Works in Progress Presentations
RPL members present informal scholarly Works in Progress to each other several times each semester. Here you can find information about past and upcoming presentations.
2018-2019 Academic Year
Lindsey Webb
October 2018
Nancy Ehrenreich
“Finding the Joy in Teaching: Law Professors and Academic Perfectionism”
November 2018
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernandez
“Migrating to Prison: Immigration in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
January 2019
Andrea Freeman
“A Comparative Study of Food Inequality under Capitalist and Socialist Political and Economic Systems.”
April 2019
Wyatt Sassman
“Common Problems in Environmental Law”
April 2019
2017-2018 Academic Year
Randy Robinson
“The New Digital Wild West and the SEC’s Attempt to Corral the Explosion of Initial Coin Offerings”
December 2017
2016-2017 Academic Year
TBD. Check back soon!
2015-2016 Academic Year
Professor Rashmi Goel
October, 2015
“Abolishing Immigration Prisons”
Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
March, 2016
“Human Dignity and the Constitution”
Professor Kris McDaniel-Miccio
April, 2016
“The Procedural Exceptionalism of National Security Secrecy”
Professor Margaret Kwoka
April, 2016
2014-2015 Academic Year
“Leaking and Legitimacy”
Professor Margaret Kwoka
September, 2014
“Naturalizing Immigration Imprisonment”
Professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
November, 2014
“Lawyering for Social Justice Movements: How the Legal Academy Can Maximize Change”
Professor Alexi Freeman
December, 2014
“Attempt, Merger, and Transferred Intent”
Professor Nancy Ehrenreich
December, 2014
“Female Complicity in Domestic Violence/Violence Against Women”
Professor Rashmi Goel
March, 2015
“Burwell and Bakers: The Survival of State Anti-Discrimination Laws after Burwell v. Hobby Lobby”
Professor Kyle Velte
April, 2015
2013-2014 Academic Year
“The Shadow of Law’s Selective Racial Memory: Reclaiming History for a Multiracial Metropolitan America”
Professor Tom Romero
December, 2013
“Nickeled and Dimed: Breastfeeding and Class in the Workplace”
Professor Nancy Ehrenreich
January, 2014
“A Woman Held the Match – Female Complicity In Dowry Deaths in India”
Professor Rashmi Goel
February, 2014
“Catholicism and the Law of Slavery”
Professor Beto Juárez
March, 2014
“The Battle for the Soul of Unconstitutional Animus”
Professor Susannah Pollvogt
April, 2014