Beyond the Casebook Fall 2021

Columbia Law School's Beyond the Casebook initiative offers 1Ls the opportunity to discuss timely, relevant issues outside of the classroom setting. The series includes intimate faculty-student discussion groups as well as larger-scale events organized around faculty research and publications.

This year's discussions will center on the theme of “lawyers and the challenges of inclusive democracy” and topics include: Authoritarianism and Democratic Crises, Climate Change, Corporate and Private Power, the COVID-19 Pandemic, Economic Inequality, Federalism; Lawyering, Leadership, and Ethics; Policing and Criminal Justice Reform, Racial and Ethnic Inclusion, and Supreme Court Reform.

Beyond the Casebook is led by Professors David Pozen, Olatunde Johnson, Jedediah Purdy, Michael Heller and Bert Huang.

FALL 2021 LUNCHES

Individual Lunches

Date

Location

Topics

September 24

Ancel Plaza

Professor Katz: "Difficult Conversations"
Professor B. Liebman: "Law and Authoritarianism"
Professor C. Johnson: "The Digital Divide and Access to Justice"
Professor Judge: “Financial regulation as case study: technocracy, democracy and representation”

September 27

Revson Plaza

Professor Fagan: "What Kind of Police Reform? Whose Police Reform?"
Professor Andrias: "Does economic inequality undermine democracy?"
Professor J. Bulman-Pozen: "Reproductive Rights Under Attack"
Professor Comey: "Lawyers as Leaders"
Professor Purdy: “Series: What is democracy, and what's wrong with ours?”

September 29

Revson Plaza

Professor Gerrard: "Disinformation and Climate Change, and Legal Remedies"
Professor Shanahan: "The Other 98% of Civil Cases: Racial, Gender, and Economic Injustice in State Civil Courts"
Professor L. Liebman: "The Pandemic and the American Law of Work"
Professor O. Johnson: "Is American Democracy in Crisis?"
Professor Ponsa-Kraus: "Why does the United States still have colonies? Why don’t most Americans know it? Why should they care?"

October 1

Revson Plaza

Professor Katz: "Difficult Conversations"
Professor J. Liebman: "Innocent/Executed: How our Criminal and Capital Justice Institutions Fail"
Professor C. Johnson: "The Digital Divide and Access to Justice"

October 15

Ancel Plaza

Professor Coffee: "Deferred Prosecution Agreements and the Boeing Case"

October 22

TBD

Professor Morton: "The COVID Pandemic and American Democracy: 'What has made the U.S. uniquely good and uniquely bad at responding to COVID?'"
Professor O. Johnson: "Can we build a racially and ethnically inclusive democracy?"

October 27

Ancel Plaza

Professor Schizer: "RBG as Nonprofit Entrepreneur"
Professor Shanahan: "The Other 98% of Civil Cases: Racial, Gender, and Economic Injustice in State Civil Courts"
Dean Lester: "Does economic inequality undermine democracy?"
Professor Sturm: "Lawyers as Change Agents"

November 5

Ancel Plaza

Professor Murray: "The Supreme Court, Deep Dissensus, and Democracy"
Professor Briffault: “The New Preemption: State-Local Conflict in American Democracy”

November 12

Ancel Plaza

Professor Genty: "Lawyering, Leadership, Ethics, and Democracy"
Professor Barenberg: "The Law of Capitalism and Democratic Socialism"
Professor Baylor: "Participation and Transformation of Criminal Legal Systems"
Professor Mukherjee: "Immigrants’ Rights in 2021"

November 19

Ancel Plaza

Professor Benhabib: "Migrants and Refugees - Comparative Perspectives on the Rights of “Others”"
Professor J. Liebman: "What the COVID Crisis Reveals about the Prospects for a Truly Public and Equitable System of Education in the US"
Professor Huang: "The Information Gap Between Lawyers and the General Public"
Professor Professor Mukherjee: "Immigrants’ Rights in 2021"

Date	Location	Topics
September 24	Ancel Plaza	Professor Katz: "Difficult Conversations" Professor B. Liebman: "Law and Authoritarianism" Professor C. Johnson: "The Digital Divide and Access to Justice" Professor Judge: “Financial regulation as case study: technocracy, democracy and representation”
September 27	Revson Plaza	Professor Fagan: "What Kind of Police Reform? Whose Police Reform?" Professor Andrias: "Does economic inequality undermine democracy?" Professor J. Bulman-Pozen: "Reproductive Rights Under Attack" Professor Comey: "Lawyers as Leaders" Professor Purdy: “Series: What is democracy, and what's wrong with ours?”
September 29	Revson Plaza	Professor Gerrard: "Disinformation and Climate Change, and Legal Remedies" Professor Shanahan: "The Other 98% of Civil Cases: Racial, Gender, and Economic Injustice in State Civil Courts" Professor L. Liebman: "The Pandemic and the American Law of Work" Professor O. Johnson: "Is American Democracy in Crisis?" Professor Ponsa-Kraus: "Why does the United States still have colonies? Why don’t most Americans know it? Why should they care?"
October 1	Revson Plaza	Professor Katz: "Difficult Conversations" Professor J. Liebman: "Innocent/Executed: How our Criminal and Capital Justice Institutions Fail" Professor C. Johnson: "The Digital Divide and Access to Justice"
October 15	Ancel Plaza	Professor Coffee: "Deferred Prosecution Agreements and the Boeing Case"
October 22	TBD	Professor Morton: "The COVID Pandemic and American Democracy: 'What has made the U.S. uniquely good and uniquely bad at responding to COVID?'" Professor O. Johnson: "Can we build a racially and ethnically inclusive democracy?"
October 27	Ancel Plaza	Professor Schizer: "RBG as Nonprofit Entrepreneur" Professor Shanahan: "The Other 98% of Civil Cases: Racial, Gender, and Economic Injustice in State Civil Courts" Dean Lester: "Does economic inequality undermine democracy?" Professor Sturm: "Lawyers as Change Agents"
November 5	Ancel Plaza	Professor Murray: "The Supreme Court, Deep Dissensus, and Democracy" Professor Briffault: “The New Preemption: State-Local Conflict in American Democracy”
November 12	Ancel Plaza	Professor Genty: "Lawyering, Leadership, Ethics, and Democracy" Professor Barenberg: "The Law of Capitalism and Democratic Socialism" Professor Baylor: "Participation and Transformation of Criminal Legal Systems" Professor Mukherjee: "Immigrants’ Rights in 2021"
November 19	Ancel Plaza	Professor Benhabib: "Migrants and Refugees - Comparative Perspectives on the Rights of “Others”" Professor J. Liebman: "What the COVID Crisis Reveals about the Prospects for a Truly Public and Equitable System of Education in the US" Professor Huang: "The Information Gap Between Lawyers and the General Public" Professor Professor Mukherjee: "Immigrants’ Rights in 2021"

Lunch Series

Date: Topic
September 27 and October 27: Professor Purdy: "What is democracy, and what's wrong with ours?"
October 1 and November 19: Professor Pistor: "How Law Creates Value and Power"
October 15 and October 22: Professor Pozen: "Is the Supreme Court a threat to inclusive democracy, and if so what
might be done?"

Date	Topic
September 27 and October 27	Professor Purdy: "What is democracy, and what's wrong with ours?"
October 1 and November 19	Professor Pistor: "How Law Creates Value and Power"
October 15 and October 22	Professor Pozen: "Is the Supreme Court a threat to inclusive democracy, and if so what might be done?"