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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Risk, Perception, and Response — Cambridge, MA

May 24, 2013 // Comments Off

The Harvard Center for Risk Analysis (School of Public Health) is soliciting papers for its Risk, Perception, and Response Conference, to be held March 20-21, 2014. How people react to scientific evidence of risk is mediated by many factors, including how risk information is perceived and communicated, how we react to social and cultural influences, and how choices are structured. Examples abound...

CFP: Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer

May 23, 2013 // Comments Off

The Journal of Consumer Policy seeks submissions for a special issue, Behavioural Economics, Environmental Policy and the Consumer, to be published in March 2014. The editors of the special issue are Lucia A. Reisch (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) and Cass R. Sunstein (Harvard Law School). Papers must be submitted by Oct. 1, 2013. mw

Banks in World War I — Zurich, Switzerland

May 23, 2013 // Comments Off

The European Association for Banking & Financial History (EAHB) presents 1914: Banks at War: Banks Confronted by WWI June 14, 2014. Paper proposals are due Sept. 1, 2013. mw

Call for Papers: First Annual Workshop for Corporate & Securities Litigation - Chicago, IL

May 16, 2013 // Comments Off

The University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Richmond School of Law invite submissions for the First Annual Workshop for Corporate & Securities Litigation, which will be held November 8, 2013, in Chicago, Illinois. This annual workshop will bring together scholars focused on corporate and securities litigation to present their works-in-progress. Papers addressing any aspect...

Corporate & Securities Litigation Workshop

Call for Papers: Law and Business Review of the Americas

May 16, 2013 // Comments Off

The Law and Business Review of the Americas, a journal of the International Law Review Association at Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law is soliciting papers for publication in the summer and fall issues. The Law & Business Review of the Americas is a quarterly publication co-sponsored by the ABA Section of International Law and Practice addressing legal, business, economic,...

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Call for Papers: Wills, Trusts and Estates Meets Gender, Race and Class - Oklahoma City, OK

May 16, 2013 // Comments Off

Oklahoma City University School of Law hosts the conference "Wills, Trusts and Estates Meets Gender, Race and Class" September 27-28, 2013. This conference seeks to bring the insights of progressive property theory to the area of inheritance and succession law and will address the many points of intersection between inheritance law, gender and race, social structure, wealth inequality, domest...

Oklahoma City University School of Law

Call for Papers: Columbia Journal of Tax Law

May 16, 2013 // Comments Off

The Columbia Journal of Tax Law invites submissions from scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and students. Authors are encouraged to submit articles in MS Word format through ExpressO, LexOpus, or by email, with their name, email address, and phone number in the message body, to taxjournal-articles[@]law.columbia.edu. Please see the journal's Submissions page for more detailed information and ...

Columbia Journal of Tax Law

USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet - Washington DC

May 16, 2013 // Comments Off

As part of USENIX Security '13 (August 14-16, 2013), the USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI '13). will be held August 13, 2013. "This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from technology, law, and policy who are working on means to study, detect, or circumvent practices that inhibit free and open communications on the Internet." im

Usenix: Advanced Computing Systems Association

Call for Papers: The Future of Criminal Law - Minneapolis, MN

May 16, 2013 // Comments Off

The Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice hosts "The Future of Criminal Law?" April 24-26, 2013. As part of this conference, the institute is soliciting papers for the April 25-26 workshop. Each paper should argue for a single crucial reform to the criminal law or the criminal process (the 2013 Robina Conference dealt with sentencing and punishment, so we will not include papers o...

Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice

ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum — Taipei, Taiwan

May 15, 2013 // Comments Off

The Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law, in partnership with the ASIL Law in the Pacific Rim Region Interest Group, will hold the ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum on May 15-16, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan, ROC. The title of the Research Forum is "International Law and Dispute Resolution: Challenges in the Asia Pacific." Questions can be directed to Professor Pasha Hsieh, Research Foru...

May 14, 2013 Colloquia/Workshops

May 13, 2013 // Comments Off

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SAFE (Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe)

Supervising Banks in Complex Financial Systems — Frankfurt am Main, Germany

May 10, 2013 // Comments Off

Deutsche Bundesbank and SAFE present Supervising Banks in Complex Financial Systems Oct. 21-22, 2013. Center of Excellence SAFE (Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe) is at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Papers must be submitted on or before June 15, 2013. Those wishing to attend but not present a paper should register by Sept. 15, 2013. mw

European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO)

Elections in Europe in Times of Crisis — Florence, Italy

May 10, 2013 // Comments Off

The European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO), an independent and interdisciplinary academic organization whose goal is to produce a permanent and periodic assessment of democratic practices within the EU, invites papers for its annual dissemination conference, Elections in Europe in Times of Crisis, which will take place Nov. 28-29, 2013, at the European University Institute, in Florence. Propo...

Social Transformation & Policy in 21st Century China — Melbourne, Australia

May 10, 2013 // Comments Off

The Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies (CCCS), Asia Institute, at the University of Melbourne, and School of Sociology and Population Studies at Renmin University of China are jointly hosting the 2013 Melbourne-Renda International Conference, Social Transformation and Policy in 21st Century China, at the University of Melbourne Mon.-Tues., Aug. 12-13, 2013. Abstracts should be submitted by Ma...

International Humanitarian Law — New Delhi, India

May 10, 2013 // Comments Off

The All India Law Teachers Congress (AILTC) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), New Delhi are jointly organizing a two-day Conference on International Humanitarian Law at the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi, May 31 – June 1, 2013. The conference themes are: (i) Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (ii) Implementation of International Humanitarian Law...