Beyond the Casebook Fall 2022

Columbia Law School's Beyond the Casebook initiative offers 1Ls the opportunity to discuss timely, relevant issues outside of the classroom setting, such as racial and economic inequality and threats to democracy. This year’s discussions will center on the theme “lawyers and the challenges of inclusive democracy”. The series includes informal faculty-student discussion groups as well as larger-scale events organized around faculty research and publications.

Beyond the Casebook is led by Professors Kathryn Judge and Olatunde Johnson.

FALL 2022 LUNCHES

Individual Lunches

Date & Location

September 23
TBA

Topics

Professor Olatunde Johnson: "Is the Supreme Court in Crisis?"
Professor Avery Katz: "Difficult Conversations"

Date & Location

September 30
TBA

Topics

Professor Jessica Bulman-Pozen: “Democracy and State Constitutions”
Professor David Schizer: “Red White and Blue–and also Green: How Energy Policy Can Protect Both National Security and the Environment”

Date & Location

October 5
TBA

Topics

Professor Conrad Johnson: "The Digital Divide and Access to Justice"

Date & Location

October 12
TBA

Topics

Professor Michael Gerrard: “Difficult Tradeoffs in the Fight Against Climate Change”
Professor Josh Gupta-Kagan: “When the Law in Practice Doesn’t Match the Law in Theory in Child Neglect & Abuse Cases
Professor Kathryn Judge: "Transparency, Engagement and Capture in Financial Regulation"
Professor David Pozen: “The Constitution and the War on Drugs”

Date & Location

October 14
TBA

Topics

Professor Philip Genty: “The Limits of Advocacy: Ethical Duties to Clients, Courts, Society”
Professor David Pozen: “The Constitution and the War on Drugs”
Professor Olatunde Johnson: "Abolition Constitutionalism"

Date & Location

October 21
TBA

Topics

Professor Bert Huang: “The Information Gap Between Lawyers and the General Public”
Professor James Liebman: “The Constitutional Status of Public Education”