Seminars / Conferences

2025-2026

Date Presenter Title
September 17, 2025
12-1:30
Accountable Artificial Intelligence Lunch Series
Wharton Accountable AI Lab
RSVP required – please email werbach@wharton.upenn.edu if interested in attending
September 25, 2025
12-1:30
Michael Morse
Penn Carey Law
Saving Lost Votes by Mail: Evidence on Vote Curing from Pennsylvania
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
October 2, 2025
12-1:30
Kathleen Clausen
Georgetown Law
The Foreign Commerce Power
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
October 15, 2025
12-1:30
Accountable Artificial Intelligence Lunch Series
Wharton Accountable AI Lab
RSVP required – please email werbach@wharton.upenn.edu if interested in attending
October 23, 2025
12-1:30
Daniel Singer
University of Pennsylvania
Gaslighting Employees Isn’t (Always) Wrong
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
October 30, 2025
12-1:30
Alex Reed
University of Georgia
Textualism as a Pro-Employee Force in Employment Discrimination Law
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
November 6, 2025
12-1:30
Jessica Kennedy
Vanderbilt University
Just “Fun?”: A Gender Difference in Framing that Helps to Explain Sexual Misconduct
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
November 20, 2025
12-1:30
Michael Otsuka
Rutgers University
Reciprocity, Restricted Utility, and the Difference Principle
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
December 3, 2025
12-1:30
Accountable Artificial Intelligence Lunch Series
Wharton Accountable AI Lab
RSVP required – please email werbach@wharton.upenn.edu if interested in attending
January 14, 2026
12-1:30
Accountable Artificial Intelligence Lunch Series
Wharton Accountable AI Lab
RSVP required – please email werbach@wharton.upenn.edu if interested in attending
January 22, 2026
12-1:30
Nicolas Cornell
University of Michigan
Wrongs and Rights Come Apart
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
February 4, 2026
12-1:30
Accountable Artificial Intelligence Lunch Series
Wharton Accountable AI Lab
RSVP required – please email werbach@wharton.upenn.edu if interested in attending
February 12, 2026
12-1:30
Gillian Hadfield
Johns Hopkins University
Legal Infrastructure for Transformative AI Governance
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
February 19, 2026
12-1:30
Reilly Steel
Columbia Law School
Systemic Corruption
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
February 26, 2026
12-1:30
Elena Chachko
UC Berkeley
The Executive Order
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
March 4, 2026
12-1:30
Accountable Artificial Intelligence Lunch Series
Wharton Accountable AI Lab
RSVP required – please email werbach@wharton.upenn.edu if interested in attending
March 19, 2026
12-1:30
Mala Chatterjee
Columbia Law School
From Extended Personality to Extended Minds: Toward an Expanded Theory of Legal Personality
Legal Studies & Business Ethics Seminar Series
March 24, 2026
3:30
JMHH G55
John Coates
Harvard Law School
The Problem of Twelve: When a Few financial Institutions Control Everything
Legal Studies & Business Ethics
March 26, 2026
5:15 p.m.
JMHH G65
Leif Wenar
Stanford University
Economics and the Value of Nothing
The Thomas W. Dunfee Distinguished Lecture Series in Ethics
Sponsored by the Zicklin Center for Governance & Business Ethics and
the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department
April 8, 2026
12-1:30
Accountable Artificial Intelligence Lunch Series
Wharton Accountable AI Lab
RSVP required – please email werbach@wharton.upenn.edu if interested in attending
April 15, 2026
5:15 pm
350 JMHH
Wendy Salkin
Stanford University
Not Quite Agency Relationships
Sponsored by the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department
April 16, 2026
5:30 pm
Penn Bookstore – Study Lounge
Atinuke Adediran
Fordham University
Disclosureland: How Corporate Words Constrain Racial Progress
Book talk and signing event
Sponsored by the Legal Studies and Business Ethics Department

 

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*All seminars held in 641 JMHH unless otherwise noted.