The Spring 2022 Seminar in Private Law begins on Tuesday 1 February, with Thomas Piketty and Danielle Allen. A fabulous start to an astonishing lineup. All are welcome, and the poster explains how to join.

Today at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Thomas Piketty and Danielle Allen on "A Brief History of Equality." For more information, write to [email protected].

Last week an American classicist (Danielle Allen) and a French economist (Tomas Piketty) converged on the idea that the future of equality depends, specifically, on achieving a more democratic distribution of power.

Today at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Gabriella Blum & John Goldberg on "The Unable or Unwilling Doctrine: A View from Private Law." For more information, write to [email protected].

Last week, John Goldberg and Gabriella Blum used analogies to private necessity to justify and cabin the rule of public int'l law that allows one state to violate the territory of another to combat private threats that the territorial state is "unwilling or unable" to contain.

Today at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Ariel Rubinstein on non-market mechanisms for sustaining decentralized order. For more information, write to [email protected].

Today at Yale’s Seminar in Private Law: Chris Kutz and Saskia Sassen on building a public and how publicity limits privatization, w/ case studies on water and prisons. Last week, Ariel Rubinstein on equilibrium w/o strategy or prices. For info, contact [email protected]

Today at Yale's Seminar in Private Law, Rebecca Scott & Cynthia Estlund on work--free & enslaved--as a public, social, or private ordering. Last week Chris Kutz & Saskia Sassen on self-constituting cooperative publics & the limits of privatization. For info, [email protected]

The Yale Law School Center for Private Law is hiring. Please forward or, better yet, apply. It would be a pleasure to work together.

Dani Rodrik and Branko Milanovic will kick off this year's Yale Seminar in Private Law, with talks on Capitalism and Globalization. All are welcome to join over Zoom. To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This week at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Emily Kadens and Quinn Slobodian on Zones beyond the State. To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This week at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Julian Arato on "The Institutions of Exceptions" in international economic law. To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This week at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Henry Farrell & Abraham Newman on "Weaponized Interdependence." To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This week at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Anna Gelpern & Brad Setser on "Debt and Global Finance." To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This week at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Kathleen Claussen on "Trade Policing" To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This week at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Chiara Cordelli and Sanjay Reddy on "Free Capital, Free Labor?" To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This week at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: Eric Helleiner & Nicholas Mulder on "Sovereignty and Expropriation." To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This week at Yale's Seminar in Private Law: David Grewal on "After Neoliberal Globalization." To register, go to yale.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Yale Law School's Plaintiff-Side Private Law Clinic is hiring a new fellow. Applications due 25 April (see below). The current fellow is moving on to a tenure track job, and anyone interested in moving from practice to academia is encouraged to apply.