SCHOLARS MAKING AN IMPACT
THE SPRING WORKSHOP SERIES AT HOFSTRA LAW
The Spring Faculty Workshop Series
Citizenship Colloquium
April 10
January 25
February 7
“The Politics, Morality, and
Constitutionality of ‘Attrition through
Enforcement’”
“Padilla v. Kentucky:
A New Paradigm in Legal
Representation and the
Academy”
Michael Pinard, Professor of
Law and Director of the Clinical
Law Program, University of
Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Professor Pinard’s scholarship and research
interests focus on the criminal process, criminal
defense lawyering and the impact of criminal
convictions. His article “Collateral Consequences
of Criminal Convictions: Confronting Issus of
Race and Dignity” appeared in the New York
University Law Review (vol. 85, no. 2, 2010).
March 14
“Race and Marriage, Illegitimacy and
Equality: Forgotten Intersections in 1970s
Feminist Constitutionalism”
Serena Mayeri, Professor of
Law and History, University of
Pennsylvania Law School
Professor Mayeri’s scholarship
focuses on the historical impact
of progressive and conservative
social movements on legal
and constitutional change. Her history of
feminist legal advocacy in the 1960s and 1970s,
Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law, and
the Civil Rights Revolution, was published by
Harvard University Press in 2011.
“Winning the Battle, But Losing the War:
Immigration Enforcement & Immigrant
Incorporation”
Rogers Smith, Christopher H.
Browne Distinguished Professor
of Political Science, University of
Pennsylvania
Angela M. Banks, Associate
Professor of Law, William &
Mary Law School
Professor Banks is an associate
professor at William & Mary
Law School. Her scholarship
in the areas of immigration,
international human rights, and law and
social change has appeared in such journals
as the William & Mary Law Review, St.
John’s Law Review, Georgia State University
Law Review, Fordham International Law
Journal, University of Pennsylvania Journal
of International Law, UCLA Journal of
International Law and Foreign Affairs and
International Law Forum.
Professor Smith centers his
research on constitutional law,
American political thought, and
modern legal and political theory, with special
interests in questions of citizenship, race,
ethnicity and gender. He is the author or coauthor of numerous articles and six books, the
most recent of which is Still a House Divided:
Race and Politics in Obama’s America, with
Desmond S. King (Princeton University Press,
2011). He also serves as chair of the Penn
Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and
Constitutionalism.
March 6
Conferences
“Immigration’s Information Mediators”
April 24
Stephen Lee, Acting Professor
of Law, UC Irvine School of Law
Professor Lee writes at the
intersection of administrative
law and immigration law and is
particularly interested in the ways
in which enforcement realities
constrain immigration policy across a variety of
contexts and institutions. His work has appeared
in the Stanford Law Review, the Arizona
Law Review and the California Law Review.
Professor Lee previously worked at Skadden,
Arps, clerked for Judge Mary Schroeder on the
Ninth Circuit and completed a fellowship at
Stanford Law School before joining the UCI Law
faculty.
Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professorship
In Legal Ethics Lecture
February 1
Addressing the Ethical Use of Internet
Cloud-Based Apps and Social Media
May 31-June 2
Immigration Law Teachers Workshop
Our Spring 2012 Series Will Also Feature
Date to Be Announced
DISTINGUISHED PRACTITIONER
“Practicing and Prosecuting
in the Eastern District of New
York”
Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney
for the Eastern District of New
York
2011-2012 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture
March 27-29
“Originalism Through Thick and Thin”
“The Rise of Institutional Law Practice”
Thomas D. Morgan, Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust
and Trade Regulation Law, George Washington University
Law School
Professor Morgan has taught and written in the field
of professional responsibility for more than 35 years
and is co-author of the widely used casebook Problems
and Materials on Professional Responsibility (11th ed.,
Foundation Press 2011). As a lecturer and consultant to law firms on
questions of professional ethics and lawyer malpractice, he was selected
by the American Law Institute as one of three professors to prepare its
new Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, and by the American Bar
Association as one of three professors to draft revisions to its Model Rules
of Professional Conduct. His book The Vanishing American Lawyer was
published in 2010 by Oxford University Press.
Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and
the First Amendment, Yale Law School
Professor Balkin is the founder and director of the
Information Society Project at Yale Law School, an
interdisciplinary center that studies law and the new
information technologies, and the director of Yale’s Knight
Law and Media Program. He is the author of more than
90 articles and the author or editor of nine books. His work ranges over
many different fields, including cultural evolution, telecommunications
and Internet law, reproductive rights, freedom of speech, rhetoric,
jurisprudence and legal reasoning, the theory of ideology, and musical
and legal interpretation. He is a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and writes political and legal commentary at the blog
Balkinization.
Reservations and further information are available through the Office of the Dean at (516) 463-5858.