Events

Upcoming Events

Past Events

• Unlocking Antitrust: Updates in Merger Enforcement
• Nationwide Injunctions
• Stephen Vladeck Book Talk: The Shadow Docket
• Stephen B. Bright and James Kwak Book Talk: Fear of Too much Justice
• Sateesh Nori Book Talk: Sheltered: Twenty Years in Housing Court
• The Future of AI & the Law: Risks, Opportunities and Challenges
• Emerging Trends in Third Party Funding - In February 2023, members of the Center's Dispute Financing Library Advisory Board organized a full-day conference on cutting-edge issues in third-party funding.  Among the highlights was a spirited conversation on law firm ownership, featuring a vigorous debate between members of the New York State Bar Association and practitioners.  A separate panel provided a practical, behind-the-scenes peek into the process of drafting a contract to fund litigation.  The full conference was recorded and is available here.
   
• Recent Developments in Arbitration - CCJ Board of Advisers member Hon. Lee Rosenthal, Chief Judge of the Southern District of Texas conceived of this conference on the changing landscape in arbitration.  The Center worked with George Bermann of the Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration at Columbia Law School and Franco Ferrari and Linda Silberman of the Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration, and Commercial Law at NYU School of Law to organize the event.  The conference featured five panels discussing various pressing issues in arbitration, including the lead-off panel on gateway issues moderated by Judge Rosenthal; a panel discussing due process in arbitration; a panel discussing developments in international arbitration; panel on the cutting-edge aspects of consumer and employment mass arbitration, featuring a presentation by Maria Glover, author of the leading paper on the subject; and a panel on third-party arbitration funding.
   
• Shifting Tide in State Court Civil Litigation - 

  State court dockets have increasingly become home to assembly-line plaintiffs filing debt collection, eviction, or foreclosure actions against unrepresented defendants. At this conference, we convened the leading scholars who have been calling for attention to this developing issue, together with judges and practitioners who are working on solutions. Among our presenters were Professor Colleen Shanahan, who has written extensively about developments in state courts, as well as Prof. Daniel Wilf-Townsend, who authored the insightful "Assembly Line Plaintiffs" in the Harvard Law Review. The conference also included a discussion of current efforts by various state courts in aid of those who find themselves in state court without legal representation. A highlight of the conference was a lunchtime keynote by Hon. Bridget McCormack, then-Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court

  Watch: The Shifting Tide in State Court Civil Litigation: Keynote Address by Chief Justice Bridget McCormack

• Honoring Hon. Jack B. Weinstein
• Antitrust Panel Series in association with Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• COVID & the Courts
• Firearms Litigation: Liability, Regulation, and the Constitution
• MDLs & Class Actions: A Discussion with Chris Seeger and Elizabeth Burch
• Dispute Financing: COVID-19 & Other Recent Developments 
• Brian T. Fitzpatrick Book Talk: The Conservative Case for Class Actions
• Artificial Intelligence: Educating the Legal Profession
• The Future of Dispute Finance: Pricing, Profits, and Policy
• The Opioid Epidemic
• Artificial Intelligence in a Democratic Society
• MDL @ 50
• Class Action Effect (with University of Montreal)
• Rule 23 @ 50
• Litigation Funding
• Lost in the Fine Print
• Consumer Class Actions
• Is the Jury Trial Dying