2022 Program

University of Southern California, June 23-24

Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA

Attendance is free but capped at 40. Accordingly, registration is necessary.

If you would like to participate, please complete this form.

Thursday, 23 June

11am Coffee


11:45am Welcoming Remarks


12 – 1:30pm Valerie Soon (Stanford) – “Unbundling Freedom of Association”

Comments by Jordan Wallace-Wolf (UCLA/Arkansas)


1:30 – 2:30pm Lunch

2:30 – 4pm Emad Atiq (Cornell) – “Reasonable Moral Doubt”

Comments by Vishnu Sridharan (USC)


4 – 4:30pm Break


4:30 – 6pm Lewis Ross (LSE) – “Criminal Proof”

Comments by Marcela Prieto Rudolphy (USC)


6:30pm Dinner and Drinks

Location: TBA

Friday, 24 June

10am Coffee


10:30 – 12pm Colin Bradley (Princeton) – “Private Rights and Private Wrongs”

Comments by Felipe Jimenez (USC)


12 – 1pm Lunch


1 – 2:30pm Sameer Bajaj (Warwick) – “Electoral Mandates”

Comments by Amber Kavka-Warren (UCLA)


2:30 – 3pm Break


3 – 4:30pm Patricia Marino (Waterloo) – “The Boundaries of Cost Benefit Analysis”

Comments by Rebecca Stone (UCLA)


Local Organizers (USC):

Julia Nichols, Vishnu Sridharan

LPW Committee:

Steve Bero (Surrey), Mihailis Diamantis (Iowa), Alex Guerrero (Rutgers), Jean Thomas (Queens), Aness Webster (Durham)

With support from USC Center for Law and Philosophy and its Co-Directors (Felipe Jiminez, Greg Keating, and Jon Quong)