Keynote Address, When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law: The Rise of Autocracy in America, The Rule of Law under Pressure: Executive Power, the Role of the Judiciary, and Democracy’s Future, Pacific Law Review Symposium, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, March 27, 2026

Keynote Address, When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law: The Rise of Autocracy in America, Georgetown Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession, March, 20, 2026

Keynote Address, When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law: The Rise of Autocracy in America, Federal Bar Association, Washington, D.C., February 6, 2026

Featured Lecture, Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy, Summer School on Democratic Backsliding and Political Conflict, European University Institute and Scuola Normale Superiore, Cortona, Italy, September 28, 2025

Keynote Address and 2025 Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professorship in Legal Ethics Lecture, When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law: The Rise of Autocracy in America, Upholding the Rule of Law in a Backsliding Democracy: Taking Stands, Pushing Back, and the Role of the Public, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, New York, New York, September 19, 2025

Keynote Address, Mobilizing Law Against the Rule of Law, Social Movements and the Law: Legal Mobilization in a Comparative Perspective, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy, May 21, 2025

Keynote Address, What Do Lawyers Owe Democracy?, International Conference on Legal Ethics: Lawyer Ethics in the Justice System, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru, October 14, 2024

Featured Lecture, What Do Lawyers Owe Democracy?, Center for Constitutional Studies, Supreme Court of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico, September 13, 2024

Opening Lecture, Antidemocratic Legal Mobilization, Conference on Global Constitutionalism and Its Limits, Nantes University, Faculty of Law, Nantes, France, March 21, 2024

Justice Wiley W. Manuel Distinguished Lecture, Economic Justice in the City, UC Law SF, San Francisco, California, January 24, 2023

Keynote Address, Legal Mobilization in Illiberal Times, Courts as an Arena for Societal Change, Conference of the Research Group on Institutions for Conflict Resolution, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands, July 9, 2022

Opening Address, What Is Strategic about Litigation and What Is Strategic Litigation about?, Strategic Litigation in the Migration and Mobility Field: Current Developments and Critical Perspectives, Turin School on EU Integration, Law and Justice, Turin – Luigi Einaudi University Campus, Turin, Italy, May 18, 2022

42^nd Kenneth M. Piper Lecture, Catalyzing Localism: What Is New about the Green New Deal?, Institute for Law and the Workplace, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, April 13, 2021

Keynote Address, Legal Ethics in Unethical Times, 2020 Institute of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, San Diego, California, March 6, 2020

Parsons Lecture, Law and Social Movements: Lessons from Theory and Practice, Social Justice Public Lecture Series, University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia, August 14, 2019

Keynote Address, Public Interest Litigation: Evidence from America, Public Interest Litigation in Australia—A Comparative Perspective, La Trobe University School of Law, Melbourne, Australia, August, 8, 2019

Philip B. Blank Memorial Lecture on Attorney Ethics, Lawyers and Social Movements, Pace Law School, White Plains, New York, March 16, 2015

Keynote Lecture, Global Pro Bono, Global Pro Bono Conference, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 18, 2014

Keynote Lecture, How Lawyers Manage Dissent, Intragroup Dissent, Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium, Chicago-Kent School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, November 8, 2013

Featured Lecture, The Future of Public Interest Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen School of Law, Altheimer Symposium, Reframing Public Service Law: Innovative Approaches to Integrating Public Service into the Legal Profession, Little Rock, Arkansas, March 31, 2011

Distinguished Lecture, Market-Driven Public Interest Law, Second Annual Lecture on the Legal Profession, Georgetown Law School, Washington, D.C., November 10, 2009

Keynote Address, The Internationalization of Public Interest Law, Public Interest Lawyering in Israel, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, January 21, 2008

Keynote Address, Community Economic Development, Conference on Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity, University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC, February 19, 2005

Keynote Address, The Politics of Community Development, Urban Community Development: Market, Government, and Social Forces, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, April 11, 2003

The Autocratic Legal Playbook, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession, UC Irvine School of Law, November 20, 2025

The Autocratic Legal Playbook, Faculty Workshop, The University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin, October 22, 2025

Lawyers and Movements: Legal Mobilization in Transformative Times, Research Seminar, Center for Constitutional Politics, Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Budapest, Hungary, June 5, 2025

When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law: The Rise of Autocratic Legalism in America, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 4, 2025

Lawfare, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 21, 2025

The Resilient Government Lawyer in the USA and Europe: Dilemmas and Strategies, Amsterdam Centre on the Legal Professions and Access to Justice, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 21, 2025

When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law, Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance and the Promise Institute Europe, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 21, 2025

When Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law, Current Issues in Human Rights Research, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, March 11, 2025

What Do Lawyers Owe Democracy?, Symposium on The Ethics of the Rule of Law, Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business, Washington, D.C., November 22, 2024

Constructing Strategic Litigation in Europe, Faculty Workshop, Northwestern School of Law, Chicago, Illinois, September 23, 2024

How Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law: The US Case, Conference on Global Constitutionalism and Its Limits, Nantes University, Faculty of Law, Nantes, France, March 22, 2024

Antidemocratic Legal Mobilization, Scuola Normale Superiore, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Florence, Italy, March 18, 2024

Social Movements and Access to Justice, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, November 15, 2023

Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy, Faculty Colloquium, Penn Carey Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 17, 2023

Lawyers and Movements: Legal Mobilization in Transformative Times, Law and Social Movements Colloquium, Georgetown Law School, Washington, D.C., September 19, 2023

Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy, Workshop on Continuity and Change in the Legal Profession, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law, iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, Copenhagen, Denmark, January 12, 2023

Mobilizable Labor Law, Social Movements and State and Local Law Colloquium, University of Miami School of Law, Miami, Florida, November 18, 2022

Legal Mobilization in American Labor Law: A Local History, Leiden Law School, Leiden, Netherlands, July 7, 2022

Legal Mobilization in American Labor Law: A Local History, Program in Global and European Labor Law, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, May 31, 2022

Contextualizing Strategic Litigation in Europe, Centre for Social Sciences, Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary, May 12, 2022

Lawyers and Movements: Legal Mobilization in Transformative Times, New Directions in Studies on Law and Rights, School for Advanced Studies in Social Science (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Paris, France, March 29, 2022

Lawyers and Movements: Legal Mobilization in Transformative Times, The Constitutionalism and Politics Working Group, European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence, Italy, March 22, 2022

Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port, Geographies of Racial Capitalism: Labor, Race, and Indigeneity in the “Blue Economy,” University of Washington, January 28, 2022 (via Zoom)

Lawyers and Movements: Legal Mobilization in Transformative Times, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, December 6, 2021

An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles, American Constitutional Society, Stanford Law School, November 15, 2021

An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles, Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford Law School, October 26, 2021

An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles, Friday Faculty Colloquium, UCLA School of Law (via Zoom), April 30, 2021. Commentators: Veena Dubal, Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Professor, UC Hastings College of Law; David B. Wilkins, Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Legal Ethics in Faltering Democracy, Law & Regulation Workshop, Boston College Law School (via Zoom), April 26, 2021

Making Public Interest Lawyers in a Time of Crisis: An Evidence-Based Approach, UC Irvine Law School, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession, April 2, 2021 (via Zoom)

An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles, Epstein Program in Public Interest Law & Policy, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA School of Law (via Zoom), March 1, 2021. Commentator: Betty Hung, Project Director, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

Making Public Interest Lawyers in a Time of Crisis: An Evidence-Based Approach, Harvard Empirical Legal Studies Series, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 22, 2020 (via Zoom)

Law and Social Movements in Illiberal Times, Social Movements and Challenges of Legal Advice and Popular Advocacy, Law as Freedom: 30 Years of Law Found on the Street, University of Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil, December 13, 2019

In It for Good: An Empirical Study of Public Interest Careers, Faculty Workshop, Wake Forest School of Law, North Carolina, October 24, 2019

Global Pro Bono: Causes, Consequences and Contestation, Australian Pro Bono Centre and Ashurst Law Firm, Sydney, Australia, August 13, 2019

In It for Good: An Empirical Study of Public Interest Careers, Faculty Workshop, The University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia, August 12, 2019

In It for Good: An Empirical Study of Public Interest Careers, New Lawyering for A2J Workshop, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, August 7, 2019

The Movement for Green Ports, Law, Science, and Technology Reading Group, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, August 5, 2019

Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port, UCLA Downtown Labor Center, Los Angeles, California, April 11, 2019

Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, March 6, 2019

An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Public Interest Law, Law and Social Reform: The Disciplinary Areas, the Questions, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, May 28, 2019

Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port, Chevalier’s Books, Los Angeles, California, November 14, 2018

Law and Social Movements: Reimagining the Progressive Canon, Faculty Workshop, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington, May 10, 2018

In It for Good: Preliminary Findings from a Study of California Law School Graduates and Their Public Interest Careers, Legal Education and the Legal Profession, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, April 12, 2018.

Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port, Just Transitions and the Law Workshop, University of South Carolina Law School, Columbia, South Carolina, March 30, 2018

Law and Social Movements: Reimagining the Progressive Canon, Faculty Colloquium, Hastings College of Law, March 13, 2018

The Empirical Path of Law and Social Movements, Contentious Politics Workshop, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, May 24, 2017

Local Workplace Regulation: Opportunities and Challenges, Beyond Congress: Regulating the Workplace via State Statutes, Municipal Ordinances, Administrative Regulations and Executive Orders, Institute for Law and the Workplace Members’ Conference, ITT Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, Illinois, November 18, 2016

The Puzzle of Social Movements in American Legal Theory, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Berkeley, California, April 11, 2016

The Puzzle of Social Movements in American Legal Theory, Faculty Colloquium, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, April 1, 2016

The Role of Law in the Los Angeles Clean Truck Campaign, Southern California Port Truckers: Exploitation and Resistance, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Los Angeles, California, May 27, 2015

Professional Responsibility: The Law Professor’s Role in Protecting Our Legal System, AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 8, 2026

Academic Freedom and Clinical Education, AAC 2025: Preserving the Architecture of Accountability, Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, November 1, 2025

From Elections to Institutions: The Rise of Autocratic Legalism in America, International Seminar on Professional Ethics IV: Ethics, the Legal Profession, and Democracy, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru, September 16, 2025

Pro Bono Trump and the Autocratic Legal Playbook, Lawyers and the Changing Landscape of European Human Rights Litigation: Trajectories, Strategies, Networks, University of Strasbourg, Faculté de droit, Strasbourg, France, September 4, 2025

State of Play: Tracking Challenges to Law Firm Independence, Preserving the Independence of the Legal Profession, Princeton Problem Solving Workshop Series, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Program in Law and Public Policy, Princeton SPIA D.C. Center, Washington, D.C., July 14, 2025

Methodological Issues in Sociolegal Research: The Challenge of Studying Right-Wing Legal Mobilisation, European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence, Italy, June 2, 2025

Introduction, Social Movements and the Law: Legal Mobilization in a Comparative Perspective, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, Italy, May 20, 2025

Legal Constraints—the Profession, the Constitution & the Courts, A Princeton Constitutional Law Schmooze: The Fate of Constraints on the American Executive, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Program in Law and Public Policy, Princeton, New Jersey, May 9, 2025

Attacks on Law Firms and the Profession, Lawyers and Institutions in a Time of Disruption, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, April 15, 2025

What Is Movement Lawyering?, Movement Lawyering: A Law & Social Impact Conference, The University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia, April 4, 2025

Government Lawyers, the Organized Bar, and the Rule of Law: Systemic Risks, Rule of Law and Systemic Deficiencies, LEES Doctoral Research Program, University of Milan, Department of Public Law, Milan, Italy, January 31, 2025

Why Do Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law—and What Should the Legal Profession Do?, Legal Infrastructures and Democracy: Deciphering Contemporary Battles for the Control of Law, Max Planck Institute, Frankfurt, Germany, January 20-21, 2025

Civility in the Entertainment Industry and Practice of Law, USC School of Law—Beverly Hills Bar Association 2024 Institute on Entertainment Law and Business, USC Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, California, October 19, 2024

A History of U.S. Public Interest Law, Vietnamese Lawyer Delegation, Duke Law School, August 5, 2024

The U.S. Case, Presidential Lawfare in South Africa, the United States: Its Presence and Effects, International Legal Ethics Conference, Amsterdam Law School, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 19, 2024

Roundtable: The Independence of the Judiciary: Lessons from Poland, International Legal Ethics Conference, Amsterdam Law School, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 18, 2024

Legal Ethics in and Outside of the Courtroom, Freedom of Expression of Judges and Prosecutors and Legal Ethics, Disciplinary Proceedings and Judicial Ethics: Hybrid Cross-Border Training Workshop for Judges, Prosecutors, Attorneys and Other Legal Professionals, EUI Centre for Judicial Cooperation and Scuola Superiore della Magistratura, Naples, Italy, June 10, 2024 (online)

The Legal Profession as an Infrastructure of Democracy?, Panel on Law, Courts & Democratic Erosion, 2024 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, June 7, 2024

Lawyers in the Contest over the Rule of Law: The US Case, Do Legal Professions Resist Authoritarianism? Cases Studies from the U.S., Brazil, Russia, and More, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 28, 2024

The Role of Legal Ethics in Protecting Elections, Election Law Panel, National Council of Lawyer Disciplinary Boards 2024 Meeting, Long Beach, California, February 8, 2024 (online)

The Port as a Site of Labor Struggle, Ports and Global Labor Struggles, Law, Regions, and Ports: Toward Imagining Alternative Futures, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 8, 2023 (online)

Why Do Lawyers Attack the Rule of Law—and What Should the Legal Profession Do?, Legal Infrastructures of Democracy: Legal Fields, Public Spheres, and the Twin Challenges of State and Market, Max Plank Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt, Germany, September 7, 2023 (online)

Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy, RCSL Law, Society and Digital Pasts, Presents and Futures, Lund University, Lund Sweden, August 30, 2023

What Should the Bar Do about Backsliding? (with Ann Southworth), 2023 Annual Meeting on Law and Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 3, 2023

Supreme Court Lawyers, Comparative Insights, Roundtable, 2023 Annual Meeting on Law and Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 3, 2023

Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy, Future of Activism Research Workshop, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, April 21, 2023

Movement Lawyers, Convening on Law and Power Building, New York University School of Law, New York, New York, April 7, 2023

Tax Professionals: Their Ethics and Their Role in Enforcement, Compliance, Avoidance, and Evasion in Taxation: The Role of Professionals, Corporate Crime Observatory Roundtable, February 3, 2023 (via Zoom)

Lawyers in Faltering Democracy, Global Meeting on Law & Society, Lisbon, Portugal, July 15, 2022

Ethics & Professionalism for Post-Pandemic Practice, ABA Labor and Employment Law 15^th Annual Conference, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hills, California, November 13, 2021

Policy by the People, for the People: Designing Responsive Regulation and Building Democratic Power, Subversive Lawyering Colloquium, Fordham Law School, October 15, 2021 (via Zoom)

Sidewalk Based Mobile Food Facilities: Retail Food Code Restrictions Preventing Micro Food Businesses from Achieving Compliance, California Conference of Directors of Environmental Health Training Series 2021, Sept. 2, 2021 (via Zoom)

Pro Bono in Principle and in Practice, Past and Future Influence of Deborah Rhode, 2021 Law and Society Association Virtual Conference, May 28, 2021

Private Lawyers, Public Service, and State Transformation, Lawyers and State Transformation V—Unpacking the State, 2021 Law and Society Association Virtual Conference, May 27, 2021

Solidarity in the City, Seminar on Inscribing Solidarity: Labor Law and Beyond, hosted by Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, February 23, 2021 (via Zoom)

Strategic Litigation, Social Movements and Institutional Change, Structural Inequality and the Law, UCLA Law Review Symposium (via Zoom), February 6, 2021

Transcending COVID: Teaching in Troubled Times and Beyond, UCLA School of Law (via Zoom), January 13, 2021

From Public Interest Litigation to Strategic Litigation, Public Interest Litigation and Migrant Rights, PILEurope Project, University of Verona (virtual host), November 30, 2020 (via Zoom)

An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles, 9^th Annual State & Local Government Law Works-in-Progress Conference, Willamette University College of Law (Virtual Host), September 25, 2020

Solidarity in the City: The Role of Community-Labor Coalitions in Reshaping Work, Geographies of Solidarity in the Era of Gig Economy, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, January 24, 2020 (via Skype)

Legal Ethics in the Age of Trump, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, November 8, 2019

Teaching Law in the Trump Era, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., June 1, 2019

Engaged and Activist Ethnography: Possibilities, Dilemmas, and Praxis, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2019

Author Meets Reader—Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 30, 2019

Lawyers and Legal Clinical Work in the USA, A Need for Legal Clinical Work? Theoretical and Practical Concerns, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, February 28, 2019

Fair Housing in Gentrifying Markets: Rent Control in Los Angeles County, Where Do We Go From Here? Fair Housing and Community Development at a Crossroads, 2019 Real Property Schmooze, Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas, February 1, 2019

Advancing the Doctrine, Symposium in Honor of Judge A. Wallace Tashima, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, January 25, 2019

Building Bridges: Examining Race and Privilege in Community Economic Development, AALS Discussion Group, Association of American Law Schools 2019 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 5, 2019

Movement Lawyering, Professional Identities and Values, Biennial Meeting of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law Working Group on Comparative Study of Legal Professions, Andorra la Vella, Andorra, July 11, 2018

 The American Legal Profession in the New Millennium: Out of Many, One?, Project 2018, Biennial Meeting of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law Working Group on Comparative Study of Legal Professions, Andorra la Vella, Andorra, July 11, 2018

Reshaping the Port Trucking Industry: The Challenge to Misclassification, Law, Lawyers, and Social Movement Resilience, Annual Meeting on Law and Society, Law and Society Association, Toronto, Canada, June 7, 2018

 A Reflection on the Legal Ethics of Movement Lawyering, The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 2018 Symposium, March 2, 2018

Conflicts of Interest in Cause Lawyering, Conflicts of Interest in Multi-Party Litigation, The 18^th Annual Georgia Symposium on Legal Ethics and Professionalism, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, February 23, 2018

Making Preemption Law (While Trying to Avoid It): A Study of Trucking Regulation at the Los Angeles Port, Reimagining Localism: A Symposium, Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York, February 16, 2018

Lawyers and Social Movements: Reimagining the Progressive Canon, Public Interest Mobilization and Access to Justice Movements in the New Democratic State, Wisconsin Law Review Symposium, Wisconsin Law School, Madison, Wisconsin, October 27, 2017

Global Pro Bono: Diffusion, Contestation, Learned Lessons, Roundtable at 2017 International Meeting on Law and Society, Mexico City, Mexico, June 21, 2017

The American Legal Profession in the New Millennium: Out of Many, One?, Comparing Legal Professions 30 Years after “Lawyers in Society,” Salon Session at 2017 International Meeting on Law and Society, Mexico City, Mexico, June 20, 2017

In It for Good: Preliminary Findings from a Study of California Law School Graduates’ Public Interest Careers, Legal Education: The State of the Art, U.C. Irvine School of Law, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession, Irvine, California, June 2, 2017

Movement Lawyering, Panel on Access to Justice and Pro Bono Work, Conference on Access to Justice and Public Interest Law, Instituto Pro Bono Brasil and Fundación Pro Bono de Columbia, Universidad de los Andes School of Law, Bogatá, Colombia, May 12, 2017

In It for Good: Preliminary Findings from a Study of California Law School Graduates’ Public Interest Careers, Panel: During Law School, Legal Education in Crisis? Bringing Researchers and Resources Together to Generate New Scientific Insights, American Bar Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, March 4, 2017

In It for Good: Individual and Institutional Determinants of Public Interest Law Careers, Law School Initiatives Addressing A2J, Accessing Justice: The Interplay of Design Thinking, Legal Education, and Technology, Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, Indiana University Mauer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, February 17, 2017

The Puzzle of Social Movements in American Legal Theory, Conference on Lawyers and Social Movements, UCLA Law Review, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, February 10, 2017

Movement Lawyering, Conference on Lawyers and Social Movements, Georgetown Law School, Washington, D.C., October 28, 2016

Reframing the Foundational Critiques of Lawyers in Social Movements, Civil Litigation Ethics in the Era of the Vanishing Trial, Fordham Law Review Symposium, Fordham Law School, New York, New York, October 21, 2016

Moral Character: Assessing the Supreme Court’s Role in Contested Bar Admissions, California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Fall Meeting 2016, Richard H. Chambers United States Court of Appeals Building, Pasadena, California, September 24, 2016

The Hardest Issues in “Public Interest Lawyering” Today I, International Legal Ethics Conference, Fordham Law School, New York, New York, July 15, 2016

Access to Justice: Is More Access Enough?, International Legal Ethics Conference, Fordham Law School, New York, New York, July 15, 2016

The Puzzle of Social Movements in American Legal Theory, Cause Lawyering and Social Movements, 2016 Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, June 2, 2016

The Puzzle of Social Movements in American Legal Theory, Turning Points in Social Movements: Past and Future, Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality, Indiana University Mauer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, April 8, 2016

Empowerment Across Borders: Strengthening Our Work through Transnational Advocacy, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Advancing Justice Conference, Los Angeles, California, March 30, 2016

Litigation as a Catalyst for Social Movements, Symposium Celebrating 50^th Anniversary of the Central District, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, California, March 18, 2016

Public Interest law, Center on the Global Legal Profession & Center for Law, Society, and Culture, Indiana University Mauer School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, February 24, 2016

Local Laboratories of Workplace Regulation, AALS Annual Meeting, New York, New York, January 8, 2016

The Ethics and Practice of Community Engagement, AALS Annual Meeting, New York, New York, January 7, 2016

Preemptive Strike: Law in the Movement for Clean Trucks, Legal Scholarship 4.0: Puzzle of the Urban Core, Northeastern School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, October 30, 2015

Roundtable Discussion: Movement Building—A Multi-Faceted Approach, ClassCrits VIII—Emerging Coalitions: Challenging the Structures of Inequality, University of Tennessee College of Law, October 24, 2015

Preemptive Strike: Law in the Movement for Clean Trucks, Community, Coalition, and Its Possibilities, ClassCrits VIII—Emerging Coalitions: Challenging the Structures of Inequality, University of Tennessee College of Law, October 23, 2015

Law Schools and Society: A Roundtable Discussion on the Evolving (and Disputed) Roles of Legal Education, Law Professors and the Legal Profession Itself in Contemporary Society, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, May 29, 2015

In It for Good: Individual and Institutional Factors in the Public Interest Careers of California Law Graduates, The Careers and Goals of Legal Professionals in a Democracy, Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, May 29, 2015

Organizing Latino Immigrants in the Informal Economy: The Successful Case of the Association of Latin American Gardeners of Los Angeles, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, Los Angeles, California, May 13, 2015

Getting to Yes: Navigating the Path to Tenure, AALS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 7, 2026

Celebrating Penny as Public Intellectual and Mentor, Building a Better World through Law? Festschrift to Celebrate Penelope Andrew’s Contributions to Law and Leadership Symposium, University of Pretoria, December 13, 2025

American Society for Legal History, Virtual Working Group: Roundtable on Radical Legal Advocacy, November 10, 2025

The Authoritarian Playbook, Lawyering in Times of Authoritarianism Reading Group, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, October 10, 2025

After the End of History in Legal Education (Abi Hassen & Lisa Lucile Owens), Impact, Excellence, Resilience: Contemporary Views on Pioneering Legal Education Scholarship, Journal of Legal Education, New York Law School, New York, New York, October 8, 2025

The Banality of Evil and the Legal Profession, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru, September 15, 2025

Commentator, Manuscript Colloquium, There Are No Neutrals There: A History of Union Lawyers in the Twentieth Century by Catherine L. Fisk, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, California, August 11, 2025

Participant, EUI Law Department Visiting Fellows’ Forum, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, May 13, 2025

Commentator, Katherine G. Young, The U.S. Supreme Court’s Handshake with a Counter-Human Rights Project, Resisting the ‘Misappropriation’ of Human Rights? The Practice of Courts and Human Rights Tribunals, EUI Workshop, Villa Salviati, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, April 11, 2025

Participant, Roundtable on the Legal Profession and Weaponization of Government, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, New York, New York, March 12, 2025

Commentator, Large Scale Miscarriages of Justice and the Role of Legal Professionals: A Virtue Ethical Perspective (commenting on paper by Iris van Domselaar), Constitutional Law and Politics Working Group, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, March 4, 2025

Participant, Backlash, Burnout, and Backsliding: Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles to Climate Action for the Future of Humanity, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, California, February 20-21, 2025

Organizer and Commentator, Research Handbook on the Sociology of Legal Ethics (2 sessions), International Legal Ethics Conference 2024, Amsterdam Law School, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 17-18, 2024

Commentator, Barbara Randazzo, Access to Justice in a Multilevel Constitutional System, Protecting Human Rights, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, June 17, 2024

Commentator, Research Handbook on the Sociology of Legal Ethics, 2024 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, June 8, 2024

Chair, Author Meets Reader Session for Ann Southworth, Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending, 2024 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, June 7, 2024

Chair, Society and Courts, Between Autocratic Legalism and Right-Wing Legal Mobilization, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, May 29, 2024 (workshop co-organizer)

Commentator, Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion: An Overview (commenting on paper by Richard Abel), Global Resistance to Authoritarian Diffusion Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, September 22, 2023 (online)

Chair, Legal Ethics Research Handbook Program, RCSL Law, Society and Digital Pasts, Presents and Futures, Lund University, Lund Sweden, August 30, 2023

Commentator, Lawyers and State Transformations, 2023 Annual Meeting on Law and Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 3, 2023

Moderator, Representing Everyone, Everywhere, All at Once: Entertainment Industry Conflicts and How to Navigate Them, The John H. Mitchell Panel on Ethics and Entertainment, 47^th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, June 7, 2023 (recorded)

Commentator, New Voices in Access to Justice, Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, California, May 12, 2023 (commenting on papers by Allison Hoffman and Gisela Ruhl)

Commentator, A Conversation with Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, April 11, 2023

Commentator, The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice: Asian and Comparative Perspectives (Helena Whalen Bride ed. 2023), National University of Singapore, Center for Asian Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, April 17, 2023 (via Zoom)

Discussant, Rhode Early Career Scholars Panel, International Legal Ethics Conference 2022, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, August 13, 2022

Moderator, Plenary Panel: The Legal Profession in a Time of Crisis, International Legal Ethics Conference 2022, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, August 13, 2022

Discussant, Labour and Legal Mobilization: Worker Movements and the Law in the UK and US, Global Meeting on Law & Society, Lisbon, Portugal, July 16, 2022

Commentator on Lawyering papers (Marco Germanó, Inbar Peled, Alex Reiss-Sorokin, Maggie Woodruff) Law & Society Association Graduate Student/Early Career Workshop, June 28, 2022 (via Zoom)

Moderator, Global Perspectives on Pro Bono, 2021 PILNet Global Forum, October 20, 2021

Chair, Author Meets Reader Session for Michael W. McCann with George Lovell, Union by Law: Filipino American Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism, 2021 Law and Society Association Virtual Conference, May 29, 2021

Discussant, Lawyers and State Transformations III—African Contexts, 2021 Law and Society Association Virtual Conference, May 27, 2021

Moderator, Ethics Panel, UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium, UCLA School of Law (Virtual Host), May 21, 2021

Commentator (paper by Maureen Carroll), AALS Virtual Poverty Law Workshop, October 16, 2020 (via Zoom)

Commentator (papers by Tinu Adediran and Shaun Ossie-Owusu), Culp Colloquium, Stanford Law School (Virtual Host), June 8-9, 2020

Moderator, Criminalization of Homelessness, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, November 14, 2019

Commentator on Yves Dezalay & Bryant G. Garth, Legal Revolutions and Interconnected Histories, 2019 Legal Ethics Schmooze, UC Irvine School of Law, Irvine, California, June 7, 2019

Chair, Dignity on Their Own Terms: Mobilizing European Law against Racialization and Exclusion, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2019

Reader, Rashmi Dyal-Chand, Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities: Reforming Urban Market Regulations, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2019

Commentator, Framing Strategies, The Roles of Lawyers in Constitutional Change, UC Irvine School of Law, Center for Empirical Research on the Legal Profession, Irvine, California, March 15, 2019

Moderator, Gentrification and the Law: Displacement, Homelessness, and Proposition 10, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, October 25, 2018

Moderator, From LAX to the Supreme Court and Back: Challenging the Muslim Travel Ban, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, November 1, 2017

Entrepreneurship Initiatives in Poor Communities: Economic Inclusion or Exclusion?, Roundtable at 2017 International Meeting on Law and Society, Mexico City, Mexico, June 21, 2017

AALS Discussion Group: Community Development Law and Economic Justice: Why Law Matters, Discussion Group, AALS 111th Annual Meeting—Why Law Matters, San Francisco, California, January 4, 2017

Moderator, Pursuing a Public Service Career: A Panel Discussion with Leaders from Government and Private Practice, The State Bar of California Public Law Section, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, March 16, 2016

Moderator, The Future of the Legal Profession in the United States and Beyond, Legal Ethics and the Profession, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, March 7, 2016

Moderator, Cause Lawyers, the Legal Profession, and Social Movements: A Comparative Perspective, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, November 20, 2015

Commentator, Global Pro Bono: Perspectives from Latin America, The Center on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 6, 2015 (via Skype)

Lawyers and the Rule of Law, Legal Profession Workshop, Harvard Law School, Professor David Wilkins, November 11, 2025

The Autocratic Legal Playbook, Law Under Pressure, Georgetown Law Center, Professor David Luban, September 24, 2025

Public Interest Lawyering in the Face of Far-Right Authoritarianism, Problem Solving in the Public Interest Seminar, Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, September 8, 2025

The Autocratic Legal Playbook, Warren Olney, Santa Monica College Emeritus, Current Events Course, April 9, 2025

Lawyers and Backsliding Democracy, Legal Profession Workshop, Harvard Law School, Professor David Wilkins, March 4, 2025

Lawyers and the Rule of Law, Legal Profession Workshop, Harvard Law School, Professor David Wilkins, November 4, 2024 (via Zoom)

Making Public Interest Lawyers in a Time of Crisis: An Evidence-Based Approach, Legal Profession Workshop, Harvard Law School, Professor Meredith Boak, April 18, 2024 (via Zoom)

Legal Ethics and Attorneys’ Confidential Considerations, Regulating Professional Enablers of Russia’s War on Ukraine, Stanford Law School, Professor Robert Crown (January 24, 2024) (via Zoom)

Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy, Legal Profession, UCI Irvine School of Law, Professor Ann Southworth, March 15, 2023 (via Zoom)

Public Interest Lawyers and Pro Bono, Legal Profession Workshop, Harvard Law School, Professor David Wilkins, November 15, 2022 (via Zoom)

Making Public Interest Lawyers in a Time of Crisis: An Evidence-Based Approach, Legal Profession Workshop, Harvard Law School, Professor David Wilkins, November 9, 2021 (via Zoom)

Making Public Interest Lawyers in a Time of Crisis: An Evidence-Based Approach, The Legal Profession Seminar, Harvard Law School, Professor David Wilkins (via Zoom), February 9, 2021

 Pro Bono and Public Interest Law, The Legal Profession Seminar, Harvard Law School, Professor David Wilkins (via Zoom), November 17, 2020

The Social Movement Turn in Law, Public Interest Seminar, University of Miami School of Law, Professor Anthony Alfieri (via Zoom), October 28, 2020

The Social Movement Turn in Law, Law Reform Class, University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia, Professor Simon Rice, August 13, 2019

Art of Social Change, Child Advocacy Program, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Professor Elizabeth Bartholet, March 30, 2017