Public Law Workshop

The Public Law Workshop is intended to expose students to current scholarship in the public law area and to offer students an opportunity to learn about the scholarly enterprise more generally. Past PLWs have focused on issues such as federalism, the presidency, democratic institutions in an age of polarization, and income inequality. The focus for Fall 2025 is “Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Constitutional Governance.”

The Workshop is structured around presentations of working papers by leading public law scholars. In some weeks, we will read cases, scholarship, and other materials and discuss these materials in a standard seminar format. For the presentations by outside scholars, students are expected to read the paper and to participate in the discussion, which may be joined by other faculty members.