▪”Are Constitutional Changes Necessary to Reduce Inequality?” (with Thomas Piketty, full video here), June 11, 2024 Paris School of Economics & World Inequality Lab

▪ “Oligarchy: Can Public Law Respond?” Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies and the Election Regulation Research Network, Melbourne Law School, May 7, 2024

▪“Oligarchy: Can Public Law Respond?” Sydney Law School, April 9, 2024

▪“Did the U.S. Constitution Establish an Oligarchy or a Democracy?”, ClassCrits IV, Los Angeles, February 10, 2024

▪“Democratic Integrity and Systemic Corruption,” Duke Law School and the American Constitution Society, February 5, 2024

2021-2023 

▪“Global Legal Pluralism and Democratic Integrity: Jurisgenerative or Jurispathic?”, Australasian Law Academics Association Conference in Christchurch, July 8, 2023

▪“The Problem of Political Integrity: Where Do Aotearoa and Other Pacific Nations Stand?”, ICON-S, Victoria University Wellington, July 3, 2023

▪“Recent developments in U.S. anti-corruption law and the OECD”, UN Global Compact Australia / Allens and Linklaters, Insight Series: Integrity and Opportunity, October 27, 2022

▪“Climate change, corruption, and democratic integrity”, Democracy Panel with Deborah Russell (MP) and Nancy MacLean (Duke), Our Future is Now: Democracy & Climate Action, Te Herenga Waka University of Victoria of Wellington, September 3, 2022

▪“Inequality and the Law of Democracy: A Political Economy Approach,” ANU 75^th Anniversary Public Law and Inequality Conference, 16 February, 2022

▪“Biden’s Rise and Trump’s Demise: the First 100 Days”, The University of Auckland, May 12, 2021

▪“Social Democratic Foundations of Law and Political Economy: the Abolition of Class Government,” Inaugural Law and Political Economy Conference: Democracy Beyond Neoliberalism, Yale Law School (video here, presentation at 55.24), March 18, 2021

▪“Corruption associated with the undue influence of financial power over political decisions,” Keynote Speaker, World Anti-Corruption Congress, University of Postgraduate Studies in Law, and National University UNIPOL, Mexico City, January 29, 2021

2020

▪“The U.S. Election 2020: a crisis of legitimacy”, The University of Auckland & Radio New Zealand, November 18, 2020

▪“Book Launch, South Island: Tyranny of Greed”, October 27, University of Otago

▪“Book Launch: Tyranny of Greed,” October 20, Auckland Law School (Register here)

▪“Money, Politics & Inequality: Is New Zealand’s Democracy Broken?” October 16, Mackenzie-Elvin and the University of Waikato-Tauranga Campus

2019

▪“The Third Coming of American Plutocracy,” June 11, Melbourne Law School (SAMPLE CHAPTER)

▪“The Third Coming of American Plutocracy,” March 14, Auckland Law School (VIDEO HERE)

▪“The Threat of Corruption in New Zealand,” SFO Fraud and Corruption Conference, March 7, 2019

2018

▪“What Is Corruption and Why Should People Care about It?” United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Expert Group Meeting, Launch of the Education for Justice University Modules on Corruption, November 8, 2018

▪“Government is Public Interest: Trump, Corruption, and Democracy’s Limits,” April 19, The School of Public Administration, Catalunya (in Spanish) (video of presentation here)

▪“American Kleptocracy,” April 16, Maynooth University

▪“American Kleptocracy,” April 12, University of Limerick

▪March 9, The University of Nottingham

▪January 23, 12pm, The University of Barcelona and TRANSJUS (blog post)

2017

▪October 19, 12pm, The Melbourne Law School (Australia), Electoral Regulation Research Network Seminar

▪March 22, 7:15pm, Fábrica Ramis (Mallorca, Spain) (en Español)

2016

▪November 9, 6:30pm, The University of Warsaw (Poland)

▪April 28, 7:30pm, New Jersey Public Policy Network (scroll down to April 28 video), Morris/Essex county chapter (College of Saint Elizabeth, Madison, NJ)

▪April 1, Seton Hall Symposium with Free Speech for People (South Orange, NJ)

▪January 13, Firestorm Cafe and Books (Asheville, NC)

2015

▪November 13, Fordham University School of Law (NYC)

▪November 6, Colloquium,  Georgia State University Philosophy Department

▪October 22-23, The Open University of Catalonia and the University of Barcelona’s “International Workshop on Democratic Regeneration and the Fight against Corruption” (Barcelona, Spain)

▪October 21, Universidad Jaume I, Castellón (Spain)

▪October 20, Real Sociedad Económica Matritense de Amigos del País (Spain)

▪October 19, Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)

▪September 4, Cornell University Law School

▪July 11, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law (Canada)

▪May 20, GSU Emeriti Association (for retired GSU professors and guests)

▪February 25, Colloquium at Oxford University (5pm, Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford, England)

▪January 21, 5th anniversary of the Citizens United case (Atlanta, Georgia), Citizens United Teach In, Georgia State Capitol (10am presentation and dialogue) (206 Washington Street Southwest, Atlanta, GA 30334)

2014

▪November 15 (Davis, CA), ClassCrits VII, UC Davis School of Law (talk and academic conference)

▪November 11 (San Francisco, CA), The Book Passage (6pm talk and signing) (1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 94111)

▪November 7 (New York City), Columbia University Bookstore (6pm talk and signing) (2922 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-7004)

▪November 4 (New York City), NYU Bookstore (6pm talk and signing) (726 Broadway, New York, NY 10003)

▪October 16 (London, England), King’s College (with Rick Hasen and Keith Ewing)

▪October 15 (London, England), Transparency International UK

▪October 8 (Durham, NC), Duke University School of Law (12:30pm talk and signing, Room 3041)

▪October 7 (Winston-Salem, NC), Wake Forest University School of Law

▪October 2 (Washington, DC): Common Cause 

▪October 1 (Washington, DC): Meetings with members of Congress (discussion of campaign finance reform proposals)

▪September 30 (Washington, DC): The Center for Responsive Politics 

▪September 26 (Cambridge, MA), The Harvard Coop (7pm talk and book signing)

▪September 25 (Boston, MA), The Literati Scene (10:30am television interview)

▪September 24 (Providence, RI), Common Cause Rhode Island (6pm talk and book signing at William Hall Library)

▪September 24 (Bristol, RI), Roger Williams University School of Law

▪September 23 (Portland, ME), University of Maine School of Law (12pm talk)

▪September 22 (Brunswick, ME), Bowdoin College (7:30pm talk and book signing, Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium)

▪September 22 (Waterville, ME), Colby College, Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement (12pm talk)

▪September 4 (Atlanta, GA), Georgia State University College of Law (talk and signing); video available here:

▪August 5th (Amelia Island, FL): a panel discussion on Capitalism v. Democracy, and “The Evolution of Campaign Finance Reform: From Buckley to Citizens United to McCutcheon v. FEC,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting (panel discussion, 3:15pm)

▪June 26 (Barcelona, Spain):  “Capitalismo versus Democracia,” University of Barcelona and the Anti-Fraud Office of Catalonia (in Spanish) presentacio_llibre  (interview in Barcelona with the major Spanish daily newspaper, ARA, on page 11 of this file: ARA entrevista)

▪June 16 (Prague, Czech Republic), Amnesty International Czech Republic

▪June 13 (Budapest, Hungary), International Center for Democratic Transition

▪June 12 (Vienna, Austria), United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (hosted by the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch)

▪May 30 (Minneapolis, MN):  Law & Society Annual Meeting, Author Meets Readers Salon

▪April 29 (Atlanta, GA): “A Debate on McCutcheon v. FEC” (moderator), American Constitution Society and Common Cause Georgia (McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, 303 Peachtree Street)

▪April 28 (Atlanta, GA), Logan Bleckley Inn of Court (hosted at the Commerce Club)

▪April 5 (Portland, OR): “Political Finance in the United States and Spain,” American Society of Comparative Law Younger Comparativists Conference

▪April 4 (Portland, OR), Common Cause Oregon

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