The colloquium's happy hour is famous for its elevated conversation and collegiality.

December 1, 2023 | Fordham Law School:
​Malcolm Thorburn (Toronto) --  ​Criminal Punishment and the Struggle for Authority
​Grace Li (OSU) -- Probation Without Police

October 27, 2023 (Brooklyn Law School)
Jenny Carroll​ (Alabama) -- The Hazards of Civic Death:  the Democratic Hazards of Denying Rights of Voting and Jury Participation to Incarcerated and Convicted People
Joe Kennedy (UNC) -- The Storm is Coming for Criminal Law: QAnon, Collective Delusions and Punishment

September 8, 2023 (Brooklyn Law School)
Sadie Blanchard (Notre Dame)
Thomas Frampton (UVA)

May 5, 2023 (New York Law School)
Doug Husak (Rutgers): ​Six Questions About Overcriminalization and Decriminalization
​Kay Levine (Emory): The Unconstitutional Conditions Vacuum in Criminal Procedure

March 17, 2023
Laura Appleman (Willamette) - Big Capital and the Carceral State
Eric Miller (Loyola LA) - What are the Police and Can We Get Rid of Them?

January 13, 2023 (U Penn)
Benjamin Levin (Colorado)
Sarah Swan (Rutgers)

November 19, 2022
Rachel Barkow (NYU): Promise or Peril?: The Political Path of Prison Abolition in America 
Adam Davidson (Chicago): Ending Administrative Enslavement

September 16, 2022
​Seema Saifee (U Penn Quattrone Fellow): ​Aggregation in Criminal Punishment
Anna Lvovsky (Harvard): ​The Two Lives of Police Professionalism

May 12, 2022
Zachary Price (UC Hastings): ​Faithful Execution in the Fifty States
W.R. Thomas ​(Michigan): Shaming Corporate Criminals, Reconsidered

March 4, 2022
Adam Kolber (Brooklyn): Punishment for the Greater Good
Joshua Kleinfeld (Northwestern) & Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg (Bar-Ilan): A Social Trust Metric of Criminal Justice

February 4, 2022
Sheldon Evans (St. John's): Punishment As Pollution

December 3, 2021
​​Alexis Hoag (Brooklyn): Unpacking Racism from Strickland’s Strategy
Sandy Mayson (Penn): ​Bail at the Founding

October 1, 2021
​Ekow Yankah (Cardozo) & Guyora Binder (Buffalo): Police Killings as Felony Murder
John Meixner: Modern Sentencing Mitigation

February 2020
​Jamelia Morgan (U Conn): Rethinking Disorderly Conduct
Miriam Baer (Brooklyn): Law Enforcement’s Lochner

​October 2019
Darryl Brown (UVA): Does it Matter Who Objects? Rethinking Forfeiture for Criminal Litigation Errors
Gabe Mendlow (Michigan): Thoughts, Crimes, and Thought Crimes