Law and Governance Series

The Penn Program Regulation co-sponsors the Law and Governance discussion series, focusing on exciting new research in the field of public law.  The series is organized and hosted by Neysun Mahboubi, Director of the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania and PPR Research Affiliate.  Initially, the series consisted of live, audio-only discussions recorded on the Clubhouse app, before moving to the platform of Twitter Spaces. The series recently started featuring video conversations. Information about past discussions, as well as their recordings, are available below. 

 

In addition to discussions of new scholarship, the series also features periodic conversations around hot topics in public law.  

 

Follow Law and Governance on Twitter for the latest information about upcoming discussions.

Law and Governance “Hot Topic” Conversations

 

July 2, 2024What Are the Implications of the End of Chevron for U.S. Administrative Law?

Featuring Emily Bremer (Notre Dame), Cary Coglianese (Penn), Bridget Dooling (Ohio State), Michael Herz (Cardozo Law), and Kristin Hickman (Minnesota Law). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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August 2, 2023: The SCOTUS Abides: Looking Back on the Past Term

Featuring Tara Leigh Grove (Texas), David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Julian Davis Mortenson (Michigan), Cristina Rodriguez (Yale), Elizabeth Sepper (Texas), and Peter Shane (NYU). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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February 1, 2023: OIRA Abroad?: Israel’s New Regulation Authority

Featuring Yoav Dotan (Hebrew University), Susan Dudley (George Washington University), Yael Kariv-Teitelbaum (Hebrew University/PPR), and Yuval Roitman (Israeli Ministry of Justice). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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January 25, 2023: EU Conditionality and Member State Budgeting: The Case of Italy

Featuring Bojan Bugarič (Sheffield), Mauriza De Bellis (University of Rome II), Giacinto della Cananea (Bocconi), and Fernanda Nicola (American WCL). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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December 1, 2022: Chile’s Constitutional Amendment Debate

Featuring Javier Couso Salas (Universidad Diego Portales), Camila Vergara Gonzalez (University of Cambridge), Sergio Verdugo (IE University), and Veronica Undurraga (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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October 28, 2022: Legal Aspects of China’s 20th Party Congress

Featuring Ling Li (Vienna), Mark Sidel (Wisconsin), Holly Snape (Glasgow), and Taisu Zhang (Yale). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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September 29, 2022: SCOTUS Strikes Back: Previewing the 2022-23 Term

Featuring David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), Dahlia Lithwick (Slate), Kate Shaw (Cardozo Law), Julian Davis Mortenson (Michigan), Cristina Rodriguez (Yale), and Kate Shaw (Cardozo). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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May 18, 2022The Leaked Draft Opinion in Dobbs

Featuring Michael C. Dorf (Cornell Law School), Dahlia Lithwick (Slate), Kate Shaw (Cardozo Law), David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), and Mary Ziegler (Florida State). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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March 25, 2022The Confirmation Hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson

Featuring Michael C. Dorf (Cornell Law School), Dahlia Lithwick (Slate), Kate Shaw (Cardozo Law), David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), and Cristina Rodriguez (Yale Law). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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March 3, 2022Legal Aspects of the War in Ukraine

Featuring Oona Hathaway (Yale), Adam Bodnar (SWPS Warsaw), Tom Ginsburg (U Chicago), Hannah Birkenkötter (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), and Yulia Kaspiarovich (Groningen). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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February 9, 2022The Future of the European Legal Order

Featuring Fernanda Nicola (American WCL), Bojan Bugarič (Sheffield), Petra Bard (Central European University), and Adam Bodnar (former Polish Ombudsman for Citizen Rights). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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January 26, 2022The Fate and Future of Federal Anti-COVID Mandates

Featuring Jonathan Adler (Case Western), Peter Shane (Ohio State Moritz Law), Rena Steinzor (Maryland), and Lindsay Wiley (UCLA). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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January 5, 2022West Virginia v. EPA and the Future of Climate Policy

Featuring Shelley Welton (South Carolina), Nicholas Bagley (Michigan), Jonathan Adler (Case Western), and Karen Sokol (Loyola New Orleans). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

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December 15, 2021: Dobbs, SB8, and the Future of Roe v. Wade

Featuring Liz Sepper (Texas Law), Mary Ziegler (FSU Law), Jon Michaels (UCLA Law), and Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law). Moderated by Neysun Mahboubi (Penn).

 Research Discussions

July 19, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. ET : Christopher Walker (Michigan Law) and Scott MacGuidwin (Michigan Law) on Interpreting the Administrative Procedure Act: A Literature Review”

Discussants: Kristin Hickman (Minnesota Law), Ronald Levin (WUSTL), Kathryn Kovacs (Rutgers), and moderator Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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May 11, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. ET : Benjamin Eidelson (Harvard Law) and Matthew Stephenson (Harvard Law) on The Incompatibility of Substantive Canons and Textualism

Discussants: Abbe Gluck (Yale Law), Christopher Walker (Michigan Law), Tara Grove (Texas Law), and moderator Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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May 4, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. ET : Yutian An (Princeton) and Taisu Zhang (Yale) on Pandemic State-building: Chinese Administrative Expansion in the Xi Jinping Era”

Discussants: Rick Hills (NYU Law), Juan Wang (McGill), Noah Rosenblum (NYU Law), and moderator Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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April 27, 2023 at 8:30 p.m. ET : Greg Shill (Iowa Law) on “Regulating the Pedestrian Safety Crisis”

Discussants: Sara Bronin (Cornell), Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), Sheila Foster (Georgetown), and moderator Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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February 17, 2023 : Kathleen Claussen (Miami Law) on The Improvised Implementation of Executive Agreements

Discussants: Emily Bremer (Notre Dame Law), Elena Chachko (Harvard Law), Edward Swaine (GW Law), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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November 10, 2022 : Tarun Khaitan (Oxford) on Scholactivism in Constitutional Studies

Discussants: Michaela Hailbronner (Giessen), Dan Kelemen (Rutgers), Liora Lazarus (Allard Law at UBC), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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June 8, 2022 : Emily Bremer (Notre Dame) on The Undemocratic Roots of Agency Rulemaking 

Discussants: Nina Mendelson (U Michigan), Cary Coglianese (Penn Law), Bridget Dooling (GWU), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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May 25, 2022: Ron Levin (WUSTL) on The Evolving APA and the Originalist Challenge” 

Discussants: Evan Bernick (Northern Illinois University), Emily Bremer (Notre Dame), Kathryn Kovacs (Rutgers), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)


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May 11, 2022: Daniel Walters (Penn State Law) on The Administrative Agon”

Discussants: J. Benton Heath (Temple), Jane Mansbridge (Harvard Kennedy School), Shalini Bhargava Ray (Alabama), Jocelyn Simonson (Brooklyn), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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May 4, 2022: Cristie Ford (University of British Columbia Law) on “The Legal Innovation Sandbox”


Discussants: Hilary Allen (American WCL), Daniel Rodriguez (Northwestern), David Zaring (Wharton School), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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April 27, 2022: Michael Asimow (Santa Clara Law), on “Charging Practices of Regulatory Agencies”

 

Discussants: Herwig Hofmann (Luxembourg), Maggie Lemos (Duke Law), Bijal Shah (ASU) and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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April 20, 2022: Fernanda Nicola (American WCL) on Legal Diplomacy in an Age of Authoritarianism”


Discussants: Karen Alter (Northwestern), Gráinne de Búrca (NYU), Erin Delaney (Northwestern), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)


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April 13, 2022Alan Rozenshtein (Minnesota Law) on “The Virtuous Executive”


Discussants: Brian Feinstein (Wharton), Jennifer Mascott (George Mason), Kate Shaw (Cardozo Law), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

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April 6, 2022: Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law) on “Taking Appropriations Seriously”


Discussants: Bridget Dooling (GWU), Molly Reynolds (Brookings), Christopher Walker (Ohio State Moritz Law), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)


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March 30, 2022: Gregory Shaffer (UCI Law) on Governing the Interface of U.S.-China Trade Relations”


Discussants: Robert Howse (NYU), Desiree LeClercq (Cornell ILR), Jingyuan Zhou (Arizona), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)


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March 16, 2022: Kristin Hickman (University of Minnesota Law) on “Nondelegation as Constitutional Symbolism”

 

Discussants: Sharon Jacobs (Colorado), Gillian Metzger (Columbia Law), Christopher Walker (Ohio State Moritz Law), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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March 9, 2022Maciej Bernatt (Warsaw) on Populism and Antitrust: Illiberal Influence of Populist Government on the Competition Law System


Discussants: Herbert Hovenkamp (Penn), Alison Jones (Kings College London) Mariana Mota Prado (Toronto), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)


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February 23, 2022: Blake Emerson (UCLA Law) on “The Structure of Executive Power”

 

Discussants: Bridget Dooling (GWU), Julian Davis Mortenson (Michigan Law), Gillian Metzger (Columbia), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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February 16, 2022: Gregory Elinson (Harvard Law) and Jonathan Gould (Berkeley Law) on “The Politics of Deference”

 

Discussants: Michael Herz (Cardozo Law), Kristin Hickman (Minnesota Law), Sharon Jacobs (Colorado), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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February 2, 2022 at 8:30 p.m. ET: Matthew Lawrence (Emory Law) on “Subordination and Separation of Powers”

 

Discussants: Bijal Shah (ASU), Bridget Dooling (GWU), Zachary Price (Hastings Law), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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January 19, 2022: Ilan Wurman (Arizona State University) on The Second Founding: An Introduction to the 14th Amendment

 

Discussants: Mark Graber (Maryland Carey Law), Rebecca Zietlow (Toledo Law), Julian Davis Mortenson (Michigan Law), Reginald Oh (Cleveland-Marshall Law), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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January 12, 2022: Astrid Hedin (Malmö) on “Communist State Administration”

 

Discussants: Robert Ahdieh (Texas A&M Law), Ling Li (University of Vienna), Angela Ferrari Zumbini (Napoli Federico II), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

 

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December 8, 2021Jesse Cross (University of South Carolina Law) and Abbe Gluck (Yale Law) on “The Congressional Bureaucracy”

 

Discussants: Bridget Dooling (GWU), Daniel Hemel (University of Chicago Law), Richard Murphy (Texas Tech Law), Christopher Walker (Ohio State Moritz Law), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)


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November 17, 2021: Brian D. Feinstein (Wharton School) and Abby Wood (USC Gould) on “Divided Agencies”

 

Discussants: David Noll (Rutgers Law), Daniel Walters (Penn State Law), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

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November 4, 2021: John A. Dearborn (Vanderbilt) on Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation

 

Discussants: David Noll (Rutgers Law), Molly Reynolds (Brookings), Calvin TerBeek (Chicago), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

October 20, 2021: Susan Rose-Ackerman (Yale Law) on Democracy and Executive Power

 

Discussants: Giacinto della Cananea (Bocconi), Liz Fisher (Oxford), Michaela Hailbronner (Giessen), Thomas Perroud (Panthéon-Assas), Peter Shane (Ohio State Moritz Law), Jonathan Wiener (Duke Law), and Neysun Mahboubi (Penn)

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