For every iteration of the workshop, those included in our mailing list receive an email inviting them to submit abstracts for consideration. We aim to include work that fits the aims and goals of the workshop, and to achieve a reasonable balance in terms of topics and speakers.
To give you a sense of the type of work that is presented at NAWPLT, below is a list of papers that have been presented in previous meetings:
Author Paper
Benson, Peter Chapter from Justice in Transactions
Dedek, Helge Kelsen on Individual Rights
Kelly, Dan The Divisibility of Property
Lee, Brian Compensation for Emergency Destruction
Oman, Nate Chapter from The Dignity of Commerce
Perry, Stephen Torts, Rights, and Risk
Sherwin, Emily Rights and Remedies
Sinel, Zoe Scales, Shields, and Swords—Self-Help Remedial Actions in Private Law
Austin, Lisa How Private is Private Law?
Bagchi, Aditi Contract and the Problem of Fickle People
Balganesh, Shyamkrishna Structure and Value in the Common Law
Botterell, Andrew Private and Public Right in the Law of Unjust Enrichment
Brooks, Richard The Improbable Duty to Breach
Gergen, Mark Privity's Shadow: Exculpatory Terms in Extended Forms of Private Ordering
Hershovitz, Scott The Expressive Function of Tort Law
Katz, Larissa Property's Sovereignty
Shiffrin, Seana Remedial Clauses
Smith, Lionel Aspects of Loyalty
Dorfman, Avihay The Relative Necessity of Tort Law
Essert, Chris Property and Homelessness
Kar, Robin Contract as Empowerment: Introducing the Theory
Keating, Greg The Priority of Avoiding Harm
Klass, Gregory Apt and Certain Words: The Interpretation, Construction, and Theory of Contracts, Chapters Two & Three
McMahon, Patricia The Fusion Fallacy Revisited: A Purposive Approach to the Fusion of Law and Equity under the Judicature Acts 1873-1875
Radin, Margaret Jane Access to Justice and Abuses of Contract
Ripstein, Arthur Property and Sovereignty: How to Tell the Difference
Weinrib, Ernest The Jurisprudence of Corrective Justice: Structure
Cornell, Nico Competition Wrongs
Galoob, Stephen The Fiduciary’s Loyalty, Inside and Out
Gold, Andrew Equity and the Right to Do Wrong
Goldberg, John Recognizing Wrongs
Katz, Larissa Pathways to Legal Rights: The Function of Equity
Leib, Ethan The Fiduciary’s Loyalty, Inside and Out
Markovits, Daniel Who Owns What?
Scholz, Lauren Privacy Remedies
Simons, Ken Actual, Apparent and Hypothetical Consent in Tort Law
Stone, Rebecca Private Liability Without Wrongdoing
Zipursky, Benjamin Recognizing Wrongs
Bagchi, Aditi Lying and Cheating, or Self-Help and Civil Disobedience?
Brady, Molly The Forgotten History of Metes and Bounds
Klimchuk, Dennis Actions Within, but in Abuse of, Right
Lewinsohn, Jed Quid Pro Quo, Debt, and Consideration
Murphy, Liam The Formality of Contractual Obligation
Oberdiek, John Relational Duties and Wrongs: How Personal Is Too Personal?
Priel, Dan The Impossibility of Independent Corrective Justice
Samet-Porat, Irit On Equity and the Value of Conserving Legal Traditions
Wurgler, Florencia Marotta Contracting for Data Security
Essert, Chris The Nature and Value of Public Space
Ferzan, Kimberly Dissent-Sensitive Permissions
Fox-Decent, Evan The Constitution of Equity
Jimenez, Felipe Two Questions for Private Law Theory
Kraus, Jody The Two Faces of American Contract Law
Len, Lyn K.L. Tjon Soei Hermeneutical Injustice and Contract
Moreau, Sophia The Duty to Treat Others as Equals: Who Stands Under It?
Nadler, Jennifer A Theory of Contractual Mistake
Penner, James Locke on Equality, the Consent to Value Money, and Positional Goods
Scott, Bob The Two Faces of American Contract Law
Davis, Kevin Contract Law and Inequality
Lavoie, Malcolm Property and Local Knowledge
Pargendler, Mariana Contract Law and Inequality
Shapiro, Matthew Procedural Wrongdoing
Tsuruda, Sabine Resistance and Recognition in Contract
Bix, Brian The Moral Obligation to Perform Contracts
Blanchard, Sadie Nominal Damages and the Other Ends of Adjudication
Cox, Courtney Confronting Normative Uncertainty: Deciding Cases When You Don't Know How to Decide
Dagan, Hanoch Poverty and Private Law: Beyond Distributive Justice
Dorfman, Avihay Poverty and Private Law: Beyond Distributive Justice
Emhart, Alberto Pino Disciplining Coercion in Private Law
Hasan, Rafeeq What is Provisional Right?
Jonker, Julian Individualism and the Interpersonal in Antidiscrimination Law
Rothman, Jennifer Navigating the Identity Thicket: Trademark's Lost Theory of Personality, The Right of Publicity, and Preemption
Stone, Martin What is Provisional Right?
Atiq, Emad Risk Aggregation and the Hand Formula
Barzun, Charles Benjamin Cardozo's Sociological Jurisprudence
Chatterjee, Mala The Extended Self: A Framework of Information Rights
Helmreich, Jeff Strict Liability in Law and Morals
Kendrick, Leslie The Perils and Promise of Public Nuisance
Langille, Joanna The Subjects of Tort Law
Lavoie, Malcolm The Subsidiarity of Property Law
Moreau, Sophia Beyond Anti-Discrimination Law
Oza, Manish The Personality of Public Authorities
Saiman, Chaim Insurance: Just a Contract or a Just Contract
Stolzenberg, Emily Private Law and Intimates Obligations
Thomas, Jean An Institutional Norm for Common Law Adjudication
Varsava, Nina Derivative Recognition and Intersystemic Interpretation
Wallace-Wolf, Jordan Violations and Deviations
Zipursky, Benjamin Presumed Damages and Reputational Integrity
Balganesh, Shyam The Eunomics of Intellectual Property
Beswick, Samuel The Defense of Public Necessity
Bray, Sam Why Equity Changes
D'Onfro, Danielle Revisiting Tortious Interference with Contract
Toomey, James Fiduciary Standards
Valcke, Catherine Taking Legal Difference Seriously: Objective and Subjective Contractual Consent
Blanchard, Sadie Contracting for Equity
Cornell, Nico Anticipatory Breach and Anticipatory Complaint
Cox, Courtney Deceit is not Deception
Encarnacion, Erik The Continuity Thesis: Political, Not Metaphysical
Keating, Greg Tort is Basic Justice
Martínez Alles, María The Significance of the Private Actor in Torts