AGENDA

Day 1 -  Friday, October 16, 2026

1:30 PM-2:00 PM | Registration

2:00 PM-2:15 PM | Opening Remarks

2:15 PM-3:15 PM | Insincere Attestations
Speaker: Seana Shiffrin, UCLA School of Law
Discussant: Dean Christopher Essert, Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law University of Toronto

3:15 PM-4:15 PM | Justification and Justice in Contract
Speaker: Gregory Klass, Georgetown University Law Center
Discussant: Catherine Valcke, Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law University of Toronto

4:15 PM-4:30 PM | Coffee Break

4:30 PM-5:30 PM | Two Kinds of Contract Law Rules and the Judicial Role
Speaker: Alan Schwartz, Yale Law School
Discussant: Hamish Stewart, Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law University of Toronto

5:30 PM-6:30 PM | Distributional Costs of Effective Consumer Regulation
Speaker: Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, NYU School of Law
Discussant: Anthony Niblett, Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law University of Toronto

Day 2 - Saturday, October 17, 2026

9:00 AM-9:30 AM | Breakfast

9:30 AM-10:30 AM | The Role of Private Ordering in Family Relations
Speaker: Michael Trebilcock, Brenda Cossman, Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law University of Toronto
Discussant: Francesco Ducci, Faculty of Law, Western University

10:30 AM-11:30 AM | Contract as Integration; Price as Commensuration
Speaker: Daniel Markovits, Yale Law School
Discussant: Saura Masconale, University of Arizona

11:30 AM-12:00 PM | Lunch Break

12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Contractual Entrenchment
Speaker: Simone Sepe, Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law University of Toronto
Discussant: Jennifer Nadler, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

1:00 PM-2:00 PM | The Hard Limits on Contracts
Speaker: Robert Stevens, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Discussant: Jason Neyers, Faculty of Law, Western University

Please RSVP by Sunday, October 11, 2026.

For in-person registrants, we kindly invite you to submit any dietary accommodation requests to events.law@utoronto.ca by Sunday, October 11, 2026.