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

September 24

Location

Ancel Plaza

Topics

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”

Date

September 27

Location

Revson Plaza

Topics

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?”

Date

September 29

Location

Revson Plaza

Topics

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?"

Date

October 1

Location

Revson Plaza

Topics

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"

Date

October 15

Location

Ancel Plaza

Topics

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

Date

October 22

Location

TBD

Topics

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?"

Date

October 27

Location

Ancel Plaza

Topics

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"

Date

November 5

Location

Ancel Plaza

Topics

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

Date

November 12

Location

Ancel Plaza

Topics

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"

Date

November 19

Location

Ancel Plaza

Topics

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