCIS SHEN
released “Polarization in American Politics: Does it Extend to the Federal District Court?” which examines whether there has been a pattern of increasing political polarization in decisions by federal district judges. The study, which considered more than 115,000 federal court decisions between 1934 and 2014, showed that increased polarization has occurred, and the overall trend largely reflects increasing conservatism by appointees of Republican presidents. The simple pattern does tend to break down, however, when cases are disaggregated by subject matter.
released two new studies: “Battlefield Casualties and Ballot Box Defeat: Did the Bush-Obama Wars Cost Clinton the White House?” and “Minority Mens Rea: Racial Bias and Criminal Mental States.” The former posits a “significant and meaningful relationship” between a community’s rate of military sacrifice and its support for President Trump. It empirically explores the emerging divide between communities whose young people have died in war zones—and those whose have not—and finds evidence that this divide contributed to Trump’s presidential victory in
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2016. The latter examines whether implicit racial biases affect jurors in the American criminal justice system. The study suggests that, despite common calls for the criminal justice system to improve its response to racial bias, determinations of criminal intent may be made without significant bias. n