11th Annual Junior Faculty Federal Courts Workshop
September 6-7, 2019
University of Arkansas School of Law
Contact
Any questions may be directed to:
Alan Trammell
Assistant Professor of Law
University of Arkansas School of Law
amtramme@uark.edu
(479) 575-5601
The University of Arkansas School of Law is excited to host this workshop, which gives junior scholars an opportunity to receive feedback on works-in-progress. There will be panels at which junior scholars are paired with senior commentators as well as two break-out sessions.
Parking
Visit the university parking map or the visitor parking guide for additional details. The university has four parking garages on campus that charge an hourly rate: Garland Avenue Parking Garage, Stadium Drive Parking Garage, Harmon Avenue Parking Garage and Meadow Street Parking Garage. The university parking map indicates the garage locations.
Lodging
See our page on Hotels in Fayetteville for information on lodging in the Fayetteville, Arkansas, area.
Schedule
Thursday, September 5
- Arrival
- 6:30 Meet at Carnall Hall for optional informal dinner and drinks
Friday, September 6
8:45 – meet at Carnall Hall to walk to the law school
9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast
9:30 – 11:30
- Panel 1
- Allan Erbsen (senior commentator)
- Maggie Gardner, Dangerous Citations
- Merritt E. McAlister, “Downright Indifference”: Examining Unpublished Decisions in the Federal Courts of Appeals
- Portia Pedro, The Chancellors’ New Clothes
- Noah Smith-Drehlich, Reclaiming Constitutional Tort Law
11:30 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Break-out sessions
- Break-out session A
- Z. Payvand Ahdout, Direct Collateral Review
- Benjamin B. Johnson & John Newby Parton, Judges Behaving Badly: Owning Stock in a Party But Failing to Recuse
- G. Alex Nunn, Jurisdictional Elements and the Jury
- Danya Reda, Orientalizing Procedure
- Break-out session B
- Daniel D. Birk, Congress’s Power Over Supreme Court Procedure
- Richard L. Heppner, Jr., Conceptualizing Appealability: Resisting the Supreme Court’s Categorical Imperative
- David Hausman & Marah Taufique, Why Appellate Review Means No Review
2:30 – 2:50 Coffee break
2:50 – 4:20
- Panel 2
- Nancy Leong (senior commentator)
- Daniel Epps & William Ortman, The Defender General
- Katherine A. Macfarlane, Procedural Animus
- Matthew A. Shapiro, Distributing Procedure
5:45 Shuttle departs Carnall Hall for dinner at Fowler House
6:00 – 6:30 Cocktail (half) hour
6:30 – 8:00 Dinner
Saturday, September 7
8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00
- Panel 3
- Jonathan Siegel (senior commentator)
- Thomas B. Bennett, The Paradox of Exclusive State-Court Jurisdiction Over Federal Claims
- Paul R. Gugliuzza, Rising Confusion About “Arising Under” Jurisdiction in Patent Cases
- Justin Weinstein-Tull, The Structures of Local Courts
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 – 11:45
- Panel 4
- Robin J. Effron (senior commentator)
- Maureen Carroll, The Central Tensions of Statutory Fee Shifting
- Roger Michalski, MDL Immunity: Lessons From the National Prescription Opiate Litigation
- Yanbai Andrea Wang,
Exporting American Discovery
Workshop Paper Drafts
All drafts are available for download as PDF files below:
Ahdout: "DIRECT COLLATERAL REVIEW"
Bennett: "THE PARADOX OF EXCLUSIVE STATE-COURT JURISDICTION OVER FEDERAL CLAIMS"
Birk: "CONGRESS’S POWER OVER SUPREME COURT PROCEDURE"
Carroll: "The Central Tensions of Statutory Fee Shifting"
Epps & Ortman: "The Defender General"
Gardner: "DANGEROUS CITATIONS"
Gugliuzza: "RISING CONFUSION ABOUT 'ARISING UNDER' JURISDICTION IN PATENT CASES"
Hausman and Taufique: "WHEN APPELLATE REVIEW MEANS NO REVIEW"
Heppner: "Concept Models of Appealability"
Johnson and Parton: "JUDGES BEHAVING BADLY: OWNING STOCK IN A PARTY BUT FAILING TO RECUSE"
Macfarlane: "PROCEDURAL ANIMUS"
Michalski: "MDL IMMUNITY: LESSONS FROM THE NATIONAL PRESCRIPTION OPIATE LITIGATION"
Nunn: "Jurisdictional Elements and the Jury"
Shapiro: "DISTRIBUTING PROCEDURE"
Smith-Drelich: "RECLAIMING CONSTITUTIONAL TORT LAW"