The Renaissance of Private Law

Yotam Kaplan, Gideon Parchomovsky,  Adi Libson

January 29, 2026
12:00 – 1:00 pm CT
Booth Hall (LM204)

The Northwestern University Law Review is honored to invite the NLaw community to a lunch discussion on Thursday, January 29, from 12:00–1:00 pm, featuring Yotam Kaplan, Gideon Parchomovsky, and Adi Libson to discuss their article, The Renaissance of Private Law.

Parchomovsky, Libson, and Kaplan argue in their article that, despite the modern dominance of the regulatory state, private law has reemerged as a powerful engine of social change. Through mass torts, public nuisance suits, class actions, and other private enforcement mechanisms, plaintiffs have achieved sweeping policy outcomes in areas like climate change, gun violence, opioids, and e-cigarettes, often generating multibillion-dollar settlements and behavioral change when regulators were politically blocked or institutionally paralyzed.

The discussion will take place in Booth Hall (LM204). Lunch will be provided for those who register. Please register here.

If you are interested, you can read The Renaissance of Private Law in Vol. 119.6 of the Northwestern University Law Review here.