Faculty Speaker Series

The University of Louisville School of Law is proud to host a regular Faculty Speaker Series. 

The law school's Dean's Faculty Development Fund allows us to host national legal scholars in a variety of fields to discuss their cutting-edge forthcoming legal scholarship. Our faculty will engage with these works-in-progress, bringing our own expertise and perspectives.

Professor Jamie Abrams, assistant dean of intellectual life, explains the importance of legal scholarship:

"Legal scholarship is a tool to develop new solutions to resolving current problems that need resolution, like terrorism or immigration. It is a tool to anticipate future legal problems and how we might resolve them, such as the regulation of genetic material. It is also a tool to use modern legal lenses to better understand the past in ways that were not even intellectually viable forms of analysis in that historical moment, such as the development of intellectual property by slaves."

See below for a schedule of speakers.

Fall 2019

	Tuesday, August 13 Erin Gow    University of Louisville Online Services Librarian   Bethany Daily University of Louisville, School of Law Communications Director  Presenting: Strategies to Strengthen Scholarly Impact
	Tuesday, August 27 Browne C Lewis Cleveland State University Leon and Gloria Plevin Professor of Law Director of the Center for Health Law & Policy    Presenting: Harming: Remedying Fertility Clinic Mistakes
	Tuesday, September 3 Grace Giesel University of Louisville Bernard Flexner Professor in Law Distinguished Teaching Professor  Presenting:  Alternative Litigation Finance: “The single most important development in civil justice”?
	Tuesday, October 22 Justin Walker  University of Louisville Associate Professor of Law Presenting:  Schechter-to-Chevron Spectrum

Spring 2020

	Tuesday, January 7 Felix Chang University of Cincinnati Professor of Law and Co-Director, Corporate Law Center Presenting:  Algorithmic Antitrust Research
	Tuesday, January 28 JoAnne Sweeny University of Louisville Professor of Law  Presenting:  The #Metoo Movement in Comparative Perspective
	Tuesday, March 31 Shelly Saxer Pepperdine University, Laure Sudreau Endowed Professor of Law