North American Workshop on Private Law Theory

January 31-February 1, 2025

About the Workshop

In 2025 BCPLT will host the eleventh annual North American Workshop on Private Law Theory (NAWPLT). NAWPLT is a yearly conference that gathers dozens of American-based private law scholars to discuss works-in-progress. Papers will address topics within private law including contracts, equity, property, restitution, remedies, and torts, and are selected to reflect a diversity of perspectives and methodologies.

Program

The program features 6 sessions in which we will discuss 6 papers dedicating 90 minutes to each. The discussion will begin with the commentator who will have 15 minutes to speak, followed by a brief response (5 to 10 minutes) by the author and then an open discussion. We obviously encourage all participants to read the papers in advance to facilitate discussion during the conference.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm: The John G. Fleming Lecture

Presenter: Ernest Weinrib, Theology in Vincent v. Lake Erie

6:30 pm – 8:15 pm: Dinner(Location TBA) 

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Day 1 – Friday, January 31

8:30 am – 9:00 am: Breakfast

9:00 am – 9:15 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:15 am – 10:45 am

Presenter: Sam Bray: Why Equity Changes

Commenter: Henry Smith

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Presenter: Danielle D’Onfro: Revisiting Tortious Interference with Contract

Commentator: Jennifer Nadler

12:20 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Presenter: Catherine Valcke: Taking Legal Difference Seriously: Objective and Subjective Contractual Consent

Commentor: Sadie Blanchard

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Presenter: James Toomey: Fiduciary Standards

Commentator: Lionel Smith

6:00 pm: Dinner

Day 2 – Saturday, February 1

8:30 am – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast

9:00 am – 10:30 am

Presenter: Shyamkrishna Balganesh: The Eunomics of Intellectual Property

Commentator: Courtney Cox

10:45 am – 12:15 pm

Presenter: Samuel Beswick: The Defense of Public Necessity

Commentator: Seth Davis

12:15 pm: Lunch and Departures

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Participants

Nikita Aggarwal
José Argueta Funes
Aditi Bagchi
Shyam Balganesh
Samuel Beswick
Brian Bix
Sadie Blanchard
Andrew Botterell
Andrew Bradt
Erika Chamberlain
Courtney Cox
Hanoch Dagan
Seth Davis
Danielle D’Onfro
Avihay Dorfman
Melvin Eisenberg
Chris Essert
Brittany Farr
Kim Ferzan
Mark Gergen
James Gordley
Gregory Hall
Adam Hofri-Winogradow
Julian Jonker
Robin Kar
Chris Kutz
Samuel L. Bray
Ela Leshem
Jed Lewinsohn
Crescente Molina
Jennifer Nadler
Jason Neyers
John Oberdiek
Manish Oza
Philip Petrov
Alberto Pino-Emhart
Michael Pressman
Rev. Patrick Reidy, C.S.C.
Cosim Sayid
Steven Schaus
Lauren Scholz
Seana Shiffrin
Kenneth Simons
Zoë Sinel
Henry Smith
Lionel Smith
Martin Stone
Rebecca Stone
Gregg Strauss
Jean Thomas
James Toomey
Sabine Tsuruda
Catherine Valcke
Molly Van Houweling
Konstanze von Schütz
Jordan Wallace-Wolf
Ernest Weinrib
James Y. Stern

Organizing Committee

Aditi Bagchi
Professor of Law
Fordham Law

Molly Brady
Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law
Harvard Law

Andrew Gold
Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law(or UC Irvine?)

John Goldberg
Interim Dean and Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence
Harvard Law

Felipe Jiménez
Associate Professor of Law and Philosophy
USC Gould School of Law

Larissa Katz
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Private Law Theory and Associate Dean of Graduate Programs
University of Toronto

Paul Miller
Professor of the Practice and Co-Chair for Global Politics and Security Senior Fellow, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security
Georgetown University

Rebecca Stone
Professor of Law
UCLA

Zoë Sinel
Associate Professor
Western Law

Henry Smith
Fessenden Professor of Law and Director of the Project on the Foundations of Private Law
Harvard Law

Conference Papers

 

Papers can only be accessed with a password. Please click the page above to access the papers.