From Professor Tim Lytton:

Each May I organize a book manuscript workshop in the areas of torts, administrative law, or legal history. Georgia State University provides funding to invite 10-15 leading scholars from around the country for a one-day in-person workshop. Previous manuscripts include:

• John Witt, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon & Schuster)
• Randall Kennedy, From Protest to Law: Triumphs and Defeats in Struggles for Racial Justice, 1950-1970, 2023 (forthcoming Knopf)
• Judith Resnik, Impermissible Punishments: The Problem Punishment Poses for Democracies, 2022 (University of Chicago Press)
• Sarah Staszak, Privatizing Justice: Arbitration and the Decline of Public Governance in the U.S. (Oxford University Press 2024)
• David Sehat, This Earthly Frame: The Making and Unmaking of American Secularism, 2019 (Yale University Press)
• Eric Posner, The Demagogue’s Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump, 2018 (Macmillan)
• Robert Kagan, Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law, 2nd Ed., 2018 (Harvard U. Press)
• Mitchel Abolafia, Taming the Market: Crisis and Decision at the Federal Reserve, 2017, (Harvard U. Press)
• William Novak, New Democracy: The Creation Of The Modern American State,1866-1932, 2016 (Harvard U. Press)
• Jerry Mashaw,Creating the Administrative Constitution, 2010 (Yale U. Press)
• Steven Croley, Civil Justice Reconsidered, 2008 (NYU Press)
• Tom McGarity & Wendy Wagner, Bending Science, 2006 (Harvard U. Press)

I am currently seeking a suitable manuscript for May 2026. Authors must provide a substantially complete manuscript by mid-April 2026. If you would like to recommend a manuscript for consideration, please email me at tlytton@gsu.edu and include the title of the manuscript, a brief abstract, and table of contents, and the publisher.